Massimo Troisi

Acting

Massimo Troisi

Born 1953-02-19 · San Giorgio a Cremano

Massimo Troisi began his acting career in the theater and became famous for roles in television series. He is best known for his roles in his own film Ricomincio da tre (1981), and in Michael Radford's The Postman (Il Postino) (1994). The filmmaker Ettore Scola has also made him one of his leading performers, with three consecutive works: Splendor, What time is it? and The Voyage of Captain Fracasse. Heart disease when he had to shoot The Postman. His doctor had advised him not to do the filming to have the operation. He decided to postpone the operation after the shooting, this film being close to his heart. He died of a heart attack, barely twelve hours after the end of filming. He was posthumously nominated for two Oscars and two Golden Globes.

Acting credits

The Postman poster
7.9

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

The Postman

1994

We Are Cinema poster
9.5

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

We Are Cinema

2021

La Smorfia - Prima Parte poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

La Smorfia - Prima Parte

2009

Nothing Left to Do But Cry poster
7.7

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

Nothing Left to Do But Cry

1984

Hotel Colonial poster
5.4

Marco Veniera goes to Bogotá, Colombia to find his brother, Luca who supposedly committed suicide. In his search, he meets fiery and exotic Irene Costa, who leads him into the depths of the Amazon jungle. But it's every man for himself. And brotherly love turns to hate.

Hotel Colonial

1987

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me poster
7.7

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director.

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

2023

What Time Is It? poster
7.4

A father and son who lived separate for some time meet one day to try to reconcile and understand their diametrical differences.

What Time Is It?

1989

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa poster
6.5

In the French countryside, circa the 17th-century, Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a travelling theatrical troupe, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts.

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa

1990

Morto Troisi, viva Troisi! poster
6.8

The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.

Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!

1982

Splendor poster
6.6

Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan, who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets aid in his almost Quixotian quest from projectionist Luigi and ushurette Chantale.

Splendor

1989

Buon compleanno Massimo poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Buon compleanno Massimo

2023

I'm Starting from Three poster
7.6

Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.

I'm Starting from Three

1981

I Thought It Was Love poster
7.2

Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.

I Thought It Was Love

1991

I magnifici 4 della risata poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

I magnifici 4 della risata

2022

Sorry for the Delay poster
7.6

Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.

Sorry for the Delay

1983

The Ways of the Lord are Finite poster
7.3

Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.

The Ways of the Lord are Finite

1987

Il mio amico Massimo poster
7.1

The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.

Il mio amico Massimo

2022

FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?' poster
6.6

Based on a supposed screenplay by Fellini that fell out of a window, Arbore tells the southern story of a shaggy-haired Neapolitan girl, a toilet attendant, who arrives in the foggy north to become a singer, and whom he becomes her boorish manager.

FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'

1983

Per sempre al Massimo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Per sempre al Massimo

2024

No Thanks, Coffee Makes Me Nervous poster
6.5

A mysterious killer eliminate the singers of a brand new music Festival in Naples. Some journalists will try to discover who is that murderer who seems to be obsessed by the song "Funiculi, Funicula".

No Thanks, Coffee Makes Me Nervous

1982

La Smorfia - Terza Parte poster
8.1

No synopsis available yet.

La Smorfia - Terza Parte

2009

La Smorfia - Seconda Parte poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

La Smorfia - Seconda Parte

2009

Effetto Smorfia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Effetto Smorfia

2006

Behind the camera

The Postman poster
7.9

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

The Postman

1994

Nothing Left to Do But Cry poster
7.7

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

Nothing Left to Do But Cry

1984

Nothing Left to Do But Cry poster
7.7

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

Nothing Left to Do But Cry

1984

Morto Troisi, viva Troisi! poster
6.8

The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.

Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!

1982

Morto Troisi, viva Troisi! poster
6.8

The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.

Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!

1982

I'm Starting from Three poster
7.6

Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.

I'm Starting from Three

1981

I'm Starting from Three poster
7.6

Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.

I'm Starting from Three

1981

I Thought It Was Love poster
7.2

Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.

I Thought It Was Love

1991

I Thought It Was Love poster
7.2

Tommaso goes incredible lengths to win back the love of his former girlfriend Cecilia, but sometimes things change in the most unexpected way.

I Thought It Was Love

1991

Sorry for the Delay poster
7.6

Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.

Sorry for the Delay

1983

Sorry for the Delay poster
7.6

Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.

Sorry for the Delay

1983

The Ways of the Lord are Finite poster
7.3

Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.

The Ways of the Lord are Finite

1987

The Ways of the Lord are Finite poster
7.3

Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.

The Ways of the Lord are Finite

1987