Marco Messeri
Birthday: Born in 1951-12-15 in Livorno, Italy
Deathday: Alive
TV Credits
Libero
Character: Ospite speciale
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Romanzo famigliare
Character: Vanni
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Fosca Innocenti
Character: il barbone Manrico Giudici
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Padre Pio - Tra cielo e terra
Character: Padre Benedetto
The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his death. The story is told by Emilia, Pio's friend, to a Vatican official reviewing Padre Pio's potential canonization. We watch local people venerate the humble Capuchin monk, we see petty jealousies within the Church almost bring him down, and we experience his decision to build a Home for the Relief of Suffering, a labor of love begun just after World W...
Maria di Nazaret
Character: Zacharias
An investigation into the fascinating universe that surrounds the figure of Mary of Nazareth....
Gigolò per caso
Character: Palmiro
When his father Giacomo comes back into his life after a heart attack, Alfonso has to cope with a life-changing truth: his father is a gigolo. After a series of unfortunate events, Alfonso is forced to follow in his father's footsteps....
Fosca Innocenti
Character: Ricky
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Don Matteo
Character: Eugenio Lanza
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help....
La contessa di Castiglione
Character: Camillo Benso, conte di Cavour
Virginia Oldoini, Countess of Castiglione, is an unscrupulous and beautiful woman, in love with Andrea Pieri, a patriot ready to do anything to free Italy from the foreign oppressor. Wounded during a chase, Pieri takes refuge in the castle of Virginia, which, with the approval of her husband, Count Francesco Verasis of Castiglione, takes care of him. Meanwhile, Nigra, in charge of the affairs of the Kingdom of Piedmont in Paris, discovers the relations of the countess with the subversives and se...
Movie Credits
The First Beautiful Thing
Character: Il Nesi
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 stri...
The Mass Is Ended
Character: Saverio
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....
The Jokes
Character: il chirurgo
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000....
An Italian Romance
Character: Franchino
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover....
A cavallo della tigre
Character: Iguana
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....
La passione
Character: Del Ghianda
To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town....
Intolerance
Character: White Man (segment "La buona azione quotidiana")
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity....
I Thought It Was Love
Character: Enea
Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way....
Le vie del Signore sono finite
Character: Leone
Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves....
Baciami piccina
Character: Commendatore
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....
Simpatici & antipatici
Character: Ugo
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Camerieri
Character: Agostino Rondine
Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate one another but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities....
Il toro
Character: Tantini
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....
Il Bi e il Ba
Character: Armando Maria Balestri
A man goes to Rome because he wants a magician to solve his problem: dandruff....
Da grandi
Character: Nonno
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....
Teste di cocco
Character: Filippo
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....
I miei più cari amici
Character: Ascanio
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The Referee
Character: Candido
An ambitious soccer referee ends up handling a crucial match between two small Sardinian teams...
Non è mai troppo tardi
Character: Volpicelli
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....
Notte italiana
Character: Otello Morsiani
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....
Il guerriero Camillo
Character: Il maresciallo dei carabinieri
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 wh...
Good for Nothing
Character: Raffaele
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...
The Unlikely Prince
Character: Re
Needing good PR, a snooty princess orchestrates a brief romance with an ordinary guy. But the schlub she picks proves more resourceful than expected....
L’amore e altre seghe mentali
Character:
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La locandiera
Character: Conte di Albafiorita
The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love....
Basta poco
Character:
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Palombella Rossa
Character: Padre di Michele
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....
Like Crazy
Character: Floriano Morelli
Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world....
A Walk in Time - The Adventure Continues
Character: Walter Colombo/Antonio
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....
A Walk in Time
Character: Lorenzo il Magnifico
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....
Alta Infedeltà
Character: Vito
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Vesna Goes Fast
Character: Il proprietario della diga
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....
La seconda volta non si scorda mai
Character: Monsignor Guidoni
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Tutta colpa della musica
Character: Giuseppe
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The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Character: Il Marchese
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 decide...
Do you know Claudia?
Character: Vanni Maceria
Claudia is married with dull Giovanni. Meek Giacomo is happily divorced until he meets her. Aldo is a colorful cabbie with whom she had an affair. Who will Claudia choose?...
With Closed Eyes
Character: Domenico Rosi
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....
Un posto tranquillo
Character: Mario Zonca
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Metronotte
Character:
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The Paramedic
Character: Spartaco
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...
Father Hope
Character: Padre Leonardo
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....
I'm Starting from Three
Character: Crazy Man
Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people....
Teste di quoio
Character: Piragallo
A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage....
L'ultimo Crodino
Character: Il commissario
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 ...
Il prete bello
Character: Nello Pannocchieschi
In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise....
Brain Drain
Character: Alfredo's Father
Five deadbeat, sex-crazed friends forge their resumes to enroll in the prestigious University of Oxford to help one of them end up with the girl he's in love with....
Fughe da fermo
Character: Anarchico
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Sweet Sweet Marja
Character: Arturo
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Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!
Character: Abukir / Himself
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....
Il pranzo della domenica
Character: Marchese
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....
The Last in the Class
Character: il preside
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 ......
Un inverno freddo freddo
Character: Gianfrancesco
Film about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon....
Metti una notte
Character: Il Grande Stellini
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 ask...
Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
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18 Presents
Character: Nonno
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....
Una notte agli studios
Character: Nestor
Two goofy extras enroll to a weird audition for a big 3D production...
Il grande botto
Character: Il presidente del San Benedetto
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Marilyn's Eyes
Character: Aldo
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....
Maria Goretti
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The life of the virgin and martyr Santa Maria Goretti...