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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Vanished into the Night
2024
Writer
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
2023
Screenplay, Story
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
2020
Screenplay
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
2018
Story, Screenplay
Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living ...

Ferrante Fever
2017
as Self
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
2016
Screenplay, Story
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
2015
Screenplay, Story, Writer
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!
2013
as Self

Honey
2013
Screenplay, Story
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
2013
Writer, Story
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
2012
Screenplay
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
2010
Screenplay
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
2010
Writer, Story
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
2009
Screenplay
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
2009
as Self
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
2008
Story
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
2005
Writer
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
2004
Story, Screenplay
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
2003
Screenplay
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
1997
Story, Writer

Iris Blond
1996
Story, Screenplay
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
1996
Screenplay
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
1996
Story, Writer
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
1994
Story, Screenplay
Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic.

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato
1992
Screenplay, Story
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
1990
Story, Screenplay
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
1988
Story, Screenplay, Director
Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

Lontano da dove
1983
Director, Writer, Story

The Return of Casanova
1980
as Marcolina

All The Souls... Except the Dead
1977
as Ilaria
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
1976
as Francesca
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
1975
as Carolina
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...