Massimo Ranieri

Acting

Massimo Ranieri

Born

1951-05-03 (75)

Place of birth

Naples, Campania, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Massimo Ranieri (born Giovanni Calone, May 3, 1951), is an Italian pop singer, film and stage actor. He was born in Naples (at Santa Lucia), the fourth of eight children in the family. When he was 10, young Giovanni would sing at restaurants, wedding receptions, etc. He was discovered by a music producer about 4 years later and was flown to New York to record an EP under the name of Gianni Rock. He recorded 4 songs in 1964: Tanti auguri signora, Se mi aspetti stasera, Non chiudere la porta, and La Prima Volta. None of the records were successful, because young Gianni's voice was changing. Two years later, he would later re-emerge under his new stage name, Massimo Ranieri. In 1966, he made …

Known for

Eurovision Song Contest poster
7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

Midi Première poster
9.0

Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.

Midi Première

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

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

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Samedi soir

1971

Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures poster
9.1

Alberto Angela takes us on a new journey, this time to discover Italy's "Wonders," those that make us a true "peninsula of treasures." Four episodes, twelve stops on an itinerary of art and natural beauty in UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures

2018

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

2010s · 15 titles

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

2010

Ennio Morricone dirige l'OSN poster
NR

From the Upper Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi, maestro Ennio Morricone conducts the RAI National Symphony Orchestra, with the choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the participation of Massimo Ranieri.

Ennio Morricone dirige l'OSN

2013

Bloody Richard poster
8.0

Riccardo Mancini is discharged from the forensic psychiatric hospital, where he has spent many long years serving time for a crime shrouded in mystery; now he is determined to wreak revenge and win back power within his crime family.

Bloody Richard

2017

The Ploy poster
5.9

In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.

The Ploy

2016

Sabato, domenica e lunedì poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sabato, domenica e lunedì

2012

Passione poster
6.4

Songs and singers from Naples, musicians and poets, real and legendary characters are the protagonists of a film that crosses one of the most beautiful, famous and controversial metropolises in the world. An exceptional orchestra for a repertoire that speaks of love, sex, jealousy, immigration, protest.

Passione

2010

Scossa poster
NR

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.

Scossa

2012

Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Metti, una sera a cena con Peppino

2016

Pino Daniele - Il tempo resterà poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pino Daniele - Il tempo resterà

2017

La meravigliosa avventura di Antonio Franconi poster
3.5

Just before sleeping, a small boy finds a crate of ancient toys: a little circus, lead soldiers and a book about circus legend Antonio Franconi - whose dream was creating a great show mixing all possible forms of art.

La meravigliosa avventura di Antonio Franconi

2011

Napoli milionaria! poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Napoli milionaria!

2011

Questi fantasmi poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Questi fantasmi

2011

Filumena Marturano poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Filumena Marturano

2010

Gli Squallor poster
NR

A documentary about Squallor, Italy's first and most successful "ghost band" project, created by four big bosses of 70's-80's Italian music business.

Gli Squallor

2012

Massimo Ranieri - Live dallo Stadio Olimpico poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Massimo Ranieri - Live dallo Stadio Olimpico

2010

2000s · 9 titles

Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens poster
5.8

Paris, December 1999. A group of Parisians cross paths. A police commissioner madly in love with his colleague's wife, a director looking for a subject. A man who learns that he has lung cancer. A waitress in love with her boss. A wealthy owner of a pizza chain who falls in love with a former member of the Comédie Française when he wanted to buy her castle. Among them, there is also Shaa. She dreams of becoming a singer and starts a duet with Massimo, a street singer of Italian origin. They quickly fall in love with each other. But one day, a producer spots Shaa and offers her a solo career.

Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens

2004

L'ultimo Pulcinella poster
5.0

An Italian actor (Massimo Ranieri) and his son (Domenico Balsamo) stage a show in a Parisian theater.

L'ultimo Pulcinella

2009

The Courage to Love poster
5.6

A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.

The Courage to Love

2005

No way out - A broken love poster
6.0

After seven difficult years, Matteo Dell Torre withdraws his campaign from the crisis. But because of the work, he rarely sees with his wife, with children. When the case turned out to be imposed, the police accuse Matteo of murder and find 30 million of bad money on account of the company. Under the threat of business and marriage. Mateo will go to jail. In order to prove his innocence, he turns out to be incarcerated ...

No way out - A broken love

2007

No artwork available
9.0

Alessandra Del Giudice, a successful lawyer with a few too many problems in the family, ends up in a coma for seven years following a road accident. When she wakes up she finds her husband waiting for her, who had just given permission to pull the plug on her life support, and her sister, who arrived at the last minute just in time to discover that Alessandra had lifted a finger and was about to reopen the eyes! Upon awakening, the worst surprise for the woman, however, is to discover that her son Yanneck has recently killed himself by jumping from a balcony. Convinced by a nightmare in which she sees the boy not jumping but being pushed by someone, she decides to investigate to understand what really happened.

A Kiss in the Dark

2000

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pilot Operation

2007

Civico zero poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Civico zero

2007

Omaggio a Fabrizio De André poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Omaggio a Fabrizio De André

2006

Fondali notturni poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fondali notturni

2002

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 7 titles

Priest of Love poster
5.0

Following the banning and burning of his novel, "The Rainbow," D.H. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, move to the United States, and then to Mexico. When Lawrence contracts tuberculosis, they return to England for a short time, then to Italy, where Lawrence writes "Lady Chatterley's Lover."

