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Tony Sperandeo has 9 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by One Hundred Steps.
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Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana · With Luigi Lo Cascio, Luigi Maria Burruano, Lucia Sardo

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

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.
Dir. Giambattista Avellino, Valentino Picone, Salvatore Ficarra · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Eleonora Abbagnato

In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately wants to change her life and falls for him; belatedly, he realizes his feelings for her. However, their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.
Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Sergio Castellitto, Tiziana Lodato, Franco Scaldati

A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
Dir. Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Vincenzo Amato

as Tonino Macaluso detto "cosa inutile"
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After two hapless TV technicians stumble upon a murder scene, every step they take to avoid becoming suspects lands them in deeper trouble.
Dir. Maddalena Ravagli, Leonardo Fasoli · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Anna Favella
Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andrea, who — struck by her good looks — offers Miranda a one-time modelling job. Albeit hesitant, the couple eventually accepts his invitation to the Seychelles...
Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni · With Leonardo Pieraccioni, Laura Torrisi, Gabriel Garko
On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue is an idiotic manchild.
Dir. Enrico Lando · With Herbert Ballerina, Tony Sperandeo, Enrico Lo Verso

as Don Pippo Calì
The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s cult.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Diego Abatantuono, Carlo Buccirosso, Ugo Conti
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