Michele Placido Movies

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

Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.

It is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, together with a group of Czech students, is shooting...

When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for...

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline,...

This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences...

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

After his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter.

An Italian lumberjack named Giovanni falls in love with a girl named Louise. What starts off as a whirlwind romance devolves Louise becoming a...

Via Paradiso depicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theatre through intertwined stories which involves a dramatic...

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...

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