Michele Placido
Michele Placido was born on May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor, director and screenwriter, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Un eroe borghese (1995).
Works
Eternal Visionary
In 1934, as playwright Luigi Pirandello travels to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, he begins reliving the drama and magic of the loved ones who have populated his life and inspired his art. Pirandello reminisces about the madness of his wife, his stormy relationship with his children, his controversial stance towards fascism, and his love for Marta Abba, the young actress who became his muse.
Release Date:2024-11-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:
Vote Count:9
Senza malizia
Release Date:2023-07-05
Arnoldo Mondadori - I libri per cambiare il mondo
Release Date:2022-12-21
Character:Arnoldo Mondadori
Vote Count:3
Orlando
After his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter.
Release Date:2022-12-01
Character:Orlando
Vote Count:7
Caravaggio's Shadow
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Release Date:2022-11-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Cardinal Del Monte
Vote Count:134
Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso
Release Date:2022-10-20
Character:Ugo Maria Starace Tarallo
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:19
Falla girare - The Last Joint
A virus wipes out cannabis until an unlikely team of a social media influencer, journalist, cop and a drug dealer join against sinister forces working to keep the plant from being rediscovered.
Release Date:2022-09-27
Character:Diego
Vote Count:57
Burning Hearts
Puglia. Burnt by the sun and by hatred, the promontory of Gargano is contested by criminals who seem to come from a remote past governed by the law of the jungle. An archaic land reminiscent of the Far West, in which blood is washed away with blood. An old feud between two rival families is rekindled by a forbidden love: the one between Andrea, reluctant heir of the Malatesta, and Marilena, beautiful wife of the boss of the Camporeale clan. A fatal passion that sets the two clans at war again. But Marilena, banished by the Camporeale and prisoner of the Malatesta, disputed and abused, will oppose a fate already written with a mother’s strength.
Release Date:2022-09-22
Character:Vincenzo Montanari
Vote Count:102
La voglia matta di vivere
Release Date:2022-03-17
Character:Self
Run to You
Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic.
Release Date:2022-03-17
Character:Padre di Gianni
Vote Count:362
Un marziano di nome Ennio
The story tells an interesting moment in the life of Ennio Flaiano, his meeting with Federico Fellini and his relationship with the famous producer of the "Dolce Vita" Peppino Amato, until he decides to write a dictionary of the 'verbal errors' committed by Peppino Amato.
Release Date:2022-03-06
Character:Vittorio De Sica
Noi
Release Date:2022-03-06
Character:himself
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:8
Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators at every latitude. On scene the artistic path and life full of unpredictable events of an actress both introverted and sunny are recalled, through excerpts from her films and television programs, testimonies of friends and colleagues, leading exponents of Italian cinema of yesterday and today, critics, writers and costume experts.
Release Date:2021-10-20
Character:Sé stesso
Vote Count:1
Isolation
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic. Among them, “Two Fathers”, directed by Julia von Heinz (20’). After the death of his father, Hans-Michael von Heinz, the director finds out the truth about her parent true sexual identity. In order to know more, she starts emailing persons who got to know him over the last years, among them his closest friend, director Rosa von Praunheim.
Release Date:2021-09-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.
Release Date:2021-08-31
Character:Spettatore
Vote Count:7
Notes from a Women Salesman
Set in 1978 Milan, Bravo lives his life among luxury clubs and illegal gambling dens in the company of his friend Daytona. Bravo defines himself as an entrepreneur. His business is women - because he sells them. The life of a women salesman is not an easy one, though. The meeting with Carla and a night in the town will change his life forever. Bravo will have to go through his painful past and fight the ultimate battle.
Release Date:2021-06-25
Character:Amedeo Sangiorgi
Vote Count:41
Caliber 9
Milan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose mother, Nelly, has done everything in her power to raise him different from his father, a deplorable gangster.
Release Date:2020-11-23
Character:Rocco Musco
Vote Count:24
I Hate Summer
Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.
Release Date:2020-01-30
Character:il Maresciallo dei Carabinieri locali
Vote Count:935
Calypso
When a modern Ulysses, struggling with PTSD, wakes up without memory in a post-apocalyptic desert, an alleged Calypso tries to help him uncover the truth.
Release Date:2019-01-20
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:1
Suburra: Blood on Rome
In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.
