Francesco Di Leva

Francesco Di Leva

Born: September 4, 1978
in Napoli

Movies for Francesco Di Leva...

Adagio
Title: Adagio
Character: Bruno
Released: December 14, 2023
Type: Movie
Rome today: the Eternal City is surrounded by wildfires. In the centre, ravaged by corruption and violence, three old gangsters unite their last energies to save a boy that has failed the wrong person.
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Sognando Venezia
Title: Sognando Venezia
Released: June 18, 2023
Type: Movie
Vittoria is an exuberant thirteen-year-old girl who lives in the province of Naples and who dreams of becoming an influencer. Her father, Fabrizio, on her birthday gives her a ticket to parade on the red carpet in Venice. She begins a bizarre preparation: clothes made up of newspaper clippings, the search for the right outfit to get the blue check and many, many stories on social media.
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Last Night of Amore
Title: Last Night of Amore
Character: Dino Ruggeri
Released: March 9, 2023
Type: Movie
On the night before his retirement, police lieutenant Franco Amore is called to investigate the death of a long-time partner of his in a diamond heist in which he was involved.
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Mixed by Erry
Title: Mixed by Erry
Character: Fortunato Ricciardi
Released: March 2, 2023
Type: Movie
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.
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I nostri ieri
Title: I nostri ieri
Character: Beppe
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso
Character: Francesco Tricarico
Released: October 20, 2022
Type: TV
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La cura
Title: La cura
Character: Bernard
Released: October 13, 2022
Type: Movie
During the Covid-19 lockdown, a film crew is shooting an adaptation of Camus' La Peste. Reality and fiction start to blur between each other.
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Burning Hearts
Title: Burning Hearts
Character: Giovannangelo
Released: September 22, 2022
Type: Movie
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 the jungle. An archaic land reminiscent of the Far West, in which blood is washed away with blood. An old feud between two rival families is rekindled by a forbidden love: the one between Andrea, reluctant heir of the Malatesta, and Marilena, beautiful wife of the boss of the Camporeale clan. A fatal passion that sets the two clans at war again. But Marilena, banished by the Camporeale and prisoner of the Malatesta, disputed and abused, will oppose a fate already written with a mother’s strength.
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Come prima
Title: Come prima
Character: Fabio
Released: June 16, 2022
Type: Movie
The story of two brothers, separated by time and their character, and their journey back to Italy, homeward, in the summer of 1956.
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Nostalgia
Title: Nostalgia
Character: Don Luigi Rega
Released: May 25, 2022
Type: Movie
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.
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Un mondo in più
Title: Un mondo in più
Character: Franco
Released: March 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Spring 2020. In the midst of the pandemic, Diego has just turned 18. Although he's named after his father's idol, Maradona, he doesn't really like football, nor lives in Naples anymore. After his mother's death, he moved with his father Franco in a Roman suburb, but he's having an hard time integrating and seems to get better along with the African immigrants living next door than with his new classmates. Things change after Tea, a unconventional young woman who's guarding an important secret, bursts into his and Franco's lives. Their forced coexistence will fuel Diego's coming-of-age journey.
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The Hidden Child
Title: The Hidden Child
Character: Biagio
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele opens the door and, before greeting him, runs to rinse his face. In that short space of time, a ten-year-old child slips into his apartment and hides away. “The maestro” – as he’s called in his neighbourhood – only notices the stowaway late at night. And when he sees him, he recognises the intruder as Ciro, a child who lives with his parents and siblings on the top floor of his building. When asked why he has fled his home, Ciro refuses to speak. Nevertheless, the maestro instinctively decides to hide him in his home, setting Ciro’s enemies a uniquely difficult challenge.
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Towards Happiness
Title: Towards Happiness
Character: Andrea
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Andrea is a labor consultant and his married life with Lucia is winding down. Once a week Andrea crosses the border of the Neapolitan nightlife to give life to Octavia Meraviglia: the most famous drag queen in Naples.
