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Michele Placido
Michele Placido

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). more

Directed [10]
Starred In [82]
Produced [1]
Written [5]
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The Unknown Woman
(2006)
Thriller
Irena, a Ukrainian woman coming to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.
Runtime:
118 min
Director:
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast:
Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Piera Degli Esposti, Claudia Gerini, Pierfrancesco Favino
7.4
68%
56
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Romanzo Criminale
(2005)
Crime, Drama
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decade...
Runtime:
152 min
Director:
Michele Placido
Cast:
Stefano Accorsi, Kim Rossi Stuart, Kim Rossi Stuart, Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Santamaria
7.2
53%
N/A
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Big Business
(1988)
Comedy
In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where th...
Runtime:
97 min
Director:
Jim Abrahams
Cast:
Bette Midler, Bette Midler, Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Lily Tomlin
6.4
44%
53
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Baarìa
(2009)
Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Runtime:
150 min
Director:
Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast:
Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Lina Sastri, Raoul Bova, Giorgio Faletti
6.9
55%
N/A
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The Caiman
(2006)
Comedy, Drama
A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Nanni Moretti
Cast:
Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca, Michele Placido, Giuliano Montaldo
6.7
39%
N/A
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Caterina in the Big City
(2003)
Comedy, Drama
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Paolo Virzì
Cast:
Alice Teghil, Sergio Castellitto, Margherita Buy, Federica Sbrenna
6.8
90%
63
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Lamerica
(1994)
Drama
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con requires a native Albanian, so they designate Spiro, an impoverished and confused former political prisoner as chairman of the board. When Fiore returns to Italy to get government funds for...
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Gianni Amelio
Cast:
Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Piro Milkani, Carmelo Di Mazzarelli
7.6
90%
N/A
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The Ages of Love
(2011)
Comedy, Romance
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the per...
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Giovanni Veronesi
Cast:
Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci, Riccardo Scamarcio, Michele Placido, Laura Chiatti
5.9
N/A
N/A
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Three Brothers
(1981)
Drama
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 he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. ...
Runtime:
113 min
Director:
Francesco Rosi
Cast:
Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andréa Ferréol
7.4
N/A
N/A
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The Lookout
(2012)
Action, Crime, Mystery
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.
Runtime:
86 min
5.7
N/A
N/A
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The Goodbye Kiss
(2006)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 and decides to return to Italy. What he wants is to lead a comfortable bourgeois life in his native country. Thanks to Anedda, a corrupt police in...
Runtime:
107 min
Director:
Michele Soavi
Cast:
Alessio Boni, Michele Placido, Isabella Ferrari
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Mary Forever
(1989)
Crime, Drama
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 motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Nata...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Marco Risi
Cast:
Michele Placido, Claudio Amendola, Francesco Benigno, Alessandra Di Sanzo, Tony Sperandeo
7.3
N/A
N/A
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Department Store
(1986)
Comedy
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia
Cast:
Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Nino Manfredi, Renato Pozzetto, Enrico Montesano
5.4
N/A
N/A
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Come Home and Meet My Wife
(1974)
Comedy, Drama
50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decid...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Mario Monicelli
Cast:
Ugo Tognazzi, Michele Placido, Ornella Muti, Vincenzo Crocitti
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Beach House
(1977)
Comedy
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Sergio Citti
Cast:
Jodie Foster, Paolo Stoppa, Gigi Proietti, Mariangela Melato, Sergio Citti
6.5
N/A
N/A
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The Nanny
(1999)
Drama
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nan...
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Marco Bellocchio
Cast:
Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Maya Sansa, Jacqueline Lustig, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Moses the Lawgiver
(1974)
History
Story of Moses. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Runtime:
141 min
Director:
Gianfranco De Bosio
Cast:
Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quayle, Ingrid Thulin, Irene Papas, Aharon Ipalé
6.1
N/A
N/A
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The Pyjama Girl Case
(1977)
Mystery, Thriller
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 attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector ...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Flavio Mogherini
Cast:
Ray Milland, Dalila Di Lazzaro, Michele Placido, Mel Ferrer, Howard Ross
6.1
N/A
N/A
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Piano, Solo
(2007)
Drama, Music
A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Riccardo Milani
Cast:
Kim Rossi Stuart, Jasmine Trinca, Paola Cortellesi, Michele Placido, Sandra Ceccarelli
6.7
N/A
N/A
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Afghan Breakdown
(1991)
Action, Drama, War
During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov, the son of a high-ranking officer.
