Paolo Genovese

Paolo Genovese

1966-08-20 Rome, Lazio, Italy 52 Credits

Biography

Paolo Genovese (born August 20, 1966) is an Italian comedy film director and screenwriter. His best known film is Perfect Strangers (2016), which holds the Guinness World Record for most remade movie ever, having since been adapted in more than 20 countries around the world.

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Täydelliset vieraat

Täydelliset vieraat

2025

Original Story

Writing

A group of middle-aged friends get together for dinner. The playful banter between couples who have known each other all their lives escalates into a ...

Madly

Madly

2025

Director, Story, Screenplay

7.3
Directing Writing

How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say...

Khel Khel Mein

Khel Khel Mein

2024

Original Film Writer

5.8
Writing

What if for one night your mobile phone was a public property? 7 friends at a wedding after-party decide to play a seemingly harmless but as it turns ...

I 400 giorni - Funamboli e maestri

I 400 giorni - Funamboli e maestri

2023

as Sé stesso

Acting
Hygge!

Hygge!

2023

Original Film Writer

5.4
Writing

A group of friends meet for a dinner, and for fun start a party game where everyone must share everything that comes into their phones. Before long, t...

The First Day of My Life

The First Day of My Life

2023

Screenplay, Story, Novel

6.7
Writing Directing

In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without t...

Wild Game

Wild Game

2023

Original Film Writer

6.0
Writing

At a dinner party in Vesturbær, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. They put their phones on the table and agree that all incoming calls an...

The Returners

The Returners

2022

Original Film Writer

6.8
Writing

Seven friends decide to play a game at their dinner party, in which each member needs to read aloud all incoming text messages or put phone calls on s...

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

2022

Original Film Writer

6.8
Writing

Seven friends who attend a dinner and decide to play a game with their cell phones. Unfortunately, the game ends in disaster when their dark secret is...

Full Dekning

Full Dekning

2022

Original Film Writer

6.6
Writing

Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

2022

Original Film Writer

6.3
Writing

A dinner party unravels when a tight group of friends agree to leave their phones unlocked on the table, exposing juicy interactions and dark secrets.

Superheroes

Superheroes

2021

Story, Screenplay, Novel

7.2
Writing Directing

The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the co...

Per tutta la vita

Per tutta la vita

2021

Screenplay, Story Supervisor, Story

5.8
Writing

Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.

Alles op Tafel

Alles op Tafel

2021

Original Film Writer

6.0
Writing

Seven friends meet up for dinner and decide to play a revealing game. During the evening deep personal secrets will surface and threaten their relatio...

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

2021

Original Film Writer

7.2
Writing

Seven childhood friends with a history and shared experiences from their past, meet for dinner to see together a rare lunar eclipse. This bourgeois an...

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

2021

Original Film Writer

6.8
Writing

One evening, a glass of wine, 7 friends enter a dangerous game: they put their phones on the table and decide that everything they receive that evenin...

Známi neznámi

Známi neznámi

2021

Original Film Writer

6.4
Writing

A close-knit group of Czech and Slovak friends gathers in a Prague apartment to ring in the New Year, sharing laughs and memories. When a seemingly in...

Adult's Situation

Adult's Situation

2021

Original Film Writer

3.5
Writing

Seven men and women, consisting of three couples who are reluctant companions and one single man, play in the game with the secret that their relation...

Blood Moon Party

Blood Moon Party

2020

Original Film Writer

7.2
Writing

Four childhood friends and their wives at an upscale dinner party. After a much-heated discussion about how smartphones influence their personal lives...

The Perfect Secret

The Perfect Secret

2019

Original Film Writer

6.6
Writing

Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyon...

(Nie)znajomi

(Nie)znajomi

2019

Original Film Writer, Original Story

6.3
Writing

A group of seven friends come together for dinner. What starts out as a normal evening, evolves into something else when they decide to play a game an...

Unknown Subscriber

Unknown Subscriber

2019

Original Film Writer

6.3
Writing

7 friends get together just to have good time. They decide to play an unusual game, according to the rules of which, everyone should put mobile phones...

