Massimo Bonetti

The Warmth of Dance (2026)

A famous TV host, who grew up without parents and with a painful past, sees his brilliant career and power called into question during a train journey from Rome to Milan. ...

The American Backyard (2025)

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first novel, next to her elderly mother's house—separated by a grim garden. ...

Cento cuori (2023)

Il mio amico Massimo (2022)

The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi. ...

Italian Horror Stories (2021)

Six Italian directors narrate six different horror stories connected by a single thread. ...

Tonight with Caravaggio (2020)

Alberto Angela presents Stanotte con Caravaggio, the story of the life and works of one of the best known and loved artists of all time: Caravaggio. This unpublished episode of Raiuno is dedicated to him, to his story and to his immortal works, an extraord ...

Mai per sempre (2020)

Cani di strada (2020)

A summer evening, a recently concluded rock concert, three strays in the dark of the night: an immigrant peddler with a valid residence permit expiring, an unemployed anarchist and Leila, a firefly without light. Their story is cut short by the senseless ...

Credo in un solo padre (2019)

Falcino, a small town in the south of Italy. No one sees. No one hears. Nobody talks. But everyone knows. And so they all become accomplices of a tragedy against women, against kids, against a family. A story of violence and slavery. Indifference is strong ...

Mr. Devil (2019)

In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself. ...

Cattivi & Cattivi (2019)

Two different criminal gangs are fighting each other. Not even the police seem to be able to stop the conflict in a Christmas Rome surrounded by drug dealing, corruption, violence and arrogance. ...

Il mondo di mezzo (2017)

Una nobile causa (2016)

Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (2016)

Stefano, a solitary killer with a dark past, works as a bouncer in a nightclub to cover up his real occupation. He avoids hanging out with friends and relatives and his only human contact is with young Filippo, who is enrolled in the same gym where he trai ...

Lacrime di San Lorenzo (2015)

You Can't Save Yourself Alone (2015)

Gaetano and Delia, a separated couple, try to pick up the pieces of their broken love, recalling all the faults and the mistakes which led them to where they are now. ...

The Broken Crown (2014)

A crime drama directed by Ruben Maria Soriquez. ...

Dylan Dog: Victim Of Circumstances (2014)

Adele is suffering from a terrifying recurring dream; a dream that often borders on reality, and even enters it in the form of horrible visions which climax during an evening stroll in the center of Rome. The medical findings don't reveal anything notewort ...

Massimo, il mio cinema secondo me (2013)

Fragments of footage, unpublished snapshots and interviews with friends and colleagues. A tribute to the actor, director and producer Massimo Troisi, to celebrate what would have been his sixtieth birthday. ...

Il mistero di Laura (2012)

Do it for Dad (2012)

Roma nuda (2011)

The Big Heart of Girls (2011)

Carlino Vigetti is pushed by his family to court the daughters of the Osti, landowners. But the return of their third daughter, the beautiful Francesca, will shatter the plans ... ...

5 (Cinque) (2011)

Il figlio più piccolo (2010)

Ruthless businessman Luciano reconnects with his estranged family from a previous marriage, only to use their youngest son, awkward and starry-eyed Baldo, as the fall guy for his failing endeavor. ...

Il Lupo (2007)

Dir. Stefano Calvagna's third feature is inspired by the real events in the life of Luciano Liboni, aka "The Wolf." A freewheeling interpretation of the character, here renamed Franco Scattoni (Massimo Bonetti), the film highlights the ups and downs of a r ...

Forget You Not (2006)

Rome, 1947. The war is over but in the eternal city is still open and obvious wounds of the conflict. In the maternity ward of a hospital, nine women are waiting to give birth... ...

Concorso di colpa (2005)

The chief commissioner of the homicide squad, with an anti-globalization activist for a son, investigates the suicide of a trade unionist that may be connected to an unsolved political murder of the '70s. ...

Una cosa in mente. Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo (2004)

Biographical film about Giuseppe Benedetto Cottolengo (1786-1842) ...

Maria Goretti (2003)

The life of the virgin and martyr Santa Maria Goretti ...

Senza Paura (2000)

Gian Maria and Marco, two boys from Rome's wealthy neighborhood, decide to rob a bank using a cutter because it isn't detected by the metal detector. They involve Antonio, the son of a tire dealer from the South, and Paola, who they caught pickpocketing a ...

Senza movente (1999)

Giallo based on the true crime of Rita Squeglia, who killed her lover and hid the body in a suitcase. ...

Kidnapping – Ein Vater schlägt zurück (1998)

Notes of Love (1998)

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness. ...

Bakunin's Son (1997)

Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel... ...

Porzûs (1997)

In 1945, at the huts above Porzûs, a hundred partisans from the Garibaldi Brigade and the Gap massacred about twenty partisans from Osoppo. They were commanded by Geko, who later went around saying that the group was accused of treason and collusion with ...

L'amico di Wang (1997)

Paolo invites his American friend Sam to Rome with the promise of a film to direct, but it takes a lot of money to make it, and they plan to steal a Modigliani painting from a wealthy producer. ...

Morte di una Strega (1996)

Pina Acciai, a fortune teller dedicated to usury, is found dead in her apartment with her skull smashed in. The police try to shed light on the matter and discover that all the tenants of the building could have a motive. ...

Giovanni Falcone (1993)

The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles. ...

Allullo drom (1992)

Nottataccia (1992)

The shy and awkward Latin professor Alessandro falls in love with a psychologist spying on her from a hole made in a wall. ...

Gli assassini vanno in coppia (1992)

Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991)

While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignment. He must answer a little girl's question about whether Santa Claus really exists. ...

Terra Nova (1991)

Quite a few decades ago, the Italian immigrants in this movie came to live in the Venezuelan countryside. They have settled in a region dominated by a crusty local aristocrat, and over the years they have had many encounters with him. It is finally time to ...

Silent Love (1991)

A young restorer is commissioned a job at an old villa which belongs to an aging countess. ...

Faccione (1991)

Daniela, a true Roman girl with a big face, weighs over a hundred kilos and always has the joke ready. She cohabits in a tiny apartment with her friend Luisa and works as an assistant to Maria Pace, owner of an art gallery. ...

Women in Arms (1991)

Nadia Cossa is a political prisoner who manages to escape during a transfer to a new prison. The young policewoman who was escorting her is suspended but starts investigating on her behalf and follows her trail. ...

Night Sun (1990)

Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duchess, Nastassja Kinski. Upon learning that she was previously the King's mistress, Sergio turns his back on ...

Il colore della vittoria (1990)

The Story of Boys and Girls (1989)

At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents feud about infidelity; an aging salesman who rents a cottage from them arrives with a young French woman; in Bol ...

Le vie del Signore sono finite (1987)

Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves. ...

The Last Minute (1987)

Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo. ...

Fuga senza fine (1987)

Kaos (1984)

Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons. ...

The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arri ...

Battle of the Stars (1978)

An alien vessel manages to break the earth defense systems. Captain Layton is sent to investigate and find the invaders. Together with friends from the planet Ganymed he discovers the enemies in a hidden underground city on earth. ...

The Biggest Battle (1978)

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war. ...

Beach House (1977)

Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, ...

War of the Planets (1977)

A strange signal arrives on the Earth disturbing all communications, while an UFO appears above the Antarctic sea. Captain Alex Hamilton is sent with his spaceship and crew to the space outside the Solar System to find the origin of that signal. They reach ...

The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist (1977)

A vengeful criminal targets the inspector who put him away, but the inspector survives and fakes his death. Ignoring orders to flee, he sets out to bring the fugitive back to justice. ...

Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)

A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family. ...

La settima onda (2018)