Placido Rizzotto (2000)
• October 20th, 2000 • 1h 50min
Drama, History
Overview
As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Dempsey
Released on: 1983-09-28
History, Drama, TV Movie
Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of Am...
Aleksandr Parkhomenko
Released on: 1942-07-20
War, Drama, History
About the life and heroic death of the old Bolshevik-Lugansk resident, participant in the civil war,...
Bambina
Released on: 2016-08-17
Comedy, Romance, Drama
While the wheels of her bag are spinning on the ancient pavement of the small Sicilian town she once...
We Are Moluccans
Released on: 2014-06-19
Drama, History
After witnessing a child's death during a violent clash, a former soccer player launches a youth tea...
What's for Dinner, Mom?
Released on: 2017-02-11
Drama
Two sisters Tae and Yo come back to their old house which is soon to be torn down. Clearing up the f...
Changeling
Released on: 2008-10-24
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Los Angeles, 1928. When single mother Christine Collins leaves for work, her son vanishes without a ...
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Released on: 2003-12-12
Drama, Romance
This film, adapted from a work of fiction by author Tracy Chevalier, tells a story about the events ...
Danton
Released on: 1983-01-12
Drama, History
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...
In the Name of the Father
Released on: 1993-12-12
Drama
A small-time Belfast thief, Gerry Conlon, is wrongly convicted of an IRA bombing in London, along wi...
Nightwatching
Released on: 2007-09-06
Drama, History
An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the contro...
The Assassination of Trotsky
Released on: 1972-04-20
Drama, History, Thriller
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
The Méliès Mystery
Released on: 2021-01-02
Documentary, History
A documentary that details the process of restoring 270 of the 520 lost films of pioneering director...
Anna Pavlova
Released on: 1983-08-01
Drama
The young talented girl Anya, dreaming of a ballet, enters the choreographic school. Due to poor hea...
Being Maria
Released on: 2024-06-19
History, Drama
A young, struggling actress lands her dream role in a film by an emerging Italian director, starring...
Hunger
Released on: 2008-05-15
Drama, History
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...
The Hurricane
Released on: 1999-09-17
Drama
The story of Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, a boxer wrongly imprisoned for murder, and the people who aid...
Hoffa
Released on: 1992-12-25
Crime, History, Drama
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...
The Hitler Gang
Released on: 1944-04-26
Drama, War, History
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...
Rembrandt
Released on: 1942-06-17
Drama
Already a famous painter, Rembrandt van Rijn is commissioned to paint the Amsterdam Archers' Guild. ...