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Luca Argentero has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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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
When Doctor Andrea Fanti loses 12 years of memories from a brain injury, he finds himself adjusting to a world full of strangers.
Dir. Viola Rispoli, Francesco Arlanch · With Luca Argentero, Matilde Gioli, Pierpaolo Spollon
Carlo is a doctor that has recently lost his wife. Affected by the loss, he is supported by his family and friends, and, above all, for the love he feels towards his little daughter. And then, one day, he meets Camille.
Dir. Luca Lucini · With Luca Argentero, Diane Fleri, Fabio Troiano
The story of a gang of French female robbers disguised as men, who operated in the Avignon area in the mid-1980s.
Dir. Michela Andreozzi · With Ambra Angiolini, Ilenia Pastorelli, Serena Rossi

This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, married with children; Nerval and her policeman husband.
Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefano Accorsi, Margherita Buy
An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.
Dir. Simone Spada · With Giuseppe Battiston, Barbora Bobuľová, Luca Argentero

Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.
Dir. Riccardo Milani · With Paola Cortellesi, Antonio Albanese, Sonia Bergamasco
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
Dir. Luca Miniero · With Paola Cortellesi, Rocco Papaleo, Luca Argentero
Mattia, a building contractor on a promising career path, is about to close the biggest deal of his professional life, when his illegally-hired worker Kamal falls off some scaffolding, suffers a severe break and threatens to sue and press charges against Mattia unless... Unless Mattia takes his place in an advanced course for pastry makers! This is the reason Kamal came to Italy from his native Egypt and that will allow him to realize his dream of opening his own pastry shop... Mattia has no choice but to take Kamal’s place in the school and pretend to be him. Among laughs and mouth-watering recipes, Mattia will discover a way to bring his and Kamal's disparate cultures together.
Dir. Claudio Cupellini · With Luca Argentero, Violante Placido, Neri Marcorè

as Gianni (segment "San Valentino")
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
Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people to the top in virtually every field. In Florence, three thirty-somethings band together to wage their own war on the system. Each of them is a person of talent who has been pushed out by "favorites" or raccomandati, people who have muscled in on the promotions they ought to have gotten by pulling strings.
Dir. Giambattista Avellino · With Luca Argentero, Paola Cortellesi, Paolo Ruffini
Political strategists in a northern Italian city push gay-rights campaigner Piero into the mayoral race, pairing him with uptight conservative toughie Adele. Piero and his partner, Remo, are the stable ones, while buttoned-up divorcee Adele nurses her bitterness.
Dir. Umberto Riccioni Carteni · With Luca Argentero, Claudia Gerini, Filippo Nigro
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
Dir. Luca Lucini · With Luca Argentero, Dario Bandiera, Isabella Ragonese
A funny story about two brothers, Pietro and Francesco, and what happens with them and their families after Petro loses his memory.
Dir. Alessio Maria Federici · With Luca Argentero, Raoul Bova, Carolina Crescentini
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.
Dir. Michele Placido · With Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet
Like all sixteen-year-olds, Leo prefers the company of friends, motorbike rides and music to school. None of the teachers seem to be able to arouse his interest until the arrival in his class of a young history and philosophy substitute who, with his modern methods, helps him see the world with different eyes. In love with Beatrice, the ethereal girl of his dreams, Leo divides the world by colours. Beatrice is the red of love but he is forced to confront his own beliefs and fears when he discovers that the girl is suffering from leukemia, a disease that he links to white, a symbol of emptiness and loss.
Dir. Giacomo Campiotti · With Filippo Scicchitano, Gaia Weiss, Aurora Ruffino
Two very different men have something in common: the work. When their companies are bought by a bigger one, who will take the only place of boss of the new company?
Dir. Max Croci · With Luca Argentero, Stefano Fresi, Ambra Angiolini
She's a divorce lawyer, single mother and perpetually at war against men, he is a couple's therapist, single and not looking, they meet and collide in a bourgeois and romantic Rome...
Dir. Max Croci · With Luca Argentero, Sarah Felberbaum, Giampaolo Morelli
The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with realism, with their contradictions, their desperation, the temptation of an escape, but the cornerstone of the movie is the sincerity of the positive feelings of each and everyone of them: the love of a father for his son, the love for a woman, for friends, and most of all the pursuit of a lost (if ever had) personal dignity and pride. Four characters of different ages and extractions, three man and a woman: Luigi, Donato, Rossana and Angelo.
Dir. Claudio Amendola · With Luca Argentero, Claudio Amendola, Giacomo Ferrara
A new hero is born in this hilarious, animated adventure of epic proportions! Timo, a student at the Gladiators? Academy in Rome, has no desire to become a legendary gladiator like his stepfather. That is, until the mesmerizing Lucilla walks into his life. With the help of an unlikely band of sidekicks, Timo is determined to be the gladiator of her dreams and embarks on an action-packed journey to become the Colosseum?s first victor!
Dir. Iginio Straffi · With Luca Argentero, Laura Chiatti, Belén Rodríguez

as Fausto
While on holiday in the Caribbean, a bankrupt family pins their hopes on a rich man, two strangers fall in lust, and a technophile gets shipwrecked.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Ghini, Angela Finocchiaro
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