Acting
Luigi Maria Burruano
Born October 20, 1948 · Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Died September 10, 2017 · aged 68
No biography available.
Known For
Baaria · 2009Baaria
★ 7.22009
MovieDramaComedy
In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl, has children, and forges a political career for himself.
Excellent Cadavers · 1999Excellent Cadavers
★ 6.31999
MovieDramaThriller
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
Mary Forever · 1989Mary Forever
★ 7.41989
MovieCrimeDrama
Marco, a teacher from Milan, relocates to Palermo and takes a temporary job teaching in a juvenile detention centre while he waits for a high school teaching position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories: Natale, in for murder and enamored with the Mafia; Pietro, who can't seem to stay out of jail; Claudio, barely 14 and learning to stand up for himself; and Mery, a trans sex worker, who was arrested after a fight with a trick who didn't want to pay her, and is now stuck in a male prison.
The Star Maker · 1995The Star Maker
★ 7.01995
MovieDramaRomance
In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately wants to change her life and falls for him; belatedly, he realizes his feelings for her. However, their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.
One Hundred Steps · 2000One Hundred Steps
★ 7.82000
MovieDramaHistory
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.
Saint Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua · 2002Saint Anthony: The Miracle Worker of Padua
★ 8.02002
MovieDrama
Depiction of the life of St. Anthony, beginning with his initial calling to the priesthood as a young Portugese nobleman, and following him as he becomes a Franciscan monk and preaches across Africa and Europe.
The Wait · 2016The Wait
★ 4.52016
MovieActionCrime
A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that carries back together in Sicily 40 years after their departure. Only one will arrive in Sicily, but he'll chose to change his life and complete the destiny of the other one.
Dirty War · 2010Dirty War
★ 5.42010
MovieDramaThriller
Army colonel Gabriele Moresco and twelve of his soldiers occupy a hospital in Sicily, Italy, taking every patient and doctor as hostages and giving an ultimatum to the government: if they won't admit their role in hiding proof of the use of depleted uranium in the Balkan Wars and the subsequent countless cases of cancer among Italian soldiers in 56 hours, all the hostages will be killed. Negotiator Paolo Manfredi is called to save the hostages, not knowing that his wife and daughter are among them.
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Delitto di mafia - Mario Francese · 2018Delitto di mafia - Mario Francese
★ 7.52018
MovieDramaCrime
Domenico Di Marco
Anti-Mafia Squad · 2009Anti-Mafia Squad
★ 7.22009
SeriesAction & AdventureDrama
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.
Don Salvatore Basile alias "Salvo"
Il segreto dell'acqua · 2011Il segreto dell'acqua
★ 6.52011
SeriesCrimeDrama
Ruggero Santocastro





