Release Date:2017-10-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:206
Christmas Dinner
In Polignano a Mare, covered in snow, they are more nervous than usual. Hysterics, anxiousness, pregnancy tests, lost rings and stuck lifts - what else can happen?
Release Date:2016-11-24
Character:Don Mimì
Vote Count:188
7 Minutes
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
Release Date:2016-11-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Michele Varazzi
Vote Count:159
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest moments of cinema, from the Italian neorealism to the masterpieces of Woody Allen, commented by prestigious figures of world cinema.
Release Date:2016-09-11
Character:Self
Vote Count:5
Un'Avventura Romantica
Release Date:2016-01-01
Character:Vittorio De Sica
Questo e' il mio paese
Release Date:2015-11-30
Character:Giannino Cafuero
Episode Count:6
Loving Only You
Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.
Release Date:2015-10-22
Character:Don Mimi
Vote Count:277
The Choice
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
Release Date:2015-04-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:Emilio Nicotri
Vote Count:68
Prima di andar via
"Tomorrow, I won't be alive anymore," Francesco tersely tells his family, gathered for dinner. He has decided to commit suicide because he can't bear living without his wife, who died three months earlier, and can't imagine the idea of getting used to the pain. After the initial shock, his parents and his sisters try to make him change his mind.
Release Date:2014-11-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Living Legends
Group of friends meet again, 13 years after their prom because of a problem of one of them, and face the opportunity to experience the things in life they have always put aside in life so far.
Release Date:2014-02-14
Character:Christiano Negri
Vote Count:4
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.
Release Date:2013-08-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:15
The Mongrel
The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells drugs and lives in criminal contexts. His dream is to see his child, Nicu, whom he raised without a mother, live a different and better life.
Release Date:2013-04-18
Character:Avv.Silvestri
Vote Count:11
In Treatment
In Treatment is an Italian TV series directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Sergio Castellitto.
Release Date:2013-04-01
Character:Guido
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:4
Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia
Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Romanesco dialect.
Release Date:2013-03-11
Character:Trilussa
Vote Count:6
Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno
A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.
Release Date:2013-02-18
Character:Vittorio De Sica
Vote Count:31
Viva l'Italia
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…
Release Date:2012-10-25
Character:Michele Spagnolo
Vote Count:362
The Lookout
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.
Release Date:2012-09-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Giovanni
Vote Count:119
Tulpa - Demon of Desire
Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything with any stranger to attain a higher consciousness. However, when her lovers start getting murdered in shocking ways, Lisa can’t go to the police because the scandal would impact her day job. Foolishly she tries to unmask the assassin herself, with truly nightmarish consequences.
Release Date:2012-08-25
Character:Roccaforte
Vote Count:43
Itaker
2012 Italian drama; title is German slang for "Wop"
Release Date:2012-04-05
Character:Pantano
Vote Count:4
My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
Release Date:2011-03-16
Character:Duccio Villani di Masi
Vote Count:93
Ages of Love
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire
Release Date:2011-02-25
Character:Augusto
Vote Count:201
Portrait Of My Father
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
Release Date:2010-10-27
Character:Self
Vote Count:3
Angel of Evil
Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.
Release Date:2010-09-06
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:286
Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
Release Date:2010-02-26
Character:Alberto
Vote Count:161
The Big Dream
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
Release Date:2009-11-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Adult Andrea (uncredited)
Vote Count:82
Just Married
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
Release Date:2009-10-23
Character:Sabino Impanato
Vote Count:116
What Do You Know About Me
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.
Release Date:2009-10-16
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
Baaria
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Release Date:2009-09-24
Character:esponente PCI
Vote Count:638
Focaccia Blues
Release Date:2009-04-17
Character:Proiezionista
Vote Count:4
L'Aquila 2009 - Five Directors in the Rubble
Release Date:2009-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Aldo Moro - Il presidente
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, the band of the Red Brigades went on the attack. The terrorists kidnap Aldo Moro and kill all the men in his escort.
