Marco Pontecorvo (Directing)
Little is known about Marco Pontecorvo, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Sempre al tuo fianco
Release Date:2024-09-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2
Per Elisa: An Italian Crime Story
Reconstruction of one of the most shocking crime news events in recent decades: the murders of Elisa Claps and Heather Barnett by Danilo Restivo. The story begins on 12 September 1993 and takes place over a period of about twenty years between Potenza and the English coast of Bournemouth.
Release Date:2023-10-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:51
A muso duro - Campioni di vita
Release Date:2022-05-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
Alfredino - Una storia italiana
Release Date:2021-06-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:10
Fatima
In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..
Release Date:2020-08-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:183
Il coraggio di vincere
Release Date:2017-04-07
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
Lampedusa - Dall'orizzonte in poi
Release Date:2016-09-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells
Two friends, founders of a cooperative that produce couches and that it is found in a situation of bankruptcy, a night, while they are digging for hiding some stems that it would cost too much to digest, they discover some oil. This will make contradictions and conflicts explode among the two.
Release Date:2015-04-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:34
Ragion di Stato
Andrea Rosso, an agent of Italian foreign intelligence service AISE, undertakes risky missions in Afghanistan and Lebanon.
Release Date:2015-01-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
L'oro di Scampia
In a neighborhood overrun by crime, Enzo opens a judo school to help at-risk teens onto a different path and guide his son toward Olympic gold.
Release Date:2014-02-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:18
Fading Gigolo
Fioravante decides to become a professional Don Juan as a way of making money to help his cash-strapped friend, Murray. With Murray acting as his "manager", the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Release Date:2013-09-07
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:584
One Thousand and One Nights
Shahrazad travels through desert searching for the man she loves and who she believes she has lost forever. She arrives at a castle, the home of a prince who kills anyone who dares enter. She convinces the prince to grant her one night to tell him a story, their story, a story that lasts one thousand and one nights...
Release Date:2012-11-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:14
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
Release Date:2012-11-10
Character:Self
Never for Love
Release Date:2012-03-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Game of Thrones
Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.
Release Date:2011-04-17
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:24639
Letters to Juliet
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
Release Date:2010-05-13
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:2892
Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
John Turturro goes back to the land of his ancestors.
Release Date:2009-09-05
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
My One and Only
A mother takes her two sons on an unusual road trip from New York to Pittsburgh, St. Louis and eventually Hollywood in her quest to find a man to take care of them all.
Release Date:2009-08-21
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:151
Pa-ra-da
The film tells the true story of French clown Miloud Oukili from his arrival in Romania in 1992 (three years after the fall of Ceausescu) to his encounter with the street children of Bucharest, known as «boskettari» who live in the streets and sleep in Bucharest's sewers, eking a living out of petty crime, begging, and prostitution.
Release Date:2008-08-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:19
The Last Legion
As the Roman empire crumbles, young Romulus Augustus flees the city and embarks on a perilous voyage to Britain to track down a legion of supporters.
Release Date:2007-04-19
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:802
Firewall
State-of-the-art security system creator Jack Stanfield has cemented his reputation as a man who's thought of everything. But when a criminal finds a way into his personal life, everything Jack holds dear is suddenly at stake.
Release Date:2006-02-08
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:954
Eros
A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; and a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Release Date:2004-12-03
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:122
The Dangerous Thread of Things
Christopher and Cloe are probably coming to the end of their relationship. They still seem to love each other but don't seem to be able to be with each other in always arguing. Their relationship is affected by each individually encountering Linda, the girl who lives in the tower across the way from their house.
Release Date:2004-09-10
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Vote Count:4
My House in Umbria
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
Release Date:2003-05-25
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Vote Count:34
Sulla spiaggia e di là dal molo
Release Date:2000-01-01
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
The Guest
Giulia works for her father's law film and still lives in her parents' luxurious home. However, she soon realizes the young man from Thailand who is their new houseguest is not just a family friend -- he is Guilia's mother's lover, and almost half her age. Father, however, has an even bigger secret -- he's been having an affair with a man young enough to be his son.
Release Date:1999-06-04
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Fuochino
A Donatello award nominated short feature about a slight incident that introduces a man and a woman in a quiet cafe.
Release Date:1998-01-01
Department:Crew
Job:Cinematography
Vote Count:1
In barca a vela contromano
Release Date:1997-09-27
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Vote Count:12
The Truce
After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.
Release Date:1997-02-14
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:74
Honeymoon Trips
The vicissitudes of three couples of newlyweds from the celebration of weddings to their respective honeymoons.
Release Date:1995-12-15
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:495
A Month by the Lake
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.
Release Date:1995-09-11
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:38
Neapolitan Diary
A screening of the 30 year old Hands Over The City at the School of Architecture in Naples is the occasion for a debate among youth, historians, politicos, industrialists, environmentalists.
Release Date:1992-06-06
Department:Camera
Job:Camera Operator
Vote Count:8
The Palermo Connection
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
Release Date:1990-02-02
Department:Camera
Job:Assistant Camera
Vote Count:23
12 Directors for 12 Cities
Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.
Release Date:1989-05-22
Department:Camera
Job:Assistant Camera
Vote Count:7
Cellar Dweller
In the 1950s, a horror-comic artist's creations come alive and kill him. Years later a new cartoonist revives the creatures in his house, now part of an artist's colony.
Release Date:1988-09-20
Department:Camera
Job:Clapper Loader
Vote Count:76
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.
Release Date:1987-05-08
Department:Camera
Job:Assistant Camera
Vote Count:78