Priest of Love

1981

Chaste and Pure poster
4.5

Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death.

Chaste and Pure

1981

Habibi, amor mío poster
4.8

Young Stefano falls in love with a Spanish girl, Habibi. The two become engaged, but after a happy period, Stefano will discover the girl's betrayals. This will lead the protagonists to drift apart and seek new paths; this will be an opportunity for them to reflect on themselves and the loss of values in life.

Habibi, amor mío

1981

The Magic Screen poster
4.4

The time is the late 1920s, and Angelo and Tonino are two brothers traveling around the country in a rattle-trap truck, showing moving pictures to any group of people willing to pay. When they arrive in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Angelo strikes up a relationship with a wealthy marchesa connected to the fascist movement. Tonino, on the other hand, starts to follow the rebellious Giovanni, locked up for his anti-fascist stance, and the farmers who have joined in the anti-fascist forces. As the rebels are either murdered or put in prison, Tonino becomes more and more commited to their cause - especially after Giovanni is killed. When a silent movie on the condemned and dying Christ is shown on the brothers' screen, Tonino stops the action to project some slides he has taken that show who murdered Giovanni - in an action that calls for his brother and the rest of the bystanders to finally make a decision on where to place their loyalties.

The Magic Screen

1982

A Gun for a Cop poster
7.0

A family of farmers wage war against a group of unscrupulous, corrupt speculators who are trying to get their hands on their land.

A Gun for a Cop

1981

L'ultima volta insieme poster
7.0

Paul, the son of a senior magistrate Neapolitan, was hired at the law firm of a friend's parent. The young man thinks he lost his mother, but the woman, who has long left the family, is now the mistress of the boss racket shops. Fleeing from prison, blackmail, murder, trials, recognition in extremis between mother and son more than a melodrama with strong colors, a real fumettone.

L'ultima volta insieme

1981

No artwork available
8.0

A once famous actor, whose career was ruined after he was forced to undergo an operation on his vocal cords, is constantly pursued by creditors and his faithful servant Dorino where the two endure an 'impossible' friendship.

Bonded by Tender Friendship

1983

1970s · 12 titles

The Cousin poster
5.4

Italian coming of age story about two cousins, Enzo and Agata, told in three stages.

The Cousin

1974

The Light at the Edge of the World poster
6.0

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

The Light at the Edge of the World

1971

Death Rage poster
5.4

A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.

Death Rage

1976

Chronicle of a Homicide poster
5.5

Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The investigating magistrate - in charge of the case with two commissioners - wants to believe to the version of the police: the student was killed by one of the laborers, while the policeman would have been killed by Massimo Trotti.

Chronicle of a Homicide

1972

Cerca di capirmi poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cerca di capirmi

1970

Bubu poster
5.4

Bubu leaves his job in a bakery, forces his girl-friend into prostitution, and from then on lives out of the money she makes. The young couple find their place in the world of prostitutes and pimps, but the lack of perspective in their life - which is permanently haunted by the possibility of an incurable and fatal venereal infection - and the humiliations the girl endures strain their relationship and lead to conflicts.

Bubu

1971

Born Winner poster
4.2

A young man whose passions are money, beautiful women and racing motorcycles comes up with a scheme that will allow him to combine all three, all while committing the "perfect" crime.

Born Winner

1976

Hot Potato poster
6.3

A factory worker known for his tough attitude and for fighting for workers' rights starts losing credibility when friends and co-workers see him helping a young gay man.

Hot Potato

1979

Tre donne - La sciantosa poster
7.5

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way

Tre donne - La sciantosa

1971

Metello poster
5.8

The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...

Metello

1970

Romance poster
4.6

Love story between a young man and a married woman. She's married to a businessman who's neglecting her. She would like to leave him but she's afraid of the age difference between her and her lover.

Romance

1971

Salvo D'Acquisto poster
7.6

In 1943 Italy is crumbling. Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer is trying to maintain law and order. One tragic incident will unravel a chain of events leading to him having to stand between the Germans and people he swore to protect.

Salvo D'Acquisto

1974

Series credits

Eurovision Song Contest poster
7.4

The Eurovision Song Contest is an international song competition, organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine the winner.

Eurovision Song Contest

1956

Midi Première poster
9.0

Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.

Midi Première

1975

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche poster
6.0

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

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

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

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Samedi soir

1971

Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures poster
9.1

Alberto Angela takes us on a new journey, this time to discover Italy's "Wonders," those that make us a true "peninsula of treasures." Four episodes, twelve stops on an itinerary of art and natural beauty in UNESCO World Heritage sites.

Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures

2018

TV Story Superstar poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

TV Story Superstar

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Storie Della Camorra

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L'ombra nera del Vesuvio poster
9.0

Two families of the Neapolitan Camorra fight for power.

L'ombra nera del Vesuvio

1987

ExtraVergine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ExtraVergine

2019

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il ricatto

1989

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ama il tuo nemico

1999

La voce che hai dentro poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La voce che hai dentro

2023

Behind the camera