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Complete Filmography

The Illusion
2025
Director, Screenplay, Story
1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all reg...

Strangeness
2022
Story, Screenplay, Director
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello...

The Hidden Child
2021
Novel, Screenplay, Director
Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One mornin...

Citizen Rosi
2019
as Self
The narrative wanders through Rosi’s films, not in the order they were shot but following the chronology of the historical facts they deal with. The d...

Conversazione su Tiresia - Di e con Andrea Camilleri
2018
Director

The Stolen Caravaggio
2018
Screenplay, Director
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she rec...

The Confessions
2016
Director, Screenplay
A G8 meeting is being held at a luxury hotel on the German coast. The world's most powerful economists are gathered to enact important provisions that...

Long Live Freedom
2013
Director, Screenplay, Story
Elections are approaching and things don't look too good for the opposition. Their leader can't stand the pressure and disappears. To avoid a scandal,...

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...

Secret Journey
2006
Director, Screenplay, Story
After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.

Under a False Name
2004
Director, Screenplay, Story
A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
Director
A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.

Norma
2001
Director
Gaul has been conquered by the Romans. Oroveso, the Arch-Druid longs to lead a Gallic rebellion against the colonial forces. He and all the others wai...

The Prince's Manuscript
2000
Director, Screenplay, Story
A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.

Diario senza date
1995
Screenplay, Story, Director

The Palermo Connection
1990
Second Assistant Director
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...

Blood Ties
1986
Assistant Director
An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia.