The best Marco Messeri’s drama movies
We present our ranking of the best Marco Messeri’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Marco Messeri.
Like Crazy
7.2/10
Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures.
18 Presents
6.9/10
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 to her: a gift for every birthday up to her adult age, 18 gifts to try to accompany her child's growth year after year.
The First Beautiful Thing
7.1/10
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
The Mass Is Over
7.2/10
Onetime campus radical Nanni Moretti renounces his past to become a priest. Returning to his home village, Moretti is appalled at the lack of religious reverence amongst the townsfolk. Unable to communicate with any of his old friends, who've all gleefully succumbed to the Deadly Sins, Moretti cannot even count on solace from his own family, a screwed-up aggregation which gives the word "dysfunctional" several new meanings.
With Closed Eyes
5.7/10
Pietro is the sensitive son of Domenico, a gruff father. Pietro falls in love with a beautiful girl, Ghisola, who lives with her grandparents.
Italian Nights
6.8/10
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.
Maria Goretti
7.3/10
The life of the virgin and martyr Santa Maria Goretti
Vesna Goes Fast
6.2/10
Vesna, a Czech girl, arrives in Italy without money and, because of poverty, is forced into prostitution.
The Bull
6.8/10
Franco, after being fired from his job decides, as compensation for the damage, to steal a bull from his former company.
An Italian Romance
5.7/10
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
The Handsome Priest
6.8/10
A young petty thief befriends the local priest.
