Luigi Lo Cascio

Luigi Lo Cascio

Birthday:Oct 20, 1967
Place of birth:Palermo, Italy

Filmography

2022
Lord of the Ants

Lord of the Ants

Drama History
6.7

20222h 14min

Italy

Director: Gianni Amelio

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.

2019
The Traitor

The Traitor

Drama Crime Thriller Organized Crime Political Thriller
7.1

20192h 31min

Brazil, France

Director: Marco Bellocchio

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.

2013
Human Capital

Human Capital

Drama Relationship Drama
7.2

20131h 51min

Italy

Director: Paolo Virzì

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.

2012
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Drama Crime Mystery History
7.2

20122h 9min

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana

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.

2003
Good Morning, Night

Good Morning, Night

Drama History
7.1

20031h 46min

Italy

Director: Marco Bellocchio

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.


The Best of Youth

The Best of Youth

Drama History Romance Historical Drama Historical Event
8.5

20036h 7min

Italy

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana

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.

2000
One Hundred Steps

One Hundred Steps

Drama History Historical Drama Political History
7.5

20001h 54min

Italy

Director: Marco Tullio Giordana

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.