Michele Placido Movies

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...

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.

A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in...

Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.

A documentary on the public and private life of the great actor Ugo Tognazzi.

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often...

An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals...

The exemplary story of one of the most important pioneers of the Italian publishing industry who, with his vision, brought books and reading into the...

2012 Italian drama; title is German slang for "Wop"

A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.

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...

Rome, late 1990s. Military service is still compulsory, and to avoid it, Marco, an ambitious young architect already on the rise, chooses...

A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.

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...

A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.

The story tells an interesting moment in the life of Ennio Flaiano, his meeting with Federico Fellini and his relationship with the famous producer...

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...

A small town has its placid waters rocked when a 120-piece orchestra is slated to visit on a regular basis to offer special concerts to the community...

Basilicata, 1950s. A young teacher with communist leanings is committed to women's emancipation and the spread of education in rural areas, coming...