
Directing
Matteo Rovere
Born
1982-01-22 (44)
Place of birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
40 titles
Known for
5.8A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.
Drifters
2011
6.6Christian is an extremely talented as well as unpredictable football player. After his latest screw-up, the president of his team decides to assign him a personal tutor, to help him in controlling his temper. Valerio is a shy and solitary professor, the exact opposite of the champion. Sparks will fly between the two at first, but soon their relationship will change both for the better.
The Champion
2019
5.9No synopsis available yet.
KING MARRACASH
2026
NROn the set of Cambogia, a popular crime series filled with shootouts, explosions, and gang rivalries, something goes terribly wrong when the director calls cut. Actor Valerio De Nicolais suddenly finds himself trapped inside the violent and extremely dangerous world of the show, where prop guns fire real bullets. Meanwhile, in the real world, Tramezzino, the hapless henchman played by De Nicolais, takes his place. Through a series of unbelievable circumstances, the two find themselves living each other’s lives: one caught up in parties, privileges, and the perks of fame, the other forced to survive in a criminal underworld that seems to have already sealed his fate.
Cambogia
2027
6.3In 1980s - 1990s Italy, Riccardo Schicchi’s agency Diva Futura turns free love into porn, making stars of Ilona Staller, Moana Pozzi and others known around the world. Their fame leads to Cicciolina’s election and Pozzi’s mayoral run.
Diva Futura
2025
7.0In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.
Rose Island
2020
Behind the camera
5.8A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.
Drifters
2011
5.8A man develops an attraction to the daughter of his father's fiancee.
Drifters
2011
6.6Christian is an extremely talented as well as unpredictable football player. After his latest screw-up, the president of his team decides to assign him a personal tutor, to help him in controlling his temper. Valerio is a shy and solitary professor, the exact opposite of the champion. Sparks will fly between the two at first, but soon their relationship will change both for the better.
The Champion
2019
5.9No synopsis available yet.
KING MARRACASH
2026
NROn the set of Cambogia, a popular crime series filled with shootouts, explosions, and gang rivalries, something goes terribly wrong when the director calls cut. Actor Valerio De Nicolais suddenly finds himself trapped inside the violent and extremely dangerous world of the show, where prop guns fire real bullets. Meanwhile, in the real world, Tramezzino, the hapless henchman played by De Nicolais, takes his place. Through a series of unbelievable circumstances, the two find themselves living each other’s lives: one caught up in parties, privileges, and the perks of fame, the other forced to survive in a criminal underworld that seems to have already sealed his fate.
Cambogia
2027
6.3In 1980s - 1990s Italy, Riccardo Schicchi’s agency Diva Futura turns free love into porn, making stars of Ilona Staller, Moana Pozzi and others known around the world. Their fame leads to Cicciolina’s election and Pozzi’s mayoral run.
Diva Futura
2025
7.0In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the territorial waters, with Esperanto as the official language. The Italian authorities did not take it well because the micronation was seen as an expedient to not pay taxes on the revenues obtained thanks to the arrival of numerous tourists and curious people.
Rose Island
2020
7.5Alessandro is a local events singer, he abuses alcohol and plays slot machines. When he meets a young woman, Francesca, he tries to do everything to help her to find and stay with her little son.
Wherever You Are
2018
7.4Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.
I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
2017
6.6Married for ten years, in full crisis, thinking about divorce. But following a failed scientific experiment, they suddenly find one inside the body of the other.
Husband & Wife
2017
7.4The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.
Mixed by Erry
2023
6.41792. Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their children have been arrested and imprisoned in the Tour du Temple, a sinister chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial. Far from the splendour of Versailles, they are isolated and vulnerable for the first time in their lives.
The Flood
2024
7.5Giulia De Martino is a pilot. At seventeen she participates in the GT Championship, under the guidance of her father Mario. But one day everything changes and Giulia has to face alone both the track and her own life.
Italian Race
2016
7.5Giulia De Martino is a pilot. At seventeen she participates in the GT Championship, under the guidance of her father Mario. But one day everything changes and Giulia has to face alone both the track and her own life.
Italian Race
2016
7.1Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.
The First King
2019
7.1Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.
The First King
2019
7.1Romulus and Remus, two shepherds and loyal brothers, end up taking part to a journey that will lead one of them to be the founder of the greatest nation ever seen. However, the fate of the chosen one will pass from killing his own brother.
The First King
2019
6.3In the near future, the southern Italian city of Taranto is surrounded by barbed wire that no one, not even the police, dares to cross. The poorest are left fighting for survival, while gangs compete for the territory. Two thirteen-year-old orphans who grew up together, dream of joining one of the gangs.
