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Michele Riondino has 5 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.
Dir. Paolo Strippoli · With Michele Riondino, Giulio Feltri, Paolo Pierobon

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Dir. Marco Risi · With Libero De Rienzo, Valentina Lodovini, Michele Riondino

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzino LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers.
Dir. Michele Riondino · With Michele Riondino, Elio Germano, Vanessa Scalera

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
Dir. Mario Martone · With Elio Germano, Michele Riondino, Massimo Popolizio

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to exact revenge on those who betrayed him.
Dir. Bille August · With Sam Claflin, Ana Girardot, Blake Ritson