Massimo Popolizio
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Genova, Italy
Birthday: July 04, 1961
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Gender: Male
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Dry
Overview: In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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Il Divo
Overview: Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-05-28
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Caccia alle mosche
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-12-01
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20 Cigarettes
Overview: Based on director Aureliano Amadei's 2003 experiences in Iraq, 20 Cigarettes is the gripping story of a twenty-eight year old anarchist and anti-war activist who receives an offer to fly to Iraq as assistant director on a film about the Italian military peace mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-08
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The Big Dream
Overview: Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-11-11
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Elective Affinities
Overview: After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-17
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Boris: The Film
Overview: A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-04-01
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Pereira Declares
Overview: Lisbon, 1938. Mr. Pereira is the editor of the culture section of an evening paper. Although fascism is on the rise in Europe, like in nearby civil war Spain or even inside Portugal itself in the form of Salazar's regime, Pereira only concerns himself with writing bios and translating French novels. Things change after he hires a young writer as his assistant, getting to know also his girlfriend – both opponents to the regime – and reluctantly helps them when they begin to get in trouble for subversive activities. Eventually, he's forced to take a stand...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-06
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L'attentatuni
Overview: The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-20
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The Great Beauty
Overview: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-05-21
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We Were Children
Overview: In a police station in a small village, a sergeant interrogates a young and frightened postman, known as "Cacasotto". He, normally known for being calm and good-hearted, was arrested for having threatened a policeman on patrol with a knife. Eventually, Cacasotto begins to speak with the cop. And he tells what happened twenty years earlier to him and to his five best friends: Gianluca, Walter, Peppino, Margherita and his little brother, Andrea.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-03-21
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Copenaghen
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-04-20
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Amici come noi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-03-20
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My Brother Is an Only Child
Overview: Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-03-28
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Leopardi
Overview: In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-10-16
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Il delitto di Via Poma
Overview: Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-12-06
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The Last Days of Humanity
Overview: The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, broadcast by Rai
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-09-23
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The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler
Overview: A wealthy broker, his loyal butler, and a poor street seller all see their social positions change in a twist of fate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-12-11
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The Desired War
Overview: A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.
Genres: War Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-10
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Amore che vieni, amore che vai
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-11-13
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Welcome Mr. President!
Overview: In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-03-21
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The Santa Claus Gang
Overview: On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-12-17
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Era d'estate
Overview: Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino would eventually fall at the hands of Italy’s Cosa Nostra in 1992. However, before that, in 1985, they were preparing for the ‘Mafia Maxi Trial’ when a tip-off of a planned attack against their families sees them taken to an island in Sardinia to wait out the threat. This situation, somewhere between a forced vacation and witness protection, sees the men delve further into their work, the retreat allowing them to hone their case. Fate, however, is not to be escaped, and all too soon danger returns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-05-23
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Il grande Torino
Overview: The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-25
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Requiem per voce e pianoforte
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Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-05-25
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Romanzo Criminale
Overview: After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Heartless
Overview: After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-03-10
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L'abbiamo fatta grossa
Overview: Yuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted in his inability to remember his lines. Arturo Merlino is a shabby “investigator” who chases cats escaped from their homes. When Arturo and Yuri cross paths, Yuri is under the mistaken impression that Arturo is a consummate professional. He contracts Arturo to follow his ex-wife in order to find proof of her infidelity. But when he accidentally comes into the possession of a mysterious suitcase containing 1 million Euro, a series of hilarious troubles and daring adventures will result in an unpredictable finale…
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-01-28
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Sulla strada di casa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-03-15
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I'm Back
Overview: Benito Mussolini resurfaces in Rome 72 years after his death, as if not a single day had passed. Finding a country still full of problems, both old and new, his firebrand rhetoric wins him once again the hearts and minds of millions of Italians — who see him as a wacky reenactor who speaks inconvenient truths to power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-02-01
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The Dark Sea
Overview: The girlfriend of Detective Luca Mocci moves from the house of her friend Charlotte to live with him. When the corpse of the upper-class escort and student Valentina Martini is found in an apartment, tied and beaten after a kinky sex, Detective Mocci becomes obsessed with his investigation in the underworld of sex in his city, arising dark desires and affecting his relationship with his girlfriend. Written by Claudio Carvalho
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-08-25
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Drifters
Overview: A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Arianna
Overview: Arianna is nineteen, but she's still waiting to get her first period. As the summer begins, her parents decide to renew their acquaintance with their country house on Lake Bolsena, where Arianna lived until she was three, and has never been back. As the family settle in for the summer, long-repressed memories start to re-emerge, and Arianna decides to stay on after her parents return to the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Welcome Back Mr. President
Overview: Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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The Champion
Overview: Christian is an extremely talented as well as unpredictable football player. After his latest screw-up, the president of his team decides to assign him a personal tutor, to help him in controlling his temper. Valerio is a shy and solitary professor, the exact opposite of the champion. Sparks will fly between the two at first, but soon their relationship will change both for the better.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-04-18
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Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem
Overview: A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-12-12
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Stolen Days
Overview: Salvo was five when his father Vincenzo was arrested, practically before his eyes. Seven years later Salvo lives with his uncles and his cousin a controlled and peaceful existence in the Turin area, but his father returns and claims his son for four days. Vincenzo has to carry an important load to Bari and brings Salvo (nomen est omen) with him as insurance: a child is better than a gun, he says, because his presence in the event of a possible police detention can have a distracting effect . This however is not the only reason why Vincenzo wants Salvo with him, and the "Salv-atore" child will prove to be a potential vehicle of redemption for that messed up father, but not entirely devoid of feelings and attentions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-10-20
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The Predators
Overview: This is the story of two completely opposite households: the Pavone are intellectual and bourgeois, the Vismara are proletarian and fascists. They are two tribes sharing the same jungle: Rome. A trivial accident brings these two poles together. The madness of a 25-year old youth will set them on a collision course, discovering the cards to reveal that everyone has a secret. People are never what they seem – but we are all predators in the end.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-10-22
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Governance
Overview: Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, he works his way up to the top, driving his company to new heights despite the growing suspicion and mistrust...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-04-12
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Mad Dog
Overview: Two young people go missing after a rave party in the woods. Meda and Rio, a man defeated by life and an uncompromising captain, are the two cops leading the investigation. It’s an old nightmare coming back to haunt the people from the small village near the forest but, this time, the monster has chosen the wrong person.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-04
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A Boy Like Many Others
Overview: Pino comes to the big city from his village and quickly falls in with the wrong element. Turning to prostitution to support himself, he quickly becomes in petty crime and drugs dealing. When he meets a gay artist he may have a chance at changing his life. Will he?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-04-10
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La notte più lunga dell'anno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-01-27
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