Massimo Popolizio
Birthday: Born in 1961-07-04 in Genova, Italy
Deathday: Alive
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Qualunque cosa succeda
Character: Michele Sindona
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Il Grande Torino
Character: Ernest Egre Erbstein
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Il clan dei camorristi
Character: Don Palma
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Io non mi arrendo
Character: Cast
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Movie Credits
Dry
Character: Massimo
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....
Il Divo
Character: Vittorio Sbardella
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....
20 Cigarettes
Character: Storchi
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....
The Big Dream
Character: Domenico
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....
Elective Affinities
Character: Marchese
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....
Boris: The Film
Character: Massimo
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen....
Pereira Declares
Character: Dr. Cardoso (voice)
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 sub...
L'attentatuni
Character: Angelo Branca
The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone....
The Great Beauty
Character: Alfio Bracco
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....
We Were Children
Character: Avvocato Rizzo
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....
Copenaghen
Character: Werner Karl Heisenberger
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Amici come noi
Character: Uncle Ettore
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My Brother Is an Only Child
Character: Ettore Benassi
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....
Leopardi
Character: Monaldo Leopardi
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry....
Il delitto di Via Poma
Character: Chief Del Frate
Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight....
The Last Days of Humanity
Character:
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...
The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler
Character: Father Amerigo
A wealthy broker, his loyal butler, and a poor street seller all see their social positions change in a twist of fate....
The Desired War
Character: Generale Benedetti
A diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop....
Amore che vieni, amore che vai
Character: Bernard
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The Gang of Santa Clauses
Character: Secondhand dealer
On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Clauses are arrested in what seems to be a burglary and taken to the police, accused of being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation....
Welcome Mr. President!
Character: Simple Politician
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 qui...
Era d'estate
Character: Giovanni Falcone
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...
Il grande Torino
Character: Ernest Egre Erbstein
The story of a young boy who wants to be part of the great soccer italian team: il Grande Torino....
Requiem per voce e pianoforte
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Romanzo Criminale
Character: Terribile
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....
Heartless
Character: Ministro
After a robbery gone awry, a young man breaks into an apartment and takes a wheelchair bound girl hostage....
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
Character: On. Conversani
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 contain...
Sulla strada di casa
Character: Il boss calabrese
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I'm Back
Character: Benito Mussolini
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....
The Dark Sea
Character: Laganà
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...
Drifters
Character: Sergio
A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee....
The Champion
Character: Tito
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....
Welcome Back Mr. President
Character: Politico ruspante
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....
Arianna
Character: Marcello
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....
Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem
Character: Erode
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....
Stolen Days
Character: Totò
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 . Thi...
The Predators
Character: Pierpaolo Pavone
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....
Governance
Character: Renzo Petrucci
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......
Mad Dog
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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....
A Boy Like Many Others
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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?...
La notte più lunga dell'anno
Character: Francesco
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