Marco Leonardi

Marco Leonardi

Born: November 14, 1971
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Marco Leonardi (born November 14, 1971) is an Italian actor.

Leonardi was born in Australia to Italian parents. He moved to Italy at the age of four and starred in the famous movie Cinema Paradiso and in the Mexican movie Like Water for Chocolate (1993). He has made several movies in the United States, such as Once Upon a Time in Mexico. Other appearances include the Canadian film The Five Senses.

Leonardi was engaged to Mexican actress Lumi Cavazos from 1991 to 1999.Leonardi lived in Los Angeles for 10 years.

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My Place is Here
Title: My Place is Here
Character: Lorenzo
Released: April 25, 2024
Type: Movie
Marta, a single mother promised to an older farmer in the aftermath of WWII, forges an unlikely friendship with Lorenzo, the village's openly gay "wedding planner." In the conservative backdrop of rural Southern Italy, Lorenzo introduces her to a hidden community of gays, sparking Marta's journey to challenge societal prejudices. In the first year of women's suffrage in Italy, Marta navigates her evolving role as a woman, breaking barriers and finding her place in a changing world.
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Hitmen
Title: Hitmen
Character: Don Salvatore Piazza
Released: November 23, 2023
Type: Movie
Michael Hero, a powerful CEO, seeks vengeance for the murder of his grandson by offering a one-million-dollar bounty for the assassination of his grandson's accidental killers, attracting the world's leading assassins to the task at hand.
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Padre Pio
Title: Padre Pio
Character: Gerardo
Released: June 1, 2023
Type: Movie
It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, albeit victorious. Padre Pio also arrives, at a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free elections in Italy sets the stage for a massacre with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic event that changes the course of history.
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My Brother and I
Title: My Brother and I
Released: April 21, 2023
Type: Movie
Sofia is the black sheep of her family. She is a 28-year-old gay girl who can’t help but cheat on her partner and struggles to find a stable job. She has left a little town in Calabria, her homeland in Southern Italy, to move to Milan, where she lives with her roommate Alessandro. Mauro is Sofia's brother. Reliable and loving, unlike Sofia with whom he has a troubled relationship, Mauro has never left Calabria and runs the family winery. Despite their opposite attitudes, Sofia and Mauro has one thing in common. Michela is Sofia's first and only love, but she is Mauro’s bride-to-be. When Sofia realizes that she is about to lose the woman of her life, she decides to go back home to Calabria and win back her true love. This unexpected return will break the delicate balance of Mauro and Sofia’s family and will force the two siblings to a showdown, when they will choose who they really want to be when they grow up. A story of rekindled loves, friendship, growth, and family.
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Romanzo radicale
Title: Romanzo radicale
Released: November 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures that have made an era.
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The Great Salento War
Title: The Great Salento War
Released: May 5, 2022
Type: Movie
After the Second World War, in 1948, a new one breaks out between Ruffano and Supersano, two villages located in the Salento region, in the province of Apulia, Italia, when the rivalry between the two local football teams goes too far.
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American Night
Title: American Night
Character: Don Tony
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.
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WAMEGO: Addendum
Title: WAMEGO: Addendum
Released: December 15, 2020
Type: Movie
Part 4 of the award-winning Wamego documentary series. It's a slice-of-life during the marketing of director Steve Balderson's feature films HELL TOWN and EL GANZO at film festivals worldwide during 2015. With cameos by scream queen Debbie Rochon, Eileen Dietz (The Exorcist), Italian movie star Marco Leonardi (Cinema Paradiso), Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Cyndi Lauper, and more!
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The Great Wave
Title: The Great Wave
Released: November 9, 2020
Type: Movie
The entrepreneurial turning point of one of the most heinous and powerful criminal organizations on the planet: the 'Ndrangheta, told through the life and death of an ordinary man.
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Title: Gli orologi del diavolo
Character: Jacopo Merani
Released: November 9, 2020
Type: TV
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From the Vine
Title: From the Vine
Character: Luca
Released: December 27, 2019
Type: Movie
A downtrodden man experiences an ethical crisis and travels back to his hometown in rural Italy to recalibrate his moral compass. There he finds new purpose in reviving his grandfather's old vineyard, offering the small town of Acerenza a sustainable future, and reconnecting with his estranged family in the process.
