Libero De Rienzo
Birthday: Born in 1977-02-24 in Naples, Italy
Deathday: 2021-07-15
Libero De Rienzo (February 24, 1977 – July 15, 2021) was an Italian actor and onetime filmmaker best known for his breakthrough role as wisecracking Bart in Santa Maradona (2001), for which he won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor. His other notable roles include those in Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl (2001), Honey (2013), Fortapàsc (2009) and the Smetto quando voglio trilogy (2014-2017). He died from a heroin overdose at age 44.
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Aldo Moro - Il Presidente
Character: Valerio Morucci
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Il sequestro Soffiantini
Character: Carlo Soffiantini
In 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for 237 days in their hideout in the mountains of Sardinia....
Nassiryia - Per non dimenticare
Character: Carabiniere scelto Maurizio Costa
November 12, 2003. A terrorist attack kills 24 Italian soldiers deployed in Nasiriyah, Iraq for a peace-keeping mission as part of "Operation Ancient Babylon"....
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Fat Girl
Character: Fernando
Anaïs is twelve and bears the weight of the world on her shoulders. She watches her older sister, Elena, whom she both loves and hates. Elena is fifteen and devilishly beautiful. Neither more futile, nor more stupid than her younger sister, she cannot understand that she is merely an object of desire. And, as such, she can only be taken. Or had. Indeed, this is the subject: a girl's loss of virginity. And, that summer, it opens a door to tragedy....
A/R Andata + Ritorno
Character: Dante
Dante, a pony express in serious debt, meets Nina, a hostess stuck in Torino for the night....
Milan – Palermo: The Return
Character: Libero Proietti
Turi Leofonte is released from prison after eleven years and asks for the surviving members of his old security detail to escort him back in Sicily to get revenge on his former associates – something the authorities indulge to seize a large stash of Mafia money he claims to have access to....
My House in Umbria
Character: Dr. Innocenti
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion....
Dirty War
Character: Duzi
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 th...
Fort Apache Napoli
Character: Giancarlo Siani
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985....
Kryptonite!
Character: Salvatore
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked...
Midsummer Night Dance
Character: Angelo
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Sangue - La morte non esiste
Character: Adrian
Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship....
Honey
Character: Rocco
Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise....
Aldo Moro - Il presidente
Character: Valerio Morucci
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, the band of the Red Brigades went on the attack. The terrorists kidnap Aldo Moro and kill all the men in his escort....
I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Character: Bartolomeo Bonelli
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society....
I Killed Napoleon
Character: Biagio
In the space of twenty-four hours the life of Anita, single and brilliant manager in career, is blown away by a hurricane of trouble....
The Ploy
Character: Antonio
In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death....
Gioco con la Morte
Character: Mattia
Alina, orphaned at a young age, discovers the murder of her sister Enrica, but the surprises aren't over because an Inspector reveals to her that her sister was a luxury call girl who got clients on the Internet. The hunt for the maniac begins....
Dead Uncle
Character: Cristian
When an unemployed young man finds himself in dire straits and up to his eyes in gambling debt, he believes the only solution is to become a drug courier....
I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
Character: Bartolomeo Bonelli
Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs....
I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
Character: Bartolomeo Bonelli
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously....
All at Sea
Character: Nando
Every morning, pushing the wheelchair of his mother, Maurizio along the walkway through the bush and tie him entrance to his kiosk on the beach. After being assured that his attendants, and Khaled Omar, they did a good job, going to hoist the Italian flag, which stands on top of building....
Gasoline
Character: Pusher (uncredited)
Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance....
Easy
Character: Filo
A 40-year-old loser named Isidoro at the request of his brother drives from Italy to mountainous Carpathian village in Ukraine with a coffin of a diseased Ukrainian worker, who died at a construction site in Italy....
La casa di famiglia
Character:
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Dream Generation
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Francesca, Morgana, Edo and Antonio. Four of today’s youngsters. Four inadvertent representatives of today’s generation of 20-year-olds who “do whatever I want”.By chance they find that they’re spending a week in Catania together, the Baroque city perched on the slopes of a volcano, the continual rumbling of which seems to reflect their restlessness…...
DolceRoma
Character: Lello
Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel, a story about the Camorra. Having become discouraged by his struggling career, he is waiting for the chance of a lifetime. And finally, it arrives - a major film producer decides to adapt his novel and make it into a movie....
Let's Stay Friends
Character: Leo
Alessandro, a forty-year-old widower pediatrician, lives with his teenage son, leading a monotonous and insipid existence. After a call from an old friend in Brazil, the man has his tired stability tested....
Santa Maradona
Character: Bart
An aimless college graduate jumping from one job interview to another — killing time in between with his wisecracking and deadbeat room-mate — falls in love with an actress....
Notes from a Women Salesman
Character: Milla
Set in 1978 Milan, Bravo lives his life among luxury clubs and illegal gambling dens in the company of his friend Daytona. Bravo defines himself as an entrepreneur. His business is women - because he sells them. The life of a women salesman is not an easy one, though. The meeting with Carla and a night in the town will change his life forever. Bravo will have to go through his painful past and fight the ultimate battle....
Say It Loud
Character: Ottavio
A woman seeking treatment for her stress, suddenly finds herself unable to filter herself when she speaks....
It's a Mad World
Character: Mauro
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The Two Popes
Character: Roberto
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church....
Reckless
Character: Isp. Bartolomeo Vanzetti
A broke mechanic turns a bank loan denial into an impromptu robbery that puts him on the run with his best friend and a starlet they hold hostage....
Il caso Pantani - L'omicidio di un campione
Character: Jumbo
The Pantani case, a film directed by Domenico Ciolfi, tells the story of the last five years in the life of the cyclist from Romagna, in particular from 5 June 1999, when he was suspended from racing, to 14 February 2004, the day of his death. His untimely death in unclear circumstances, which have opened several judicial inquiries, was a shock to the world of cycling, which lost its Pirate on Valentine's Day. The film is a tribute to this Italian sporting hero, remembering him as a young man wh...
Asini
Character: Giovane prete
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A Lighter Burden to Bear
Character: Oscar
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Fortuna
Character: Pietro
Fortuna (6 years old) lives with her mother in an anonymous suburb. She spends her time with two playmates, Nicola and Anna, dreaming of being Nancy, an alien princess chased by giants who want to kidnap her and her friends. After a tragic accident happened to Nicola, an obscure secret surfaces in a struggle between reality and imagination, unveiling a horrible truth. A dark fairy tale, based on a true story....
With or Without You
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Alice and Tommaso have been together for fifteen years; they don’t have children, he‘s a musician, she’s an actress. Invited to dinner for an announcement, their friends think it’s going to be a marriage announcement, but instead discover that decided to break up: but without drama or emotional rifts, staying friends with each other. A legitimate but naive ambition. Love stories end, because people change. And no change is, nor can it be, painless....
Takeaway
Character: Johnny
A racewalking athlete Maria runs a petrol station with a takeaway shop in a desolate mountain village, she is almost 30 years old, she may have little chance to fulfill her lifelong dream of success but at what cost?...