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Alessandro Gassmann has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his life.
Dir. Stefano Cipani · With Alessandro Gassmann, Isabella Ragonese, Rossy de Palma
After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge.
Dir. Cosimo Gomez · With Alessandro Gassmann, Ginevra Francesconi, Remo Girone

Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Marco Giallini, Vittoria Puccini, Anna Foglietta

The son of an atheist, authoritarian father, believed to be liberal, wants to become a priest.
Dir. Edoardo Falcone · With Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassmann, Laura Morante

Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.
Dir. Louis Leterrier · With Jason Statham, Amber Valletta, Alessandro Gassmann
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow reaching climactic proportions.
Dir. Francesca Archibugi · With Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Golino, Luigi Lo Cascio
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
Dir. Antonello Grimaldi · With Nanni Moretti, Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Golino

A musical comedy, a journey filled with unexpected twists and unexpected encounters, leading a group of musicians to set out to the rhythm of their musical verses to participate in the Scanzano Jonico Song-Theatre Festival, walking across Basilicata, from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian Sea, along the route that gives the project its name. The journey will have a therapeutic effect.
Dir. Rocco Papaleo · With Alessandro Gassmann, Paolo Briguglia, Max Gazzè
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Raoul Bova, Alessandro Gassmann, Michele Placido

Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love.
Dir. Simone Godano · With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Alessandro Gassmann, Jasmine Trinca

Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.
Dir. Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Alessandro Rak, Dario Sansone · With Massimiliano Gallo, Maria Pia Calzone, Alessandro Gassmann

Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Istanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam Turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Istanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.
Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Alessandro Gassmann, Mehmet Günsür, Francesca D'Aloja
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood lasts only a few months. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, asking for the justice she deserves.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Paola Cortellesi, Alessandro Gassmann, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?
Dir. Ivano De Matteo · With Alessandro Gassmann, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Luigi Lo Cascio

In the present day, three friends to make ends meet invent a "criminal tour" for the places which were scenes of the Banda della Magliana criminal acts, even with vintage clothes. Suddenly they are catapulted in the 1982, during the Spain World Cup, facing the real Banda della Magliana, which at that time had the control over illegal bets.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Alessandro Gassmann, Marco Giallini, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Bilello
Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in a city in the north-east of Italy. A quiet life, an elegant apartment and no connection with his past. One day he finds himself assisting a man victim of a hit and run accident. But when he discovers a nazi tattoo on his chest, Simone abandons him to his destiny. Filled with guilt, he ends up tracing the man’s family: Marica, the eldest daughter; Marcello, a teenager plagued with racial hate; and little Paolo. The night will come when Marica knocks at Simone’s door and unknowingly asks for payback.
Dir. Mauro Mancini · With Alessandro Gassmann, Sara Serraiocco, Luka Zunic
An Italian style remake of "Due Date".
Dir. Giambattista Avellino · With Alessandro Gassmann, Enrico Brignano, Paolo Sassanelli
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Alessandro Gassmann, Marco Giallini, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Cristiana Capotondi
Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken for psychiatrist by a beautiful girl Valentina with whom he falls in love. A divorce lawyer Sandra is romantically attracted to her client's husband Massimo.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Enrico Brignano, Tosca D'Aquino, Anna Foglietta
Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newly elected Mayor Cecco (Claudio Bisio) wants to ask the local Tunisian community to “borrow” one of their children, but there’s conflict between the two communities. Cecco enlists the help of local Islam convert Bilal (Alessandro Gassman) to cross the cultural divide… but both communities are not sure what to make of a baby Jesus that may need his nationality, and even his religion changed!
Dir. Luca Miniero · With Claudio Bisio, Alessandro Gassmann, Angela Finocchiaro

as Oreste Passamonte · Director · Writer
After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.
Dir. Alessandro Gassmann · With Gigi Proietti, Alessandro Gassmann, Rocco Papaleo
Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. In the midst of debts, unpaid alimony and other serious financial issues, Gaetano unexpectedly wins the lottery, turning the fortune around.
Dir. Paolo Costella · With Vincenzo Salemme, Asia Argento, Nicole Grimaudo
A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting, endless night into a life-altering experience.
Dir. Liliana Cavani · With Alessandro Gassmann, Claudia Gerini, Edoardo Leo
Carlo descends on his former lover's unsuspecting family and the scheming Rocco tries to break up his old rival Marcello's wedding.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Michelle Hunziker, Sabrina Ferilli
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