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Massimiliano Gallo has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s.
Thunder Road
2018
Comedy · Drama
In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Nicole Grimaudo, Alessandro Preziosi
The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Dir. Marco Risi · With Libero De Rienzo, Valentina Lodovini, Michele Riondino
When his girlfriend Giorgia leaves him for his boss, journalist Giulio suddenly finds himself without a woman and with no job. Determined to win back his ex, he attends Valeria's classes, who teaches single men the art of seduction, convinced that relationships between people are motivated by simple biological stimuli.
Dir. Giampaolo Morelli · With Giampaolo Morelli, Serena Rossi, Diana Del Bufalo
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
Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with.
Dir. Maria Sole Tognazzi · With Margherita Buy, Sabrina Ferilli, Alessia Barela
Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.
Dir. Vincenzo Salemme · With Vincenzo Salemme, Massimiliano Gallo, Tosca D'Aquino
Antonio Barracano is a respected figure among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a youth asks him permission to kill his father.
Dir. Mario Martone · With Francesco Di Leva, Massimiliano Gallo, Roberto De Francesco
Fired from his HR job in the big city, Fulvio returns home and sees a leaky pipe in his brother's church as the way to save the crumbling town.
Dir. Alessandro Siani · With Alessandro Siani, Fabio De Luigi, Ana Caterina Morariu
as Massimiliano De Simone
In a Rome divided between the city center and the suburbs, rich and poor, famous and not, Alex, Gaia, and Marco are three friends in their early twenties who dream of escaping the future society has written for them. Street life, working at the market, poverty, small-time drug dealing, suburban tenements, and the dream of hip-hop are Alex's life until his dream comes true and he finds himself catapulted into the world of rap, playing his part and proving his worth. Managing his own destiny, however, isn't easy, and Alex makes many mistakes, leaving him alone, without a point of reference, and with fleeting success. He must then confront his demons, the harshness of the world, and his own confusion, to learn to love his anger and understand what he truly desires.
Dir. Cosimo Alemà · With Izi, Salvatore Esposito, Jacopo Olmo Antinori
A father, immersed in a difficult divorce process, embarks on a dangerous mission when his children disappear from their isolated country house.
Dir. Renato De Maria · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Annabelle Wallis, Massimiliano Gallo
From campy lies to sexy surprises, this collection of vignettes captures the follies of several men as they fumble with fidelity and relationships.
Dir. Stefano Mordini · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Mastandrea, Laura Chiatti
