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- DirectorPaolo CavaraStarsCorinne CléryMichele PlacidoQuinto ParmeggianiA man is strangled by a female prostitute in his home at the same time as a woman is killed by a man with a spanner on an empty bus. In both cases the killer leaves an illustration from the children's book titled 'Shockheaded Peter'. The subsequent investigation leads to an exclusive club called Wildlife's Friends.
- DirectorSalvatore SamperiStarsMartin HalmMichele PlacidoVirna LisiTriestw in the year 1911. Ernesto is the privileged, seventeen year old son of a Jewish mother and a non-Jewish father, who has deserted his family. He is raised by his uncle Giovanni and his moaning aunt Regina, who send him to work at the office of a trading company. Ernesto doesn't take his new job very serious, he wants to become a violin player. One day when he is alone in the storage, he is approached by a young stable-hand, to whom he has given working orders before. They agree to meet. Ernesto is very aware of the sexual intentions of the man. He is curious and starts having sex with the man frequently. But after an overwhelming heterosexual experience with a prostitute, he decides to avoid any further contact with the man. He quits his job and concentrates on studying the violin. During a concert, Ernesto meets a 15 year old violin player of classic beauty called Emilio. The two boys start an intense friendship that is troubled by jealousy and possessiveness. Untill Emilio introduces Ernesto to his twin sister Rachele. Then Ernesto becomes insecure and confused. Does he want the brother or the sister?
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsMichele PlacidoMark ChaseSimona CavallariMario (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 recruit Michele, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is a good guy not involved with the Mafia, who is trying to build his life on honesty and hard-working. Michele needs some money to give freedom to a prostitute he is in love, and Mario promise his help in change of an hands to set up his trap for the judge. Anyway Michele isn't made with the same "pasta" of Mario, he couldn't never be a real Mafioso and this causes many between the two brother and the Mafia. There is only a way for Mario to save his brother. A way that Mafia could like.
- DirectorEriprando ViscontiStarsTony MusanteCarla GravinaSalvo RandoneDramatization of real-life gangster Gaspare Pisciotta, lieutenant of the bandit Salvatore Giuliano, and his death by poisoning in jail in 1954.
- DirectorMario MonicelliStarsUgo TognazziOrnella MutiMichele Placido50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Giulio's jealousy gets in the way of their happiness though. Has Vincenzina cheated on him with his younger friend or not?
- DirectorBruno GaburroStarsMichele PlacidoSimonetta StefanelliJenny TamburiThe story about an ambitious but inept nephew who takes over the physical property and women of his rich nobleman uncle, including his wife, his daughter, and his maid.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsLaura AntonelliAlberto LionelloMichele PlacidoThe 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.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsKim Rossi StuartAnna MouglalisPierfrancesco FavinoSet in the 1970s, it's the story of three lifelong friends who take control of organized crime in Rome.
- DirectorGiuseppe FerraraStarsMichele PlacidoAnna BonaiutoMassimo BonettiThe 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. Giovanni Falcone was the most important of them: he discovered the liaisons between mafia and politicians, working along with Rocco Chinnici and Paolo Borsellino. Rocco Chinnici was killed by Mafia in the middle '80s, with a bomb. Giovanni Falcone was killed by mafia in 5/23/1992, with more than 100 kilograms of TNT placed under the highway between Palermo and the Punta Raisi airport, and he died along with his wife and three police officers from the VIP Protection Bureau. Paolo Borsellino was killed by mafia 50 days later, with a bomb-car placed under his mother's house, and he died along with many police officers from the VIP Protection Bureau.
- StarsAlex McArthurDennis FarinaJulie CarmenA D.E.A. Agent goes to Columbia to take on the Cartel. He learns that the Cartel is not above killing anyone who opposes them, like judges and Police. Eventually a man who worked for the Cartel, who is in an American prison, offers to help them take down the Cartel. So another Federal Agent poses a money launderer and the try to take the Cartel down.
- DirectorLuciano OdorisioStarsMichele PlacidoÁngela MolinaGuido CelanoVia 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.
