Massimo Sarchielli

AKA:
0.2384

1931-04-09

Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Biography

Crew Roles

Anna
Director
Anna
Writer
Anna
Producer
Anna
Production Design
Girati di Anna – Presentrazione a Venezia, settembre 1975
Director
Girati di Anna – Presentrazione a Venezia, settembre 1975
Producer
Fuori Campo di Anna
Director
Guests
Thanks
La prima volta che Zavattini provò ad usare un videotape
Director
Director
Producer
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {95}

Ananias

2000-12-03 6.8

Saint Paul

A biblical epic from the Book of Acts and Paul's epistles covering his conversion from Saul of Tarsus to his ministry to the Gentiles. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, TV Movie

Nino

2003-09-20 6.885

Under the Tuscan Sun

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tusca ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Raba

1974-07-12 6.8

Shoot First, Die Later

When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have dire consequences. ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

2001-09-04 5

About Special Effects

This film deals with the theme of the heritage left to the underground cinema by the historical avant-garde. ...
Genre :

Fornitore di vino

2007-11-16 6.1

The Hideout

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she b ...
Genre :Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Il Magnifico

1982-09-01 6.779

What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight

A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco. ...
Genre :Comedy

Cemetery Caretaker

1989-01-01 6.8

The House of Lost Souls

A handful of young geologists are unlucky enough to be forced to stay at a rundown hotel in the middle of nowhere. What they don't know is that the hotel has been abandoned for twenty years because th ...
Genre :Horror, TV Movie

1999-07-15 3.5

Torino Boys

A group of young Nigerian friends living in Italy travels to Rome to watch a UEFA soccer match. For Eby this is the opportunity to see Nike, a girl he met only a while ago. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Oste

1985-04-08 4.6

Mother Ebe

Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft. ...
Genre :Drama

Gypsy Man

1989-10-21 5.5

Torrents of Spring

In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. In Germany, he falls in love with a beautiful pastry shop girl, Gemma Rosselli, who soon starts shari ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Giannetti

1996-04-20 6.126

Castle Freak

John Reilly discovers that his family's newly inherited castle in Italy is haunted by a relentless, bloodthirsty creature. ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Horror, Mystery

Massimo

1968-04-30 5.9

Come Play With Me

Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into strange erotic and psychological bat ...
Genre :Drama

ferramenta

2000-04-14 0

Prima la musica, poi le parole

Genre :Drama

Cisco

1967-03-03 5.4

$10,000 for a Massacre

After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang. ...
Genre :Western

Esposito

1979-04-13 6.2

From Corleone to Brooklyn

Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial ...
Genre :Crime

Leonardo Marquez

1967-03-10 6.4

Kill and Pray

A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man with perfect shooting skills ...
Genre :Action, Western

Maresciallo

1982-09-23 5.7

Holy Cow

When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl. ...
Genre :Comedy

Antonio

1991-01-25 6

A Paradise Without Billiards

An Italian man emigrates to Sweden after getting tempted by the picture painted by his friend's letters but finds the reality quite different. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mario

1970-09-03 5.9

Fragment of Fear

A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Coach

1989-01-01 0

A Double Victory

Following a life-altering heart attack, a train driver named Saverio receives a heart transplant from a young, deceased runner. To honor his donor, Saverio takes on the challenge of fulfilling the you ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Bertini

1993-11-07 5.3

Bonus Malus

The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Taxi Driver #2

1983-12-21 6.5

Il tassinaro

Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on duty with his car "Zara 87". ...
Genre :Comedy

Lambrozzi

1993-01-24 0

Killer Rules

Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a dead ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

1991-09-23 0

The Last Days of Humanity

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 ...
Genre :Drama

1994-11-22 6.7

With Closed Eyes

In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Benito Carducci

2009-08-05 5.8

Wedding Fever in Campobello

When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian. ...
Genre :Comedy

policeman in Beirut

1966-04-27 7

Almost Perfect Crime

Genre :Crime, Comedy, Mystery

Storekeeper

1989-07-01 5.6

The House of Clocks

A gang of ruthless thugs intent on robbery prey upon a seemingly harmless elderly couple, Vittorio and Sara. The simple plan turns into a terrifying nightmare, as Vittorio's antique clock collection ...
Genre :Horror, TV Movie

Buglialozzi

1972-03-30 7.4

Without Family

Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1965-03-24 7.4

Le Majordome

Léopold, valet de chambre to the avocat général Maître de Royssac, starts studying the penal code and, during his leave, becomes a judge in a "middle" court. His decisions are recognized as final. Léo ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Leone

2001-01-05 6.111

Sleepless

An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

1997-01-01 0

Prima della fucilazione

Genre :

