Salvatore Ruocco
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naples, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: January 07, 1982
Age: 43 years old
Gender: Male
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Gomorrah
Overview: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have to face every day. They hardly ever have a choice and are forced to obey the rules of the Camorra. Only a lucky few can even think of leading a normal life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-05-16
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Gorbaciof
Overview: Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-10-15
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Napoli, Napoli, Napoli
Overview: Weaving together fact and fiction, this docudrama performs a portrait of the often seamy underside of the city of Naples.Ferrara traveled to Italy to interview the inmates at the Naples Pozzuoli State Prison, a high security lockup for women, and with the help of a translator he allows a number of women doing time to talk about their lives before and after they were convicted. Ferrara chose to expand the short profile of the prisoners into a feature by offering a look at life in the slums of Naples and the actions of a number of law enforcement officers and social workers struggling to improve conditions for the poor, as well as adding three short fictional segments shot of digital video gear.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-04-28
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The Interval
Overview: A boy and a girl are locked in an enormous abandoned building in a rundown area. She is a prisoner and the local clan leader has forced him to be her warder. Despite their youth, both of them have grown up too fast. Veronica acts like a mature and open-minded woman whilst Salvatore is like a man who wants to hold on to his job and lead a quiet life. Thus, when faced with the violence of this incarceration, the two young people have different reactions: Veronica is restless and rebellious; Salvatore is more remissive and accommodating, either out of fear or realism. They are both victims but it is almost as though each blames the other for their reclusion. However, as the hours go by, their mutual hostility is transformed into an inevitable intimacy, consisting of reciprocal discoveries and confessions. Between the walls of that isolated and frightening place, Veronica and Salvatore fi nd a way to rekindle those adolescent dreams and ideas put aside too soon.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-09-05
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The Equalizer 3
Overview: Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-30
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Take Five
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Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-10-02
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Padre Pio
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-06-01
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Pasolini
Overview: We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-25
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Ciro
Overview: Ciro is 14 years old. He lives in Scampia. He spends his days at school, at work and on the football field. He has no one to look up to, except his trainer and Anna, his childhood friend. In the neighbourhood lives Lello, a local crime boss surrounded by people who admire and respect him, and a myth that will slowly begin to crumble for Ciro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-11-17
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Poison
Overview: Two brothers who own a buffalo farm near Caserta attempt to resist the pressures of local mobsters who want to turn their land into an illegal landfill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-14
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Zeros and Ones
Overview: Called to Rome to stop an imminent terrorist bombing, a soldier desperately seeks news of his imprisoned brother — a rebel with knowledge that could thwart the attack. Navigating the capital's darkened streets, he races to a series of ominous encounters to keep the Vatican from being blown to bits.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-18
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