Massimo Popolizio Movies

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...

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

It's 1987, the final act of the Maxi Trial in Palermo, the largest criminal trial in Italian history. On this occasion, eight jurors, four women and...

A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.

Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who...

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...

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

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

While investigating the murder of a woman that occurred in the sado-masochistic club scene, Inspector Luca Moccia discovers fantasies that threaten...

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...

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

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

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...