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Marco Giallini has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Perfect Strangers.
2010
Comedy · Drama
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini
A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
Dir. Stefano Sollima · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Filippo Nigro, Marco Giallini
On a first date in Rome, the inner voices of recently separated Piero and furniture restorer Lara speak aloud, exposing the true thoughts and anxieties hidden behind their conversation.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Edoardo Leo, Pilar Fogliati, Emanuela Fanelli
The son of an indebted restaurant owner joins a foreign girl in search of her sister. Together, they’ll have to fight side by side against the most ruthless members of the Roman criminal underworld.
Dir. Gabriele Mainetti · With Liu Yaxi, Enrico Borello, Marco Giallini
A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.
Dir. Claudio Caligari · With Valerio Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Giorgio Tirabassi
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Giacomo Rizzo, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Chiatti
The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Valerio Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Alba Rohrwacher
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
While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and passion for Italia, a simple woman from slums in the periphery of the big city where he lives. The ghost of the beloved and sexual object of desire Italia chases him in his memories.
Dir. Sergio Castellitto · With Penélope Cruz, Sergio Castellitto, Claudia Gerini
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Sergio Castellitto, Marco Giallini, Claudia Gerini
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
David loses his white collar job, his fiancée and his house after one night with con man Marcello. He tracks him down to exact revenge, but ends up becoming his disciple in order to win back everything.
Dir. Francesco Miccichè, Fabio Bonifacci · With Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Maurizio Casagrande
When theatre actor Giuliano receives an unexpected visit from his childhood friend Tommasso, the encounter is bittersweet. This reunion is their first meeting in many years, triggered by Giuliano’s failing health and his decision to forgo treatment. Instead he is focussed on putting his affairs in order: distributing possessions, reconciling past disputes, and, most importantly, finding a home for his beloved canine, Pato. Over four days, the two men walk the streets of Rome, visiting bookshops, restaurants, veterinarians and friends, examining their lives and speculating on what the future holds.
Dir. Simone Spada · With Valerio Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Anna Ferzetti
Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams the streets of Rome and meets a strange old man, Nicola. He decides to take advantage of him and rob him. But after breaking into his house, Ettore realizes Nicola doesn’t have anything worth stealing and furthermore, the old man tells him a rather stranger thing: he affirms to be Santa Claus…
Dir. Edoardo Falcone · With Marco Giallini, Gigi Proietti, Barbara Ronchi
A psychoanalyst learns to have an illness and as a consequence he decides to quit his job. All his patients get together to find a way to make him feel better.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Claudio Bisio, Marco Giallini, Anna Foglietta
Ulisse, Fulvio and Domenico decide to rent an apartment together in order to live with their modest work. However the three encounter any difficulties that have forced them to always be one step away from starvation. Ulisse has to maintain his wife and daughter selling recordings of important foreign singers, Fulvio has the task of reviewing silly scandals of celebrities instead of writing articles for major artists, while Domenico must keep his wife and children going to make love with old single pensioners.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Pierfrancesco Favino, Marco Giallini
Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be just perfect... until the day he comes home and finds there Layla, a teenage girl who claims to be his daughter. Alongside Layla is her grandfather Enzo, a former rockstar and the father of Andrea's first fleeting and forgotten conquest. And they've come to stay!
Dir. Edoardo Leo · With Raoul Bova, Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo
Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.
Dir. Rolando Ravello · With Marco Giallini, Isabella Ferrari, Giuseppe Battiston
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
To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.
Dir. Daniele Luchetti · With Marco Giallini, Elio Germano, Eleonora Danco
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Alessandro Gassmann, Marco Giallini, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, Gianmarco Tognazzi
Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.
Dir. Antonio Morabito · With Marco Giallini, Claudio Santamaria, Jerzy Stuhr
as Fano / Pierre Silvestri
Massimo Marinelli Lops and Giulia Colardo meet by chance in Rome and fall in love. Giulia asks Massimo to spend Christmas Eve with her family.
Dir. Luca Vendruscolo, Mattia Torre, Giacomo Ciarrapico · With Alessandro Cattelan, Marco Giallini, Corrado Guzzanti
A priest, after spending years in humanitary missions in Africa, reunites with his family, which is in worse conditions than when he left, and above all meets a young lady who will make him doubt both himself and his faith.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Laura Chiatti, Angela Finocchiaro
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