Biography
Michele Placido was born on May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor, director and screenwriter, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Un eroe borghese (1995).
Known For
Complete Filmography

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 ...

Eternal Visionary
2024
Writer, Director
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 ...

Senza malizia
2023

Arnoldo Mondadori - I libri per cambiare il mondo
2022
as Arnoldo Mondadori

Orlando
2022
as Orlando
After his son dies, an Italian mountain farmer moves to Brussels to look after his granddaughter.

Caravaggio's Shadow
2022
as Cardinal Del Monte
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

Caravaggio's Shadow
2022
Director, Writer
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

Falla girare - The Last Joint
2022
as Diego
A virus wipes out cannabis until an unlikely team of a social media influencer, journalist, cop and a drug dealer join against sinister forces working...

Burning Hearts
2022
as Vincenzo Montanari
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 of...

La voglia matta di vivere
2022
as Self

Run to You
2022
as Padre di Gianni
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.

Un marziano di nome Ennio
2022
as Vittorio De Sica
The story tells an interesting moment in the life of Ennio Flaiano, his meeting with Federico Fellini and his relationship with the famous producer of...

Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
2021
as Sé stesso
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 and...

Isolation
2021
as Self
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic....

Isolation
2021
Director, Writer
A collective documentary film, from five european directors asked to witness the revolutions and dramas caused in their own countries by the pandemic....

All Star - Ritorno al cinema
2021
as Spettatore
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

Notes from a Women Salesman
2021
as Amedeo Sangiorgi
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 an...

Caliber 9
2020
as Rocco Musco
Milan, Nowadays: Fernando, son of Ugo Piazza, is a brilliant criminal defense lawyer whose mother, Nelly, has done everything in her power to raise hi...

I Hate Summer
2020
as il Maresciallo dei Carabinieri locali
Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.

Calypso
2019
Executive Producer
When a modern Ulysses, struggling with PTSD, wakes up without memory in a post-apocalyptic desert, an alleged Calypso tries to help him uncover the tr...

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
as Self
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moment...

Christmas Dinner
2016
as Don Mimì
In Polignano a Mare, covered in snow, they are more nervous than usual. Hysterics, anxiousness, pregnancy tests, lost rings and stuck lifts - what els...

7 Minutes
2016
as Michele Varazzi
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.

7 Minutes
2016
Director, Screenplay, Writer
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.

Un'Avventura Romantica
2016
as Vittorio De Sica

Loving Only You
2015
as Don Mimi
Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.

The Choice
2015
as Emilio Nicotri
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.

The Choice
2015
Screenplay, Director
A childless couple struggle in the aftermath of a sexual assault leaves the woman pregnant.

Prima di andar via
2014
Director, Editor
"Tomorrow, I won't be alive anymore," Francesco tersely tells his family, gathered for dinner. He has decided to commit suicide because he can't bear ...

Living Legends
2014
as Christiano Negri
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 ...

Venice 70: Future Reloaded
2013
Director
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of t...

The Mongrel
2013
as Avv.Silvestri
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 drugs...

Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia
2013
as Trilussa
Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Ro...

Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno
2013
as Vittorio De Sica
A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.

Viva l'Italia
2012
as Michele Spagnolo
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding ...

The Lookout
2012
as Giovanni
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...

The Lookout
2012
Director
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...

Tulpa - Demon of Desire
2012
as Roccaforte
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 from...

Itaker
2012
as Pantano
2012 Italian drama; title is German slang for "Wop"

My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began
2011
as Duccio Villani di Masi
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.

Ages of Love
2011
as Augusto
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 reti...

Portrait Of My Father
2010
as Self
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.

Angel of Evil
2010
Screenplay, Director
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 gre...

Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
2010
as Alberto
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.

The Big Dream
2009
as Adult Andrea (uncredited)
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government...

The Big Dream
2009
Director, Screenplay
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government...

Just Married
2009
as Sabino Impanato
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.

What Do You Know About Me
2009
as Self
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, t...

Baaria
2009
as esponente PCI
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), ...

Focaccia Blues
2009
as Proiezionista

L'Aquila 2009 - Five Directors in the Rubble
2009
Director

Aldo Moro - Il presidente
2008
as Aldo Moro
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, t...

The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider
2008
as Šternberk
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 hi...

L'ultimo padrino
2008
as Bernardo Provenzano
A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.

Blood of the Losers
2008
as Commissario Franco Dogliani

2061 - Un anno eccezionale
2007
as Cardinale Bonifacio
In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.

Piano, Solo
2007
as Giovanni
A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
2007
as Self /Narrator
The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often con...

SoloMetro
2007
as Enrico Alvari

SoloMetro
2007
Producer

Commediasexi
2006
as Lo chef
Congressman Bonfili, a family man and promoter in the Italian Parliament of a family law, has a clandestine affair with a feisty starlet wannabe actre...

The Roses of the Desert
2006
as Frate Simeone
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, s...

The Unknown Woman
2006
as Muffa
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 gir...

The Caiman
2006
as Marco Pulici
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 p...

Karol: The Pope, The Man
2006
as Dr. Renato Buzzonetti
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 tremen...

The Goodbye Kiss
2006
as Ferruccio Anedda
Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of ...

Romanzo Criminale
2005
as Padre Freddo
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...

Romanzo Criminale
2005
Director, Co-Writer
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...

Il grande Torino
2005
as Angelo Di Girolamo (Older)
The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino.

Wherever You Are
2004
Director, Writer
A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.

Love Returns
2004
as Dr. Bianco
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 ...

The Scent of Blood
2004
as Carlo
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 hi...

Caterina in the Big City
2003
as Self
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 herself...

Il posto dell'anima
2003
as Salvatore
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 Italian...