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Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten
Title: Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten
Character: Cosimo
Released: November 21, 2019
Type: Movie
At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive on time. No road connects Africo with the other villages. In the wake of this tragedy, all of Africo’s citizens -including children - abandon their usual occupations and unite to build their own road. Giulia, the new schoolteacher, comes from the North with a mission to teach standard Italian to help bring cultural cohesion with Africo and the rest of Italy. But she will have to contend with the local mafioso Don Totó, who is determined to ensure this the town remains cut off, and thus, under his power.
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Martin Eden
Title: Martin Eden
Character: Bernardo
Released: September 4, 2019
Type: Movie
The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.
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Lucania
Title: Lucania
Character: Don Fortunato
Released: June 20, 2019
Type: Movie
An ancient dying land is brought back to life by the primal force of a young mute girl, who witnesses the fatal clash between two fathers.
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Title: Das Boot
Character: Sal "Toto" Giuliano
Released: November 23, 2018
Type: TV
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
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Soledad
Title: Soledad
Character: Belmonte
Released: September 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Love and Anarchy is a dramatic love story based on true events. Two lovers immersed in a repressive political context. A government that portrays them as criminals and the people who regard them as anarchist heroes.
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The Last Man
Title: The Last Man
Character: Antonio
Released: September 6, 2018
Type: Movie
Tov Matheson is a war veteran with PTSD who perceives that the apocalypse is coming. After starting a relationship with a dubious Messiah, he leaves his normal life and begins the construction of a shelter underground, training himself, in an extreme way, at the cost of losing everything and making people believe he is insane. When he also believes it, something extraordinary happens.
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Prigioniero della mia libertà
Title: Prigioniero della mia libertà
Character: Sovritendente Maggio
Released: May 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Alejandro Torres, a young architect, lives a quiet life with his family until the day he is unjustly arrested. Traumatized by the miscarriage of justice and desperate for the truth, he will carry out his "revenge" on those who have turned his life upside down.
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La banalità del crimine
Title: La banalità del crimine
Character: Conte
Released: May 10, 2018
Type: Movie
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Renata Fonte - Una Donna Contro Tutti
Title: Renata Fonte - Una Donna Contro Tutti
Character: Antonio Spagnolo
Released: February 4, 2018
Type: Movie
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All the Money in the World
Title: All the Money in the World
Character: Saverio Mammoliti
Released: December 21, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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A Family
Title: A Family
Character: Pietro
Released: September 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Vincent was born near Paris, but has cut off every link with his roots. Maria, fifteen years younger, grew up in Ostia, but no longer sees her family. Together they form a couple that does not seem to need anyone. They lead a secluded life in contemporary Rome, indolent and distracted. Furthermore, Vincent and Maria are good at blending in with their environment. When they return home, they make love with the passion of young lovers in a suburban apartment that she has carefully furnished. Yet, on closer inspection, their everyday life betrays what lies behind their seemingly normal appearance: a project carried out by him with a clear determination and accepted by her only by virtue of unconditional love. A plan to help couples who cannot have children. Maria decides that it is time to create a real family. This choice has an inevitable consequence: the rebellion against Vincent, the man of her life.
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The Space Between
Title: The Space Between
Character: Di Stasio
Released: May 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Marco is a 35 year-old ex-chef who has given up his career and any sense of hope to return to Udine in Northern Italy to nurse his ailing father. Even when offered a job at a restaurant in Melbourne, he declines using his father as the excuse. When tragedy strikes, the only glimmer of joy arrives in the form of Olivia, a spirited Australian chasing her dream of working in design while on a family mission in Udine. Against the stunning vineyards, rugged mountains and blue Adriatic of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, these two very different people find themselves at a crossroads that will change their lives forever.
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Worldly Girl
Title: Worldly Girl
Character: Celestino
Released: November 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Giulia’s is a poised world, made of rigour and sacred texts, which fiercely excludes those who do not belong to it. Libero's world is the world of all the others, of those who make mistakes, who fend for themselves looking for another chance and who love unconditionally. When Giulia meets Libero, she realizes she can have another destiny, one she will have to choose and build.
