Nasce a Palermo il 27 maggio del 1974, secondo di quattro figli. Dopo la maturità classica, si iscrive all'università per studiare Lettere Antiche, facoltà che abbandona dopo due anni per l'Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico di Roma, dove si diploma nel 1998 (frequenta inoltre diversi laboratori teatrali, in Italia e all'estero). Dopo aver debuttato in teatro, alterna il lavoro teatrale con quello televisivo e cinematografico. Nel 2000 appare sul grande schermo con i film Il manoscritto del principe di Roberto Andò, che parla della stesura de Il Gattopardo da parte di Tomasi di Lampedusa, e I cento passi di Marco Tullio Giordana, in cui interpreta il ruolo del fratello di Peppino Impastato, ucciso dalla mafia. Dello stesso anno è il cortometraggio L'affresco di Marco Bellocchio, a cui fanno seguito, tra l'altro, il film Paz! (2002) e vari lavori televisivi: Francesco (2002), Giulio Cesare (2002) e L'inganno (2003). Nel 2002 esce il film El Alamein, diretto da Enzo Monteleone, dove interpreta il ruolo di un soldato italiano che, nell'ottobre del 1942, è bloccato presso El Alamein insieme a suoi compagni (Pierfrancesco Favino, Emilio Solfrizzi, Silvio Orlando e Roberto Citran). Grazie alla sua interpretazione, nel 2003 vince il Globo d'Oro come migliore attore esordiente. Successivamente è nel cast di Buongiorno, notte (2003), ancora diretto da Marco Bellocchio, a cui fanno seguito i film Movimenti e Stai con me, entrambi del 2004, Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? (2005) di Pupi Avati, e La terra (2006), regia di Sergio Rubini, per cui ottiene la nomination come Migliore Attore Rivelazione. Tra gli altri suoi lavori, ricordiamo le fiction tv: Giovanni Falcone, l'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra di Andrea ed Antonio Frazzi (2006), Caravaggio, Il figlio della luna ed Era mio fratello, e i film: L'abbuffata e Non pensarci, tutti del 2007, ma quest'ultimo uscito nelle sale il 4 aprile 2008. Nel 2009 ritorna nelle sale cinematografiche con i film: La siciliana ribelle, regia di Marco Amenta, Baarìa, regia di Giuseppe Tornatore, Tris di donne & abiti nuziali, regia di Vincenzo Terracciano, La cosa giusta, regia di Marco Campogiani. A aprile 2010 esce nelle sale l'opera prima dell'attore/regista Rocco Papaleo, Basilicata coast to coast, che vede Briguglia tra i protagonisti insieme allo stesso Papaleo, Alessandro Gassman, Giovanna Mezzogiorno e, al suo debutto come attore, il cantante Max Gazzè. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Briguglia
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)...
The story of Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early nineties became the protagonist of the “caccia alla Mafia” (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings. Inspired by the true story of the anti-Mafia magistrate Alfonso Sabella....
Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator....
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Follow brothers Paolo and Ignazio, two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourishing business that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire....
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La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo is an Italian television miniseries based on the true story of Don Pietro Pappagallo, a Catholic priest and Italian anti-fascist who assisted victims of Nazism and Fascism in Rome during World War II and was arrested and executed in the Ardeatine Caves massacre on March 24, 1944. It was produced by 11 Marzo Cinematografica and Rai Fiction, directed by Gianfranco Albano, written by Stefano Gabrini and Furio Scarpelli, and stars Flavio Insinna as Don Pie...
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Twenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator....
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live......
In a country villa Tommaso spent the last days of summer with his father and his new partner. Nothing went the way he was supposed to, the tensions never melted. It's the last day before they go home. Maybe there is one more thing to say....
Giulio, a skilled salesman, father and caring husband, suddenly finds himself homeless, without money, and without a family, when his wife Annalisa asks for a divorce, forcibly removing him from his children with false accusations of violence and drugs....
