Michele Riondino

Acting

Michele Riondino

Born 1979-03-14 · Taranto, Italy

Acting credits

Primavera poster
7.1

In 18th-century Venice, 20-year-old violin virtuoso Cecilia lives at the Pièta orphanage, where, despite her talent, she remains confined, knowing that marriage is the only way out. Yet, her life takes a turn after she meets Antonio Vivaldi, a brilliant and ambitious composer who becomes the new violin teacher. Guided by Vivaldi and his music, Cecilia finds the strength to challenge the destiny that once seemed inevitable.

Primavera

2025

The Holy Boy poster
6.9

A PE teacher moves to a isolated mountain village where the people appear to live in unshakeable serenity, but soon stumbles across a disturbing ritual. Once a week, the locals are freed of their pain by a lonely boy born with the power to heal one's soul just by hugging them. Trying to rescue him from this madness, the man unleashes his dark side.

The Holy Boy

2025

Illusione poster
6.0

Perugia. The police are carrying away the body of a young woman when they hear a sigh: Rosa Lazar is still alive. The assistant district attorney Cristina Camponeschi and psychologist Stefano Mangiaboschi investigate, but Rosa seems unaware of the attack she has endured and hides the truth. For Cristina, the girl is the key to an international crime ring; for Stefano, the start of an inner journey that will lead him to reveal the true enigma of Rosa Lazar.

Illusione

2026

Drifters poster
5.8

A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.

Drifters

2011

Dormant Beauty poster
6.3

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.

Dormant Beauty

2012

Steel poster
5.9

Here, the steel worker works on a continuous cycle, twenty-four hours a day and never stops. There, by the sea, on the island of Elba there is a paradise and the unreachable dream of happy families. In the middle, on the shores their secret beach, neither here nor there, Anna and Francesca, small but big, "thirteen years old almost fourteen", who are living their last summer of innocence before high school. The film is based on the book by Silvia Avallone.

Steel

2012

All Human Rights for All poster
NR

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.

All Human Rights for All

2008

Wondrous Boccaccio poster
5.8

It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.

Wondrous Boccaccio

2015

Interstate poster
5.0

A supernatural thriller in which a hitman, facing an existential crisis, decides to exit the game and leave town with the woman he loves, but his plans are disrupted by a mysterious young man and his ruthless former boss.

Interstate

2024

Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto

2020

Leopardi poster
6.8

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

Leopardi

2014

Senza lasciare traccia poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Senza lasciare traccia

2016

No artwork available
NR

Set among the mountains of southern Sardinia, Zustissia reconstructs the 1991 triple homicide that led to Zuncheddu being sentenced to life imprisonment. He spent 33 years in prison before being definitively acquitted on 26 January 2024, following a retrial initiated by lawyer Mauro Trogu.

Zustissia

Forever You poster
5.5

Apulia, 1970s. Matteo is in love with Francesca, but she wants to leave provincial life behind and see the world. After four years traveling around the world, Francesca returns to her hometown to care for her sick mother, and she and Matteo rekindle their relationship.

Forever You

2019

The Man from Rome poster
7.4

A skeptical Vatican priest travels to the southern Dutch province of Limburg to investigate a reported miracle, only to get entangled in a series of apparently miraculous events that undermine his vocation.

The Man from Rome

2023

Fort Apache Napoli poster
7.1

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

Fort Apache Napoli

2009

Giro di giostra poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Giro di giostra

2015

Buongiorno Taranto poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Buongiorno Taranto

2014

Ten Winters poster
7.0

Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms.

Ten Winters

2009

Our Ghost poster
5.8

Valerio and his six-year-old son, Carlo, live in the attic above the apartment they've been evicted from. Every time new tenants arrive, they terrify them by pretending to be ghosts, in the hopes of being able to move back "downstairs". To Carlo, it's just a game that protects him from their poverty and his motherless condition. It even works, for a while, until Myriam and her daughter Emma arrive, in flight from her abusive husband. And Myriam's not afraid of ghosts…

Our Ghost

2021

Let's Stay Friends poster
5.4

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.

Let's Stay Friends

2019

We Believed poster
6.6

1828. After witnessing the brutal repression of revolutions in monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following decades.

We Believed

2010

Making of the film “Primavera” poster
NR

Behind the Scenes of Primavera is a documentary that reveals what lies behind and within Damiano Michieletto's directorial debut. The idea stems from Tiziano Scarpa's Premio Strega award-winning book, Stabat mater, and, thanks to Ludovica Rampoldi's screenplay, becomes a broader narrative.

Making of the film “Primavera”

2025

Palazzina LAF poster
6.9

Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get rid of, Caterino starts to track his colleagues, in search of reasons to report them. He then asks to be assigned himself to the Palazzino LAF where as punishment, some employees sit out their time with no job assignment. There he discovers that what looks like paradise is actually a strategy to psychologically break troublesome workers.

Palazzina LAF

2023

Behind the camera