Michele Placido
Popularity:5.692
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1946-05-19
Place of Birth:Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy
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Also Known As:Mike Placido, Микеле Плачидо
Moses the Lawgiver (1974)
The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV...
The Unknown Woman (2006)
Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little...
Isolation (2021)
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the...
The Caiman (2006)
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...
Burning Hearts (2022)
Puglia. Burnt by the sun and by hatred, the promontory of Gargano is contested by criminals who seem to come from a remote past governed by the law...
Arnoldo Mondadori - I libri per cambiare il mondo (2022)
Big Business (1988)
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...
2061 - Un anno eccezionale (2007)
In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.
The Goodbye Kiss (2006)
Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about...
The Sicilian Connection (1985)
An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals...
Piano, Solo (2007)
A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.
Three Brothers (1981)
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which...
Mary Forever (1989)
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school...
Orlando (2022)
After his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter.
Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso (2010)
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
La lupa (1996)
She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men...
Victory March (1976)
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete,...
The Pyjama Girl Case (1977)
Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes...
The Scent of Blood (2004)
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of...
Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore (2021)
Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators at every latitude. On scene the artistic path...
The Roses of the Desert (2006)
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby,...
Plot of Fear (1976)
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo...
The Wings of the Dove (1981)
A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in...
Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974)
50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he...
Department Store (1986)
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
The Divine Nymph (1975)
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences) (1998)
Seemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed comedian, and a murderer. The film starts literally...
Just Married (2009)
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
Saturday, Sunday and Friday (1979)
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this...
Lamerica (1994)
Fiore, an Italian conman, arrives in post Communist Albania with Gino, his young apprentice, to set up a shoe factory that will never open. The con...
Tigers in Lipstick (1979)
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
The Art of Love (1983)
Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the...
A Leap in the Dark (1980)
Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal...
Via Paradiso (1988)
Via Paradiso depicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theatre through intertwined stories which involves a dramatic...
La Orca (1976)
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is made to write her own ransom letter. She soon...
Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her...
Beach House (1977)
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men...
The Big Dream (2009)
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the...
Eternal Visionary (2024)
In 1934, as playwright Luigi Pirandello travels to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, he begins reliving the drama and magic of...
Il posto dell'anima (2003)
Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the...
Liberate i pesci! (2000)
Mafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta.
And Agnes Chose to Die (1976)
After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.
Ages of Love (2011)
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in...
My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began (2011)
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.
Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno (2013)
A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.
Afghan Breakdown (1991)
During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov,...
Un marziano di nome Ennio (2022)
The story tells an interesting moment in the life of Ennio Flaiano, his meeting with Federico Fellini and his relationship with the famous producer...
The Lookout (2012)
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...
Viva l'Italia (2012)
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone...
Un uomo perbene (1999)
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Tulpa - Demon of Desire (2012)
Lisa Boeri is at the top of her corporate career. At night she frequents the notorious Club Tulpa, owned by a mysterious Tibetan guru. Unshackled...
Giovanni Falcone (1993)
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia...
Close Friends (1992)
Fifteen-year-old Sabrina has lived with her father since he split with her mother. As the film unfolds it gradually becomes clear that Sabrina is a...
Poliziotti (1995)
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for...
L'ultimo padrino (2008)
A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.
How Good the Whites Are (1988)
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger...
The Meadow (1979)
Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.
Lulu (1980)
Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who...
Corleone (1978)
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia...
The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider (2008)
It is 1961 and an Albanian student (Nik Xhelilaj) of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, together with a group of Czech students, is shooting...
Scandal in the Family (1975)
The industrialist Carlo arrives at his villa in the Piacenza area to spend his holidays with his wife Piera and his daughter Francesca. They will...
Itaker (2012)
2012 Italian drama; title is German slang for "Wop"
Teresa the Thief (1973)
Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and...
Ernesto (1979)
Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation,...
Padre e figlio (1994)
The father, Corrado, is a worker who left his peasant roots in southern Italy and moved to Genoa to find employment a worker. His son, Gabriele, is...