Release Date:2008-05-09
Character:Aldo Moro
Vote Count:1
Aldo Moro - Il Presidente
Release Date:2008-05-09
Character:Aldo Moro
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2
The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider
It is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, together with a group of Czech students, is shooting his graduate movie on a motorcycle factory, in the small market-town of Český Šternberk, in then Czechoslovakia. Coming from a country that is completely isolated from the rest of Europe, he is fascinated by the lifestyle, society and "erotic exuberance" of the Czech golden youth, yet feeling strong links with his family in his homeland. He falls in love with a married woman (Anna Geislerová), the wife of a police superintendent (Paolo Buglioni) and is insecure about his future.
Release Date:2008-03-13
Character:Šternberk
Vote Count:8
L'ultimo padrino
A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.
Release Date:2008-01-13
Character:Bernardo Provenzano
Vote Count:13
Blood of the Losers
Release Date:2008-01-01
Character:Commissario Franco Dogliani
Vote Count:8
2061 - Un anno eccezionale
In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.
Release Date:2007-10-26
Character:Cardinale Bonifacio
Vote Count:97
Piano, Solo
A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.
Release Date:2007-09-21
Character:Giovanni
Vote Count:20
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.
Release Date:2007-09-06
Character:Himself/Narrator
Vote Count:2
SoloMetro
Release Date:2007-07-20
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Enrico Alvari
Vote Count:1
Commediasexi
Release Date:2006-12-14
Character:Lo chef
Vote Count:96
The Roses of the Desert
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.
Release Date:2006-12-01
Character:Frate Simeone
Vote Count:14
The Unknown Woman
Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.
Release Date:2006-10-09
Character:Muffa
Vote Count:347
Karol: The Pope, The Man
Karol: The Pope, The Man is a 2006 TV miniseries chronicling Pope John Paul II's life as pope in flashbacks from October 22, 1978's papal inauguration to his death in 2005 and was directed by Giacomo Battiato. It is the sequel to the 2005 TV miniseries Karol: A Man Who Became Pope, which portrayed John Paul's life before the papacy and ended on October 16, 1978, the day of his papal election.
Release Date:2006-05-10
Character:Renato Buzzonetti
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
The Caiman
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
Release Date:2006-03-24
Character:Marco Pulici
Vote Count:261
Karol: The Pope, The Man
This highly acclaimed feature film on Pope John Paul II was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. Focusing on the papacy of John Paul and the tremendous impact he had on the Church and the world, Karol: The Pope, The Man stars actor Piotr Adamczyk in a deeply moving portrayal of the beloved pontiff. It is the powerful true story of a charismatic spiritual leader who helped bring down Communism, renewed the life of the Church, greatly impacted youth worldwide with love for Christ, and a Pope who reached out to other religions and world leaders with a message of peace and love. Also stars Raoul Bova (Saint Francis), Michele Placido (Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth) and Adriana Asti as Mother Teresa. The beautiful film score is by legendary film composer Ennio Morricone.
Release Date:2006-02-27
Character:Dr. Renato Buzzonetti
Vote Count:52
The Goodbye Kiss
Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Determined to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...
Release Date:2006-02-24
Character:Ferruccio Anedda
Vote Count:54
Romanzo Criminale
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.
Release Date:2005-09-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Padre Freddo
Vote Count:656
Il grande Torino
The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino.
Release Date:2005-09-25
Character:Angelo Di Girolamo (Older)
Vote Count:34
Il Grande Torino
Release Date:2005-09-25
Character:Angelo (2004)
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:4
Wherever You Are
A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
Release Date:2004-10-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:15
Love Returns
Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life.
Release Date:2004-04-19
Character:Dr. Bianco
Vote Count:12
The Scent of Blood
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In return, Carlo has long accepted that her wife may have lovers, but her volatile relationship with a young neo-fascist suddenly rekindles his jealousy.
Release Date:2004-04-02
Character:Carlo
Vote Count:12
Caterina in the Big City
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Release Date:2003-10-24
Character:Self
Vote Count:254
Il posto dell'anima
Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.
Release Date:2003-05-30
Character:Salvatore
Vote Count:9
A Journey Called Love
The life and loves of poet Sibilla Aleramo (Laura Morante), focusing on her relationship with Dino Campana (Stefano Accorsi).
Release Date:2002-09-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:24
Il sequestro Soffiantini
In 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for 237 days in their hideout in the mountains of Sardinia.
