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Paolo Pierobon has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
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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

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

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended family—including his son's, young Eduardo De Filippo.
Dir. Mario Martone · With Toni Servillo, Maria Nazionale, Cristiana Dell'Anna

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

Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...
Dir. Gennaro Nunziante · With Checco Zalone, Eleonora Giovanardi, Sonia Bergamasco

Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the assassination of his main ally Aldo Moro in 1978, not forgetting his trips to Moscow and the covers of Time: the story of a man who wanted to change the world, but failed.
Dir. Andrea Segre · With Elio Germano, Paolo Pierobon, Roberto Citran
Two different men living in Milan lose their job at the same time. They will become a funny couple of thieves thanks to the poorest of them that was already a thief.
Dir. Massimo Venier · With Ale, Franz, Maddalena Maggi
Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-star hotel. Both are fragile, alone and obsessed with the idea of an unattainable happiness. Their intense love is challenged by their own individual ambition and desperation.
Dir. Claudio Cupellini · With Elio Germano, Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey, Valerio Binasco

The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.
Dir. Marco Bellocchio · With Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Filippo Timi, Fausto Russo Alesi

Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment; only by doing this will he be able to decipher his father's journal, the most valuable artefact in his legacy. This singular contribution to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi genre tells of a humanity in crisis, while at the same time conveying the adventurous spirit of adolescence.
Dir. Claudio Cupellini · With Leon de La Vallée, Paolo Pierobon, Maria Roveran
Lucia is a young and talented advertiser but is out of luck when it comes to love. Madly in love with her best friend's boyfriend, she struggles with her feelings when they are set to get married.
Dir. Luca Lucini · With Francesca Inaudi, Riccardo Scamarcio, Gabriella Pession

as Dio, Cliente bar, Giorgio, SWAT, Medico chirurgo, Produttore musicale del Ministero
2015: Hell is in chaos. A host of new sinners arrive every day to crowd Minos' offices. But Hell is an old, antiquated structure: the new sinners, not finding a right place, are dispersed among the circles. Lucifer is received directly by God, who seeks a solution. The winning idea is a cataloging of the new sins on Earth. And who to entrust the task to if not Dante Alighieri, who already once, in his time, carried out this task with excellent results? Dante is thus catapulted into a large Italian city, and finally finds his guide, the one who will accompany him in search of the "new sins": Demetrio Virgilio, a precarious thirty-year-old who is preparing, like every morning, to face another "day of Hell".
Dir. Francesco Mandelli, Fabrizio Biggio, Martino Ferro · With Fabrizio Biggio, Francesco Mandelli, Giordano De Plano
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