Michele Placido

Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice... (imdb)

E tanta paura (Plot of Fear) is the second Italian style thriller directed by Paolo Cavara, after he directed La tarantola del ventre nero (Black Belly of the Tarantula) in 1971. The thriller theme of the film, based on a story by Bernardino Zapponi, who wrote for Dario Argento Deep Red. (Cinema Strikes Back)

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 following a big business deal to closedown the Jupiter Hollow factory. (imdb)

Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants. They need a stooge. They choose an old one in a jail : Spiro. But the youngest italian, Gino, once alone with Spiro, encounter a few problems. Far from his roots, loosing his identity in deep Albania, he begins to change... (imdb)

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of b-movies in 70s; after a long hiatus, following the commercial fiasco of "Cataratte", Bonomo is going to be signed by RAI in order to produce a film about Cristoforo Colombo's homecoming. When the director Franco Caspio quits the project, Bonomo is forced to offer another screenplay to RAI, which is "Il Caimano" a screenplay he stumbled upon, written by the young director Teresa... (imdb)

Irena "the unknown" (Rappoport) is an Ukranian young woman living in the Italian city of Velarchi. Soon we discover she has an horrible past of violence and humiliations. To pursue a mysterious aim she manages, by any means, legal and illegal, to get the job as an house servant for a wealthy couple with a little girl... (imdb)

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.(imdb)

Sequel to La Orca (1976).

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.

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. (imdb)

Perhaps taking a cue from the popular 1970s Brit television comedy "Are You Being Served?," this Italian department store comedy is a series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments... (All Movie Guide)

Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and is now affected by psychic problems and suicide fantasies. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. Mauro become unconsciously jealous of this relationship, and try to get Giovanni arrested. (imdb)

Rome. Accused of violent methods, resulting in the deaths of two drug dealers, the policeman Lorenzo is sent to Tunis. On the train there, he meets Andrea, a very proper young fellow...

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, enamored of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group... (imdb)

A wealthy woman tycoon hires an ex-CIA man to kidnap a high-priced, professional terrorist and hold him for ransom. An ironic battle of the sexes follows. (karagarga)

Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle and decides to return to Italy. (imdb)

The main character is Andrew, a writer who one day sees his face and his sister (Jasmine Trinca) in an old photo. Nicholas is a young policeman (Riccardo Scamarcio), and his sister Laura is a nice girl who takes part in the extraction Catholic protests and marches for peace. Another leading figure is Free (Luke McConaughey), worker of Fiat in Turin.

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 - then experiments with heterosexuality courtesy of an obliging prostitute... (allmovie)

Mafioso Tano Carridi schemes for power while being pursued by his nemesis Corrado Cattani.

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 being destroyed by ruthless criminals, the intrepid comissar keeps fighting. (imdb)

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? (imdb)

This low-grade sex farce is set in Roman times, with Ovid holding forth to a group of young Romans about the pleasures of the flesh, while an ostensible story about a young housewife and her lover illustrates Ovid's lectures.

In 2061, after an energetic crisis, a fragmented and multi-ethnic Italy has fallen back into some sort of pre-Risorgimento scenario. A group of patriots, led by "The Professor", wants to reunify their country.

Light comedy about two strereotyped Italian families.

A European humanitarian organization tries to bring relief to famine-stricken North Africa. The convoy of five trucks is victimized by rebel guerillas and marauding tribes and is soon lost in the desert. When two party members try to leave, they are eaten by cannibals. (allrovi.com)

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... (imdb)

This movie is divided into three parts tracing the lives and problems of various people. (worldcat)

This farce features Jodi Foster, Catherine Deneuve, and Ugo Tognazzi. Tersina (Foster) is a pregnant teen whose parents want her married, pronto. Cerquette (Tognazzi) is an insurance man who wears a chastity belt to keep him from ravishing the two women he desires. A pair of bachelors liven up the action (Michele Placido and Luigi Proietti) which is not easy. Except for the introductory scenes, all of the action takes place in the dressinig (and undressing) room of a beach house. (allrovi.com)

A beautiful woman (Laura Antonelli) engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other. Set in the decadent Roaring Twenties, the triangle dissolves against suicide and fascism. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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 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. (imdb)

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each; (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Sex film. Concerned with an impassive young visitor, Milo, who secures the downfall of a bourgeois family by pandering to its sexual weaknesses. (bfi)

