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Massimiliano Bruno has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
The Immature: The Trip
2012
Comedy
Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?
Dir. Rolando Ravello · With Ambra Angiolini, Edoardo Leo, Paolo Calabresi
Rome, 1989. On his last day of high school, Luca gets in trouble when he takes it all out on hated literature teacher Martinelli, only to discover he's going to be heading the examination board for his finals. During a summer of fruitless study, he falls in love with a girl he met once at a party, unaware that she's Martinelli's daughter. The latter, strangely enough, has just offered Luca to prepare with him...
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Giorgio Faletti, Cristiana Capotondi, Nicolas Vaporidis
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
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
35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she has to earn money in a short time is by resorting to the oldest job in history.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Paola Cortellesi, Raoul Bova, Rocco Papaleo
The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his business into a place of worship—a tax-free activity, where he'll host pilgrims in exchange for a generous donation. He joins forces with an unscrupulous accountant and a failed novelist to come up with his new religion.
Dir. Alessandro Aronadio · With Margherita Buy, Edoardo Leo, Giuseppe Battiston
as Pasquale · Director · Writer
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
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
as Luca (segment "Natale") · Director · Writer
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno, Edoardo Leo · With Edoardo Leo, Massimiliano Bruno, Anna Foglietta
as Luca (segment "La vigilia") · Director · Writer
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno, Edoardo Leo · With Edoardo Leo, Massimiliano Bruno, Anna Foglietta
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
From married couples to platonic roommates to testy rivals with romantic chemistry, the never-ending battle of the sexes gets personal.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Paola Cortellesi, Fabio De Luigi, Sarah Felberbaum
as Gianfranco · Director · Writer
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Alessandro Gassmann, Marco Giallini, Gianmarco Tognazzi
as Gianfranco · Director · Writer
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno · With Marco Giallini, Edoardo Leo, 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
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
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Dir. Paolo Genovese, Luca Miniero · With Nicolas Vaporidis, Valentina Izumi, Massimiliano Bruno
Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his friend Michele play in a group that emulates the Beatles and face opposition from their partners. Finally, Marcello and Paola are a divorced couple who, from time to time, pretend they are still together to avoid problems. They are victims of a relentless war of sexes.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Salvatore Ficarra
In 2006, as World Cup fever sweeps Italy, high school senior Luca falls hard for dolphin trainer Azzurra and stumbles on a family secret -- right before his exams.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Giorgio Panariello, Nicolas Vaporidis, Carolina Crescentini
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
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