Massimo Ghini

Acting

Massimo Ghini

Born

1954-10-12 (72)

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

78 titles

Massimo Ghini (born 12 October 1954) is an Italian actor.

Known for

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

The New Pope poster
7.6

As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”

The New Pope

2020

Titanic: Blood and Steel poster
7.2

Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.

Titanic: Blood and Steel

2012

CQ poster
5.9

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

CQ

2001

The Raffle poster
6.9

Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.

The Raffle

1991

Hotel Costiera poster
7.2

Shortly after Daniel, or DD as everybody knows him, starts working at the hotel, one of the owner’s daughters disappears. He must do whatever it takes to find her and bring her home while still solving the ever-changing problems of the exclusive hotel guests.

Hotel Costiera

2025

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Sposa in rosso poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sposa in rosso

2022

I cassamortari poster
5.3

In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anything to turn a corpse into money, preferably in black.

I cassamortari

2022

Help! My In-Laws Are Vampires! poster
5.8

A loving young couple discover they're expecting a child, but the man isn't too keen on introducing her girlfriend to his family. Is it because he has a vampire father, a witch mother, a ghostly grandma, and a zombie uncle?

Help! My In-Laws Are Vampires!

2021

The Warmth Of Dance poster
6.2

A famous TV host, who grew up without parents and with a painful past, sees his brilliant career and power called into question during a train journey from Rome to Milan.

The Warmth Of Dance

2026

Oro grigio - Troppo vivi per morire poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oro grigio - Troppo vivi per morire

2025

Crazy for Football - Matti per il calcio poster
7.3

A psychiatrist tries to make his dream come true by organizing the first worldwide football cup for patients who suffer from mental illness. Based on a true story.

Crazy for Football - Matti per il calcio

2021

Ennio Doris - C'è anche domani poster
6.5

The life of Italian businessman Ennio Doris, the founder of Banca Mediolanum.

Ennio Doris - C'è anche domani

2024

Uno, nessuno, cento Nino poster
7.0

A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi.

Uno, nessuno, cento Nino

2021

A Freaking Wedding! poster
5.3

Vladimiro and Brunilde are grappling with the disappearance of Nando, the head of the family. The sad event brought together the human family of Luna, daughter of Nando, and the monstrous one of her husband Adalberto. Humans, vampires, witches, werewolves and ghosts will find themselves in the throes of a new monstrous marriage...

A Freaking Wedding!

2023

La mia banda suona il pop poster
5.5

The Russian magnate Ivanov dreams about having The Popcorn, his favorite Italian musical band from the 80s in Saint Petersburg.

La mia banda suona il pop

2020

2010s · 15 titles

There's No Place Like Home poster
6.2

An extended family reunites on an idyllic island to celebrate their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. However, a storm causes them to get stuck in there longer than expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.

There's No Place Like Home

2018

Vacanze ai Caraibi - Il film di Natale poster
4.6

While on holiday in the Caribbean, a bankrupt family pins their hopes on a rich man, two strangers fall in lust, and a technophile gets shipwrecked.

Vacanze ai Caraibi - Il film di Natale

2015

5 Star Christmas poster
4.3

When the Italian Premier and his companion find a dead body in his hotel suite, while on a trip to Hungary, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic situations as they try to avoid a scandal.

5 Star Christmas

2018

My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began poster
4.1

Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.

My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began

2011

Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man poster
NR

A documentary about the Italian director Sergio Corbucci.

Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man

2015

Indovina chi viene a Natale? poster
5.6

A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a panettone factory.

Indovina chi viene a Natale?

2013

My Beloved Enemy poster
5.4

A professor saves the life of a wounded hitman who, in exchange, promises to find and kill his enemy. Even though the professor says he has no enemies, the killer goes on a mission and transforms the professor's life.

My Beloved Enemy

2018

Non si ruba a casa dei ladri poster
5.7

Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy, a country in which the justice process is very long and uncertain, he decides to take revenge in another way: he discovers that his enemy has hidden the proceeds of his misdeeds in a Swiss bank and decides to organize a hit to get back what was stolen from him. To accomplish the feat, Antonio sets up a small gang, made up of non-professionals who have only one thing in common: they too have been defrauded by corrupt politics. The heist takes place in Zurich where the bank in which Simone hid the money is based. With a series of unpredictable consequences, and with a funny substitution of people (Antonio and his wife pretend to be Simone and his partner), a comic clockwork mechanism starts. And the heist begins.

Non si ruba a casa dei ladri

2016

Outing: Engaged by Mistake poster
5.1

In their village of Puglia (Southern part of Italy on the Adriatic side) Federico and Riccardo have been best friends since childhood. Federico is a penniless playboy, while Riccardo is a young fashion designer. To pursue his dream, Riccardo trades his home for Milan. When Frederick discovers that the Puglia Region provides funding in support of business activities, he convinces Riccardo to come back and open a fashion house. But there is a problem: funding is only available to common law couples, and so Federico and Riccardo must pretend to be a gay couple, and enlist the help of the local newspaper editor, a journalist and Richard’s despotic girlfriend ..

Outing: Engaged by Mistake

2013

Nothing Can Stop Us Now poster
5.7

The training trip of 4 "special" boys, one narcoleptic, one internet-dependent, one suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and one obsessed with hygiene towards self-affirmation and acceptance of one's differences.

Nothing Can Stop Us Now

2013

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

2019

Vi perdono ma inginocchiatevi poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vi perdono ma inginocchiatevi

2012

L'agenzia dei bugiardi poster
5.9

Fred works for a company that creates alibis for cheaters until Clio, the daughter of one of his client, falls in love with him.

L'agenzia dei bugiardi

2019

Sand and Fire poster
5.8

Set between 1802 and 1818, it is the epic true story of a Spanish army officer and genius conspirator. Missioned by Spain, Domingo Badia, alias Ali Bey El Abbassi will meet Lady Hester Stanhope, an English aristocrat, better known under the name of Meleki, and they will live together an extraordinary destiny which will upset the Middle East.

Sand and Fire

2019

Natale in Sudafrica poster
4.4

Carlo, on vacation in South Africa with his second wife Susanna meets her younger brother Giorgio.

Natale in Sudafrica

2010

2000s · 12 titles

CQ poster
5.9

A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.

CQ

2001

Il pranzo della domenica poster
6.3

The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families.

Il pranzo della domenica

2003

Up at the Villa poster
5.3

Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.

Up at the Villa

2000

Pope John XXIII poster
6.9

This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope".

Pope John XXIII

2002

A Whole Life Ahead poster
6.6

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.

A Whole Life Ahead

2008

Mary Magdalene poster
5.7

Employed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene is overwhelmed by John's powerful message of the coming of the Messiah. Gazing into John's eyes before he dies, Mary is left with the certainty that her place is at the side of this great man, Jesus Christ.

Mary Magdalene

2000

Natale a Beverly Hills poster
4.8

Carlo descends on his former lover's unsuspecting family and the scheming Rocco tries to break up his old rival Marcello's wedding.

Natale a Beverly Hills

2009

Natale a Rio poster
5.1

Fabio is in love with his colleague Linda, but she has never even seen him until he's mistaken for her boyfriend. Paolo and Mario leave for a luxurious vacation in Rio de Janeiro for Christmas, without knowing that their sons have booked a trip for the same low-cost destination and, for a problem of homonymy between fathers and sons, the two holidays are exchanged.

Natale a Rio

2008

They're Watching Us poster
5.4

Norberto Lopez Amado's They're Watching Us is about a cop who becomes obsessed with a case. Juan (Carmelo Gomez) is ordered to head up an investigation concerning a businessman who has been missing for almost three years. The officer who worled on the case previously now resides in a mental institution and is unable to say anything other than, "They're watching us." A priest (Roberto Alvarez) explains how a series of disappearances in the area have supernatural underpinnings. As Juan is absorbed deeper and deeper into the case, his mother is concerned for him.