Runtime:
140 min
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Plot of Fear
(1976)
Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo interrogates one of the guests, a fashion model who becomes his informant, as well as his lover. Clery reveals that after a “wildlife orgy”one of the hosts tried to jokingly feed one of t...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Paolo Cavara
Cast:
Corinne Cléry, Michele Placido, John Steiner, Eli Wallach, Quinto Parmeggiani
6.2
N/A
N/A
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The Roses of the Desert
(2006)
Comedy, War
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 Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no re...
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Mario Monicelli
Cast:
Michele Placido, Alessandro Haber, Giorgio Pasotti, Claudio Bigagli, Moran Atias
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Pizza Connection
(1985)
Action, Crime, Drama
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, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is a good guy not involved with the Mafia, that is trying to build his life on honesty and hard-working. ...
Runtime:
116 min
Director:
Damiano Damiani
Cast:
Michele Placido, Mark Chase
7.1
N/A
N/A
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Oggi sposi
(2009)
Comedy
Director:
Luca Lucini
Cast:
Luca Argentero, Moran Atias, Dario Bandiera, Isabella Ragonese, Carolina Crescentini
6.1
N/A
N/A
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The Meadow
(1979)
Drama, Romance
Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Cast:
Michele Placido, Saverio Marconi, Isabella Rossellini, Giulio Brogi
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
(2010)
Comedy
Director:
Giovanni Veronesi
Cast:
Matteo Amata, Piera Degli Esposti, Barbara Enrichi, Andrea Fachinetti, Luciana Littizzetto
5.5
N/A
N/A
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A Man on His Knees
(1979)
Thriller
Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Damiano Damiani
Cast:
Giuliano Gemma, Eleonora Giorgi, Michele Placido, Tano Cimarosa
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Ernesto
(1979)
Drama, Music, Romance
Ernesto (Martin Halm) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees--then experiments with heterosexuality, courtesy of an obliging prostitute. When the boy finds himself participatin...
Runtime:
98 min
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Till Marriage Do Us Part
(1974)
Comedy
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 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...
Runtime:
110 min
6.5
N/A
N/A
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Il posto dell'anima
(2003)
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.
Runtime:
106 min
Director:
Riccardo Milani
Cast:
Silvio Orlando, Michele Placido, Paola Cortellesi
6.9
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N/A
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L'ultimo padrino
(2008)
Crime
A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.
Runtime:
200 min
Director:
Marco Risi
Cast:
Michele Placido, Daniele Pecci, Micaela Ramazzotti, Marco Leonardi
6.7
N/A
N/A
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The Divine Nymph
(1975)
Drama, Romance
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Runtime:
115 min
Director:
Giuseppe Patroni Griffi
Cast:
Laura Antonelli, Terence Stamp, Michele Placido, Duilio Del Prete, Carlo Tamberlani
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Tulpa - Demon of Desire
(2012)
Horror, Thriller
Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled from repression and guilt, Lisa will do anything with any stranger to attain a higher consciousness. However, when her lovers start getting murdered in shocking ways, Lisa can’t go to the pol...
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Federico Zampaglione
Cast:
Claudia Gerini, Michele Placido, Nuot Arquint
4.7
N/A
N/A
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Victory March
(1976)
Drama
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to ...
Runtime:
125 min
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Io che amo solo te
(2015)
Comedy, Romance
Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Marco Ponti
Cast:
Riccardo Scamarcio, Laura Chiatti, Michele Placido, Maria Pia Calzone, Luciana Littizzetto
5.5
N/A
N/A
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A Leap in the Dark
(1980)
Drama, Romance
Mauro, 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 relations...
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Marco Bellocchio
Cast:
Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Michele Placido, Gisella Burinato
6.6
N/A
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La Orca
(1976)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
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 her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.
Runtime:
90 min
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Liberate i pesci!
(2000)
Director:
Cristina Comencini
Cast:
Michele Placido, Francesco Paolantoni, Emilio Solfrizzi, Laura Morante
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Un uomo perbene
(1999)
Drama
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Runtime:
119 min
6.3
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N/A
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The Scent of Blood
(2004)
Drama
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia are married for twenty years. But they wearily live their relationship separately; while she lives in their original flat in Rome, he lives with a young lover, Lù from time to time in his house in the country while writing a book. He does not keep his relationship hidden from his wi...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Mario Martone
Cast:
Fanny Ardant, Michele Placido, Giovanna Giuliani, Riccardo Scamarcio, Sergio Tramonti
5.6
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