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Marco Leonardi has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Cinema Paradiso.
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A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Philippe Noiret, Jacques Perrin, Marco Leonardi

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
Dir. Pietro Marcello · With Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Carlo Cecchi

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
Dir. Alfonso Arau · With Lumi Cavazos, Marco Leonardi, Regina Torné
A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.
Dir. Francesco Munzi · With Marco Leonardi, Peppino Mazzotta, Fabrizio Ferracane

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
Dir. Ridley Scott · With Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer

A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
Tov Matheson is a war veteran with PTSD who perceives that the apocalypse is coming. After starting a relationship with a dubious Messiah, he leaves his normal life and begins the construction of a shelter underground, training himself, in an extreme way, at the cost of losing everything and making people believe he is insane. When he also believes it, something extraordinary happens.
Dir. Rodrigo H. Vila · With Hayden Christensen, Harvey Keitel, Marco Leonardi

as Johnny Madrid
Set one hundred years ago, outlaw Johnny Madrid, after narrowly escaping death, goes on the run with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side.
Dir. P.J. Pesce · With Marco Leonardi, Michael Parks, Rebecca Gayheart