Luigi Lo Cascio
Also Known As: ルイジ・ロ・カーショ
Biography: Luigi Lo Cascio is an Italian actor born 20 October 1967 in Palermo. He won David di Donatello for Best actor for his starring role in I cento passi. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luigi Lo Cascio, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Palermo, Italy
Birthday: October 20, 1967
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Gender: Male
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The Sweet and the Bitter
Overview: Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-09-04
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The Life I Want
Overview: A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Good Morning, Night
Overview: The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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The Best of Youth
Overview: After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-06-22
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The Best Day of My Life
Overview: The lively goings-on of a modern family seen trough the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-04-12
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Baaria
Overview: Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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The Dark Sea
Overview: The girlfriend of Detective Luca Mocci moves from the house of her friend Charlotte to live with him. When the corpse of the upper-class escort and student Valentina Martini is found in an apartment, tied and beaten after a kinky sex, Detective Mocci becomes obsessed with his investigation in the underworld of sex in his city, arising dark desires and affecting his relationship with his girlfriend. Written by Claudio Carvalho
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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One Hundred Steps
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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The Friends At The Margherita Café
Overview: Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-04-03
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Light of My Eyes
Overview: Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Don't Tell
Overview: Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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Strangeness
Overview: During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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We Believed
Overview: 1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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The Bone Breakers
Overview: Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an amateur criminal organization that fractures the limbs of its willing victims before staging fake accidents and raking in the insurance payouts. Vincenzo recruits the individuals from among the down-and-outs that haunt the city streets, where Luisa is a habitué, since she gets her crack there. Vincenzo’s problems suddenly get worse, though, after a series of mistakes shut him out of the gang, and Luisa is now his only chance: he convinces her to have her bones broken.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-24
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My Brother-in-Law
Overview: A man recruits the help of his gangster brother-in-law to retrieve his stolen car.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-25
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Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
Overview: On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-03-30
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Eyes of Crystal
Overview: While hunting a cultured and vicious psychopath, detective Amaldi faces the physical and moral decay of his city as well as the ghosts of his past.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-11-26
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Salvo
Overview: Salvo, a ruthless Sicilian Mafia hit man, changes his priorities after being involved in a bloody ambush.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-06-27
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The Ideal City
Overview: Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn. In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-04-11
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The Bad Child
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-11-20
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Human Capital
Overview: The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-12-03
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Nowhere
Overview: Three different epochs through the gaze of three children: Zelinda, who loses her mother to the Spanish Flu during World War I and sees the specter of Nazism loom; Assunta, who lives during the Nazi occupation between bombings, raids, and executions; Icaro, who abandons the countryside during the Years of Lead (“Anni di Piombo”) and accepts a new life. A story across the difficulties and the troubles of the 20th century between memories, affection, nostalgia, and gratitude.
Genres: Animation Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-08-29
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Marina
Overview: The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2013-11-06
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Chiara
Overview: Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes forever. With charisma and conviction, she breaks free from her family's constraints and stands up to the Pope himself. She fights for herself, for the women who join her and for her dream of freedom. The story of a Saint. The story of a girl and her revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-12-07
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The Dinner
Overview: Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-05
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Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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An Italian Name
Overview: Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow reaching climactic proportions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-01-22
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6 sull'autobus
Overview: An old bus drives through the streets of Rome. It's a long day. The bus fills up with people and stories. Then empties out. People get on. And get off. Faces, eyes. Expectations. A few encounters. Incidents. Slips. Ambiguities. Thefts. Rows. Confiding exchanges. Confessions. Projects. Plans. Lies. Slaps. Even one hijacking. A well-defined route can become a journey. Each encounter can become a future opportunity or can lay a former wound to rest. Every stop may produce the person who will change your life trajectory. Or not, and the bus carries on. At the next turn, someone else will get on and a fragment of his life will for a moment touch yours.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-09-02
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Dieci Cadute
Overview: An underground fight is taking place in a painter's studio between the artist and the ten tyrants.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Donkey Flies
Overview: Maurizio, tiny, reckless and full of energy, grew up in the poorest outskirts of Reggio Calabria, he argues with spiteful hens, speaks to wise donkeys and fights for his dream: to play the snare drum in the neighbourhood band.
Genres: Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-08-06
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Montalbano and Me: Andrea Camilleri
Overview: A profile of the author of the highly successful INSPECTOR MONTALBANO series, originally broadcast to mark his birthday.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-06
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
Overview: Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-02-02
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Stessa rabbia, stessa primavera
Overview: A documentary about the making of "Buongiorno, notte" and the films and politics of director Marco Bellocchio.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Wild Blood
Overview: The bad romance between Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, two of the foremost movie stars in Fascist Italy, who were supporters of the regime to the bitter end, and shared its brutal downfall.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-05-23
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
Overview: Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-11-30
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The Stone Eater
Overview: In a small mountain valley in Italy, the former criminal Cesare discovers the corpse of his nephew Fausto.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-09-30
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The Traitor
Overview: Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-05-23
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Il sogno del maratoneta
Overview: The feat of marathon runner Dorando Pietri, who participated in the London Olympic Games in 1908.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-03-18
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The Ties
Overview: Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Miracle at St. Anna
Overview: Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-09-15
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Delta
Overview: A clash between fishermen and poachers is surging on the Po river Delta. A local group of volunteers lead by Osso wants to save the river from overfishing and defend it from the Florians, a family on the run from the Danube region. They have with them Elia, who once was part of the local community and now is on the opposite side of the conflict. Overtaken by blind violence and thirst for vengeance, Elia and Osso will confront each other in the Delta fogs, discovering their real nature in a fight that has no heroes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-03-23
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I Guerrieri del Regno di OEP
Overview: A documentary with some fictional scenes that focuses the attention, more than on hospitalized children, on the human dynamics that are established in their families. Shot in the Oncohematology ward of an Italian hospital, the movie follows the life of some young patients being treated, alternating interviews with their relatives and hospital staff.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-11-28
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Lord of the Ants
Overview: Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-08
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