Massimo Poggio

Massimo Poggio

Birth : 1970-04-09, Alessandria, Italy

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Massimo Poggio

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Copperman
Giovanni
Despite his adult age, Anselmo behaves like a child and takes up the role of a superhero called "Copperman."
Forbidden School
Mixing dramatizations and real-life interviews, this film tells the story of four Jewish children who endured the brutal anti-Semitism of fascist Italy.
Nevermind
Massimo
Nevermind is an episodic comedy film. In each episode, we see common characters forced to suffer extremely weird, disturbing and paradoxical situations. These situations sometimes seem incredible but yet... can happen.
Pertini: Il combattente
Le Verità
The Truth About Love Is...
Davide
Dora, raises her two children with the help of her eccentric family, free-spirited best friend, and a charming poet-turned- nanny.
L'amore rubato
The stories of five women very different from each other, yet linked by morbid and violent love experiences, are intertwined in a drama inspired by the collection of short stories by Dacia Maraini published in 2012 by the same title of the film, "Love Stolen ".
L'aquilone di Claudio
Il Lato Oscuro
Rorschach
Adriano Olivetti - La forza di un sogno
Mauro Barale
In post–WWII Italy, inspired industrialist Adriano Olivetti oversees the creation of the first all-Italian electronic calculator while theorizing a revolutionary business model based on the idea that profit should be reinvested for the benefits of the whole society. An utopian vision that catches the attention of powerful interests...
K2 - La montagna degli Italiani
Achille Compagnoni
TV movie that tells the story of 12 Italian mountaineers and their dreams of being the first to reach the summit of K2.
Cinderella
Once upon a time in post-war Rome: 13-year old Aurora, a gifted pianist, is the daughter of Valerio, a brilliant conductor. After Aurora's mother died, Valerio hired Irene, a single mother of two girls, to run the household. To Aurora's regret he decides to marry Irene. One day, Aurora happens to meet the boys next door, Freddy and Sebastian, the sons of a wealthy Italo-Austrian family. Freddy is an easy-going chap, though sometimes a little bit arrogant. His brother Sebastian is kind and shy, with a great ability to listen to and understand people, which makes him win Aurora's heart.
Day 6
Dottor Piso
A brave scientist has been studying thousands of cases related to alien abductions. By placing abductees under hypnosis, he arrives at the unsettling discovery that for thousands of years, a variety of extra-terrestrial races have been installing their active memories in abducted people's brains. These alien races exploit a powerful source of energy that only humans have: the Soul.
David's Birthday
Matteo
Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?
Il prossimo tuo
Stefano
Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.
Blood of the Losers
Vincenzo Nardi
All'amore assente
Detective
A detective is investigating on Andres Carrera, speech-writer of a politician man. Andres disappeared during the electoral campaign. The detective slowly 'penetrates' in Andres' life: he begins to live at Andres' home; to work at Andres' office; to meet Andres' parents; to seek a sort of relation with Andres' wife and colleagues. The election campaign is going on, but nobody can write so 'poetic' and so 'politic' speeches as Andres did. What is the secret of his speeches? Why his nickname was "Whitman", like American poet? Why Andres disappeared and where he is now? And why the detective is so interested in it, beyond his professional task? Maybe being in relation with Andres parents and wife will reveal every solution to the detective. Or it will include everything in a dream...
Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini
Giuseppe Montesano
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
Giacomo Matteotti
Sacred Heart
Padre Carras
Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.
Il monastero
Alex
After having had a ride with a hitchhiker, shot by some friends in a small town in Lazio, in one of them there is an old abbot monastery with a haunted man.
Household Accounts
Period giallo about a young cook who's accused of killing her wealthy husband.
Facing Windows
Young Davide
Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
Rosa and Cornelia
A Venetian countess, pregnant with illegitimate child, befriends her also pregnant servant girl and they almost become more than friends, but her family, infuriated over her scandalous pregnancy, has a plan for her and the baby.
Alex the ram
Robbi
Alessandro Corso is a special forces carabiniere. During an operation he saves a child but cause the death of one of his comrades. He's then transferred to a peaceful little town, where he will be unexpectedly forced to help an hot witness named Antavleva, protecting her and bringing them safely to the trial.