Enzo

1987-10-07 5.2

The Sicilian

Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

1972-07-01 5.5

Vigilando reprimere

A prison escape gone wrong. A man and a woman meet in an apocalyptic scenario, in the midst of an obscurantist wave of repression of consciences. ...
Genre :Drama

Margherita's Father

1993-04-09 6

Magnificat

During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Innkeeper

1985-03-27 7.005

Ladyhawke

Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

Cucchi

1986-09-05 4.6

Desiring Julia

A young man falls in love with extra-liberated Giulia. Their relationship becomes very passionate, but Giulia has no limits in her sexual fantasies and games. Poor guy, will soon discover he'll have t ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Anselmo il ciabattino

1972-01-07 6.2

1870

Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Augusto Parenti, prefer to fight for their rights unt ...
Genre :Drama, History

2001-04-06 4.523

Knights of the Quest

In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Fortunato

1986-05-02 6.1

Saving Grace

A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach t ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

cuoco

1991-03-01 6.4

To Want to Fly

Maurizio works in a dubbing studio and puts sound effects into cartoons. One day his hands turn into cartoon ones, with a life of their own. ...
Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Topo dei Giornali

1989-11-16 7.9

Musica per vecchi animali

Genre :

Anti-Counterfeit Marshal

1986-02-13 5.483

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated whe ...
Genre :Comedy

Reverendo

2001-10-12 6.6

Vajont

On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-me ...
Genre :Drama

The Hobo

2007-10-31 4.5

The Mother of Tears

An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking y ...
Genre :Horror

Alessandro Pavolini

1974-03-27 6.2

The Last Four Days

In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but ...
Genre :War, Drama, History

commissario spagnolo

1982-10-21 5.6

Viuuulentemente mia

Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to pri ...
Genre :Comedy

Employee

2003-09-05 7.1

Good Morning, Night

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conf ...
Genre :Drama, History

pubblico ministero

1983-10-28 5.8

Petomaniac

The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts. ...
Genre :Comedy

Self

1967-01-01 6

Transfert per Camera verso Virulentia

On a theatrical work by Aldo Braibanti, the special effects used in an attempt to construct a new visual grammar capable of describing "the new geography of boundless perceptions and imaginaries, the ...
Genre :Documentary

Luigi

1998-05-08 2.5

Something to Believe In

Reports of a weeping Madonna in Italy reach Las Vegas, where blackjack dealer Maggie has just learnt she has only weeks to live. With a massive leap of faith she convinces herself that seeing the Mado ...
Genre :Drama

1987-02-05 6.3

Assicurazione sulla morte

A scrupulous insurance agent comes into contact with a woman. Together they plan her husband's murder with scam to the company's damages. But something goes wrong. ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery, TV Movie

1st Assassin

1986-07-31 5.2

Salomé

John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome sed ...
Genre :Drama

medico sociale del Vicenza

1987-10-08 6.1

The Last Minute

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

1971-07-06 0

The Reluctant Virgin

Comedy about a boy tutored in the ways of sex ...
Genre :Comedy

1996-04-19 6.9

Arcane Sorcerer

Shunned by his church, a seminary student takes refuge with an excommunicated priest who teaches him wizardry and black magic. ...
Genre :Horror

1996-09-27 4.9

Hotel Rome

1939: a Tuscan village awaits the arrival of Il Duce. A dog finds a decomposing fetus. Investigations begin immediately: given the exceptional circumstances, someone must be found responsible. And the ...
Genre :Comedy

Guercio

2008-05-23 5.5

Wild Blood

The bad romance between Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, two of the foremost movie stars in Fascist Italy, who were supporters of the regime to the bitter end, and shared its brutal downfall. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Dafne's dad

2000-09-22 5.7

Zora la vampira

Count Dracula trades Transylvania for Italy in search of fresh blood and Western standards of living, but finds instead his ancient love Zora, reincarnated as a young graffiti artist from the Roman hi ...
Genre :Comedy, Horror

1969-09-05 5.6

H2S

Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a surrealistic “igloo” in snowy wilderness and then returns to lead a revolution against the oppressive s ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Comedy

Totò Grisanti

1973-02-23 5.4

Family Killer

Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don sends for Ferrante Santino Billeci from America, in th ...
Genre :Crime, Thriller, Drama

Manifestante (Art. 5)

2008-12-01 0

All Human Rights for All

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration. ...
Genre :Drama

Father Marmugi

1982-09-16 7.116

The Night of the Shooting Stars

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 pla ...
Genre :War, Drama

Senzatetto

2003-10-31 6.1

People of Rome

Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... ...
Genre :Comedy

Avvocato (segment "Squeak!")

