Massimo De Lorenzo

Il ministero dell’amore (2026)

A Brief Affair (2025)

Lea and Rocco meet by chance in a bar and an instant attraction ignites between them. From that moment, a secret affair begins, consisting of fleeting, clandestine meetings in a hotel room. However, as time passes, Lea's obsession with Rocco intensifies, l ...

U.S. Palmese (2025)

In Palmi, a small town in Calabria, Don Vincenzo, a genial retired farmer, has a crazy idea to revive the local soccer team by organizing a bizarre fundraiser hiring the Italian major league Serie A, soccer player Etienne Morville, a bad-tempered guy but a ...

The Trainers (2024)

Pasquale, a struggling dog trainer, aims to open his training center after another loss to his ex-wife in an agility competition. He devises an 'emergency' dog training course, but a flyer printing error brings mischievous children instead. But how will Pa ...

M. Il Figlio del Secolo (2024)

The series follows Benito Mussolini's career from his founding of the Fasci Italiani in 1919 through the assassination of socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti in 1925. ...

Sei pezzi facili (2022)

The Prince of Rome (2022)

In 19th-century Papal Rome, Bartolomeo is a wealthy and greedy parvenu who craves a noble title. While trying to raise the money he needs to strike a deal with a prince for the hand of his daughter, he'll find himself caught in a magical journey between pa ...

Il giorno più bello (2022)

Aurelio inherited the wedding-planner trade from his father: he runs the family business, "The Most Beautiful Day," and all his life he has sacrificed his dreams in the name of a mission: to give happiness. Today, however, complicit with the crisis and a d ...

Bla Bla Baby (2022)

After a freak accident, a nursery school janitor finds out he can now understand babyspeak. ...

Daughters (2021)

Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepf ...

Kidz (2020)

Sara and Nicola are married and in love. Their lives seem to be perfect: they have an angelic six-year-old daughter, thriving careers and a stable marriage. The birth of their second child, which disrupts the family balance, leads to tragicomic scenarios. ...

I, Leonardo (2019)

Discover Leonardo da Vinci, the man, the painter, the scientist and the inventor, through a unique, engaging and fascinating journey in the mind of Leonardo. ...

Beware the Gorilla (2019)

Lorenzo is a lawyer who files a lawsuit against the zoo of his town but after winning it he has to take home a gorilla. ...

Cosa fai a Capodanno? (2018)

A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy. ...

Family Guy (Uno di famiglia) (2018)

Luca, a diction teacher, saves the life of a student which is the offspring of the famous "Serranò" criminal family. Out of nowhere, members of the Serranò family burst into Luca's life to repay him without accepting a "no" as an answer. ...

All You Ever Wished For (2018)

A young New York fashion executive's trip to Milan takes a bad turn when he is kidnapped and whisked off to an Alpine village to be held for ransom money. Little does he (or his three abductors) know that the small, rustic cottage they end up spending the ...

I'm Back (2018)

Benito Mussolini resurfaces in Rome 72 years after his death, as if not a single day had passed. Finding a country still full of problems, both old and new, his firebrand rhetoric wins him once again the hearts and minds of millions of Italians — who see ...

Natale da chef (2017)

A bizarre group consisting of a refined chef with unusual recipes, an assistant cook with taste disturbances and an improvised pastry chef takes part in a competition between chefs to win the contract for the G7. ...

Like Shooting Stars (2017)

An Italian composer in crisis takes a break in Valencia, where he takes a shine to a famous singer. ...

It's All About Karma (2017)

Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father. ...

Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)

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 co ...

There's No Religion Anymore (2016)

Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who's always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the ...

Christmas Dinner (2016)

In Polignano a Mare, covered in snow, they are more nervous than usual. Hysterics, anxiousness, pregnancy tests, lost rings and stuck lifts - what else can happen? ...

Burning Love (2015)

July 2006. Leonardo Zuliani has vanished. The news from Trastevere in Rome turns into a real national emergency, while a huge throng of followers gathers around the young activist's house. His mother is beside herself with grief and the entire neighbourhoo ...

