Massimo Gaudioso

Massimo Gaudioso

1958-02-18 Napoli, Italy 46 Credits

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The Illusion

The Illusion

2025

Screenplay, Story

6.8
Writing

1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all reg...

Questi fantasmi

Questi fantasmi

2024

Screenplay

7.0
Writing
Hey Joe

Hey Joe

2024

Writer

6.3
Writing

In 1944 Dean Barry, an American sailor, 23, arrives in Naples, a city destroyed by bombing after the liberation of Italy. Dean meets Lucia, a young an...

Napoli milionaria!

Napoli milionaria!

2023

Screenplay

6.4
Writing
Io Capitano

Io Capitano

2023

Writer

7.8
Writing

Longing for a brighter future, two Senegalese teenagers embark on a journey from West Africa to Italy. However, between their dreams and reality lies ...

Delta

Delta

2023

Screenplay

5.9
Writing

A clash between fishermen and poachers is surging on the Po river Delta. A local group of volunteers lead by Osso wants to save the river from overfis...

Filumena Marturano

Filumena Marturano

2022

Screenplay

7.8
Writing

Filumena has lived for years with a wealthy pastry chef. She forces him to marry her, but he soon asks to annul the marriage. She then reveals that on...

Strangeness

Strangeness

2022

Story, Screenplay

6.9
Writing

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello...

Brado

Brado

2022

Screenplay, Story

6.2
Writing

On a ranch surrounded by nature, a man broken by life spends his days taming wild horses, the only creatures he could ever relate to. When he hears th...

Non ti pago

Non ti pago

2021

Screenplay

6.8
Writing
Sabato, domenica e lunedì

Sabato, domenica e lunedì

2021

Screenplay

5.4
Writing

A family fights.

The Catholic School

The Catholic School

2021

Screenplay, Story

6.2
Writing

Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leone Magno—brutally tortured, raped, and murdered tw...

Natale in casa Cupiello

Natale in casa Cupiello

2020

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Based on the tragicomedy written by Edoardo de Filippo in 1931, Christmas at the Cupiello's captures a life episode of a middle-class Italian family a...

18 Presents

18 Presents

2020

Screenplay, Story

7.4
Writing

Elisa is only forty when an incurable disease takes her from her husband and their daughter. Before her heart stops, Elisa finds a way to stay close t...

Il flauto magico di Piazza Vittorio

Il flauto magico di Piazza Vittorio

2019

Screenplay

5.3
Writing
Entering Red

Entering Red

2019

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

A woman walks into a bar and is sold the life of her dreams.

Rafaël

Rafaël

2018

Co-Writer

6.2
Writing

A romantic drama about a Tunisian man and a Dutch woman who get separated from each other.

Little Tito and the Aliens

Little Tito and the Aliens

2018

Co-Writer

5.4
Writing

Professor Biondi is a depressed scientist. After his wife's death, he lives isolated from the world in the Nevada desert, near Area 51. He supposedly ...

Dogman

Dogman

2018

Screenplay, Story

7.5
Writing

Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who te...

An Almost Perfect Country

An Almost Perfect Country

2016

Screenplay, Director

5.8
Writing Directing

Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, belie...

L'abbiamo fatta grossa

L'abbiamo fatta grossa

2016

Story, Screenplay

5.5
Writing

Yuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted in his inability to remember his lines. Arturo Merlino ...

Tale of Tales

Tale of Tales

2015

Screenplay, Story

6.4
Writing

The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomon...

La scuola più bella del mondo

La scuola più bella del mondo

2014

Screenplay

5.7
Writing
The Hole

The Hole

2014

Writer

5.2
Writing

Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.

The Ideal City

The Ideal City

2013

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal cit...

La logica delle cose

La logica delle cose

2013

Writer

Writing
It Was the Son

It Was the Son

2012

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they...

Reality

Reality

2012

Screenplay, Story

7.1
Writing

A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fra...

È nata una star?

È nata una star?

2012

Screenplay

4.9
Writing

Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose whe...

Tatanka

Tatanka

2011

Screenplay

5.3
Writing

Clemente Russo portrays himself in the story of a promising boxer who grew up in the Neapolitan mob heartland.

Welcome to the South

Welcome to the South

2010

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Ev...

The Past Is a Foreign Land

The Past Is a Foreign Land

2008

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had...

The Seed of Discord

The Seed of Discord

2008

Screenplay

5.2
Writing

On the day she learns of her pregnancy, a woman also finds out that her husband is sterile.

Gomorrah

Gomorrah

2008

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: th...

Mid-August Lunch

Mid-August Lunch

2008

Art Direction, Supervising Art Director

6.8
Directing

Gianni is a middle-aged man living in Rome with his imposing and demanding elderly mother. His only outlet from her and the increasing debt into which...

Uno su due

Uno su due

2007

Screenplay

5.3
Writing
First Love

First Love

2004

Screenplay, Story

6.7
Writing

Vittorio is looking for a woman who matches his ideal. Through a classified ad he meets Sonia, a sweet, pleasant, intelligent girl. However, she weigh...

The Embalmer

The Embalmer

2002

Screenplay, Story

7.2
Writing

Peppino is an aging taxidermist constantly ridiculed for being short and somewhat creepy. He meets Valerio, a handsome young man fascinated by Peppino...

Light of My Eyes

Light of My Eyes

2001

as The Traveller

6.5
Acting

Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only thr...

Roman Summer

Roman Summer

2000

Screenplay, Story

6.9
Writing

Rome, Esquilino, summer. Rossella returns to Rome after years of absence and returns to her home, rented to her friend Salvatore, the set designer. Th...

La vita è una sola

La vita è una sola

1999

6.0
Acting
La vita è una sola

La vita è una sola

1999

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

The Case of Force Majeure

1998

Director

Directing
Il caricatore

Il caricatore

1996

7.1
Acting
Il caricatore

Il caricatore

1996

Director, Writer

7.1
Directing Writing
Colt

Colt

N/A

Writer

Writing

The story of three teenagers suddenly thrown into the adult world. They know nothing of life, have always lived with their parents in a poor mining to...