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Benvenuti in casa Esposito
Title: Benvenuti in casa Esposito
Character: Pietro De Luca
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Tonino Esposito is the son of the fearsome Camorra boss of Rione Sanità, Naples. Unlike him, however, Tonino is clumsy and utterly innocuous—a good person at heart—and so when his father dies he's passed over in matters of succession. His pride wounded, he doesn't not resign himself and tries to be his own boss, only managing to make a fool of himself. When he discovers that his daughter is dating to the son of the judge who's investigating the boss of Rione Sanità, Tonino sees the opportunity to prove himself in front of his family and all of Naples.
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The King of Laughter
Title: The King of Laughter
Character: Photographer
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: Movie
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.
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A Hole in the Head
Title: A Hole in the Head
Character: Fabio Violante
Released: November 24, 2020
Type: Movie
Based on actual events, this is the story of a young woman who meets the terrorist who murdered her father, a policeman, who died when she was just born.
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Il delitto Mattarella
Title: Il delitto Mattarella
Character: Massimo M
Released: July 2, 2020
Type: Movie
January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in cold blood, killing him. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty that day is Pietro Grasso, future General Anti-Mafia Prosecutor and President of the Italian Senate. His investigations are continued by Giovanni Falcone, who uncovers dangerous connections between the Mafia, the ruling Christian Democratic Party, neo-fascist terrorists, and secret services.
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The Mayor of Rione Sanità
Title: The Mayor of Rione Sanità
Character: Antonio Barracano
Released: September 30, 2019
Type: Movie
Antonio Barracano is a respected man among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a young man asks him permission to kill his father.
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Bob & Marys
Title: Bob & Marys
Character: Accùppatore 1
Released: April 5, 2018
Type: Movie
A married couple must get their hands dirty when a bunch of mobsters start using their new home as a deposit for illegal material.
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Put Grandma in the Freezer
Title: Put Grandma in the Freezer
Character: Gennaro
Released: March 15, 2018
Type: Movie
Simone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the body in a freezer, and sets up a fraud with the help of some friends to avoid bankruptcy.
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Caccia al tesoro
Title: Caccia al tesoro
Character: O' Mastino
Released: November 23, 2017
Type: Movie
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MeanMinds
Title: MeanMinds
Character: Ciccio “O' Pazz”
Released: September 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Ciccio “O' Pazz” and Ciruzzo “Pesce bello”, are two powerful, blood-soaked Mafia characters. The legacy left to them is a violent, depraved narrative of murderous dominion over the weak. But still, enemies muscling their way into this realm of the wretched. These apparently harmless enemies are nevertheless viewed as potential usurpers by Ciccio and Ciruzzo, who, alienated by their imposed surroundings, develop a deep paranoia towards two animals: Severino, leader of the famous donkeys of Campu Perdu, and Piero, top boar around the Olive field area. The day of reckoning is near. There has to be a showdown. They have to get rid of the two animals. There's no way around it. A letter is delivered. A Pinter-like ultimatum with a crystal-clear demand: it's you or us. Men or animals. Coexistence is out of the question. Power has room for only one big chief. The final, inevitable apocalypse draws near.
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The Stuff of Dreams
Title: The Stuff of Dreams
Character: Andrea
Released: December 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone where everyone may not be able to recover their social role but for sure their humanity. Somebody can even get love back. Shakespeare and Eduardo De Filippo blend together in a picaresque comedy full of coup de théâtre.
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Natale col boss
Title: Natale col boss
Character: Fefè
Released: December 16, 2015
Type: Movie
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Mafia Millionaires
Title: Mafia Millionaires
Character: Babbà
Released: October 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Based on a real Italian crime boss and family, their 40-year saga, as seen through their eyes, reflects the history, beauty, and strife of Naples.
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Title: Il clan dei camorristi
Character: Ciccio Capuano
Released: January 7, 2013
Type: TV
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Waves
Title: Waves
Character: Andrea
Released: November 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Waves is inspired by a short novel of Robert Louis Stevenson, The Ebb-tide, written and published in 1894, the year of his untimely death (Stevenson was 44 years old).
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We Believed
Title: We Believed
Character: Prison guard
Released: November 12, 2010
Type: Movie
1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary movements in Southern Italy, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's republican and unificationist cause. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the decades.
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A Quiet Life
Title: A Quiet Life
Character: Edoardo
Released: November 5, 2010
Type: Movie
The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.