Afghan Breakdown is a 1990 war drama film about the Soviet war in Afghanistan directed by Vladimir Bortko and co-produced by Italy and the Soviet Union (Lenfilm). Michele Placido, an Italian TV star popular in the USSR, plays the main protagonist, Major Bandura, a commander of a unit of Soviet paratroopers, co-starring with several popular Soviet actors. The movie is still regarded by most veterans as the best account of the war. (Wikipedia)

Michele Spagnolo is a well known old italian politician. Douring his life he has often used his political power for personal purposes, also to ensure a notable job to his three childrens. After a stroke, he lose his hinibitions and he begins to say what he really think about things and peoples. This situation will disrupt the life of his family...

The European crime melodrama Black Hand is set in America in the early 1900s. A newly arrived Italian immigrant is victimized by an Irish street gang. He goes to La Cosa Nostra for help...the first fatal step towards his own life of crime. The film begins well, showing how the Irish gangs gradually lost ground to the Italians and Sicilians, then adheres strictly to formula. Veteran gangster-flick actor Lionel Stander is top-billed over ostensible star Mike Placido. (allmovie.com)

"Karol - The Pope, the Man" is a sequel to "Karol, un uomo diventato Papa". Film plot starts with inauguration of John Paul's II pontificate and later shows his first pilgrimages, tragic events of assassination attempt in 1981 and, after returning to health, continued life as a religious leader.

A young graduate headed for military service, although having done everything to be admitted to the academy, is uncomfortable in the harsh reality of military life. His superior, currently in a state of depression, confides in him and, without knowing it, his wife's lover.

An impoverished woman who has been forced to choose between a privileged life with her wealthy aunt and her journalist lover, befriends an American heiress. When she discovers the heiress is attracted to her own lover and is dying, she sees a chance to have both the privileged life she cannot give up and the lover she cannot live without. (imdb)

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. But can a child who has breathed in criminality since his birth really become something different? (Festival Focus)

The true story of Giorgio Ambrosoli, a lawyer who tried to oppose a web of power, linking politics, mafia and banks, in 1970s Italy, and paid a high price for it.

Pietro is a child that travels abroad with an unknown person called Benito. The child has no mother. When he arrives in Germany, the men promises to help him to meet his father. Benito however use the child to get passport that allows him to go abroad.

To all appearances just an affable pizza man, Mario is in reality one of the Mafia's most vicious killers. Despite his secret occupation, he is a loving and generous man to his family, especially his brother Michael. When Mario takes Michael into his confidence and tries to get him involved in the same line of work, his younger brother refuses. The connection between the two brothers is strained as each tries to bring the other around to his way of thinking.

An Italian family is fractured after World War II ends. (imdb)

Following a terrorist attack on a train, police arrested the police worker Stefano Baldini, a militant in a left-wing group, who, however, died during police interrogation under unclear circumstances. His sister suspected that it was not an accident and tries to find out the truth with journalist Cristina Visconti.

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.

Seventy short films about cinema and its future. (imdb)

When an Italian textile factory is sold to a multinational company, the eleven women who represent the 200 workers must agree to shorter lunches to prevent their colleagues from being fired.

In June 1983, the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora is arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.

Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life. (imdb)

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 (imdb)

A dysfunctional family reunites to celebrate Christmas Eve.

Ninella's daughter falls in love with the son of Don Mimì ...the man she always dreamed of marrying. Ninella's dream never became reality and history may repeat itself, when her daughter Chiara and Don Mimì's son Damiano find themselves involved in a whirlpool of different obstacles that may compromise their marriage as well. (wikipedia.org)

Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic. (imdb)

A politic triangle love in italy after ww2.

Via Paradiso deplicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theater 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. (imdb)

A well-established music conductor in Chieti (Italy) tries to rebuild a historic city orchestra, which no longer exists. (imdb)

In the 1950s a young teacher, close to the ideals of the left, tries to help the most vulnerable people through teaching. (imdb)

Bravo, a woman salesman, lives in Milan enjoying the city's nightlife. His life changes him one day when he meets a woman who will change his whole world.

The story of a sexually enticing young dancer who rises up in society through her relationships with wealthy men, but later falls into poverty and prostitution, culminating in an encounter with Jack 'the Ripper'. (imdb)