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).
Caravaggio's Shadow
as Cardinal Del MonteThe Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him...
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Run to You
as Padre di GianniGianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful...
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Ages of Love
as AugustoRoberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly...
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Big Business
as Fabio AlbericiIn the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the...
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The Unknown Woman
as MuffaIrena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she...
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Baaria
as esponente PCIGiuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of...
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Department Store
as DirettoreA series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big...
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Romanzo Criminale
as Padre FreddoAfter serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and...
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I Hate Summer
as il Maresciallo dei Carabinieri localiThree families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and...
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The Caiman
as Marco PuliciBruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a...
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The Lookout
as GiovanniWhen police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from...
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Beach House
as VincenzinoSummer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's...
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Caterina in the Big City
as SelfWhen her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome,...
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La Orca
as MicheleA teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she...
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Viva l'Italia
as Michele SpagnoloThe story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness...
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Come Home and Meet My Wife
as Giovanni Pizzullo50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti), fall madly in...
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Tulpa - Demon of Desire
as RoccaforteLisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club...
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The Divine Nymph
as Martino GhiondelliIn the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing...
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My Friends: How It All Began
as Duccio Villani di MasiJacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the...
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Burning Hearts
as Vincenzo MontanariPuglia. Burnt by the sun and by hatred, the promontory of Gargano is contested by criminals who...
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The Scent of Blood
as CarloA couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While...
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Loving Only You
as Don MimiLukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time...
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Tigers in Lipstick
as Angelo / The Photographer8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's...
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2061 - Un anno eccezionale
as Cardinale BonifacioIn a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a...
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La lupa
as MalerbaShe was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf"...
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7 Minutes
as Michele VarazziWomen in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
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Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
as AlbertoParent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
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Christmas Dinner
as Don MimìIn Polignano a Mare, covered in snow, they are more nervous than usual. Hysterics, anxiousness,...
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Till Marriage Do Us Part
as Silvanno Pennacchini, l'autistaThe Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on...
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Lulu
as SchwarzLulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he...
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The Sicilian Connection
as Mario AloiaMario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an...
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Mary Forever
as Marco TerziA teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching...
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Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno
as Vittorio De SicaA movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.
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Giovanni Falcone
as Giovanni FalconeThe story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo...
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The Pyjama Girl Case
as Antonio AttoliniTwo seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is...
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Ernesto
as The manErnesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste....
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The Wings of the Dove
as SandroA 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a...
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The Big Dream
as Adult Andrea (uncredited)Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up...
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The Art of Love
as MacariusYoung student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the...
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Three Brothers
as Nicola GiurannaIn a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome,...
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Dirty Linen
as FurioThe Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their...
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What Do You Know About Me
as SelfUntil the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with...
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The Roses of the Desert
as Frate SimeoneA sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign...
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday
as Mario Salvetti (episodio "Domenica")SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This...
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Moses the Lawgiver
as KalebThe epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received...
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The Goodbye Kiss
as Ferruccio AneddaLeftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape...
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Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life
as SelfAn account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma...
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Close Friends
as Simona's fatherFifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film...
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How Good the Whites Are
as MichelThe humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and...
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Caliber 9
as Rocco MuscoMilan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose...
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Lamerica
as FioreFiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to...
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Just Married
as Sabino ImpanatoNicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the...
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Un eroe borghese
as Silvio NovembreAn intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
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Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
as Col. Roberto ChavezThis follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S....
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Oedipus Orca
as Michele TurrisiSequel to "La Orca" which follows the life of the kidnapped girl after she returns home to her...
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Leap Into the Void
as Giovanni SciabolaMauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a...
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Karol: The Pope, The Man
as Dr. Renato BuzzonettiThis highly acclaimed feature film on Pope John Paul II was filmed on location in Italy and...
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Plot of Fear
as Inspector Gaspare LomenzoPlot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the...
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Victory March
as Paolo PasseriThe drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a...
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Love Returns
as Dr. BiancoLuca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets...