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....
A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival....
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project....
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Luigi Di Santo is a professor of philosophy in Milan who returns to his Apulian hometown to finalize the sale, together with his brothers, of an old family farm. But this project is hampered by his violent stepbrother Aldo. Things degenerate further when the four brothers find themselves embroiled in a murder....
An old man and a young one, probably father and son, go hunting together in a woodland, trying to re-establish their damaged relationship. But their gestures and the strange ordinariness of their silence seem to disguise something beyond normality....
A holiday in Sicily tests the relationship between Germana and Elisabetta, two friends in the grip of a sentimental crisis....
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Producer Carlo Degli Esposti envisioned a trilogy on Liberty, focused on three key moments in the second half of the twentieth century: the repression of Bucharest in 1956, the Prague Spring and the Berlin Wall. The first, and only time delivery of this trilogy, is THE TUNNEL OF FREEDOM. A tunnel that allowed 36 people to circumvent the strict and repressive surveillance of newly erected Berlin Wall....
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before....
A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop....
TV-Movie on the life and accomplishments of Giovanni Falcone, the legendary Sicilian judge who boldly opposed the Mafia...
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 story of Alberto Lenzi, Public Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, cynical, indolent and disillusioned who, upset by the killing of a friend and colleague, finds the inner strength to fight in the service of justice and truth....
Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes forever. With charisma and conviction, she breaks free from her family's constraints and stands up to the Pope himself. She fights for herself, for the women who join her and for her dream of freedom. The story of a Saint. The story of a girl and her revolution....
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a la...
DV-shot documentary following a group of up-and-coming young Italian actors ....
100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria....
It follows Francesco Giuffrida, an honest Sicilian politician from childhood to his disappearance....
The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes....
Enrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailing companies. His latest assignment proves more difficult than anticipated—since his target are two young siblings whose parents just died in a car accident....
An exhibit of Da Vinci's works traces the pathways of the great artist's mind....
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Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community....
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Rosaria is a young mother, wife of Tommasino Malarazza, downfallen boss of a famous Mafia family in Catania. Forced to marry him because she was pregnant, Rosaria is humiliated everyday by a violent husband, who spends his days drinking and gambling. The woman lives in fear and keeps her head down to protect her son Antonino. She can only rely on her queer brother Franco....
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Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sharing a flat in 1970s Bologna, grappling with drugs, classes, girls and half-hearted political activism....
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A cold-lighted Palermo of the 90's. A single day. Unnamed characters slide towards the fulfillment of their destiny. A story of causes and effects, in which crimes affect not only the victims, but the perpetrators too. And from which no one, in a way or another, will stay unscathed....
With the continuous arrival of migrants to Palermo, a councilor becomes the legal guardian of hundreds of children while also dealing with her own family problems....
The film is a biography of Giuseppe Tomasi (Bouquet), the prince of Lampedusa, who is the author of Il gattopardo, one of the most influential Italian novel of XX century and is adapted on screen by Visconti, THE LEOPARD (1963, 8/10). Directed by Roberto Andò, a native from Palermo, stars two French cinema icons Bouquet and Moreau (as the princess Licy)....
An odd couple of contrasting cops: one is a disillusioned veteran, the other young, idealistic and speaks fluent Arabic. Ideal for tailing Khalid (Ahmed Hafiene), who was acquitted but is still suspected of having ties with Al-Qaida. The two cops, who initially can't stand each other, find themselves increasingly in contact with the life and habits of Khalid. As the story goes the suspect catches on to them, but when he begins receiving threats the cops become his bodyguards, his escort. Being n...
It follows Nic Vega, a man with a successful past in music. When he he has lost everything: fame, friends and inspiration, he decides to return to Francesca, breaking into her peaceful and happy life....
Still an unsuccessful punk rock musician at 36, Stefano returns to his hometown in the countryside to help with his family's business....
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