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Marco Messeri has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by I'm Starting from Three.
Dazed and Confused
1993
Comedy · Drama
Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.
Dir. Massimo Troisi · With Massimo Troisi, Fiorenza Marchegiani, Lino Troisi
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 strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli
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.
Dir. Francesco Amato · With Vittoria Puccini, Benedetta Porcaroli, Edoardo Leo
Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.
Dir. Massimo Troisi · With Massimo Troisi, Francesca Neri, Marco Messeri
Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.
Dir. Massimo Troisi · With Massimo Troisi, Jo Champa, Marco Messeri
Young Father Giulio returns to Rome, where he was born and raised, to replace a priest who has left the clergy to start a family. He is delighted to reunite with his loved ones, especially his mother, sister, and old friends. Once radical leftists like Giulio himself, the latter are now each coping in their own way with the defeat of the revolution. Soon, however, Giulio realizes that despite his best efforts, he seems unable to solve the problems troubling those around him.
Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Nanni Moretti, Ferruccio De Ceresa, Marco Messeri
Claudia is married with Giovanni, a rather dull type. Meek Giacomo is happily divorced, until he meets her. Aldo is a colorful cabbie with whom she had an affair. Who'll win her heart?
Dir. Massimo Venier · With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
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.
Dir. Simone Godano · With Miriam Leone, Stefano Accorsi, Thomas Trabacchi
as 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.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Massimo Boldi, Christian De Sica, Marco Messeri
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.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Dean Jones
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Enzo Salvi, Carlo Buccirosso, Max Cavallari
Five friends forge their resumes and enroll to Oxford in orders to help one of them end up with the girl he's in love with.
Dir. Paolo Ruffini · With Paolo Ruffini, Frank Matano, Guglielmo Scilla
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