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The Meadow
as EnzoRomantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic...
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The Nanny
as Belli Estate PatientRome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks...
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Scandal in the Family
as MiloThe industrialist Carlo arrives at his villa in the Piacenza area to spend his holidays with his...
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Notes from a Women Salesman
as Amedeo SangiorgiSet in 1978 Milan, Bravo lives his life among luxury clubs and illegal gambling dens in the...
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Un uomo perbene
as Enzo TortoraIn June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug...
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L'ultimo padrino
as Bernardo ProvenzanoA TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch...
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And Agnes Chose to Die
as TomAfter the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a...
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Il grande Torino
as Angelo Di Girolamo (Older)The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino.
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The Choice
as Emilio NicotriA childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
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Teresa the Thief
as Tonino Santità, detto MortadellaTeresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she...
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Poliziotti
as Sante CarellaWhen young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in...
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Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
as Giuseppe Catania aka BeppeMariangela Melato stars as Fulvia Bolk, a self-made tycoon interested in ecological...
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The Pisciotta Case
as Amerigo Lo JaconoThe magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the...
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A Man on His Knees
as Antonio PlatamonaNino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers...
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Private Affairs
as LionelloRomantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
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Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia
as TrilussaBiographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian...
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Fontamara
as Berardo ViolaFontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called...
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Corleone
as Michele LabruzzoTwo friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way...
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Kleinhoff Hotel
as PedroPascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin,...
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Afghan Breakdown
as Major BanduraDuring the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under...
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Portrait Of My Father
as SelfA labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks...
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Isolation
as SelfA collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and...
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All Star - Ritorno al cinema
as SpettatoreA short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.
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Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
as Sé stessoNecessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of...
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Io sono mia
as GiacintoVannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way;...
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Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)
as CarloSeemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed...
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The Black Hand
as Antonio TurrisAntonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are...
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Il posto dell'anima
as SalvatoreThree workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American...
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Quick Trial
as Stefano BaldiniAfter a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini,...
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The Mongrel
as Avv.SilvestriThe story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from...
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Yerma
as VictorYerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other...
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Orlando
as OrlandoAfter his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter.
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My Wife, A Body to Love
as Simona's PartnerThe story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband.
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Arnoldo Mondadori - I libri per cambiare il mondo
as Arnoldo Mondadori
Un marziano di nome Ennio
as Vittorio De SicaThe story tells an interesting moment in the life of Ennio Flaiano, his meeting with Federico...
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The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider
as Count SternberkIt is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague,...
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La vera vita di Antonio H.
as SelfThis film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter...
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Via Paradiso
as FrancescoVia Paradiso depicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theatre through...
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Itaker
as Pantano2012 Italian drama; title is German slang for "Wop"
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Aldo Moro - Il presidente
as Aldo MoroAt the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of...
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Cargo
as GiovanniAn Italian lumberjack named Giovanni falls in love with a girl named Louise. What starts off as...
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Living Legends
as Christiano NegriGroup of friends meet again, 13 years after their prom because of a problem of one of them, and...
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The Terrible Lovers
as SergioThis standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a...
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The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
as uncreditedIn a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a...
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Padre e figlio
as CorradoThe father, Corrado, is a worker who left his peasant roots in southern Italy and moved to Genoa...
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Ciao Darwin
as Presidente di giuriaCiao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries,...
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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Wetten, dass..?
as SelfA long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British...
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Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
as Padre PioThe story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he...
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The Octopus
as Commissario Corrado CattaniAn epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything...
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Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso
as Ugo Maria Starace Tarallo
Karol: The Pope, The Man
as Renato BuzzonettiKarol: The Pope, The Man is a 2006 TV miniseries chronicling Pope John Paul II's life as pope in...
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Il sequestro Soffiantini
as Giuseppe SoffiantiniIn 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for...
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In Treatment
as GuidoIn Treatment is an Italian TV series directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Sergio Castellitto.
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