Biography
Tonino Benacquista (born in Choisy-le-Roi on 1 September 1961) is an award-winning French crime fiction author, comics writer, and screenwriter. He wrote the novel Malavita (Badfellas for 2010 English translation), which was later adapted into a film by Relativity Media andEuropaCorp titled The Family; it was released on September 13, 2013, in North America. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tonino Benacquista, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Complete Filmography

The Family
2013
Book
After ratting out his Mafia cohorts, Giovanni Manzoni and his family enter the Witness Protection Program and relocate to a sleepy town in France. Des...

L'Innocent
2012
Writer
The film is based on real events be tween the years 1978-1980. Theo Grangier, a man without education, with no parents nor family, is involved in the ...

A Crime
2006
Author
Vincent's life is on hold until he finds his wife's killer. Alice, his neighbor, is convinced she can make him happy. She decides to invent a culprit,...

Black Box
2005
Story
An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.

The Beat That My Heart Skipped
2005
Screenplay
A ruthless real estate agent discovers a passion for piano and auditions with help from a young virtuoso, but the pressures of his corrupt career thre...

The Overeater
2003
Original Story
Séléna is chief of the Marseille police. Respected and feared by his men, his sole enemy seems to be himself, along with his 300 pounds. Strangled by ...

Read My Lips
2001
Screenplay
She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.

Love Bites
2001
Novel
Antoine is a social wannabe who drops an elusive aristocrat's name to get into an exclusive party. The name - Jordan - gets him whisked by two burly b...
The Ceiling
2000
Original Story
In his small apartment, a middle-aged man has reached the end of his tether. He has become indifferent, even to his only true passion, classical music...

The Heart at Work
2000
Screenplay
A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives.

Evasions
2000
Writer
In the hot summer of 1940 the German troops are just outside Paris, and numerous Parisians are leaving the city in a complete panic. Luce Ader, the se...

Hard Off
1999
Writer
This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Th...

Couchettes express
1994
Novel
Antoine steward on the night train Paris-Venice. He must cards and identity documents of travelers in 'his' pick wagon. One day, a passenger, Jean-Ber...