Tonino Benacquista

Tonino Benacquista

1961-09-01 Choisy-le-Roi, Val-de-Marne, France 13 Credits

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.

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The Family

The Family

2013

Book

6.4

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

L'Innocent

2012

Writer

7.0
Writing

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

A Crime

2006

Author

5.5

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

Black Box

2005

Story

5.5
Writing

An accident survivor wakes from a coma and confronts old, uncomfortable memories.

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

The Beat That My Heart Skipped

2005

Screenplay

6.9
Writing

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

The Overeater

2003

Original Story

6.2
Writing

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

Read My Lips

2001

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

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

Love Bites

2001

Novel

4.6

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

5.8
Writing

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

The Heart at Work

2000

Screenplay

4.2
Writing

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

Evasions

Evasions

2000

Writer

6.0
Writing

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

Hard Off

1999

Writer

3.1
Writing

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

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...