1994-07-15 5.714

DeGenerazione

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

Franco

2008-09-15 6.1

Miracle at St. Anna

Miracle at St. Anna chronicles the story of four American soldiers who are members of the all-black 92nd "Buffalo Soldier" Division stationed in Tuscany, Italy during World War II. ...
Genre :Drama, War

Munoz

1967-10-15 6.6

Bandidos

Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped ...
Genre :Western

First partisan with watch on Via Rasella's window

1973-10-04 6

Massacre in Rome

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass executio ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

Blind Man

1970-07-01 7.655

The Conformist

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident. ...
Genre :Drama

1985-04-30 6

Liberté, égalité, choucroute

A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition. ...
Genre :Comedy

Mafioso

1994-11-10 5.5

Voll Normaaal

Tommie is the absolute loser in his home district of Cologne-Kalk: no money, no apartment of his own, no girlfriend. In the exhaust workshop where he toils, the foreman is constantly angry with him. B ...
Genre :Comedy

Gasparo

1969-11-14 6.6

The Conspiracy of Torture

In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice p ...
Genre :Drama

Palastu

1985-03-29 5.6

King David

This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David. ...
Genre :Action, Adventure, History, Drama

Self (uncredited)

1975-07-06 7

Anna

A documentary ostensibly about Anna, a young drug addict taken off the streets by one of the filmmakers. Through her they attempt to explore the social issues from their hippie perspective, instead th ...
Genre :Drama, Documentary

1969-05-30 4.5

RARA

In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not ...
Genre :

Joseph Buquet

1998-11-20 4.652

The Phantom of the Opera

A series of terrifying accidents and brutal murders leave a bloody trail into the subterranean caverns of an Opera house. Below the theatre stalks a man raised by creatures of the underworld. ...
Genre :Horror, Romance, Mystery

1973-02-16 0

Daniele and Maria

Directed by the Oscar-winning screenwriter Ennio De Concini, Daniele e Maria (1973) is the tale of a forbidden romance between a rich and reclusive boy and the poor girl whose kindness opens up his fo ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1973-04-11 0

The Small Miracle

A small boy of rural Italy, befriends a Catholic priest and pleads for help to save his sick donkey. Hearing the stories of St Frances on how he loved cared, even cured animals, comes up with notion " ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Il direttore

1990-05-07 0

Fun Jump

Genre :TV Movie

Barone

1990-01-01 0

Un amore sconosciuto

Genre :Drama, Romance

Self - director

2025-02-23 9

Girati di Anna – Presentrazione a Venezia, settembre 1975

After its premiere at the Berlinale Forum in February '75, Anna was also presented in Venice, the film was followed by a very well-participated debate, alongside Alberto Grifi there was Adriano Aprà, ...
Genre :Documentary

1971-01-01 3

Policeman

In order not to go hungry, as has happened to his family members, a young southern man enlists in the police where he learns to use violence and to hate anyone who opposes the established order. But h ...
Genre :Crime, Comedy

Proprietario palestra

1990-04-09 0

Vincere per vincere

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

The Other Thief

1985-07-25 6.183

National Lampoon's European Vacation

The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. ...
Genre :Adventure, Comedy, Romance

Zì Lillino

2007-09-07 7

Il rabdomante

Genre :Drama

Don Luciano

1989-09-15 6.864

The Story of Boys and Girls

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 cott ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1996-11-01 6

Land In Between

On the edge of a road that leads out of town, some Nigerian prostitutes pass the time on sagging sofas, bargaining with white clients for their bodies and their thoughts. On another street, some Slavi ...
Genre :Drama

Self

2025-02-24 0

Fuori Campo di Anna

I Fuori Campo di Anna are approximately 30 tapes containing the video footage from which the film was edited, along with other video material shot during the same period. Thanks to the work of Annamar ...
Genre :Documentary

Beggar / Farmer

2003-11-30 5.1

Augustus: The First Emperor

Old and ill, Augustus, the man who changed the fortunes and destiny of an empire by completing Julius Caesar's project, recounts the two most important phases of his life: his rise to power and his fi ...
Genre :Drama, War & Politics

Marcello

1978-09-10 7

Return of the Saint

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts. ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

Pietro Pacciani

2009-11-12 6.8

The Monster of Florence

The miniseries tells the eight double murders committed from 1968 to 1985, in the Florentine countryside, where young couples who were massacred appartavano in their cars looking for intimacy. It part ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Adelmo Tirelli

2000-01-07 6.3

Father Matteo

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Family

1988-09-15 10

The secret files of Inspector Lavardin

The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominique Roulet and Claude Chabrol and broadcast between September 15, 1988 and February 1, 199 ...
Genre :Crime, Mystery

Sfasciacarrozziere

1997-02-14 0

L'avvocato delle donne

L'avvocato delle donne is an Italian television series. ...
Genre :Drama

Ananias

2000-12-03 0

Saint Paul

Originally known as Paul of Tarsus, Paul tortured and persecuted Christians until he experienced a vision of Jesus that forever changed his life. After converting to Christianity, Paul suffered persec ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure