Marco S. Puccioni

Directing

Marco S. Puccioni

Born

1969-02-27 (57)

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

28 titles

Marco Simon Puccioni is a film director, screenwriter, and producer- Born in Italy, and graduated in film at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles. His work spans several film genres: family dramas, road movies, film noir, social dramas, and coming of age. Puccioni has shown a constant interest in mixing different styles with socially themed fiction and documentaries. Puccioni's films have been critically acclaimed and awarded and nominated at festivals and national prizes.

Known for

Shelter Me poster
4.7

Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them.

Shelter Me

2007

The Invisible Thread poster
6.6

The teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary film about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.

The Invisible Thread

2022

Drive Me Home poster
6.2

Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.

Drive Me Home

2019

Sex Cowboys poster
3.9

Marla and Simone are madly in love and have a very passionate relationship. They are also struggling to get by and are unable to pay the rent. In desperation they decide to make porn videos. Sex cowboys is a travel inside our generation, the lost generation, destined to live without a permanent employment, a fixed home and a defined lifestyle. The characters of this travel are nomadic, precarious e immature in the comedy of their life: to Simone's anger and to Marla's magic need, alternates passion and sex. The generational crisis is inside us, and we have to find a way to survive and make the present our dream, since in our future we won't have space.

Sex Cowboys

2016

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

Triumph and Ruins poster
1.0

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.

Triumph and Ruins

1997

Film credits

Behind the camera

Shelter Me poster
4.7

Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them.

Shelter Me

2007

Shelter Me poster
4.7

Anna and Mara return from a holiday abroad, and realize that Anis, a young Moroccan immigrant, managed to hide in their car in order to cross the border to Italy. At first unsure of what to do, they then decide to take him with them.

Shelter Me

2007

The Invisible Thread poster
6.6

The teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary film about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.

The Invisible Thread

2022

The Invisible Thread poster
6.6

The teenage son of two fathers makes a documentary film about his parents but is surprised when a real-life plot twist occurs in his family.

The Invisible Thread

2022

Drive Me Home poster
6.2

Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, which had been empty for a long time, is about to be sold at auction, he decides to leave and reconnects with his childhood friend. But their lives have changed a lot. Old conflicts and new revelations bring them through Europe on a truck journey.

Drive Me Home

2019

Sex Cowboys poster
3.9

Marla and Simone are madly in love and have a very passionate relationship. They are also struggling to get by and are unable to pay the rent. In desperation they decide to make porn videos. Sex cowboys is a travel inside our generation, the lost generation, destined to live without a permanent employment, a fixed home and a defined lifestyle. The characters of this travel are nomadic, precarious e immature in the comedy of their life: to Simone's anger and to Marla's magic need, alternates passion and sex. The generational crisis is inside us, and we have to find a way to survive and make the present our dream, since in our future we won't have space.

Sex Cowboys

2016

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

Triumph and Ruins poster
1.0

History as immersion and dispersion in the fragments of the past, a visionary journey accompanied by the voice of Patty Pravo. Presented at the Taormina Festival '97.

Triumph and Ruins

1997

Tutti giù per terra poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tutti giù per terra

2025

No artwork available
NR

A Donatello award nominated documentary looking at the last centenary of the CGIL - the largest trade union in Italy.

100 anni della nostra storia

2006

No artwork available
NR

A Donatello award nominated documentary looking at the last centenary of the CGIL - the largest trade union in Italy.

100 anni della nostra storia

2006

All Together poster
3.7

Marco Simon Puccioni rolls the camera into his own home to recount the daily life of his rainbow family, placing focus on the viewpoint of his children

All Together

2020

All Together poster
3.7

Marco Simon Puccioni rolls the camera into his own home to recount the daily life of his rainbow family, placing focus on the viewpoint of his children

All Together

2020

All Together poster
3.7

Marco Simon Puccioni rolls the camera into his own home to recount the daily life of his rainbow family, placing focus on the viewpoint of his children

All Together

2020

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

2002

Partigiani poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Partigiani

1997

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

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

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
NR

Teodoro, Martin, Justin, and Steve are African men who have lived in Italy for over thirty years without obtaining citizenship. They arrived in the 1970s to study and have since built lives in Italy, forming a band, playing soccer, and raising Italian-feeling children. Despite their integration, they face racism and are not considered Italian. Puccioni highlights Italy’s struggle with integration and racism, affecting a second generation of immigrants.

Il colore delle parole

2009

Intolerance poster
7.0

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.

Intolerance

1996

Before Anything Else poster
4.6

Prima di Tutto is the story of a family of Italian gays who became fathers of twins thanks to the help of a donor mother and a surrogate mother, both American. Their journey, begun more than three years ago, is told in first person by Marco, who is not only the father who donated the seed, but also the one who decides to face this particular life experience both as a director and as a father and another man’s companion. Contrary to most of Europe, homosexuals and gay families in Italy do not have civil rights. Without moralism or false prejudice, the adventure explores the difficulties, hopes and changes in perception, of oneself and of the other components of society, which this choice has brought to the life of Marco, his companion Giampietro and his children. And this is where Marco’s journey starts. A journey to discover an uncharted territory even for most heterosexual families.

Before Anything Else

2012

Before Anything Else poster
4.6

Prima di Tutto is the story of a family of Italian gays who became fathers of twins thanks to the help of a donor mother and a surrogate mother, both American. Their journey, begun more than three years ago, is told in first person by Marco, who is not only the father who donated the seed, but also the one who decides to face this particular life experience both as a director and as a father and another man’s companion. Contrary to most of Europe, homosexuals and gay families in Italy do not have civil rights. Without moralism or false prejudice, the adventure explores the difficulties, hopes and changes in perception, of oneself and of the other components of society, which this choice has brought to the life of Marco, his companion Giampietro and his children. And this is where Marco’s journey starts. A journey to discover an uncharted territory even for most heterosexual families.

Before Anything Else

2012

Il pranzo di Natale poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il pranzo di Natale

2011

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

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