Francesca Marciano

Francesca Marciano

1955-07-17 Rome, Lazio, Italy 32 Credits

Biography

Francesca Marciano (Rome, July 17, 1955) is an Italian writer, screenwriter and actress. With Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato, a film directed by Carlo Verdone, she won a David di Donatello for best screenplay in 1992. In New York she met Stefania Casini with whom she wrote the screenplay for her first film, which would become the film Lontano da dove produced by Gaumont Italia, which she directed with Casini. The film went into competition in Venice in 1983, achieving a fair amount of...

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Vanished into the Night

Vanished into the Night

2024

Writer

5.6
Writing

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

A Brighter Tomorrow

A Brighter Tomorrow

2023

Screenplay, Story

7.0
Writing

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divor...

You Came Back

You Came Back

2020

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first ...

Euphoria

Euphoria

2018

Story, Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living ...

Ferrante Fever

Ferrante Fever

2017

as Self

6.1
Acting

Hillary Clinton, Roberto Saviano, Jonathan Franzen and others weigh-in on the Elena Ferrante "craze" and what makes her work - and her mysterious pers...

Pericle

Pericle

2016

Screenplay, Story

5.6
Writing

A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wr...

Me, Myself and Her

Me, Myself and Her

2015

Screenplay, Story, Writer

6.0
Writing

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

Carlo!

Carlo!

2013

as Self

5.6
Acting
Honey

Honey

2013

Screenplay, Story

6.7
Writing

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions....

A Five Star Life

A Five Star Life

2013

Writer, Story

5.8
Writing

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she ind...

Me & You

Me & You

2012

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom's basement. But things didn't go as ...

La scuola è finita

La scuola è finita

2010

Screenplay

5.3
Writing

Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to hav...

Me, Them and Lara

Me, Them and Lara

2010

Writer, Story

5.6
Writing

A priest, after spending years in humanitary missions in Africa, reunites with his family, which is in worse conditions than when he left, and above a...

Raise Your Head

Raise Your Head

2009

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. T...

What Do You Know About Me

What Do You Know About Me

2009

as Self

7.0
Acting

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, t...

Signorina Effe

Signorina Effe

2008

Story

6.6
Writing

A white and a blue collar worker fall in love during the 1980 strike at FIAT that marked the end for labor movement in Italy.

Don't Tell

Don't Tell

2005

Writer

6.1
Writing

Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time ...

L'amore è eterno finché dura

L'amore è eterno finché dura

2004

Story, Screenplay

6.2
Writing

Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, dev...

I'm Not Scared

I'm Not Scared

2003

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted ...

Un Paradiso di Bugie

Un Paradiso di Bugie

1997

Story, Writer

Writing
Iris Blond

Iris Blond

1996

Story, Screenplay

5.9
Writing

Romeo, a lovelorn Roman musician in his 40s with 20 years since his only hit, consults a fortuneteller who predicts he'll find love and money with a f...

Ritorno a casa Gori

Ritorno a casa Gori

1996

Screenplay

6.1
Writing

Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the sto...

La mia generazione

La mia generazione

1996

Story, Writer

9.5
Writing

Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries t...

Perdiamoci di vista

Perdiamoci di vista

1994

Story, Screenplay

6.1
Writing

Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic.

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

1992

Screenplay, Story

6.6
Writing

Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline and stars to see a psychologist but in the meantime he...

Turné

Turné

1990

Story, Screenplay

6.9
Writing

Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very go...

Provvisorio, quasi d'amore

Provvisorio, quasi d'amore

1988

Story, Screenplay, Director

Writing Directing

Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

Lontano da dove

Lontano da dove

1983

Director, Writer, Story

6.5
Directing Writing
The Return of Casanova

The Return of Casanova

1980

as Marcolina

Acting
All The Souls... Except the Dead

All The Souls... Except the Dead

1977

as Ilaria

6.2
Acting

Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Za...

The House with Laughing Windows

The House with Laughing Windows

1976

as Francesca

7.3
Acting

A young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano, which was painted on the wall of a local church by a m...

Seven Beauties

Seven Beauties

1975

as Carolina

7.5
Acting

Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming t...