Release Date:2002-01-30
Character:Giuseppe Soffiantini
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Once Upon a Time in Sicily
Release Date:2001-05-02
Character:Uzenda
Vote Count:1
Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
Release Date:2000-11-12
Vote Count:5
Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his death. The story is told by Emilia, Pio's friend, to a Vatican official reviewing Padre Pio's potential canonization. We watch local people venerate the humble Capuchin monk, we see petty jealousies within the Church almost bring him down, and we experience his decision to build a Home for the Relief of Suffering, a labor of love begun just after World War II. Emilia and her husband Dr. Sanguineti work tirelessly beside the humble but sensible Pio.
Release Date:2000-11-12
Character:Padre Pio
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:5
Liberate i pesci!
Mafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta.
Release Date:2000-01-28
Character:Michele Verrio
Vote Count:17
Un uomo perbene
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Release Date:1999-10-01
Character:Enzo Tortora
Vote Count:10
The Nanny
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.
Release Date:1999-05-21
Character:Belli Estate Patient
Vote Count:9
Dirty Linen
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.
Release Date:1999-01-29
Character:Furio
Vote Count:4
A Lighter Burden to Bear
Release Date:1998-12-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Ciao Darwin
Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
Release Date:1998-10-03
Character:Presidente di giuria
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:11
Del perduto amore
Release Date:1998-09-18
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Character:Don Gerardo
Vote Count:4
Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)
Seemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed comedian, and a murderer. The film starts literally with a bang and ends with a strangulation. In between there are numerous events both strange and unpredictable involving drugs and homosexuality, a deaf-mute and a potential suicide. The odd characters assembled in this movie are each in their own way in search of sexual gratification.
Release Date:1998-08-05
Character:Carlo
Vote Count:4
La missione
Release Date:1998-02-04
Character:Padre Ramboni
Racket
Release Date:1997-04-29
Department:Writing
Job:Idea
Character:Guido Gerosa
Episode Count:6
La lupa
She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men were obsessed with her but one day the she-wolf fell madly in love with young Nanni.
Release Date:1996-09-16
Character:Malerba
Vote Count:34
Un eroe borghese
An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
Release Date:1995-03-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Silvio Novembre
Vote Count:14
Poliziotti
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
Release Date:1995-02-10
Character:Sante Carella
Vote Count:15
Padre e figlio
The father, Corrado, is a worker who left his peasant roots in southern Italy and moved to Genoa to find employment a worker. His son, Gabriele, is neurotic and feels a sense of rage for which he can find no outlet. Despite the strength and dignity with which he has met the difficulties in his life, Corrado doesn't know what to do when faced with his son's problems.
Release Date:1994-11-27
Character:Corrado
Vote Count:1
Lamerica
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for the project, Spiro unexpectedly disappears and Gino sets out on a journey to find him. The search leads him to discover Spiro's tragic personal history and witness Albanian poverty firsthand.
Release Date:1994-09-09
Character:Fiore
Vote Count:59
La vera vita di Antonio H.
This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Italy, and his early life in the Middle East and follows him through the highs and lows of his acting career, using a combination of interviews with real-life colleagues, archival footage and improvised scenes along the way.
Release Date:1994-09-02
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
Giovanni Falcone
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.
Release Date:1993-10-08
Character:Giovanni Falcone
Vote Count:30
Uomo di rispetto
Release Date:1993-08-28
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.
Release Date:1993-08-23
Vote Count:3
Quattro bravi ragazzi
Release Date:1993-07-12
Character:Marcione
Vote Count:4
Look to the Sky
A Jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of World War II is taken to a concentration camp with his parents. Based on the memoir of Holocaust survivor Jona Oberski.
Release Date:1993-04-01
Department:Crew
Job:Thanks
Vote Count:64
Close Friends
Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a victim of incest.
Release Date:1992-05-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Simona's father
Vote Count:17
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to bring down billionaire drug lords Don Pablo Escobar Gaviria and José Rodriguez Gacha, leaders of the infamous Medellin Cartel.
Release Date:1992-01-19
Character:Col. Roberto Chavez
Vote Count:1
Afghan Breakdown
During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov, the son of a high-ranking officer.
Release Date:1991-01-01
Character:Major Bandura
Vote Count:16
Tomato
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò.
Release Date:1990-03-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:
Vote Count:2
Mary Forever
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
Release Date:1989-05-04
Character:Marco Terzi
Vote Count:230
Via Paradiso
Via Paradiso depicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theatre through intertwined stories which involves a dramatic romance that flourishes on a tranquil Christmas evening and disrupts everything, only to disappear as quickly as it arrived.
