Cast: Michele Placido

Direction Gianni Amelio

Cast Enrico Lo Verso · Michele Placido · Piro Milkani · Elida Janushi

Plot An opportunistic Italian swindler heads to Albania and finds himself involved with the life of an impoverished local in this somber political drama. Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) and his partner...

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Kseniya Rappoport · Michele Placido · Claudia Gerini · Margherita Buy

Plot In director Giuseppe Tornatore's (CINEMA PARADISO) haunting story of mystery and love, a Russian woman named Irena (Xenia Rappoport) calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian...

Direction Giuseppe Ferrara

Cast Michele Placido · Anna Bonaiuto · Giancarlo Giannini · Paolo De Giorgio

Plot 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...

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Giuliano Gemma · Eleonora Giorgi · Michele Placido · Tano Cimarosa

Plot 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...

Direction Marco Risi

Cast Michele Placido · Claudio Amendola · Alessandro di Sanzo · Francesco Benigno

Plot 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...

Direction Marco Risi

Cast Michele Placido · Daniele Pecci · Micaela Ramazzotti · Marco Leonardi

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Michele Placido · Barbara De Rossi · Nicole Jamet · Angelo Infanti

Plot Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus"). Even as his family and life are...

Direction Michele Placido

Cast Ambra Angiolini · Cristiana Capotondi · Fiorella Mannoia · Maria Nazionale

Plot The owners of an Italian textile factory sell the majority of the property to a multinational company. No layoffs are planned, but there's a special clause in the agreement that...

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Michele Placido · Franco Nero · Miou-Miou · Patrick Dewaere

Plot Marco Bellocchio's trenchant movie is about the madness of military life and its children's power games. It deals with the psychological ravishing of a sensitive and literate young man during...

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Silvio Orlando · Margherita Buy · Jasmine Trinca · Elio De Capitani

Plot Nanni Moretti is one of the most overtly political of contemporary filmmakers, although his films are deeply humanist and humorous. The Caiman is his cri de coeur against what he...

Direction Giacomo Battiato

Cast Piotr Adamczyk · Dariusz Kwasnik · Michele Placido · Alberto Cracco

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Philippe Noiret · Michele Placido · Vittorio Mezzogiorno · Andrea Ferréol

Plot 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...

Direction Riccardo Milani

Cast Kim Rossi Stuart · Jasmine Trinca · Paola Cortellesi · Michele Placido

Plot A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Direction Paolo Virzì

Cast Alice Teghil · Sergio Castellitto · Margherita Buy · Zach Wallen

Plot When his father, Giancarlo (Sergio Castellitto) is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montaldo Di Castro, Caterina (Alice Teghil), a 12 years old girl, will discover her...

Direction Giuseppe Tornatore

Cast Francesco Scianna · Margareth Madè · Lina Sastri · Nicole Grimaudo

Plot Baaria is Sicilian slang for Bagheria where Tornatore was born and this is an autobiographic epic of three generations in the Sicilian village where he was born.

Direction Massimo Venier

Cast Aldo Baglio · Giovanni Storti · Giacomo Poretti · Lucia Mascino

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Michele Placido · Mark Chase · Ida Di Benedetto · Nick Delon

Plot Mario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an assassination of a judge in Palermo. He leaves the States, comes back to Sicily and...

Direction Michele Placido

Cast Riccardo Scamarcio · Laura Morante · Michele Placido · Luca Argentero

Plot Il grande sogno is a film set in Italy in ’68 when young people were dreaming they could change the world, when rules were broken, love was free and everything...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Michele Placido · Giorgio Pasotti · Alessandro Haber · Moran Atias

Plot 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...

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Ornella Muti · Michele Placido · Pippo Starnazza

Plot 50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in...