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Fabrizio Gifuni has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Best of Youth.
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After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana · With Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Adriana Asti

The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.
Dir. Sydney Sibilia · With Luigi D'Oriano, Giuseppe Arena, Francesco Di Leva

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.
Dir. Marco Bellocchio · With Fabrizio Gifuni, Margherita Buy, Toni Servillo

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.
Dir. Saverio Costanzo, Elena Ferrante · With Alba Rohrwacher, Irene Maiorino, Fabrizio Gifuni

The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being secretly baptized, was forcibly taken from his family to be raised as a Christian. His parents’ struggle to free their son became part of a larger political battle that pitted the papacy against forces of democracy and Italian unification.
Dir. Marco Bellocchio · With Enea Sala, Leonardo Maltese, Paolo Pierobon

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana · With Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino, Michela Cescon

A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.
Dir. Andrea Molaioli · With Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds…
Dir. Marco Bellocchio · With Valerio Mastandrea, Bérénice Bejo, Guido Caprino
Time jump to 1939 with teenager Max and his friends as they try to navigate Mussolini's Rome and find Max's missing brother.
Dir. Ludovico Di Martino · With Matteo Schiavone, Fabio Bizzarro, Andrea Gaia Wlderk
To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself.
Dir. Ludovico Di Martino · With Fabrizio Gifuni, Lino Musella, Monica Piseddu
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