Release Date:1988-09-29
Character:Francesco
Vote Count:1
Big Business
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.
Release Date:1988-06-10
Character:Fabio Alberici
Vote Count:271
How Good the Whites Are
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger in Sub-Saharan Africa, advances across the continent. As a result of the difficulties the team encounters, disorganization gradually takes over the convoy. Each of the members of the group, little by little, yield to their petty, selfish impulses: violence, power, nostalgia - The breakdown of one of the trucks forces Michele and Nadia to wait at an oasis for the arrival of spare parts. But a starving local tribe settles threateningly near them. The chief of the tribe makes a speech they don't understand, which is followed by a macabre purification ceremony.
Release Date:1988-01-20
Character:Michel
Vote Count:5
Private Affairs
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
Release Date:1987-12-29
Character:Lionello
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
Release Date:1986-10-31
Character:Giuseppe Catania aka Beppe
Vote Count:15
Department Store
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Release Date:1986-06-06
Character:Direttore
Vote Count:300
The Sicilian Connection
An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.
Release Date:1985-01-25
Character:Mario Aloia
Vote Count:25
The Terrible Lovers
This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences in that setting. The couples are made up of a Parisian woman and her Slavic boyfriend out to spend some quality time together; a Frenchman (Jean-Noel Picq) searching for his sexually awakened teenage mistress; and a woman out to reunite with her Italian lover (Michele Placido). These people manifest different approaches to a romantic partnership that are tested in their brief encounters in Rome.
Release Date:1985-01-16
Character:Sergio
Vote Count:4
The Octopus
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
Release Date:1984-03-11
Character:Commissario Corrado Cattani
Episode Count:25
Vote Count:52
The Art of Love
Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy repeats itself in a few centuries ...
Release Date:1983-12-07
Character:Macarius
Vote Count:12
Cargo
An Italian lumberjack named Giovanni falls in love with a girl named Louise. What starts off as a whirlwind romance devolves Louise becoming a prisoner of passion.
Release Date:1981-12-02
Character:Giovanni
The Wings of the Dove
A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venice.
Release Date:1981-05-06
Character:Sandro
Vote Count:17
Three Brothers
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come.
Release Date:1981-03-19
Character:Nicola Giuranna
Vote Count:36
Wetten, dass..?
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
Release Date:1981-02-14
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:19
Fontamara
Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
Release Date:1980-09-12
Character:Berardo Viola
Vote Count:2
Lulu
Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.
Release Date:1980-03-01
Character:Schwarz
Vote Count:11
A Leap in the Dark
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship.
Release Date:1980-02-14
Character:Giovanni Sciabola
Vote Count:25
The Meadow
Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.
Release Date:1979-09-06
Character:Enzo
Vote Count:8
Saturday, Sunday and Friday
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
Release Date:1979-06-06
Character:Mario Salvetti (episodio "Domenica")
Vote Count:24
A Man on His Knees
Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
Release Date:1979-04-13
Character:Antonio Platamona
Vote Count:13
Tigers in Lipstick
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
Release Date:1979-03-16
Character:Angelo / The Photographer
Vote Count:12
Ernesto
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.
Release Date:1979-01-12
Character:The man
Vote Count:17
Volunteers for an Unknown Destination
Release Date:1979-01-01
Character:Antonio Stella
Vote Count:1
Corleone
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Release Date:1978-11-10
Character:Michele Labruzzo
Vote Count:9
Basilicata, una regione tra due mari
Release Date:1978-05-01
Character:Voice
Yerma
Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other hand, Victor courts her but the sense of caste and honor prevent from surrendering to him.
Release Date:1978-02-11
Character:Victor
The Pyjama Girl Case
Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are they already twisted together?
Release Date:1977-12-31
Character:Antonio Attolini
Vote Count:34
Io sono mia
Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her husband Giacinto, he sees in his bride only the personal object of his sexual satisfaction.
Release Date:1977-11-18
Character:Giacinto
Vote Count:7
Beach House
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Release Date:1977-10-27
Character:Vincenzino
Vote Count:62
Kleinhoff Hotel
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ex-girl-friend through a hole. Then she follows him to a questionable place where she is arrested by the police during a revolutionists raid. When she returns to the Kleinhoff Hotel, Pascale finds Karl crying, and enters his room to console him and they have a love affair.