They're Watching Us

2002

Christmas in Miami poster
5.1

In Christmastime Miami, heartbroken divorcée Giorgio invites himself to stay at his best friend Mario's — unaware that the latter is having an affair with his ex-wife — and ends up pursued by Mario's barely-of-age daughter; nosy and out-of-touch Ranuccio crashes his son's sex-themed holidays before ending up in a series of mishaps with Giorgio.

Christmas in Miami

2005

Natale a New York poster
5.0

Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on her, under penalty of divorce and not even a penny of alimony. But one day he meets Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli) and it's immediately irresistible passion... Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) is a young surgeon who, to make a career, is forced to suffer the harassment of his head, Professor Benci (Claudio Bisio). Filippo is about to go to New York to get married and Benci does not miss an opportunity to further harass him by asking him to bring a gift to his son, a "model" student at Riverside College.

Natale a New York

2006

Piper poster
4.0

Rome, 1965. The entire city awaits the inauguration of the Piper. While the journalist Roberto Benetti falls in love with Sabrina May, the kept woman of a politician, thus giving up a scoop, the young Mario, leader of the band "I demoni", meets Milena, who has fled from Venice to sing. A fortuitous event will offer the two young people the opportunity to perform in the legendary club.

Piper

2007

1990s · 17 titles

The Raffle poster
6.9

Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.

The Raffle

1991

Tea with Mussolini poster
6.4

In 1930s fascist Italy, adolescent Luca just lost his mother. His father, a callous businessman, sends him to be taken care of by British expatriate Mary Wallace. Mary and her cultured friends - including artist Arabella, young widow Elsa, and archaeologist Georgie - keep a watchful eye over the boy. But the women's cultivated lives take a dramatic turn when Allied forces declare war on Mussolini.

Tea with Mussolini

1999

The Truce poster
6.1

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

The Truce

1997

In nome del popolo sovrano poster
6.5

1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.

In nome del popolo sovrano

1990

The True Life of Antonio H. poster
8.3

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Italy, and his early life in the Middle East and follows him through the highs and lows of his acting career, using a combination of interviews with real-life colleagues, archival footage and improvised scenes along the way.

The True Life of Antonio H.

1994

Drums of Fire poster
6.1

In 1568, Saadi prince Abdelmalek is exiled from Morocco by his brothers, an event that is only the beginning of his adventures: fighting the Spanish Inquisition, taking part in the Battle of Lepanto, being incarcerated in Alicante prison, and assist in the Conquest of Tunis. Eventually, he returns to Morocco to fulfill his destiny.

Drums of Fire

1990

The Garden of Eden poster
6.2

Alessandro D'Alatri directed this Italian drama about Jesus Christ, covering his childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood, an 18-year span not chronicled in the Bible. The film uses names of the period instead of names given in the Bible. The adult Jeoshua (Kim Rossi Stuart) reflects on past events -- his journey into the desert, baptism, acceptance into the Essenes' community, Jewish life in Galilee, his yeshiva studies, education from his father Josef (Omar Chenbod), and his spiritual growth. After seeing slavery, crucifixions, the stoning of an adulteress, and brutal Roman soldiers, Jeoshua turns to God for answers, leaves the village, and is betrayed by his friend Aziz (Said Taghmaoui), who leaves him to die in the desert. Issues such as carnality bring Jeoshua in conflict with the Essenes, yet he speaks out on behalf of the Essene David (popular Italian singer Lorenzo Cherubini).

The Garden of Eden

1998

In The Rose Garden poster
4.7

An advertiser who lives in Milan learns from a former teacher that his mother is dying. He leaves immediately in his car; as he drives thinks back to his childhood and the time he believed his mother had a relationship with the teacher.

In The Rose Garden

1990

Love Burns poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love Burns

1994

Celluloide poster
6.6

June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .

