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Massimo Ghini has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Alessandro Benvenuti, Angelo Bernabucci

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.
Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Isabella Ragonese, Massimo Ghini, Valerio Mastandrea

As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Jude Law, John Malkovich, Silvio Orlando
Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.
Dir. Francesco Laudadio · With Monica Bellucci, Giulio Scarpati, Massimo Ghini

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright

An extended family reunites on an idyllic island to celebrate their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. However, a storm causes them to get stuck in there longer than expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Stefano Accorsi, Carolina Crescentini, Elena Cucci
Fred works for a company that creates alibis for cheaters until Clio, the daughter of one of his client, falls in love with him.
Dir. Volfango De Biasi · With Giampaolo Morelli, Massimo Ghini, Alessandra Mastronardi
A loving young couple discover they're expecting a child, but the man isn't too keen on introducing her girlfriend to his family. Is it because he has a vampire father, a witch mother, a ghostly grandma, and a zombie uncle?
Dir. Volfango De Biasi · With Emanuela Rei, Cristiano Caccamo, Massimo Ghini
Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy, a country in which the justice process is very long and uncertain, he decides to take revenge in another way: he discovers that his enemy has hidden the proceeds of his misdeeds in a Swiss bank and decides to organize a hit to get back what was stolen from him. To accomplish the feat, Antonio sets up a small gang, made up of non-professionals who have only one thing in common: they too have been defrauded by corrupt politics. The heist takes place in Zurich where the bank in which Simone hid the money is based. With a series of unpredictable consequences, and with a funny substitution of people (Antonio and his wife pretend to be Simone and his partner), a comic clockwork mechanism starts. And the heist begins.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Vincenzo Salemme, Massimo Ghini, Stefania Rocca
In Christmastime Miami, heartbroken divorcée Giorgio invites himself to stay at his best friend Mario's — unaware that the latter is having an affair with his ex-wife — and ends up pursued by Mario's barely-of-age daughter; nosy and out-of-touch Ranuccio crashes his son's sex-themed holidays before ending up in a series of mishaps with Giorgio.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Christian De Sica, Massimo Ghini
Fabio is in love with his colleague Linda, but she has never even seen him until he's mistaken for her boyfriend. Paolo and Mario leave for a luxurious vacation in Rio de Janeiro for Christmas, without knowing that their sons have booked a trip for the same low-cost destination and, for a problem of homonymy between fathers and sons, the two holidays are exchanged.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Michelle Hunziker, Fabio De Luigi
Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on her, under penalty of divorce and not even a penny of alimony. But one day he meets Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli) and it's immediately irresistible passion... Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) is a young surgeon who, to make a career, is forced to suffer the harassment of his head, Professor Benci (Claudio Bisio). Filippo is about to go to New York to get married and Benci does not miss an opportunity to further harass him by asking him to bring a gift to his son, a "model" student at Riverside College.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Claudio Bisio, Sabrina Ferilli
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

as Ottavio Vianale
While on holiday in the Caribbean, a bankrupt family pins their hopes on a rich man, two strangers fall in lust, and a technophile gets shipwrecked.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Ghini, Angela Finocchiaro
Carlo, on vacation in South Africa with his second wife Susanna meets her younger brother Giorgio.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Ghini, Giorgio Panariello
When the Italian Premier and his companion find a dead body in his hotel suite, while on a trip to Hungary, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic situations as they try to avoid a scandal.
Dir. Marco Risi · With Massimo Ghini, Ricky Memphis, Martina Stella
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