Aldo Moro - Il presidente (2008)
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978,...
The Nanny (1999)
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his...
Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil (1986)
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.
Fontamara (1980)
Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira...
Oedipus Orca (1977)
Sequel to "La Orca" which follows the life of the kidnapped girl after she returns home to her boyfriend and family. After her kidnap ordeal Alice...
A Man on His Knees (1979)
Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that...
The Black Hand (1973)
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself...
The Pisciotta Case (1972)
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very...
Il picciotto (1973)
Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1973
Quick Trial (1974)
After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for...
Dirty Linen (1999)
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market...
Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel (1992)
This follow-up to "Drug Wars: The Camarena Story" chronicles the fact-based fight by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency and the Colombian government to...
The Choice (2015)
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.
Portrait Of My Father (2010)
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
Living Legends (2014)
Group of friends meet again, 13 years after their prom because of a problem of one of them, and face the opportunity to experience the things in life...
Loving Only You (2015)
Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.
Un eroe borghese (1995)
An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.
The Mongrel (2013)
The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells...
Io sono mia (1977)
Vannina and Giacinto are a young married couple who live their relationship in an unequal way; while the girl is submissive to the will of her...
Love Returns (2004)
Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his...
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future (2007)
The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often...
My Wife, A Body to Love (1973)
The story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband.
Kleinhoff Hotel (1977)
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student....
Christmas Dinner (2016)
In Polignano a Mare, covered in snow, they are more nervous than usual. Hysterics, anxiousness, pregnancy tests, lost rings and stuck lifts - what...
Karol: The Pope, The Man (2006)
This highly acclaimed feature film on Pope John Paul II was filmed on location in Italy and Poland. Focusing on the papacy of John Paul and the...
Il grande Torino (2005)
The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino.
7 Minutes (2016)
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
Private Affairs (1987)
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
Water and Sugar: Carlo Di Palma, the Colours of Life (2016)
An account of the life and work of the legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey into the greatest...
Baaria (2009)
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian...
Caterina in the Big City (2003)
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding...
Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia (2013)
Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in...
Yerma (1978)
Yerma wants a child but with her dispassionate husband has failed to conceive. On the other hand, Victor courts her but the sense of caste and honor...
The Man with the Flower in His Mouth (1993)
In a train station caffè, a man ill with cancer and an indifferent customer converse. Based on a play by Luigi Pirandello.
I Hate Summer (2020)
Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.
Notes from a Women Salesman (2021)
Set in 1978 Milan, Bravo lives his life among luxury clubs and illegal gambling dens in the company of his friend Daytona. Bravo defines himself as...
La vera vita di Antonio H. (1994)
This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego...
Caliber 9 (2020)
Milan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose mother, Nelly, has done everything in her power to raise...
Caravaggio's Shadow (2022)
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
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 Terrible Lovers (1985)
This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences...
Run to You (2022)
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.
What Do You Know About Me (2009)
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline,...
Falla girare - The Last Joint (2022)
A virus wipes out cannabis until an unlikely team of a social media influencer, journalist, cop and a drug dealer join against sinister forces...
Cargo (1981)
An Italian lumberjack named Giovanni falls in love with a girl named Louise. What starts off as a whirlwind romance devolves Louise becoming a...
All Star - Ritorno al cinema (2021)
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.
L'Aquila 2009 - Five Directors in the Rubble (2009)
Wetten, dass..? (1981)
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
The Octopus (1984)
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus,...
Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth (2000)
The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his...
Il sequestro Soffiantini (2002)
In 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for 237 days in their hideout in the mountains of...
Karol: The Pope, The Man (2006)
Karol: The Pope, The Man is a 2006 TV miniseries chronicling Pope John Paul II's life as pope in flashbacks from October 22, 1978's papal...
Ciao Darwin (1998)
Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada,...
Bambi Awards (1948)
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in...
Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso (2022)
In Treatment (2013)
In Treatment is an Italian TV series directed by Saverio Costanzo and starring Sergio Castellitto.
Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso (2022)
Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso (1970)
In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.