A Journey Called Love
2002
Screenplay, Director
The life and loves of poet Sibilla Aleramo (Laura Morante), focusing on her relationship with Dino Campana (Stefano Accorsi).

Once Upon a Time in Sicily
2001
as Uzenda

Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
2000

Liberate i pesci!
2000
as Michele Verrio
Mafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta.

Un uomo perbene
1999
as Enzo Tortora
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.

The Nanny
1999
as Belli Estate Patient
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 in...

Dirty Linen
1999
as Furio
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 bring...

A Lighter Burden to Bear
1998
Producer

Del perduto amore
1998
as Don Gerardo

Del perduto amore
1998
Screenplay, Director

Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences)
1998
as Carlo
Seemingly unrelated events connect several people: a young wounded soldier, a nurse, a failed comedian, and a murderer. The film starts literally wit...
La missione
1998
as Padre Ramboni

La lupa
1996
as Malerba
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 we...

Un eroe borghese
1995
as Silvio Novembre
An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.

Un eroe borghese
1995
Director
An intriguing look at a sinister web of power,linking politics and the mafia in modern day Italy.

Poliziotti
1995
as Sante Carella
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 d...

Padre e figlio
1994
as Corrado
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 ne...

Lamerica
1994
as Fiore
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 re...

La vera vita di Antonio H.
1994
as Self
This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego o...

Giovanni Falcone
1993
as Giovanni Falcone
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 famili...

Uomo di rispetto
1993

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.

Quattro bravi ragazzi
1993
as Marcione

Look to the Sky
1993
Thanks
A Jewish boy living in Amsterdam at the onset of World War II is taken to a concentration camp with his parents. Based on the memoir of Holocaust surv...

Close Friends
1992
as Simona's father
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 vi...

Close Friends
1992
Director, Screenplay
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 vi...

Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel
1992
as Col. Roberto Chavez
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 ...

Afghan Breakdown
1991
as Major Bandura
During the main withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, a company of hardened paratroopers under the command of Major Bandura are joined by Steklov, th...

Tomato
1990
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the N...

Tomato
1990
Director, Story, Writer
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the N...

Mary Forever
1989
as Marco Terzi
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 po...

Via Paradiso
1988
as Francesco
Via Paradiso depicts the charming, unchanging nature of the fate of an old movie theatre through intertwined stories which involves a dramatic romance...

Big Business
1988
as Fabio Alberici
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...

How Good the Whites Are
1988
as Michel
The humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and six trucks loaded with provisions to alleviate hunger ...

Private Affairs
1987
as Lionello
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.

Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil
1986
as Giuseppe Catania aka Beppe
A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.

Department Store
1986
as Direttore
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

The Sicilian Connection
1985
as Mario Aloia
An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals ...

The Terrible Lovers
1985
as Sergio
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 in...

The Art of Love
1983
as Macarius
Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the ar...
Il passo falso
1983
as Gabriele Rossi

Chopin
1982
as Francesco Maria Vitale
A small town has its placid waters rocked when a 120-piece orchestra is slated to visit on a regular basis to offer special concerts to the community ...

Cargo
1981
as Giovanni
An Italian lumberjack named Giovanni falls in love with a girl named Louise. What starts off as a whirlwind romance devolves Louise becoming a prisone...

The Wings of the Dove
1981
as Sandro
A 20th-century prostitute (Dominique Sanda) arranges for her lover (Michele Placido) to wed a wealthy, dying millionairess (Isabelle Huppert) in Venic...

Three Brothers
1981
as Nicola Giuranna
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 he...

Fontamara
1980
as Berardo Viola
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 b...

Lulu
1980
as Schwarz
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 c...

A Leap in the Dark
1980
as Giovanni Sciabola
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 tho...

The Meadow
1979
as Enzo
Romantic entanglements develop between three young Italians frustrated by their current economic and social status.

Saturday, Sunday and Friday
1979
as Mario Salvetti (episodio "Domenica")
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encou...

A Man on His Knees
1979
as Antonio Platamona
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 every...

Tigers in Lipstick
1979
as Angelo / The Photographer
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

Ernesto
1979
as The man
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, Ernest...
Volunteers for an Unknown Destination
1979
as Antonio Stella

Corleone
1978
as Michele Labruzzo
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 ...
Basilicata, una regione tra due mari
1978
as Voice

Yerma
1978
as Victor
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 p...

The Pyjama Girl Case
1977
as Antonio Attolini
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 inqui...

Io sono mia
1977
as Giacinto
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 husband...

Beach House
1977
as Vincenzino
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 wit...

Kleinhoff Hotel
1977
as Pedro
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. K...

Oedipus Orca
1977
as Michele Turrisi
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 tri...

And Agnes Chose to Die
1976
as Tom
After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.

Plot of Fear
1976
as Inspector Gaspare Lomenzo
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 ...

La Orca
1976
as Michele
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 disco...

Victory March
1976
as Paolo Passeri
The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who...

The Divine Nymph
1975
as Martino Ghiondelli
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.

Scandal in the Family
1975
as Milo
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 soon...

Moses the Lawgiver
1974
as Kaleb
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 M...

Come Home and Meet My Wife
1974
as Giovanni Pizzullo
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 walks...

Till Marriage Do Us Part
1974
as Silvanno Pennacchini, l'autista
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 brothe...

Quick Trial
1974
as Stefano Baldini
After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for i...

Teresa the Thief
1973
as Tonino Santità, detto Mortadella
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 ...
Il picciotto
1973
as Rosario Mandalà
Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1973

The Black Hand
1973
as Antonio Turris
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 ...

My Wife, A Body to Love
1973
as Simona's Partner
The story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband.

The Pisciotta Case
1972
as Amerigo Lo Jacono
The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon...