Massimiliano Gallo

Old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

A father, immersed in a difficult divorce process, embarks on a dangerous mission when his children disappear from their isolated country house.

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.

From campy lies to sexy surprises, this collection of vignettes captures the follies of several men as they fumble with fidelity and relationships.

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

When his girlfriend Giorgia leaves him for his boss, journalist Giulio suddenly finds himself without a woman and with no job. Determined to win back his ex, he attends Valeria's classes, who teaches single men the art of seduction, convinced that relationships between people are motivated by simple biological stimuli.

A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.

Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with.

Immersed in the jungle, among relics of a "forgotten future", two kids, Yaya and Lennie, meander. The two live freely in their Eden until armed men, who carry with them an "ancient" concept of civilization, force them to leave their territory. It is the beginning of a journey in search of their place in a world that no longer belongs to man.

Antonio Barracano is a respected figure among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after a youth asks him permission to kill his father.

Caserta. Billy is a wedding photographer grappling with his last job before closing his shop. A few hours before the ceremony, Michele, a graduate student looking for an internship, pops into his studio. The photographer decides to take the young man with him on a day full of unexpected events.

Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.

A broke mechanic turns a bank loan denial into an impromptu robbery that puts him on the run with his best friend and a starlet they hold hostage.

An extremely mannered and increasingly preposterous tale of a fortysomething woman who has to deal with an abusive, double-dealing husband and a handsome, soap-actor lover who seems to be too good to be true.

Naples. Home of the unbowed, of madmen and paupers. A city that refuses to lick anyone's boots, let alone stoop to pretense. This documentary bad trip takes us on a tour of the city's dismal suburbs and into the homes of the marginalized and rejected: a man, a girl, and a masked boxer - three protagonists yearning for something else, although they're not quite sure what. (Karlovy Vary Film Festival 2019)

Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through the morality of his law-abiding roots and become as dirty as the dangerous criminals he represents.

There’s a Naples of the imagination and there’s the real city: the city of fiction and the one with its tales of a past very much alive. Massimilano Gallo’s directorial debut, La salita, is a film about a little-known anecdote from the life of Eduardo De Filippo, featuring a Nisida very different from the image it has in the series Mare fuori, yet Gallo’s take on prison and women behind bars is just as contemporary. Courtesy of Panamafilm and the Film Commission Regione Campania.

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

Fired from his HR job in the big city, Fulvio returns home and sees a leaky pipe in his brother's church as the way to save the crumbling town.

A married couple must get their hands dirty when a bunch of mobsters start using their new home as a deposit for illegal material.

July 2006. Leonardo Zuliani has vanished. The news from Trastevere in Rome turns into a real national emergency, while a huge throng of followers gathers around the young activist’s house. His mother is beside herself with grief and the entire neighbourhood is paralysed. He’s on every TV channel and the authorities all express their solidarity with the family. Many can’t believe it’s true; they prefer to think it’s just one of his stunts. A genius in conveying his ideas, successful cartoonist, visionary fashion designer, cult author, human rights activist: but who is Leonardo deep down? With the help of leading experts and celebrities, the film traces his life, at last casting light on a key figure of our times

Villa Primic was once a luxurious home. Now in disrepair, the Primic family home is up for sale by the owner, Rose, and her two heirs, Massimiliano and Adele. The head of the family, Valerio, is vehemently opposed to this. The reunion is going to be complicated...

Giuseppe Lojacono, suspected of collusion with the mafia, is unfairly thrown out of from Sicily and send to Pizzofalcone (close to Naples), together with other police officers. There, they bring justice back where it was forgotten.

Imma Tataranni is a rather abrasive deputy prosecutor of the Matera Public Prosecutor's Office. She has the fashion sense of a rodeo clown, is gifted with a prodigious memory and used to solving cases with rather unorthodox methods.

Sirens of the Mediterranean sea look for the lost last Triton in the city of Naples.

At Minerva Military High School, teens navigate discipline, rivalry and family pressure as a young cadet searches for answers about his missing friend.

Italian miniseries.