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Edoardo Leo has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2010s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Perfect Strangers.
Breaking & Exiting
2018
Comedy · Drama
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini
Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.
Dir. Sydney Sibilia · With Edoardo Leo, Valerio Aprea, Stefano Fresi
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.
Dir. Sydney Sibilia · With Edoardo Leo, Valerio Aprea, Paolo Calabresi
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.
Dir. Sydney Sibilia · With Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino, Valerio Aprea
On a first date in Rome, the inner voices of recently separated Piero and furniture restorer Lara speak aloud, exposing the true thoughts and anxieties hidden behind their conversation.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Edoardo Leo, Pilar Fogliati, Emanuela Fanelli
Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year after year.
Dir. Francesco Amato · With Vittoria Puccini, Benedetta Porcaroli, Edoardo Leo
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share.
Dir. Edoardo Leo · With Luca Argentero, Edoardo Leo, Claudio Amendola
Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisis. When Alessandro’s best friend, out of the blue, asks them to take care of her two kids for a few days, something changes in their daily routine and love will drive them to a crazy and unexpected turn in their life.
Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Stefano Accorsi, Edoardo Leo, Jasmine Trinca
Dante accidentally kisses Alice and they get engaged. After a surprise party for his 40th birthday, he wakes up a year later, not remembering what happened. Not only does he discover that Alice is pregnant... He feels time is passing too quickly and he starts forgetting some of the most important moments of his life.
Dir. Alessandro Aronadio · With Edoardo Leo, Barbara Ronchi, Mario Sgueglia
The story of a small, simple and happy family in which a boy, a manipulator, violently enters, which distorts the life of this wonderful fifteen-year-old and makes her a nightmare.
Dir. Ivano De Matteo · With Greta Gasbarri, Edoardo Leo, Milena Mancini
Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?
Dir. Rolando Ravello · With Ambra Angiolini, Edoardo Leo, Paolo Calabresi
Aspiring writer Tommaso makes a living by penning the self-help column of a women's magazine. One day he receives a letter from a reader asking for advice on how to break up with her man: it is none other than Zoe, his partner of ten years, unaware of his pseudonymous side job. Tommaso can't believe his eyes and answers her in private to learn more.
Dir. Edoardo Leo · With Edoardo Leo, Marta Nieto, Claudia Gerini
David loses his white collar job, his fiancée and his house after one night with con man Marcello. He tracks him down to exact revenge, but ends up becoming his disciple in order to win back everything.
Dir. Francesco Miccichè, Fabio Bonifacci · With Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Maurizio Casagrande
as Claudio · Director · Writer
A young man challenges the web to offer money for a sex tape of him and his girlfriend to finance his work and finally be able to afford having a child. Is it really wrong to sell our own intimacy in order to be able to afford making our dreams come true?
Dir. Edoardo Leo · With Anna Foglietta, Edoardo Leo, Rocco Papaleo
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Raoul Bova, Alessandro Gassmann, Michele Placido
35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she has to earn money in a short time is by resorting to the oldest job in history.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Paola Cortellesi, Raoul Bova, Rocco Papaleo
The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his business into a place of worship—a tax-free activity, where he'll host pilgrims in exchange for a generous donation. He joins forces with an unscrupulous accountant and a failed novelist to come up with his new religion.
Dir. Alessandro Aronadio · With Margherita Buy, Edoardo Leo, Giuseppe Battiston
A group of desperate men, unsatisfied by their lives, decides to attempt a heist to a postal armored truck guard.
Dir. Vincenzo Alfieri · With Fabio De Luigi, Edoardo Leo, Giampaolo Morelli
Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be just perfect... until the day he comes home and finds there Layla, a teenage girl who claims to be his daughter. Alongside Layla is her grandfather Enzo, a former rockstar and the father of Andrea's first fleeting and forgotten conquest. And they've come to stay!
Dir. Edoardo Leo · With Raoul Bova, Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo
as Alessandro (segment "Natale") · Director · Writer
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno, Edoardo Leo · With Edoardo Leo, Massimiliano Bruno, Anna Foglietta
as Alessandro (segment "La vigilia") · Director · Writer
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno, Edoardo Leo · With Edoardo Leo, Massimiliano Bruno, Anna Foglietta
In the present day, three friends to make ends meet invent a "criminal tour" for the places which were scenes of the Banda della Magliana criminal acts, even with vintage clothes. Suddenly they are catapulted in the 1982, during the Spain World Cup, facing the real Banda della Magliana, which at that time had the control over illegal bets.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Alessandro Gassmann, Marco Giallini, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Alessandro Gassmann, Marco Giallini, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
Dir. Claudio Amendola · With Edoardo Leo, Ricky Memphis, Ennio Fantastichini
A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting, endless night into a life-altering experience.
Dir. Liliana Cavani · With Alessandro Gassmann, Claudia Gerini, Edoardo Leo
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