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Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia
Title: Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia
Character: Fabio
Released: December 4, 2008
Type: Movie
The film is the result of a planned trilogy about the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades first announced by director Grimaldi in 2003: shot in the UK on a low budget, the project was never completed because of lack of funding and other issues, and the existing footage from the first two planned installments was condensed into a single movie and released on DVD in 2009.
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All the Invisible Children
Title: All the Invisible Children
Released: September 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
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Vento di terra
Title: Vento di terra
Released: September 14, 2004
Type: Movie
Vento Di Terra (wind of the earth) is an Italian film about an 18 year old boy (Vicenzo Pacilli) from a poor suburb of Napoli, Italy who finds himself burdened by expectations of supporting his mother after his father dies from an unexpected heart attack. Working in a blue-collar factory job, Vince soon finds that he does not have enough money to support himself, let alone his frail recently widowed mother. His sister departs to Cassano to finally end her employment drought by getting a job in the local FIAT factory. Vince is left alone to support his mother. He gets involved in a heist, and then out of guilt confesses his sin to a close family friend, who suggests he joins the Italian army. In the army Vince meets a new found friend through his training period, and they are soon deployed together to the war torn state of Kosovo in the Former Yugoslavia, where he is exposed to the brutality of war.
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A Children's Story
Title: A Children's Story
Released: May 14, 2004
Type: Movie
Rosario is 11 years old, he lives in the suburbs with his grandmother, a sick woman who spends time watching TV. He is the leader of a small group who spends his days between games rooms, small crimes and dangerous challenges.
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Follow the Shadows
Title: Follow the Shadows
Character: Aldo De Rosa
Released: March 5, 2004
Type: Movie
The young Carabiniere Gatta is sent to barracks in the Naples area. It's 1946 and the war is still hanging in the air even if the small community doesn't seem to have been affected that much by it. Even so, certain suspicions take root in the brigadier's mind. The hotel in the town was the setting for unexplained deaths and crimes that had been covered up. Gatta decides to investigate. Fragments begin to emerge, killers and their victims take shape and speak to each other from different times. There's the hotel owner, a grief-striken mother, a weak son and long-suffering sister, an orphan and two woman who were violently killed. Pain, indifference and shame cast a shadow over everything.
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A World of Love
Title: A World of Love
Released: June 5, 2003
Type: Movie
The film deals with the true events which happened in 1949 in Italy, when then-schoolteacher Pier Paolo Pasolini was accused of soliciting three underage boys.
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Pater familias
Title: Pater familias
Character: Gerardo
Released: March 14, 2003
Type: Movie
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Rosa Funzeca
Title: Rosa Funzeca
Character: Salvatore
Released: October 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Rosa Funzeca, after twenty years as a prostitute, decides to make a change in her life and to look for an honest job that'll allow her to be reunited with her son Fernando. But things are not easy.
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Iris
Title: Iris
Character: Attore napoletano
Released: January 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Maria, a 7-year-old girl who lives on the island of Ustica, has forgotten her mothers birthday, and only remembers it when she sees her brothers presenting her with two bunches of wild flowers. To make amends, she immediately sets off to buy some irises she had spotted in the market down at the port that morning. Luckily the flower seller still has some left, but Maria only has enough money for one Iris.
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Malefemmene
Title: Malefemmene
Released: November 30, 2001
Type: Movie
A young woman is wrongly jailed. In prison she finds a completely different world made of women who seem to have found the formula for freedom.
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The Man-Eater
Title: The Man-Eater
Character: Francesco
Released: August 26, 1999
Type: Movie
This is the story of a Sicilian woman that tries to have avidly as many sexual adventures as possible. She uses different identities and personalities, but she can't stop collecting adventures. One day she meets Valerio, a young student who falls in love with her.
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Title: The Leopard
Character: Russo
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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The Children's Train
Title: The Children's Train
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: Uonderbois
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
A group of five twelve-year-olds – united by the imagination of those who grew up on the streets of Naples – who firmly believe in the existence of the “Uonderboi”, who is a cross between the legendary figure of “Munaciello” and a modern Robin Hood. Together they will venture into the underground world of Naples and they will discover that in every story there is always a pinch of truth.