Michele Placido
Birthday: 1946-05-19
Place of Birth: Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy
Biography: 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).
Movies
Moses the Lawgiver
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the ...
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The Unknown Woman
Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to...
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Basilicata, una regione tra due mari
Produced for the Tourism Department of the Province of Matera, with the executive collaboration of I...
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Isolation
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dra...
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The Caiman
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a scr...
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Burning Hearts
Puglia. Burnt by the sun and by hatred, the promontory of Gargano is contested by criminals who seem...
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Big Business
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same h...
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2061 - Un anno eccezionale
In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible...
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The Goodbye Kiss
Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—hiding out in Latin America since the 1970s—turns himself i...
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The Sicilian Connection
An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest ...
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Three Brothers
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raff...
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Mary Forever
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a...
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Orlando
After his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter....
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Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy....
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La lupa
She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" becaus...
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Victory March
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a colleg...
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The Pyjama Girl Case
Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found...
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The Scent of Blood
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she...
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Commediasexi
Congressman Bonfili, a family man and promoter in the Italian Parliament of a family law, has a clan...
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Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators...
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The Roses of the Desert
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in ...
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Plot of Fear
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts o...
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The Wings of the Dove
A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealth...
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Come Home and Meet My Wife
50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other a...
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Department Store
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big depart...
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The Divine Nymph
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them ag...
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Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)
Seemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed comedi...
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Just Married
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter...
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person wo...
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Lamerica
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set ...
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Tigers in Lipstick
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 ...
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Art of Love
Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful...
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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, an...
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Via Paradiso
Via Paradiso depicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theatre through int...
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La Orca
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is m...
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Till Marriage Do Us Part
The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their...
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Del perduto amore
Basilicata, 1950s. A young teacher with communist leanings is committed to women's emancipation and ...
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Beach House
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketba...
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The Big Dream
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercove...
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Eternal Visionary
In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian pla...
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Il posto dell'anima
Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company o...
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Liberate i pesci!
Mafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta....
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And Agnes Chose to Die
After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike ...
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Ages of Love
In Italy, three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then th...
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My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth c...
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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno
A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer....
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Afghan Breakdown
During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the ...
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Un marziano di nome Ennio
The story tells an interesting moment in the life of Ennio Flaiano, his meeting with Federico Fellin...
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The Lookout
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a r...
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Viva l'Italia
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and t...
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Un uomo perbene
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug traffickin...
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Tulpa - Demon of Desire
Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, o...
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Giovanni Falcone
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthou...
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Close Friends
Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfol...
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Poliziotti
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital af...
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L'ultimo padrino
A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him...
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How Good the Whites Are
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six ...
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The Meadow
Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and...
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Lulu
Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies fr...
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Corleone
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of ...
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The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider
It is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, toget...
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Scandal in the Family
The industrialist Carlo arrives at his villa in the Piacenza area to spend his holidays with his wif...
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Teresa the Thief
Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is na...
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Ernesto
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not e...
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Padre e figlio
The father, Corrado, is a worker who left his peasant roots in southern Italy and moved to Genoa to ...
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The Nanny
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination...
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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....
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Fontamara
Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafo...
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Oedipus Orca
Sequel to "La Orca" which follows the life of the kidnapped girl after she returns home to her boyfr...
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A Man on His Knees
Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that...
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The Black Hand
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limi...
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The Pisciotta Case
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the impri...
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Quick Trial
After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, membe...
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Dirty Linen
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business ...
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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug E...
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The Choice
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant....
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Portrait Of My Father
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back...
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Living Legends
Group of friends meet again, 13 years after their prom because of a problem of one of them, and face...
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Loving Only You
Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love fo...
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Un eroe borghese
An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy....
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The Mongrel
The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Rom...
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Io sono mia
Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while...
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Love Returns
Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extrem...
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Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in wa...
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My Wife, A Body to Love
The story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband....
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Kleinhoff Hotel
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at th...
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Christmas Dinner
In Polignano a Mare, covered in snow, they are more nervous than usual. Hysterics, anxiousness, preg...
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Karol: The Pope, The Man
This highly acclaimed feature film on Pope John Paul II was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. ...
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Il grande Torino
The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino....
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Uomo di rispetto
Sicilia, a chauffeur for a prominent figure in mafia circles, finds himself in the midst of a mafia ...
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Private Affairs
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome....
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Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004)...
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Baaria
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria...
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Caterina in the Big City
When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old C...
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Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia
Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet...
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Yerma
Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other hand, Vi...
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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 pla...
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I Hate Summer
Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and redis...
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Notes from a Women Salesman
Set in 1978 Milan, Bravo lives his life among luxury clubs and illegal gambling dens in the company ...
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The True Life of Antonio H.
This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessa...
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Caliber 9
Milan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose mother, N...
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Caravaggio's Shadow
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemenc...
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Romanzo Criminale
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi an...
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The Terrible Lovers
This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a sma...
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Run to You
Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woma...
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What Do You Know About Me
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Th...
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Falla girare - The Last Joint
A virus wipes out cannabis until an unlikely team of a social media influencer, journalist, cop and ...
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Cargo
An Italian lumberjack named Giovanni falls in love with a girl named Louise. What starts off as a wh...
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All Star - Ritorno al cinema
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns....
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Tomato
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nickna...
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Chopin
A small town has its placid waters rocked when a 120-piece orchestra is slated to visit on a regular...
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