Caravaggio - Trailer
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4.0 • 440 Ratings
🗓️ 3 February 2026
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Rome. 1610. A painter who sees God in the faces of prostitutes and killers is on the run for murder.
His name is Caravaggio. He drinks too much. He loves recklessly. Men, women, it doesn't matter. He picks fights with swordsmen and screams at the heavens in candlelit chapels. He paints the way other men pray, except his prayers are in defiance. And the Catholic Church can't decide whether to pardon him or let the bounty hunters finish the job.
This screenplay by Richard Vetere, a Pulitzer nominee and Golden Palm winner whose work has been produced by Francis Ford Coppola, follows Caravaggio from the brothels of Rome to a besieged fortress on Malta where a scarred Grand Master offers him sanctuary and something that looks a lot like love. But sanctuary has a price. And Caravaggio has never paid what he owes without bleeding for it.
There are popes making deals in candlelight. Brothers hunting him across the Mediterranean for killing their own. A muse he left behind in Rome who can't wait much longer. A rival painter who despises his work and can't stop staring at it. Knights nailed to crosses and set on fire floating into the harbor at dawn. A prison cell carved into rock like a grave. And an escape across open sea in a fishing boat guided by a boy too afraid to speak.
This is not a quiet period piece. This is Game of Thrones in Renaissance Italy with paintbrushes and rapiers.
Craig Parker, who played Haldir in Lord of the Rings, plays Caravaggio. Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Bruce Davison plays the Grand Master. Dan Lauria, America's dad from The Wonder Years, plays the Cardinal pulling every string in Rome. Ray Abruzzo, Little Carmine from The Sopranos, plays the Pope. The cast includes Broadway veterans, stars of The Chosen, the voices behind the biggest video games on the planet, and a former Navy test pilot born in Italy playing an Italian swordsman.
Fourteen actors. One genius who painted like God was guiding his hand and lived like the devil was chasing him. Turns out both were true.
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| 0:00.0 | Caravaggio, written by Richard Viteri, based on his stage play. He was a rock star of his time. His paintings were vivid, fierce, and defiant, and his life was no different. What you see in the art, you will find in the artist, and what you see in the artist, you will find in the man. |
| 0:24.6 | Rome was the most violent city in the Western world. |
| 0:27.6 | Two-thirds of the population were men. |
| 0:31.6 | They were former soldiers home from wars, priests, artists and sculptors |
| 0:36.6 | who came to Rome to be the next Michelangelo. |
| 0:40.6 | Two-thirds of the remaining female population were prostitutes. |
| 0:44.8 | Caravaggio roamed the streets, choosing his models from the homeless, the destitute. |
| 0:49.9 | He cast a beggar to play his St. Peter, and he painted him just as he was with all his |
| 0:54.9 | goiters and scars. |
| 0:56.7 | His great competition was the admired and beloved Anabelle Caracci. |
| 1:01.5 | Let me tell you to your face. |
| 1:03.5 | As much as I despise your paintings, I admire them. |
| 1:07.8 | His great enemy was Ranuccio Tommasone, a spoiled and wealthy aristocrat. One day, |
| 1:14.0 | I will soak the piazza with your blood. And I will soak it with yours. And his great love was the |
| 1:20.8 | prostitute, Lena. Have you never seen a woman before? Women I've seen. You, I haven't. His violent life exploded when he killed Ranuccio in a brawl in the Piazza del Coppola. |
| 1:32.6 | Renuccio! |
| 1:33.5 | To escape a warrant for his arrest demanded by the Pope, Caravaccio's benefactor, |
| 1:38.9 | Cardinal Del Monte, secured him a commission to paint the portrait of the Grandmaster |
| 1:43.7 | of the Knights of Malta. |
| 1:45.3 | Neither he nor Caravaccio knew that the Inquisition was waiting for Caravaccio at the isolated edge of civilization, |
| 1:53.5 | Malta. |
| 1:54.1 | There is no greater sin on this earth than duplicity. |
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