Celluloide

1996

Americano rosso poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Americano rosso

1991

Follow Your Heart poster
6.1

The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.

Follow Your Heart

1996

Senza pelle poster
6.3

The lives of a young mother and her boyfriend are turned upside down when she unknowingly becomes the focus of the attentions of a depressed and mentally unstable young man.

Senza pelle

1994

Volevamo essere gli U2 poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Volevamo essere gli U2

1992

Zitti e mosca poster
5.1

In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about the fall of Communism, the lives of some dazed characters intertwine.

Zitti e mosca

1991

Italia Germania 4-3 poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Italia Germania 4-3

1990

A Simple Story poster
6.8

After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth bringing up the past? A difficult Sicilian history against the backdrop of the mafia and drugs.

A Simple Story

1991

1980s · 6 titles

Compagni di scuola poster
7.1

A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost.

Compagni di scuola

1988

Secrets Secrets poster
7.2

Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating.

Secrets Secrets

1985

The Bride Was Beautiful poster
4.7

The teenage boy, Giuseppe, lives with his mother in Cammarata, a Sicilian mountain village. His father left the family years ago, and has since then settled down as a guest worker in West-Germany and established a family. Under local moral rules, Maria is a so-called "white widow", who must stay faithful to her husband even if he never returns to her again. Maria and the newly arrived young doctor fall in love with each other. Their happiness is frowned upon not only by Giuseppe, but the entire village as well as the distant husband.

The Bride Was Beautiful

1987

The Way They Were poster
7.0

The Way They Were is a Spanish Drama starring Antonio Banderas

The Way They Were

1987

Speed Cross poster
3.7

Undercover cop Fabio Testi infiltrates the world of motocross racing.

Speed Cross

1980

Lethal Obsession poster
4.9

Several known criminals already have been murdered by a professional killer, leaving no trace but the "ace" game card. The police suspects a new mob is trying to take over the district. The investigating police officer Jan is victimized by a bomb himself, when he's at his girlfriend Daniela's father's Italian restaurant. Although paralyzed and suspended from work, the tuff cop continues to investigate and takes revenge on the gangsters who did this to him.

Lethal Obsession

1987

Series credits

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

The New Pope poster
7.6

As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”

The New Pope

2020

Titanic: Blood and Steel poster
7.2

Belfast, 1909. The Harland and Wolff shipyard has been handed the greatest project in its history. It will build a great, unsinkable ship. And it will be called the RMS Titanic.

Titanic: Blood and Steel

2012

Hotel Costiera poster
7.2

Shortly after Daniel, or DD as everybody knows him, starts working at the hotel, one of the owner’s daughters disappears. He must do whatever it takes to find her and bring her home while still solving the ever-changing problems of the exclusive hotel guests.

Hotel Costiera

2025

Il candidato - Zucca presidente poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il candidato - Zucca presidente

2014

Studio Battaglia poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Studio Battaglia

2022

Matrimoni e altre follie poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Matrimoni e altre follie

2016

Pinocchio poster
NR

The enchanted story of Pinocchio.

Pinocchio

2009

Augustus: The First Emperor poster
5.4

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 fight against the pressure of his family.

Augustus: The First Emperor

2003

Vivi e lascia vivere poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Vivi e lascia vivere

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lui è peggio di me

2021

Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre

2016

La famiglia Ricordi poster
9.0

Casa Ricordi was founded in 1808, and over the course of its history, it acquired the copyrights to the works of all the great composers of the era, from Rossini to Bellini, from Donizetti to Verdi, and finally to Puccini.

La famiglia Ricordi

1995

Meucci - L'italiano che inventò il telefono poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Meucci - L'italiano che inventò il telefono

2005

No artwork available
NR

This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope".

John XXIII: The Pope of Peace

2002

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un’isola

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Era mio fratello

2007

Gloria poster
7.0

A one-time great actor prepares for a triumphant return to the big screen. But neither her comeback nor her personal life go according to plan.

Gloria

2024