Marco Messeri
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Livorno, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: December 15, 1951
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Male
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The First Beautiful Thing
Overview: The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-01-15
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The Mass Is Ended
Overview: The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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The Jokes
Overview: In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-02-06
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An Italian Romance
Overview: Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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A cavallo della tigre
Overview: Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace. A year later, just a few days before his release, he's forced by two dangerous inmates to take part in their jailbreak. On the run, Guido sets out to find his partner Antonella, who helped him with the robbery and still has the money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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La passione
Overview: To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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Intolerance
Overview: A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-11-11
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I Thought It Was Love
Overview: Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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Le vie del Signore sono finite
Overview: Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-12-19
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Baciami piccina
Overview: 7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-09-29
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Simpatici & antipatici
Overview: In the Tiber sports club, Alberto, a ruthless property developer, the cynical surgeon who makes thirty million dollars after a prostate operation, the actor exhausted by failure and the failed salesman who sells caviar by discounting prices and who tries to make up for continuous overdrafts in the bank, meet. There is also the starlet with a Venetian accent and the hateful scion with a Ferrari, the waiter who dreams of being the scion and the jeweler who loses his house, wife and wealth because of the hot Spanish woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-02-20
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Camerieri
Overview: Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate one another but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-02-09
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Il toro
Overview: After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to Hungary, planning to sell it for a large sum of money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-09-30
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Il Bi e il Ba
Overview: A man goes to Rome because he wants a magician to solve his problem: dandruff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-03-07
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Da grandi
Overview: Marco, Tato, Serena, and Leo are nine years old, and they are inseparable friends, ready to defend each other from their schoolmates’ bullying. On the evening of Marco's birthday, all four find themselves together to blow out the candles and unknowingly make the same wish: become adults. In one night's time, they find themselves magically the same age as their parents, but with the same behaviour and thoughts they have as kids.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-04-29
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Teste di cocco
Overview: Tommaso and Pietro are two brothers who, shortly after their father's funeral, discover that the coffin is actually empty. To find out more they leave for Malaysia, where the man died, but a series of misunderstandings and false clues will take them around the world to discover other empty coffins and a father yet to be found and perhaps to know.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-03
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I miei più cari amici
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-04-03
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The Referee
Overview: An ambitious soccer referee ends up handling a crucial match between two small Sardinian teams
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sc
Release Date: 2013-09-12
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Non è mai troppo tardi
Overview: Alberto Manzi is twenty years old and wants to be a teacher. He gets the job at a juvenile correctional facility, to then get transfered to a proper school, who he deems inadequate. At that time the public broadcasting network Rai decides to realize a program to educate millions of Italians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-02-24
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Notte italiana
Overview: Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-09-04
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Il guerriero Camillo
Overview: Camillo is a thirty-year-old man who is innocent and naive. He does not speak, sees the world in black and white, and lives with two elderly puppeteers who picked him up somewhere. Camillo is a dreamer who believes he comes from a distant world, perhaps the Middle Ages. He likes to wear armor and helmets and go into the woods to fight his own private battles. His best friend is a boy with Down syndrome, the son of the town's marshal, the only one who seems to listen to the nonsense of the one who, for many, is just the village idiot. But suddenly, Camillo's adoptive parents die, and with them, the court of friends who revolved around him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-04-30
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Good for Nothing
Overview: Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. Faced with the outrageous possibility of having to do a full day's work, he sets about finding a way to achieve a quiet life
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-23
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The Unlikely Prince
Overview: Needing good PR, a snooty princess orchestrates a brief romance with an ordinary guy. But the schlub she picks proves more resourceful than expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-02-09
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L'amore e altre seghe mentali
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-17
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La locandiera
Overview: The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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Basta poco
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-04-30
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Palombella rossa
Overview: Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Like Crazy
Overview: Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-05-17
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A Walk in Time - The Adventure Continues
Overview: The back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way to outer space, in a funny, light-hearted trip across the time.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-12-11
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A Walk in Time
Overview: While visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in time. Professor Mortimer effort to rescue them result in trips through various ages of ancient Italy.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-12-13
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Alta Infedeltà
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-02-26
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Vesna Goes Fast
Overview: Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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La seconda volta non si scorda mai
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-04-11
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Tutta colpa della musica
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Overview: Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gauthier. In the story, the company stops at a castle owned by the scruffy young Baron de Sigognac, who is deeply smitten with the charms of the middle-aged (and somewhat morose) beauty Serafina. He decides to travel with the company, and Serafina perversely tries to get him to woo the youngest of the company, the newly bereaved Isabella.
