Michele Placido Movies

The Unknown Woman

75/100

Haunted by a horrible past, a Ukrainian young woman calculatedly insinuates herself into the life of a rich Italian family.

Der Italiener

67/100

A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.

The Ages of Love

59/100

In Italy 3 men fall in love with 3 different women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling then ditto with the 2nd married middle-aged man. 3rd story: a retired man/R.D.Niro falls in love with his friend's daughter/M.Bellucci.

Lamerica

77/100

Two Italian racketeers come to Albania just after the fall of the communists to set up a fictive firm and pocket the grants...

The Goodbye Kiss

69/100

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... See full summary »

Three Brothers

74/100

Three men face their mother's death.

Viva l'Italia

63/100

Karol - The Pope, the Man

66/100

Marco Terzi gibt nicht auf

73/100

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 ... See full summary »

Blutiger Zahltag

61/100

Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry... See full summary »

Kennen Sie meine Frau?

72/100

50 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 ... See full summary »

Magnum 45

62/100

A 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... See full summary »

Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso

56/100

Ernesto

70/100

Triest in the year 1911. Ernesto is the priviliged, 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 ... See full summary »

Io che amo solo te

55/100

Piano, solo

67/100

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Amici miei - Come tutto ebbe inizio

31/100

The Roses of the Desert

66/100

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 ... See full summary »

Afghan Breakdown

72/100

The film opens with a scene of an Islamic circumcision. After the opening credits, a line of Mujahedin are shown approaching a roadway where a squad of Soviet soldiers has been slaughtered.... See full synopsis »

Till Marriage Do Us Part

64/100

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 ... See full summary »

Il prato

65/100

San Gimignano, in Toscana, alla fine degli anni '70. La fine degli ideali degli anni '70 vista in un piccolo microcosmo...

The Sicilian Connection

70/100

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 recruit Michele, ... See full summary »

La orca

60/100

A 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... See full summary »

Giovanni Falcone

71/100

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 to obtain... See full summary »

Un eroe borghese

71/100

An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.