Violante Placido
Know for: Acting
Born: 1976-05-01
Place of birth: Roma, Italy
Also know as:
Barah Aana (2009)
Barah Aana is a comedy of real life set in today's Mumbai. The story revolves around three unlikely friends: a driver (Naseeruddin Shah), a watchman...
Lessons in Chocolate (2007)
Mattia, a building contractor on a promising career path, is about to close the biggest deal of his professional life, when his illegally-hired...
Raul - Right to Kill (2005)
In a fascist Rome anxiously awaiting Hitler's visit, Raul is a young man not aligned with the regime and beset by debts. In May 1938, Raul kills an...
Evelyne tra le nuvole (2023)
In her early forties, Sofia lives in the mountains, isolated from the world, a place where even basic Internet technology seems to be an unknown...
The American (2010)
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Pinocchio (2009)
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
What Will Become of Us (2004)
A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.
Any Reason Not to Marry? (2006)
Leo and Nina lived happily out of wedlock until one day Nina asked Leo to marry him. Leo, hostile to conformity, had always been opposed to the idea...
Moana (2009)
The life story of Italian iconic pornographic actress Moana Pozzi. The actress Ilona Staller sued the production of the film for the unauthorized use...
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2011)
When the devil resurfaces with aims to take over the world in human form, Johnny Blaze reluctantly comes out of hiding to transform into the...
Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo (1996)
Alex, a high-school boy fond of rock and punk music, falls in love with Adelaide, who shares his feelings but doesn't want to get too involved...
Soul Mate (2002)
In a small Southern Italian village, young Tonino is engaged to Teresa, but secretly loves her cousin Maddalena—who reciprocates. After...
A Dinner for Them to Meet (2007)
Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout...
Wherever You Are (2004)
A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
The Undesirables (2003)
USA, 1951. When a group of Italian immigrants suspected to have connections with the Mafia are sent back to Italy with the brand of "undesirable", a...
The Lookout (2012)
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...
Strangled Lives (1996)
Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It...
A Deadly Compromise (2000)
In Genoa, Anna Merisi, the wife of the unconventional professor of the local university Paolo Merisi, decides to hire a babysitter for their son...
Farfalle (1997)
Sandra has a great passions, volleyball, and her boyfriend is also a volleyball player. She is transferred to a religious boarding school in order...
La Dolce Villa (2025)
When his daughter decides to buy a crumbling Tuscan villa, Eric rushes to Italy to talk her out of it — and instead finds beauty, romance and...
The Path to Vengeance: Making Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance (2012)
A six-part documentary on the making of the film.
Estomago 2: The Cookfather (2024)
Sequel to the award-winning 2007 film, Stomach 2 tells the tasty and bloody dispute between a faction leader and an Italian boss for control of the...
7 Minutes (2016)
Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.
Fade to Black (2006)
Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets...
Ciao America (2002)
Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Boston to travel to his family's ancestral homeland...
The Mona Lisa Mystery (2006)
Are there two versions of The Mona Lisa? Is the Mona Lisa the world knows so well the original version? Or had Leonardo da Vinci painted an earlier...
Modalità aereo (2019)
Diego is a successful entrepreneur. Rich and not caring for the good of others, no scruples to belittle the next. His attitude turns against him when...
Let's Stay Friends (2019)
Alessandro, a forty-year-old widower pediatrician, lives with his teenage son, leading a monotonous and insipid existence. After a call from an old...
Now or Never (2003)
2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for activist Viola in the months preceding the fateful...
Enrico Piaggio: Vespa (2019)
It is 1945. Enrico Piaggio’s Pontedera factory is in ruins and the 12,000 people who worked there are condemned to unemployment and misery....
Karol: A Man Who Became Pope (2005)
The life of the pope John-Paul II, from his youth as a writer, actor, and athlete in war-torn occupied Poland to his election as Pope at the age of...
Revenge Room (2020)
Federica locked herself in her bedroom because vulgar text messages keep coming to her.
Il giorno più bello (2022)
Aurelio inherited the wedding-planner trade from his father: he runs the family business, "The Most Beautiful Day," and all his life he has...