Michele Placido Movies

When a modern Ulysses, struggling with PTSD, wakes up without memory in a post-apocalyptic desert, an alleged Calypso tries to help him uncover the...

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

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

"Tomorrow, I won't be alive anymore," Francesco tersely tells his family, gathered for dinner. He has decided to commit suicide because he can't bear...

Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.

After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for...

Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her...

Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.

In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.

Antonio, 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...

Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his...

A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the...

The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very...

In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello recalls his life and his...

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...

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