Mondocane
2021
6.6Alice and Tommaso have been together for fifteen years; they don’t have children, he‘s a musician, she’s an actress. Invited to dinner for an announcement, their friends think it’s going to be a marriage announcement, but instead discover that decided to break up: but without drama or emotional rifts, staying friends with each other. A legitimate but naive ambition. Love stories end, because people change. And no change is, nor can it be, painless.
With or Without You
2021
5.61860, Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. While Garibaldi's troops are invading this lawless territory, four female bandits nicknamed the "Drudes" are looking for their own personal revenge.
My Body Will Bury You
2021
7.3Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.
I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
2017
6.7Clara and Diego, under the guidance of the psychiatrist of a day rehabilitation center for disturbed people who attend, decide to transform the treatment center into a restaurant, involving all their other companions.
Marilyn's Eyes
2021
4.7In the harsh snowy landscape of the Italian Alps, a young technician arrives to repair an electric power plant of a village plagued by blackouts. There, he encounters a strange disappearance.
The Ice Forest
2014
5.8No synopsis available yet.
La coda del diavolo
2024
7.4A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.
I Can Quit Whenever I Want
2014
5.0Valeria is a woman who never looks back, passing from one man to another. But one day everything changes: an ex who made her feel bad in the past reappears in her life.
Blackout Love
2022
6.1To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself.
The Beast
2020
6.1Two estranged siblings are thrown back into each other's lives during a high-stakes heist: one wearing the badge, the other holding the gun.
Like Sheep Among Wolves
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Aldair - Cuore Giallorosso
2026
5.8Laura, idealistic and passionate about television, and Mario, a rebellious director who dreams of cinema, start out clashing but gradually develop mutual respect and affection. Over twenty years of encounters, successes, and mistakes, their relationship evolves until they discover that love can appear in the most unexpected places—right in the world of Carosello and the TV stories that marked a generation.
Carosello in Love
2025
7.1Irene lives in Rome. When her mother ask to, she go back to Rimini, her hometown, to take care of her autistic brother, Omar. She soon discover that Omar knows very well what to expect from the future, but in order to achieve his dreams, he need to be independent, which is why Irene begins a tender crash course to teach him adult life.
Siblings
2025
6.11936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'Annunzio, whose increasingly restless behavior Mussolini fears could damage his alliance with Nazi Germany. However, after spending time with D'Annunzio, Comini finds himself torn between loyalty to the Party and his fascination with the poet, who will put his burgeoning career at risk.
The Bad Poet
2021
6.1Time jump to 1939 with teenager Max and his friends as they try to navigate Mussolini's Rome and find Max's missing brother.
The Voyagers
2022
6.0The old and overcrowded penitentiaries are just a memory. Inmates now serve their sentence in a state of deep sleep that renders them harmless, and has drastically reduced recidivism. Until one day, a psychologist in charge of monitoring the mental state of inmates finds himself confronted with a prisoner over whom he's lost all control.
Hypersleep
2022
7.0This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also experimented new path. His favorite actresses such as Clau
Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad
2009
5.6On the run from his former employer, a reluctant hitman seeks refuge in an isolated village where he is faced with events that test the true nature of his conscience.
The Hanging Sun
2022
4.8Having escaped from Afghanistan when still a child, Ismail now lives in Europe with his brother Hassan. After several disturbing phone calls, Ismail will have to face the destiny of his family, counting the cost of the senselessness of war and the history of his people, the Hazaras.
Just Like My Son
2018
5.7Alma and Alex, two adolescent sisters, are survivors of a catastrophic event. They live deep in the woods with their Mother, a strict, over-protective woman who has sheltered them from ominous presences, the Shadows, which live in the daylight and infest the world beyond the river, a border for Alma and Alex. When they follow Mother, out for hunting, Alma and Alex start a series of events which will make them discover the truth about the Shadows and their own reality.
Shadows
2023
5.0Giada and Carlo have been a couple for many years, both artists. He is a writer looking for a new story to tell, she is a dancer struggling as she directs her first experimental dance show. When Peter Drago comes into their lives, neither can imagine how much everything is about to change. Carlo is fascinated by him, finding in him a new creative inspiration, while Giada is increasingly restless, fearing that her past may come back to surface. But the truth always finds a way to emerge.
Performance: A Dangerous Game
2025
6.6Vito and Carla have been separated for a long time, they have three children and used to love each other deeply before their love went sour. Now Vito has a new life and Carla has a partner. At a time when everyone feels tragedy can be avoided, fate is on their other side. One night, Vito disappeared. From that day on, no one ever heard from him again. His disappearance triggered an investigation involving all those involved. But is there really an irrefutable truth in these cases?
A Dark Story
2024