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Ustica: The Missing Paper
Title: Ustica: The Missing Paper
Character: Corrado di Acquaformosa
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
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Title: Squadra Mobile
Character: Enrique
Released: April 20, 2015
Type: TV
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Black Souls
Title: Black Souls
Character: Luigi
Released: September 18, 2014
Type: Movie
A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.
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Cha cha cha
Title: Cha cha cha
Character: Fotografo
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: Movie
An accident involving a 16-years old prompts private eye Corso to an investigation that will unearth a deep web of corruption in today's Rome.
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Twins
Title: Twins
Character: Giovanni Ravaioli
Released: March 14, 2012
Type: Movie
Angela Wyler asks police chief Valerio Strada to find Christine, her twin who she hasn't heard in two years and who had a stormy relationship with the officer years back.
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Title: 6 passi nel giallo
Character: Giovanni Ravaioli
Released: February 22, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Il Generale Dei Briganti
Character: Rocco
Released: February 12, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Anti-Mafia Squad
Character: Africa
Released: March 31, 2009
Type: TV
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.
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L'ultimo padrino
Title: L'ultimo padrino
Character: Emanuele / 'Africano'
Released: January 13, 2008
Type: Movie
A TV movie focused on former Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano and the policemen who tried to catch him.
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Title: Corleone
Character: Calogero Bagarella
Released: October 25, 2007
Type: TV
The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.
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Maradona, the Hand of God
Title: Maradona, the Hand of God
Character: Diego Armando Maradona
Released: March 29, 2007
Type: Movie
Dramatizing of the many shocking highs and lows of Argentine soccer hero Diego Maradona, an extraordinary athlete and arguably the greatest player in the history of the sport.
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Mary
Title: Mary
Character: Apostle Peter
Released: November 18, 2005
Type: Movie
Following the shooting of a film on the life of Jesus called This Is My Blood, Marie Palesi, the actress who plays Mary Magdalene, takes refuge in Jerusalem in search of the truth behind the myth. The director of the film, Tony Childress, who also plays Jesus, can think of only one thing: self-promotion. Meanwhile in New York, television journalist Ted Younger presents a programme about the life of Jesus.
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St. Peter
Title: St. Peter
Character: Marco
Released: October 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles' dispersal. In the second half, an aged Peter goes to Rome to join Paul, arriving on the day of Paul's arrest. Paul's death brings a crisis to Rome's Christians and to Peter; lessons from Jesus's teachings guide his decision to stay. Events within the fictive household of Persius, a Roman aristocrat, capture the upheaval that Christian teachings bring to the Eternal City.
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Title: St. Peter
Character: Marco
Released: October 24, 2005
Type: TV
The life of Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own.
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Title: Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Character: Fideo
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: Movie
A CIA agent hires hitman "El Mariachi" to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug kingpin attempting a coup d'état.
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It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All
Title: It's Better to Be Wanted for Murder Than Not to Be Wanted at All
Character: Ben Clemons
Released: April 1, 2003
Type: Movie
A 2003 Canadian Movie directed by Marcel Sarmiento
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CinéMagique
Title: CinéMagique
Character: Sheikh
Released: March 16, 2002
Type: Movie
CinéMagique was a theatre show at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris mixing the live performance of an actor with synchronised movie scenes on a big screen. The attraction opened with the park on March 16, 2002 and stars Martin Short and Julie Delpy. The last show was on March 29, 2017.
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Knights of the Quest
Title: Knights of the Quest
Character: Ranieri di Panico
Released: April 6, 2001
Type: Movie
In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family.
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Saverio Donini
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: TV
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
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From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
Title: From Dusk Till Dawn 3: The Hangman's Daughter
Character: Johnny Madrid
Released: October 31, 1999
Type: Movie
Narrowly escaping death, outlaw Johnny Madrid goes on the run with the hangman's sensuous daughter Esmeralda by his side.
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The Five Senses
Title: The Five Senses
Character: Roberto
Released: May 18, 1999
Type: Movie
Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.
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Vacation in Hell
Title: Vacation in Hell
Character: Angelo
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Italian man unknowingly becomes a drug mule and gets arrested in Thailand. He is sent to tough prison where he plans escape with the help of another prisoner who also has a score to settle with the drug dealer who set the Italian up.