Release Date:1977-10-27
Character:Pedro
Vote Count:8
Oedipus Orca
Sequel to "La Orca" which follows the life of the kidnapped girl after she returns home to her boyfriend and family. After her kidnap ordeal Alice tries to return to her normal life, but her memories still haunt her and her way to see the world has been changed forever.
Release Date:1977-04-04
Character:Michele Turrisi
Vote Count:9
And Agnes Chose to Die
After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.
Release Date:1976-09-26
Character:Tom
Vote Count:14
Plot of Fear
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of the prostitutes to a tiger but she got so frightened that she died of heart attack. In his attempt to find a connection between the victims, he investigates a cutting-edge security and surveillance firm whose director has secrets of his own to hide.
Release Date:1976-09-17
Character:Inspector Gaspare Lomenzo
Vote Count:16
La Orca
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is made to write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.
Release Date:1976-06-01
Character:Michele
Vote Count:24
Victory March
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
Release Date:1976-03-12
Character:Paolo Passeri
Vote Count:12
The Divine Nymph
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Release Date:1975-10-16
Character:Martino Ghiondelli
Vote Count:15
Scandal in the Family
The industrialist Carlo arrives at his villa in the Piacenza area to spend his holidays with his wife Piera and his daughter Francesca. They will soon be joined by their nephew Milo who will woo and seduce all the women of villa including the busty cook Doris lover of uncle Carlo.
Release Date:1975-03-03
Character:Milo
Vote Count:6
Moses the Lawgiver
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Release Date:1974-12-22
Character:Kaleb
Vote Count:7
Come Home and Meet My Wife
50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina.
Release Date:1974-10-29
Character:Giovanni Pizzullo
Vote Count:43
Till Marriage Do Us Part
The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.
Release Date:1974-10-24
Character:Silvanno Pennacchini, l'autista
Vote Count:30
Quick Trial
After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for interrogation to Sergeant Pendicò and special agents Lorusso and Spasiani, Stefano dies, after four days, in unclear circumstances. Doubting the official version of the police, the second time in which a young person died in custody, journalist Cristina Visconti tries, with the aid of the sister of Stefano, to discover the truth. They rub up against a conspiracy of silence that encircles the acts of Pendicò and his associates. Frustrated beyond reason, Cristina tries a desperate ploy: publishing a story without evidence in the newspaper, accusing the three agents of having caused the death of Stefano with their blows. Cristina is put on trial for defamation. Can she avoid going to jail and also reveal the facts surrounding Stefano's death?
Release Date:1974-06-09
Character:Stefano Baldini
Vote Count:3
Teresa the Thief
Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and perpetually starving, the pretty petty thief doesn't give up her quest for ill-gotten gains and soon turns to pick-pocketing. Despite her questionable thieving skills, the bumbling crook tries scheme after scheme, pilfering from strangers and dodging the law as she searches for a way to fund an adequate meal.
Release Date:1973-10-11
Character:Tonino Santità, detto Mortadella
Vote Count:14
Il picciotto
Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1973
Release Date:1973-10-06
Character:Rosario Mandalà
Vote Count:1
The Black Hand
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
Release Date:1973-03-16
Character:Antonio Turris
Vote Count:2
My Wife, A Body to Love
The story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband.
Release Date:1973-01-26
Character:Simona's Partner
Vote Count:4
The Pisciotta Case
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon finds himself struggling against a conspiracy of silence, which Scauri must therefore overcome in order to indict two powerful mafia bosses. His only hope comes for a brief moment from the testimony of the young prosecutor Lojacono. But The Organization is the most strong: the young prosecutor withdraws his deposition and the magistrate disappears in mysterious circumstances.
Release Date:1972-11-23
Character:Amerigo Lo Jacono
Vote Count:4
Joe Petrosino
Release Date:1972-10-15
Episode Count:5
Stars in der Manege
Release Date:1959-04-11
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:3
Bambi Awards
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods and its statuettes are in the shape of the novel's titular fawn character. They were originally made of porcelain until 1958, when the organizers switched to using gold, with the casting done by the art casting workshop of Ernst Strassacker in Süßen.
Release Date:1948-01-01
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1