- DirectorFranco CastellanoGiuseppe MocciaStarsEnrico MontesanoNino ManfrediLino BanfiA series of vignettes set in a huge shopping mall.
- DirectorLuciano OdorisioStarsMichele PlacidoTino SchirinziGiuliana de SioA well established music conductor in Chieti (Italy) tries to rebuild a historic city orchestra, which no longer exists.
- DirectorFrancesco RosiStarsPhilippe NoiretMichele PlacidoVittorio MezzogiornoThree men face their mother's death.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsMichel PiccoliAnouk AiméeMichele PlacidoMauro, 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...
- DirectorSerge DuborStarsMichele PlacidoCorinne DaclaJean-Pierre BagotAn 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.
- DirectorMarco BellocchioStarsFranco NeroMiou-MiouMichele PlacidoThe young student Paolo Passeri is firmly anti-militarist but has to do his military service.
- DirectorGiuseppe Patroni GriffiStarsLaura AntonelliTerence StampMichele PlacidoA 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.
- DirectorAntonio RacioppiStarsLionel StanderRosanna FratelloMichele PlacidoAntonio, 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.
- DirectorGiulio BaseStarsClaudio AmendolaKim Rossi StuartMichele PlacidoWhen 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.
- DirectorSofia ScandurraStarsStefania SandrelliMaria SchneiderMichele PlacidoVanina and Giacinto are a young married couple whose relationship is unequal; the girl is submissive to her husband's will, and he sees in his bride only the personal object of his sexual satisfaction.
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsMichele PlacidoClaudio AmendolaFrancesco BenignoA 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; 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?
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsFabrizio BentivoglioMichele PlacidoOmero AntonuttiAn intriguing look at a sinister web of power, linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsGiovanna MezzogiornoFabrizio BentivoglioRocco PapaleoIn the 1950s a young teacher, close to the ideals of the left, tries to help the most vulnerable people through teaching.
- DirectorGiuseppe TornatoreStarsKseniya RappoportMichele PlacidoClaudia GeriniHaunted by a horrible past, a young Ukrainian woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.
- DirectorEriprando ViscontiStarsRena NiehausGabriele FerzettiCarmen ScarpittaAfter her harrowing kidnap ordeal in Snatch (1976), Alice tries to return to her normal life, but her memories still haunt her twisting her psyche even further as no one realizes that she's in need of some serious help.
- DirectorMichele PlacidoStarsAsia ArgentoCarlotta NatoliClaudia PandolfiFifteen-year-old Simona has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Simona is a victim of incest.
- DirectorEriprando ViscontiStarsMichele PlacidoRena NiehausFlavio BucciA teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, and make her 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.
- DirectorMario ImperoliStarsSilvano TranquilliAntonella MurgiaPeter Lee LawrenceThe story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband. Although he is aware of his wife's many, many infidelities, it is unclear for a LONG time whether he is actually jealous of them or turned on
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsMichele PlacidoSaverio MarconiIsabella RosselliniGiovanni, a Milan youth heads to poverty-plagued Tuscany to sell some property. Giovanni falls in with several small-town rebels.
- CreatorLucio BattistradaMassimo De RitaStarsRemo GironePatricia MillardetMichele PlacidoAn epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsSilvio OrlandoMargherita BuyJasmine TrincaA skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
- DirectorLodovico GaspariniStarsMichele PlacidoMonica GuerritoreValentina CortiBiographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Romanesco dialect.
- DirectorVladimir BortkoStarsMichele PlacidoTatyana DogilevaMikhail ZhigalovThe events of the film take place on the eve of the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan. The son of a high-ranking military man is sent to the paratrooper unit, commanded by Major Bandura.
- DirectorWalerian BorowczykStarsAnne BennentMichele PlacidoJean-Jacques DelboThe 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'.
- DirectorMario MartoneStarsFanny ArdantMichele PlacidoGiovanna GiulianiCarlo and Silvia are married for twenty years. He lives with a young lover, while Silvia lives in their original flat. Their 'regular' menage changes when also Silvia starts meeting other men, and in particular a young and violent neo-fascist. Carlo becomes obsessed by knowing everything about her wife's affairs and jealousy makes him blind.