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David
Title: David
Character: Urija
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: Movie
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
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La frontiera
Title: La frontiera
Character: Franco Velich
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: Movie
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Italiani
Title: Italiani
Character: Fortunato
Released: March 1, 1996
Type: Movie
1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
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The Stendhal Syndrome
Title: The Stendhal Syndrome
Character: Marco Longhi
Released: January 26, 1996
Type: Movie
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
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Bandits
Title: Bandits
Character: David
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Amos, a watchmaker, loses his wife due to post-surgery complications. Destroyed by grief, he joins old friends Karl and Maner, former revolutionaries, to kidnap Prime Minister Ullmann, once their companion, to extort money from the state.
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In the Flesh
Title: In the Flesh
Character: Eddie Sanchez
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A couple scheme to kill a young single mother and take her baby as their own.
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Manhattan Merengue
Title: Manhattan Merengue
Character: Carmelo
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
A realistic look at the life of a young immigrant man who comes to America with the hope of dancing on Broadway.
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The Whores
Title: The Whores
Character: Maurizio
Released: August 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica are five women in Palermo, Sicily, each different from the other. But, along with transvestite Kim and young man Maurizio, they all share something: they're "buttane", hookers, who spend the day between the streets and home; some got children, some got problems with the pimps, some with the clients...
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La Ribelle
Title: La Ribelle
Character: Sebastiano
Released: August 20, 1993
Type: Movie
Enza is a beautiful and lively Sicilian teenager who is starting out in life, but due to her naivety, she always ends up getting into trouble. She has no parents, but lives with her aunt and uncle together with her older sister who acts as her mother and tries to put her on the right path, even ending up in prison for some time. Enza, keeping faith with her rebellious nature, falls in love with Sebastiano, with whom she has her first sexual relations, but for him she also goes as far as stealing. All men are the same.
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Villa Maltraversi
Title: Villa Maltraversi
Character: Mirko Cavicchi
Released: May 18, 1993
Type: Movie
The body of one of the Villa owners is found lifeless in the tub. The accusations are immediately turned against the plumber.
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Like Water for Chocolate
Title: Like Water for Chocolate
Character: Pedro Muzquiz
Released: April 16, 1992
Type: Movie
Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.
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Ferdinando, Man of Love
Title: Ferdinando, Man of Love
Released: November 27, 1990
Type: Movie
In a southern villa after the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies live Donna Clotilde and Donna Gesualda. The first is a Bourbon baroness who rejects the new world and the Italian language. The other is the poor relative with duties as a maid. Apart from the village priest, they see no one. Then her nephew Ferdinando arrives at the villa, young, handsome, and squirming.
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The Palermo Connection
Title: The Palermo Connection
Character: il fioraio
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
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Scugnizzi
Title: Scugnizzi
Character: Salvatore
Released: October 12, 1989
Type: Movie
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Cinema Paradiso
Title: Cinema Paradiso
Character: Salvatore 'Totò' Di Vita (teen)
Released: November 17, 1988
Type: Movie
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
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Ciao ma'...
Title: Ciao ma'...
Character: Paolo
Released: April 29, 1988
Type: Movie
In a hot Roman summer, the eternal city awaits an invasion of young people for the Vasco Rossi concert. In those days the stories of very young fans of the singer intertwine, two shop assistants and two boys from the township.
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The Last Minute
Title: The Last Minute
Character: Paolo Tassoni
Released: October 8, 1987
Type: Movie
Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.
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Il coraggio di parlare
Title: Il coraggio di parlare
Character: Fortunato il pastore
Released: October 2, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Bride Was Beautiful
Title: The Bride Was Beautiful
Character: Giuseppe
Released: August 13, 1987
Type: Movie
The teenage boy, Giuseppe, lives with his mother in Cammarata, a Sicilian mountain village. His father left the family years ago, and has since then settled down as a guest worker in West-Germany and established a family. Under local moral rules, Maria is a so-called "white widow", who must stay faithful to her husband even if he never returns to her again. Maria and the newly arrived young doctor fall in love with each other. Their happiness is frowned upon not only by Giuseppe, but the entire village as well as the distant husband.
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Parikrama
Title: Parikrama
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie