Marcello Mazzarella

Acting

Marcello Mazzarella

Born

1963-10-18 (63)

Place of birth

Erice, Sicilia, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Crimes poster
7.0

Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)

Crimes

2006

The Hunter poster
7.3

The story of Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early nineties became the protagonist of the “caccia alla Mafia” (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings. Inspired by the true story of the anti-Mafia magistrate Alfonso Sabella.

The Hunter

2018

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir poster
6.9

Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir

2018

1994 poster
7.1

After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.

1994

2019

Nero Wolfe poster
8.3

Interesting modern actualization made by Italian broadcasting service (RAI) of immortal, well-known characters created by the genial American novelist Rex Stout.

Nero Wolfe

2012

Melissa P. poster
4.7

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Melissa P.

2005

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

My Name Is Vendetta poster
6.6

After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge.

My Name Is Vendetta

2022

Duse poster
6.7

In the years between WWI and the rise of Fascism, legendary thespian Eleonora Duse shocks everyone by getting back onstage at over 60 years of age. Struggling with the brutality of historical events unfolding and clinging to the possibility of utopia, she makes her art a revolutionary act, even at the cost of sacrificing health and affection—facing her final journey aware she could give up life itself, but not her own true nature.

Duse

2025

Eternal Visionary poster
6.7

In 1934, while traveling to Stockholm, where he is about to receive the Nobel Prize, the Italian playwright Luigi Pirandello recalls his life and his relationship with the loved ones who have inspired his art.

Eternal Visionary

2024

A Breath of Fresh Air poster
5.6

Two proud and estranged brothers, a disputed inheritance and a past that comes back. When he hears about the passing of his father - whom he has not seen in many years - Salvo returns to his native Sicily. He intends to convince his brother Lillo to sell the family farm and save his pizzeria, which is about to go bankrupt - a secret that he has kept even from his wife and children. But things will not be easy and Salvo will have to come to terms with his choices. A bittersweet comedy about family relations and how one never stops growing up, not even at fifty.

A Breath of Fresh Air

2022

Giorni felici poster
4.7

Margherita is an international actress with a career full of successes and awards. Suddenly, she is stricken by physical problems. Antonio, her former partner arrives to assist her and to rebuild their relationship.

Giorni felici

2023

Dad's House poster
NR

Francesco, a charming and ambitious separated father, picks up his son Mattia from school to spend "their" day together. He manages to transform a perfectly normal and seemingly quiet afternoon into a fun, special, and almost outlandish adventure. However, everything changes in the evening when Francesco drops Mattia off at his ex-wife's house and has to return to his everyday reality—and the bitterness of solitude.

Dad's House

2025

Una preghiera per Giuda poster
2.3

The story of two rival bosses who, following the strategic release of one of the two, will unleash a whirlwind of events, inevitably overwhelming the members of their families. A fight for honor and revenge that will be thwarted by a stubborn and dutiful Carabinieri Colonel, who will heroically seek justice in alliance with an ambitious undercover CIA agent. Against the backdrop of the fight against the criminal underworld.

Una preghiera per Giuda

2023

Ten Minutes poster
6.2

Ten minutes a day can change the course of your day. Ten minutes doing something completely new can change the course of a life. This is what Bianca will discover in the midst of an existential crisis. New meetings, the discovery of special bonds and listening to those who have always loved us. Sometimes it doesn't take much to start over and this film teaches us this, through a warm and passionate story of rebirth.

Ten Minutes

2024

The Treadmill poster
5.7

A tormented Emma, runs on her treadmill while doing online counseling, deluding herself to escape from her past. This balance will break when, after twenty-six years, her younger sister bursts in with an unsustainable request.

The Treadmill

2022

Filip poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Filip

2025

2010s · 12 titles

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir poster
6.9

Ajatashatru Lavash Patel has lived all his life in a small Mumbai neighborhood tricking people with street magic and fakir stunts. He sets out on a journey to find his estranged father but instead gets dragged on a never-ending adventure.

The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir

2018

L'ami poster
5.6

The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.

L'ami

2016

La trattativa poster
7.5

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 the mafia and the church? Between the Mafia and law enforcement? Or is there more? A group of actors enacts the most relevant episodes of the affair known as the Mafia-state negotiation, impersonating mobsters, secret service agents, high officials, magistrates, victims and murderers, Freemasons, honest and courageous people, and courageous people up to a point. Thus one of the most intricate events in our history becomes an exciting tale.

La trattativa

2014

Viktor poster
4.2

After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.

Viktor

2014

Biagio poster
8.0

It is the true story of a man called Biagio Conte, a Sicilian who was looking for God and ended up founding a mission to help the homeless and the poorest immigrants of his city. His story starts in the mountains as a shepherd and continues on a long trip to reach Assisi, the home of Saint Francis.

Biagio

2014

Des gens qui passent poster
NR

Wonderful piece of film noire. Great acting, París, well, as beautiful as ever. Love the plot gaps, force you to thunk. To imagine. The whole story is never revealed. Highly recommended. Marie is delicious.

Des gens qui passent

2013

La scuola è finita poster
5.3

Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to have no future, two of his teachers take the challenge to help him discover the motivation he lacks. The teachers, a couple in the middle of their divorce, will fight to impose the best way to make Alex a promising student.

La scuola è finita

2010

The Lithium Conspiracy poster
3.7

In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.

The Lithium Conspiracy

2015

Convitto Falcone poster
NR

Antonio is an journalist. A day his chief sends him to Palermo to write a piece about the school where studied Giovanni Falcone: a famous judge killed by the Mafia with his wife and colleague Francesca Morvillo.

Convitto Falcone

2012

Il traduttore poster
4.1

Italy, third millennium. Andrei, a Romanian university student, ends up embroiled in an intrigue linked to the disappearance of a German antiquarian.

Il traduttore

2016

Like the Wind poster
6.3

The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide.

Like the Wind

2013

No artwork available
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

La Strada Di Paolo

2011

2000s · 19 titles

Melissa P. poster
4.7

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Melissa P.

2005

Baaria poster
7.2

In 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl, has children, and forges a political career for himself.

Baaria

2009

The Island poster
8.0

A coming of age story of boy Turi and his younger sister Teresa on an island off the coast of Sicily.

The Island

2003

Men of Corleone poster
5.4

The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state.

Men of Corleone

2007

The Undesirables poster
7.0

USA, 1951. When a group of Italian immigrants suspected to have connections with the Mafia are sent back to Italy with the brand of "undesirable", a journalist decide to inquire about the story.

The Undesirables

2003

Night Bus poster
6.2

Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.

Night Bus

2007

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry poster
5.3

A man uses the principles of double-entry bookkeeping to settle his accounts with society.

Christie Malry's Own Double-Entry

2000

The Sicilian Girl poster
6.2

Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...

The Sicilian Girl

2008

Fort Apache Napoli poster
7.1

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

Fort Apache Napoli

2009

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea poster
6.2

This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ones of his son Matteo. Rosario lives in a "commune" and Matteo in a beautiful, comfortable house. They're both introverted and shy and find a common ground: they meet, go out together, become friends and show each other a completely different way of living their lives as teenagers.

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea

2000

Little Secrets poster
5.0

October 1962, the height of the Cuban missile crisis… Norbi, 12, lives in a small industrial town typical of southern Luxembourg. His father, very authoritarian, owns a bookstore-stationery that also serves as a store for religious items. That year, Norbi will be confronted with mysteries about sexuality, religion and war. Norbi will discover a new world, for him, it's time to show that he is no longer a child. Will Norbi obey?

Little Secrets

2006

Rosso Malpelo poster
9.0

A look at the difficult living conditions in two small mining villages in Bolivia as seen through the eyes of the young children who are forced to work there.

Rosso Malpelo

2007

I Am Alive poster
6.5

A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off 'nightwatchman' job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre -- and complex -- than he expected.

I Am Alive

2008

Fuga con Marlene poster
NR

A middle aged woman, recently released from prison robs a jewellery store and takes off with her long lost teenage son

Fuga con Marlene

2007

Made in Italy poster
5.5

French writer Luca Morandi was born in Italy. He is forty years old and finds himself at a crossroads in his life. He doesn't know where to turn: France, his adopted home where he was raised, or Italy, the country of his birth, perfect, wonderful and ideal, like a child’s dream.

Made in Italy

2008

Signs of Life poster
4.3

There were four friends. Now there are only three – one of them has just died in Sicily in a stupid road accident. Fifteen years earlier, Tomas, a young French filmmaker, had made the group the subject of a documentary. He had become their friend, their brother from Paris.

Signs of Life

2001

The Passion of Joshua the Jew poster
9.0

Born in Spain in 1492 at the time all Jews and Muslims were ordered out of the country, Joshua (Leonardo Cesare Abude) is declared the next messiah by an elder. Eventually settling in Italy with his family, Joshua grows into a man and becomes fascinated with Catholicism, much to the dismay of local religious leaders. Pasquale Scimeca's religious drama exploring the nature of prejudice and intolerance also stars Anna Bonaiuto and Toni Bertorelli.

The Passion of Joshua the Jew

2005

What Are You Looking For poster
5.2

The moving relationship of a man in crisis who would like to be a father, and a fatherless, mentally orphaned young rebel.

What Are You Looking For

2002

Placido Rizzotto poster
6.7

As a child, Sicilian Placido Rizzotto saw his father imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, and as a young man he fought in World War II, first as a soldier and then as an anti-fascist partisan. These events have left Placido with little taste for petty tyranny and with a desire to promote social justice. Upon his return home, he becomes increasingly aware that the Mafia has taken hold of his village, witnessing angry and frustrated as gangsters control local politics and take whatever they want from the people. Placido helps to form a trade union as a challenge to the Mafia's authority, and attempts to organize the villagers into a collective to grow crops in the fields taken by the Mafia.

Placido Rizzotto

2000

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits

Crimes poster
7.0

Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)

Crimes

2006

The Hunter poster
7.3

The story of Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early nineties became the protagonist of the “caccia alla Mafia” (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings. Inspired by the true story of the anti-Mafia magistrate Alfonso Sabella.

The Hunter

2018

1994 poster
7.1

After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Minister. He knows it's not easy to win power, but holding on to it verges on the impossible. By the same token, it seems equally impossible for populist politician Pietro to change. Even now that he has an office at the Prime Minister's premises in Rome, he still can't cast off his old bad habits. Nor can he forget the only woman he has ever loved. A former TV starlet now turned politician and Congresswoman, Veronica has to decide who the man of her life is going to be. She has realized she no longer wants to be just a woman on the arm of powerful men. It is the start of her own push for power.

1994

2019

Nero Wolfe poster
8.3

Interesting modern actualization made by Italian broadcasting service (RAI) of immortal, well-known characters created by the genial American novelist Rex Stout.

Nero Wolfe

2012

The Promised Life poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Promised Life

2018

Ultimo poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Ultimo

1998

L’Ora: Ink Over Bullets poster
8.0

In October 1958, the Sicilian newspaper L’ORA coins the term “MAFIA” for the very first time to denounce the endemic organized crime in the region. Shortly thereafter, a bomb detonates in front of the editorial offices; only two days later the daily reappears with the headline: ‘The Mafia may threaten us, our investigation continues.’ Inspired by true events, L’ORA takes place in Palermo of the late 50 ́s and early 1960s. Newly minted Editor-in-Chief with his group of fearless journalists focus their investigation on organized crime and its reach into every corner of church and society.

L’Ora: Ink Over Bullets

2022

L'Aquila - Grandi speranze poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Aquila - Grandi speranze

2019

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana poster
NR

Mattia Barba, a young journalist striving for success, is forced to shut down his newspaper, Il Corriere di Cefalù, because his Sicilian friends don’t seem interested in reading the truth.

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana

2010

Lampedusa - Dall'orizzonte in poi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lampedusa - Dall'orizzonte in poi

2016

The Heart in the Well poster
10.0

April 1945. The German army is losing the war and Tito's Yugoslav partisans are rapidly gaining ground.

The Heart in the Well

2005

Cefalonia poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cefalonia

2005

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