Genres: History Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-10-31
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Have You Met Claudia?
Overview: Claudia is married with Giovanni, a rather dull type. Meek Giacomo is happily divorced, until he meets her. Aldo is a colorful cabbie with whom she had an affair. Who'll win her heart?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-12-15
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With Closed Eyes
Overview: In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-11-22
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Un posto tranquillo
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Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-02-09
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Metronotte
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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The Paramedic
Overview: At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-02-07
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Father Hope
Overview: Don Vasari is an anti-conformist priest. For this reason he is transferred to a juvenile prison in a small town in the southern of Italy. Nino, a sixteen year old inmate, is accused of murder but Don Vasari does not believe his guilt and he starts a courageous investigation to help him.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-04-17
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I'm Starting from Three
Overview: Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-05
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Teste di quoio
Overview: A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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L'ultimo Crodino
Overview: Ambientato in Val di Susa e tratto da un fatto di cronaca realmente accaduto, il film narra le vicende di due onesti lavoratori che, assillati dai debiti e dall'ansia per il futuro, decidono di provare il colpo della vita. I due organizzano dunque un rapimento, ma non avendo il coraggio di rapire una persona viva, decidono di rapire un morto, ma uno importante, per poter chiedere il riscatto. Ed è così che un operaio, soprannominato Pes (Enzo Iacchetti) e un piccolo imprenditore, soprannominato Crodino (Ricky Tognazzi) si trovano a trafugare la salma di Enrico Cuccia, noto finanziere. Pur nella loro ingenuità e totale inesperienza, i due riescono, senza neanche rendersene conto, a tenere in scacco per giorni le forze dell'ordine e a scomodare perfino i servizi segreti.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-03-18
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Il prete bello
Overview: In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Brain Drain
Overview: Five friends forge their resumes and enroll to Oxford in orders to help one of them end up with the girl he's in love with.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-11-21
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Fughe da fermo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-09-23
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Sweet Sweet Marja
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-07-27
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Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!
Overview: The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-21
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Il pranzo della domenica
Overview: The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-04-29
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The Last in the Class
Overview: Michele is not so successful at school, and with the girls he is desperately unlucky. To bring up grades parents hired him a tutor. While browsing the Internet, Michele discovered that his teacher posed nude for an erotic calendar. In exchange for good grades Michele agrees with the beauty to recreate the photoshoot in real life ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-05-16
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Un inverno freddo freddo
Overview: Film about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-15
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Metti una notte
Overview: Martino, a young entomologist in a sentimental crisis, returns to Rome to find his beloved uncle. As soon as he arrives, his uncle asks him to babysit the daughter of some friends. Once arrived at Linda's home, the little girl, Martino finds out that along with her there is also Lulù, her eccentric and unpredictable grandmother. Everything becomes more complicated when Martino receives the phone call of Tea, an old love encountered by accident right that afternoon. The woman is in danger and asks him for help. Martino, excited about the idea of saving her, is forced to bring the grandmother and child into a series of adventures and misadventures, encounters and unforeseen events, around a nocturnal Rome, seeking a new love.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-08-30
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Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-12
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18 Presents
Overview: Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year after year.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-01-02
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Una notte agli studios
Overview: Two goofy extras enroll to a weird audition for a big 3D production
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-30
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Il grande botto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-04-07
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Marilyn's Eyes
Overview: Clara and Diego, under the guidance of the psychiatrist of a day rehabilitation center for disturbed people who attend, decide to transform the treatment center into a restaurant, involving all their other companions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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Maria Goretti
Overview: The life of the virgin and martyr Santa Maria Goretti
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-02-23
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Carlo Mazzacurati - A Certain Idea of Cinema
Overview: Explore the life and work of acclaimed Italian filmmaker Carlo Mazzacurati, who passed away in 2014. It delves into his distinctive poetic style, blending genres, and portraying rarely seen parts of Italy with empathy and dignity.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-08-28
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