Mimmo Calopresti
Know for: Directing
Born: 1955-01-04
Place of birth: Polistena, Calabria, Italy
Also know as:
Happiness Costs Nothing (2003)
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a...
I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (2000)
This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario...
Cattiva Coscienza (2023)
In a parallel universe, live people’s precious consciences. They all feel disheartened, demotivated, and unheard, except for Otto (Francesco...
The Words of My Father (2001)
At 30, Zeno's father dies, and he realizes that his youth is almost over. Meeting Giovanni Malfenti, a succesful gallery owner with four daughters,...
Notes of Love (1998)
A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of...
Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda (1998)
The Gospel According to Mattei (2017)
A cinic director and his assistant come back to Basilicata, their homeland, looking for redemption. 50 years aged and aristically loser, they try to...
La fabbrica fantasma - Verità sulla mia Bambola (2016)
Ultima Chiamata (2017)
A man wakes up in a strange place. Peeled walls, a bare, cold and damp room. He doesn't understand where he is. He has severe pain especially in the...
Cutro, Calabria, Italia (2024)
On 26 February 2023, a boat - an old wooden gulet - sank in Steccato di Cutro, in the province of Crotone, Calabria. Inside the boat, which left...
Italia '90: lavori in corso (1990)
Independent documentary about the hidden side of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.
Happiness Costs Nothing (2003)
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a...
I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (2000)
This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario...
L'abbuffata (2007)
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
Notes of Love (1998)
A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of...
The Second Time (1995)
A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and...
The Second Time (1995)
A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and...
Crash Editing (1984)
Documentary about advertising made for the 1984 Stuttgart Videocongress festival. Shot on U-matic.
I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (2000)
This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario...
I Prefer the Sound of the Sea (2000)
This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario...
Qualcuno verrà (1985)
Documentary. Shot on U-matic.
A proposito di sbavature (1985)
Tonino De Bernardi, author of self-produced films, many Super8 and videos, talks about cinema and Turin. Shot on U-matic.
Ripresi (1987)
Documentary about and made in collaboration the inmates of the fifth row of Turin's Carceri Nuove prison. Shot on U-matic.
Alla Fiat era così (1990)
Several Fiat workers tell the story of their life, work, and struggle at Fiat in the 1960's and 1970's. At the same time, memory makes something...
Tutto era Fiat (1999)
Ten years later of "Alla Fiat era così", Calopresti interviews trade unionists, factory managers, former workers and recently hired young...
Remzija (1992)
Documentary about homelessness in Turin. Shot on Betacam.
Happiness Costs Nothing (2003)
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a...
Happiness Costs Nothing (2003)
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a...
The Second Time (1995)
A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and...
I Only Wanted to Live (2006)
A Donatello award nominated documentary following nine Italian survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
Romanzo radicale (2022)
Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures...
Romanzo radicale (2022)
Romanzo Radicale is political and human adventure of Marco Pannella, portraying the most intimate moments, the political fights, his unique gestures...
L'abbuffata (2007)
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
Uno per tutti (2015)
The relationship between three lifelong friends is put to the test by a long-ago secret and a present-day crime committed by one of their children.
Uno per tutti (2015)
The relationship between three lifelong friends is put to the test by a long-ago secret and a present-day crime committed by one of their children.
Notes of Love (1998)
A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of...
Gianni Versace: L'imperatore dei sogni (2023)
Gianni Versace: L'imperatore dei sogni (2023)
Notes of Love (1998)
A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of...
Un uomo solo: Incontro con Riccardo Freda (1998)
L'Aquila 2009 - Five Directors in the Rubble (2009)
L'abbuffata (2007)
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
Cutro, Calabria, Italia (2024)
On 26 February 2023, a boat - an old wooden gulet - sank in Steccato di Cutro, in the province of Crotone, Calabria. Inside the boat, which left...
Cutro, Calabria, Italia (2024)
On 26 February 2023, a boat - an old wooden gulet - sank in Steccato di Cutro, in the province of Crotone, Calabria. Inside the boat, which left...
The Thing (1990)
1989. Amidst the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the Italian Communist Party (PCI) – the largest of its kind in Western Europe – announces...
Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten (2019)
At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive...
Aspromonte: Land of The Forgotten (2019)
At the end of the 1950s in Africo, a small village in the southern valley of Aspromonte, a woman dies in childbirth because a doctor fails to arrive...
La fabbrica fantasma - Verità sulla mia Bambola (2016)
La fabbrica fantasma - Verità sulla mia Bambola (2016)
It's Easier for a Camel... (2003)
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton...
Tutte le mie notti (2019)
On an autumn night, in the deserted streets of a seaside town, Sara is fleeing from a party, convinced she has witnessed a murder. He finds refuge...