Massimo Popolizio Movies

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

The film takes place over the course of a single night: the longest night of the year, between December 21 and 22 (the winter solstice), when the sun...

Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.

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...

Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino would eventually fall at the hands of Italy’s Cosa Nostra in 1992. However, before that, in 1985,...

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...

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...

Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the...

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...

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...

After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage.

In a police station in a small village, a sergeant interrogates a young and frightened postman, known as "Cacasotto". He, normally known for being...

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,...

The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino.