Massimo De Francovich

Massimo De Francovich

Born: January 8, 1936
in Rome, Italy

Movies for Massimo De Francovich...

Volare
Title: Volare
Released: February 22, 2024
Type: Movie
One day, Annabì decides it’s enough. Her whole life has been affected by her fear of flying and so has her career. She is a successful actress but has turned down many roles abroad because flying is an insurmountable obstacle for her. Now, her daughter Serena has decided to study in California. Obsessed with the idea of not being a good mother, Annabì forces herself to cross the dreaded threshold of Fiumicino airport and to head to a secluded area where a course will take place. Other mysterious travelers are heading to the same place, all of them with their own baggage of fears and willing to overcome their aerophobia.
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The Dew Point
Title: The Dew Point
Character: Dino Rimoldi
Released: January 18, 2024
Type: Movie
25-year-old carouser Carlo is sentenced to one year of community service after crashing his car while drunk and on cocaine. He has to serve his sentence at the Villa Bianca nursing home, along with other non-violent felons. He initially lives it as yet another nuisance, but spending time with Villa Bianca's residents — especially Dino, a cultured and sarcastic 80-year-old who has attempted suicide several times — will make Carlo change his outlook on the world and on life itself.
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La notte più lunga dell'anno
Title: La notte più lunga dell'anno
Character: Il Presidente
Released: January 27, 2022
Type: Movie
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Sin
Title: Sin
Character: Papa Giulio II
Released: November 14, 2019
Type: Movie
The life of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
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Stories from the Chestnut Woods
Title: Stories from the Chestnut Woods
Character: Mario Salamant
Released: September 8, 2019
Type: Movie
In the mid-20th century, in a forested valley between Italy and Yugoslavia, a stingy widower befriends a young woman and helps her depart across the ocean to find there a better life. A chance encounter gives rise to a dreamy parable on loss, loneliness and the power of imagination.
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A mano disarmata
Title: A mano disarmata
Character: Egidio Angeli
Released: June 6, 2019
Type: Movie
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The Great Beauty
Title: The Great Beauty
Character: Egidio
Released: May 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
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Long Live Freedom
Title: Long Live Freedom
Character: Presidente della Repubblica
Released: February 13, 2013
Type: Movie
The elections are approaching and the largest opposition party in the country do not look good. Its leader, Enrico Oliveri can not stand the pressure and disappears. Fearing a scandal, the eminence grise of the party had brought into play the twin brother of the politician. Even if looks like two drops of water with his brother Giovanni may have a different personality. His ideas are innovative and direct approach to get the party in the polls ...
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The Cardboard Village
Title: The Cardboard Village
Released: September 6, 2011
Type: Movie
When a group of African immigrants builds a cardboard village between the pews of a church soon to be closed, an elderly priest must choose between his calling and his orders.
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Weddings and Other Disasters
Title: Weddings and Other Disasters
Character: Neri
Released: April 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans...
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Title: Romanzo criminale
Character: Il Vecchio
Released: November 9, 2008
Type: TV
Follows a criminal gang in Rome that has a near monopoly of the city's heroin trade. Besides their internal feuding, the gang has to deal with the Camorra and Sicilian Mafia that both supply its heroin, the police led by Commissioner Scialoja and the Italian secret services.
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Title: Boris
Character: Remo Arcangeli
Released: April 16, 2007
Type: TV
Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered in 2022. The show brings to the stage the behind the scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many fictions airing on the Italian TV networks.
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Wherever You Are
Title: Wherever You Are
Character: Carlo
Released: October 22, 2004
Type: Movie
A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.
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La vita altrui
Title: La vita altrui
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
The apparently quiet lives of four milanese bourgeois couples become intertwined
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The Prince's Manuscript
Title: The Prince's Manuscript
Character: Guido Lanza (60 anni)
Released: March 31, 2000
Type: Movie
The film is a biography of Giuseppe Tomasi (Bouquet), the prince of Lampedusa, who is the author of Il gattopardo, one of the most influential Italian novel of XX century and is adapted on screen by Visconti, THE LEOPARD (1963, 8/10). Directed by Roberto Andò, a native from Palermo, stars two French cinema icons Bouquet and Moreau (as the princess Licy).
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Strong Arms
Title: Strong Arms
Character: Prof. Sembriani
Released: April 9, 1997
Type: Movie
This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The events he describes sound just like those of Brescia, and Claudia, who still grieves for her sister, begins to wonder if Tancredi is telling the truth. Her investigation proves that he is lying, but it leads her to wonder why he has chosen her as his psychoanalyst. After talking to her husband, Claudia visits her old mentor who suggests she continue working with Tancredi but warns her not to call in the police. After that the story frequently jumps to 1998. By then Claudia and her newborn baby have become part of the witness protection program and she is preparing to testify against those involved in covering up government-sponsored terrorist activity.
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Who Killed Pasolini?
Title: Who Killed Pasolini?
Character: Faustino Durante
Released: September 3, 1995
Type: Movie
November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?
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The Last Days of Humanity
Title: The Last Days of Humanity
Released: September 23, 1991
Type: Movie
The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, broadcast by Rai
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The Sicilian Connection
Title: The Sicilian Connection
Character: Chief Prosecutor Santa Lucia
Released: January 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Mario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an assassination of a judge in Palermo. He leaves the States, comes back to Sicily and recruit Michele, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is a good guy not involved with the Mafia, that is trying to build his life on honesty and hard-working. Michele needs some money to give freedom to a prostitute he is in love, and Mario promise his help in change of an hands to set up his trap for the judge. Anyway Michele isn't made with the same "pasta" of Mario, he couldn't never be a real Mafioso and this causes many between the two brother and the Mafia. There is only a way for Mario to save his brother. A way that Mafia could like.
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Title: Tartarino sulle Alpi
Character: Boris
Released: September 6, 1968
Type: TV
Tartarin sur les Alpes is a novel written by the French writer Alphonse Daudet in 1885. It is the second part of a trilogy which also includes Tartarin de Tarascon (published in 1885) and Porto Tarascona (published in 1890). Seeing his position as president of the Alpine Club of Tarascon threatened because of his fellow citizen Costecalde, who questions his abilities as a mountaineer, Tartarin travels to the Bernese Alps to accomplish a memorable feat. In 1968, a television transposition of Tartarino sulle Alpi was broadcast by Rai, directed by Edmo Fenoglio, with Tino Buazzelli as the protagonist. The series was broadcast between 06/09/968 and 09/27/1968.
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Il borghese gentiluomo
Title: Il borghese gentiluomo
Character: Cleonte
Released: January 16, 1959
Type: Movie