Soldato Semplice (2015)

In 1917, Gino Montanari, an elementary school teacher from Romagna, was forced by the principal of his school to volunteer for the First World War because of his libertine and anti-interventionist behavior. With the threat of being expelled from all school ...

Ogni maledetto Natale (2014)

Massimo Marinelli Lops and Giulia Colardo meet by chance in Rome and fall in love. Giulia asks Massimo to spend Christmas Eve with her family. ...

La scuola più bella del mondo (2014)

La trattativa (2014)

What are we talking about when we talk about negotiations? About the state's concessions to the Mafia in exchange for ending the massacres? About who assassinated Falcone and Borsellino? Of the eternal coexistence between the Mafia and politics? Between th ...

Unique Brothers (2014)

A funny story about two brothers, Pietro and Francesco, and what happens with them and their families after Petro loses his memory. ...

Il giudice meschino (2014)

The story of Alberto Lenzi, Public Prosecutor of Reggio Calabria, cynical, indolent and disillusioned who, upset by the killing of a friend and colleague, finds the inner strength to fight in the service of justice and truth. ...

A Boss in the Living Room (2014)

Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina's home. ...

To Rome with Love (2012)

Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and h ...

Love Is in the Air (2012)

Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school, to stay in the family home with their teenage son, some new attitudes begin to form. ...

Parking Lot (2011)

Ex 2: Still Friends (2011)

Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken ...

Il signore della truffa (2011)

Some Say No (2011)

Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people to the top in virtually every field. In Florence, three thirty-somethings band together to wage their own w ...

Boris: The Film (2011)

A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen. ...

Whatsoeverly (2011)

Corrupt and sleazy entrepreneur Cetto La Qualunque comes back to Italy and "jumps into politics" lest his law-abiding opponent, Giovanni De Santis, is elected as mayor. ...

Aspettando Il Sole (2008)

Italy, 1980s. Three thugs stumble upon a remote, out-of-place hotel: a refuge at the edge of the world. But this isn't just their story. Because at the Bellevue Hotel, other guests exist, breathing or crying behind a door with worn numbers, gestures of lov ...

Manual of Love 2 (2007)

Paralyzed from a crash, Nicola falls for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela seek fertility treatment in Barcelona. Filippo and Fosco, a gay couple, plan their wedding. Ernesto, a waiter, has an affair with Spanish cook Cecilia. ...

Armando (2006)

A Donatello award nominated short feature about a small and thin man who, try as he might, cannot put on weight until one morning he finds has scales saying 121kg! ...

Piovono mucche (2003)

A group of young people arrives at a community for people with disabilities in the center of Rome to perform their civil service. For them, it marks the beginning of a completely new life and an opportunity to engage with an unfamiliar world. ...

Il terzo segreto di Fatima (2001)

All the Knowledge in the World (2001)

Oddball characters, weird mishaps, fates intertwining: the search for the meaning of life goes on. A college student falls for her philosophy lecturer; a disabled man seeks recovery; a popstar meets a spiritual guru; and the arrival of a mysterious lumines ...

Teeth (2000)

Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist ...

Marianna Ucrìa (1997)

In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive s ...

Il caricatore (1996)

Three friends, who are also young filmmakers, decide to write and shoot a film, starting from the disheartening realization that they only have one roll of film. They contact acquaintances and film producers, even getting involved in long soccer games to p ...

Esercizi di stile (1996)

The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on. ...

Honeymoon Trips (1995)

The vicissitudes of three couples of newlyweds from the celebration of weddings to their respective honeymoons. ...

DeGenerazione (1994)

Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento. ...

Perdiamoci di vista (1994)

Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic. ...

Al lupo, al lupo (1992)

Vanni, Gregorio and Livia are brothers. The first is a well-known pianist, the second has abandoned his career as an aspiring violinist to become a deejay. When Vanni discovers that his father has disappeared into thin air, together with Gregorio they deci ...

The Stolen Children (1992)

Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the relation betw ...

Se non avessi l'amore (1991)

The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990. ...

Piovono mucche (2003)

A group of young people arrives at a community for people with disabilities in the center of Rome to perform their civil service. For them, it marks the beginning of a completely new life and an opportunity to engage with an unfamiliar world. ...