Loudspeaker

Loudspeaker

2019

Original Film Writer

6.5
Writing

Gathered together in a country house, seven friends play an entertaining game, in which participants have to read aloud all of their incoming text mes...

Kill Mobile

Kill Mobile

2018

Original Film Writer

5.4
Writing

Seven friends get together for dinner, and decided to play a game where they must share all messages and calls of their cell phones. Throughout the ev...

Perfectos desconocidos

Perfectos desconocidos

2018

Original Film Writer

7.1
Writing

A group of longtime friends get together for dinner. When they decide to share the content of every text message, email, and phone call they receive, ...

Búék

Búék

2018

Original Film Writer

7.0
Writing

The story takes place on New Year's Eve that a group of friends have been celebrating together for years. The host is the newly divorced psychologist,...

Intimate Strangers

Intimate Strangers

2018

Original Film Writer

7.2
Writing

A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.

Nothing to Hide

Nothing to Hide

2018

Writer, Original Film Writer

6.6
Writing

To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.

Loudspeaker

Loudspeaker

2018

Original Film Writer

Writing
Forgive Us Our Debts

Forgive Us Our Debts

2018

Associate Producer

6.1
Producing

Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.

Stranger in My Pocket

Stranger in My Pocket

2018

Original Film Writer

6.6
Writing

The seven old friends decide to come together for dinner. Everyone is seated at the table, chatting, eating laughing accompaniment. During the meal, i...

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

2017

Original Film Writer

6.7
Writing

During a lunar eclipse, seven friends gather for dinner and decide to play a game in which they must share with each other the content of every messag...

The Place

The Place

2017

Story, Screenplay, Director

7.1
Writing Directing

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant...

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

2016

Original Film Writer

5.7
Writing

Seven friends meet up for dinner on a full moon Friday night and deep secrets will come to the surface, shaking their lives and threatening their rela...

Per sempre

Per sempre

2016

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.2
Directing Writing

Short film about foster care promoted by TWINSET.

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

2016

Story, Director, Screenplay

7.9
Writing Directing

During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

Se mi lasci non vale

Se mi lasci non vale

2016

Screenplay, Story

5.8
Writing

Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet...

Ever Been to the Moon?

Ever Been to the Moon?

2015

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.7
Directing Writing

Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting ...

Giulio Cesare: Class Mates

Giulio Cesare: Class Mates

2014

Acting

The history of a great school is the history of a great nation. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liceo Giulio Cesare - the historical sc...

Ti ricordi di me?

Ti ricordi di me?

2014

Screenplay

6.6
Writing

Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who docume...

Tutta colpa di Freud

Tutta colpa di Freud

2014

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.7
Directing Writing

Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight af...

A Fantastic Back and Forth

A Fantastic Back and Forth

2013

Screenplay, Story

6.0
Writing

Middle-aged family man Arnaldo is kicked out by his wife because of a misunderstanding. Instead of despairing, Arnaldo takes advantage of the situatio...

Una famiglia perfetta

Una famiglia perfetta

2012

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.5
Directing Writing

Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and m...

The Immature: The Trip

The Immature: The Trip

2012

Director, Story, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

Seven thirty-something friends organise a post-grad trip they were never able to take after school. They find new adventures on a Greek island, and sh...

The Immature

The Immature

2011

Director, Story, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma,...

The Santa Claus Gang

The Santa Claus Gang

2010

Director

6.0
Directing

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Sant...

Questa notte è ancora nostra

Questa notte è ancora nostra

2008

Screenplay, Director, Story Developer

5.5
Writing Directing

When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chine...

Sorry, You Can't Get Through!

Sorry, You Can't Get Through!

2005

Screenplay, Director, Story

6.5
Writing Directing

Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's workin...

Incantesimo napoletano

Incantesimo napoletano

2002

Screenplay, Director, Story

5.7
Writing Directing

In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!

Small things of unquantifiable value

Small things of unquantifiable value

1999

Writer, Director

8.4
Writing Directing

A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen.

Perfect Strangers

N/A

Original Film Writer

Writing

A group of friends at a dinner party decide to play a risky game where they place their phones face-up on the table and agree to make all texts and ph...

Scandalo

N/A

Screenplay, Director

Writing Directing