Michele Placido

A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter, Irena risks everything in her quest to uncover the truth about the family.

Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini

Marco, a teacher from Milan, relocates to Palermo and takes a temporary job teaching in a juvenile detention centre while he waits for a high school teaching position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories: Natale, in for murder and enamored with the Mafia; Pietro, who can't seem to stay out of jail; Claudio, barely 14 and learning to stand up for himself; and Mery, a trans sex worker, who was arrested after a fight with a trick who didn't want to pay her, and is now stuck in a male prison.

Dir. Marco Risi · With Michele Placido, Claudio Amendola, Francesco Benigno

After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.

Dir. Michele Placido · With Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Stefano Accorsi

Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic.

Dir. Riccardo Milani · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Miriam Leone, Vanessa Scalera

Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.

Dir. Michele Placido · With Cristiana Capotondi, Ambra Angiolini, Michele Placido

Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.

Dir. Michele Placido · With Kim Rossi Stuart, Filippo Timi, Valeria Solarino

In the 1940s in the small town of Jupiter Hollow, two sets of identical twins are born in the same hospital on the same night. One set to a poor local family and the other to a rich family just passing through. The dizzy nurse on duty accidentally mixes the twins unbeknown to the parents. Our story flashes forward to the 1980s where the mismatched sets of twins are about to cross paths.

Dir. Jim Abrahams · With Bette Midler, Lily Tomlin, Fred Ward

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it

Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca

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

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

Dir. Michele Placido · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Louis Garrel, Isabelle Huppert

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

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

Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Silvio Orlando, Luciana Littizzetto, Michele Placido

Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.

Dir. Marco Ponti · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Laura Chiatti, Michele Placido

In Polignano a Mare, covered in snow, they are more nervous than usual. Hysterics, anxiousness, pregnancy tests, lost rings and stuck lifts - what else can happen?

Dir. Marco Ponti · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Laura Chiatti, Michele Placido

In Italy, three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a retired man falls in love with his friend's daughter.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Carlo Verdone, Robert De Niro, Monica Bellucci

Congressman Bonfili, a family man and promoter in the Italian Parliament of a family law, has a clandestine affair with a feisty starlet wannabe actress. In his murky scheming, he also involves his blameless private driver.

Dir. Alessandro D'Alatri · With Paolo Bonolis, Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy