Paolo Sorrentino

Paolo Sorrentino

1970-05-31 Naples, Campania, Italy 58 Credits

Biography

Paolo Sorrentino (Italian: [ˈpaːolo sorrenˈtiːno]; born 31 May 1970; Naples) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Italian cinema working today. He is known for visually striking and complex dramas and has often been compared to Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award two Cannes Film Festival prizes, four Venice Film Festival Awards and four Eu...

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La Grazia

La Grazia

2025

Director, Producer, Writer

Directing Producing Writing

A love story set somewhere in Italy.

L'infinito

L'infinito

2025

Screenplay

Writing

An autobiographical bittersweet drama centered on Contarello’s rapport with his daughter.

The Flood

The Flood

2024

Associate Producer

5.9
Producing

1792. Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their children have been arrested and imprisoned in the Tour du Temple, a sinister chateau in Paris, a...

Parthenope

Parthenope

2024

Producer, Writer, Director

6.8
Producing Writing Directing

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes a...

I Told You So

I Told You So

2024

Producer

4.6
Producing

In Rome, during a January weekend a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the heat quickly escalates to a frightening degree, re...

Roma, santa e dannata

Roma, santa e dannata

2023

Creative Producer

6.9
Producing
Room 999

Room 999

2023

as Self

5.8
Acting

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes...

Lost Love

Lost Love

2023

Producer

Producing

In Nazi-occupied France, the heart of a young nun is torn between God and Love.

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

2023

as Sé stesso

7.8
Acting

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming ...

Amanda

Amanda

2022

Thanks

6.4

Amanda, 24, lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it's the thing she wants the most. Amanda chooses her new mission as to convi...

We Are Cinema

We Are Cinema

2021

as Self (archive footage)

9.5
Acting

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

The Hand of God: Through the Eyes of Sorrentino

The Hand of God: Through the Eyes of Sorrentino

2021

as Self

6.5
Acting

Director Paolo Sorrentino returns to Naples, his hometown, and reflects on his youth in an exclusive tour of the locations of “The Hand of God”.

The Hand of God

The Hand of God

2021

Producer, Screenplay, Director

7.5
Producing Writing Directing

In 1980s Naples, Italy, an awkward Italian teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from...

Little Adventure in Rome

Little Adventure in Rome

2018

Writer, Director

6.8
Writing Directing

Rome, outdoors, at night. A photographer is frantically shooting a fashion feature, with the Colosseum in the backdrop, when the unexpected occurs: th...

Loro

Loro

2018

Director, Writer

6.7
Directing Writing

Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the grou...

Loro 2

Loro 2

2018

Writer, Director

7.1
Writing Directing

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. ...

Loro 1

Loro 1

2018

Writer, Director

6.8
Writing Directing

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. ...

Killer in Red

Killer in Red

2017

Screenplay, Director

6.5
Writing Directing

A man who looks like many others enters a bar to meet a girl. As he waits for her, the bartender tells him about Floyd, a former bartender from the la...

Cinque mondi

Cinque mondi

2016

as Self

6.5
Acting

Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore talk about their idea of cinema.

Cercando La grande bellezza

Cercando La grande bellezza

2015

as Self

7.7
Acting

Drama, documentary

Youth

Youth

2015

Director, Writer

6.9
Directing Writing

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical car...

Three Touches

Three Touches

2014

as se stesso

4.5
Acting

Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With ab...

Le voci di dentro

Le voci di dentro

2014

Stage Director

7.9
Directing

Alberto Saporito spent a very eventful night. His friend Aniello Amitrano was brutally killed and his body was hidden by his neighbors, the Cimmarutas...

Sabbia

Sabbia

2014

Director

Directing

Academy Award winning director Paolo Sorrentino conveyed a seductive stillness of the volcanic islands of Lipari and Stromboli in Southern Italy in a ...

Rio, I Love You

Rio, I Love You

2014

Director, Writer

4.9
Directing Writing

The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story...

Tutte le storie di Piera

Tutte le storie di Piera

2014

Acting

The Dream

2014

Director, Writer

6.0
Directing Writing

Valeria follows her parents in a jewelry shop during closure time.

The Great Beauty

The Great Beauty

2013

as Comparsa

7.5
Acting

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks...

The Great Beauty

The Great Beauty

2013

Screenplay, Director

7.5
Writing Directing

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks...

This Must Be the Place

This Must Be the Place

2011

Writer, Director

7.0
Writing Directing

A bored, retired rock star sets out to find his father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.

In the Mirror

2011

Director, Writer

Directing Writing

The past is a locked door.

Napoli 24

2010

Writer, Director

1.0
Writing Directing

The city of Naples is told through 24 short stories that emphasize its complexity, looks and characters.

The Other Half

The Other Half

2009

Presenter

6.4

It tells the story of an elderly woman, confined in a nursing home because of her poor health. Her daughters do not want to take her to the wedding of...

What Do You Know About Me

What Do You Know About Me

2009

as Self

7.0
Acting

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, t...

A Matter of Heart

A Matter of Heart

2009

as se stesso

6.0
Acting

Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. A...

The Slow Game

The Slow Game

2009

Screenplay, Director

5.0
Writing Directing

In an atmosphere between fiction and reality, a rugby game in the suburbs becomes the allegory of the daily struggle of an Italian family against the ...

L'Aquila 2009 - Five Directors in the Rubble

L'Aquila 2009 - Five Directors in the Rubble

2009

Director

Directing
Il Divo

Il Divo

2008

Director, Screenplay

7.6
Directing Writing

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: e...

The Family Friend

The Family Friend

2006

Director, Screenplay

7.3
Directing Writing

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He ha...

The Caiman

The Caiman

2006

as il marito di Aidra in "Cataratte"

6.7
Acting

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s p...

Nature: Consuelo

2005

Supervising Producer

Producing

In a small rail-station, a young soldier and a girl are waiting for the train. They both share a very specific attraction to scars.

Fiat Croma

2005

Director

Directing

Short film selling Fiat Croma in different scenarios.

Saturday, Sunday & Monday

Saturday, Sunday & Monday

2004

Stage Director

7.3
Directing

Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of ind...

The Consequences of Love

The Consequences of Love

2004

Screenplay, Director

7.6
Writing Directing

Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an a...

I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto

I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto

2004

as Self

Acting

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

Giovani talenti italiani

2004

Director

Directing

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

2002

Director

Directing
The Long Night

The Long Night

2001

Writer, Director

Writing Directing

The long night of Manolo, hairdresser to the stars, on the Champs Élysées during his first experience with cocaine. He goes to discos and seances, see...

One Man Up

One Man Up

2001

Screenplay, Director

7.1
Writing Directing

Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football...

Love Has No Bounds

Love Has No Bounds

1998

Director, Writer

5.1
Directing Writing

A camorrista follows a surreal path.

The Dust of Naples

The Dust of Naples

1998

Screenplay

4.8
Writing

The title deliberatly recalls the famous L'oro di Napoli (Napoli's Gold) by Vittorio De Sica (1954). Alike De Sica's film here Naples is the real prot...

Man Who Check the Meter

Man Who Check the Meter

1995

Assistant Unit Manager

The portly meter reader Crecenzio is first seen blowing up a building. The reasons for this drastic, desperate act provide the basis for the story, wh...

Drogheria

1995

First Assistant Director

Directing

Sventramento

1995

Director of Photography

Directing
Paradise

Paradise

1994

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

A short film by Paolo Sorrentino and Stefano Russo.

Ladri di futuro

Ladri di futuro

1992

First Assistant Director

4.5
Directing

Everyday people, everyday stories. Normal, therefore special. They crave for a tomorrow what they haven't got today: the man or the woman of their dre...

Sue

Sue

N/A

Director

Directing

A biopic about legendary Hollywood talent agent Sue Mengers. Mengers broke the glass ceiling as the female agent who crashed the Hollywood boys club o...

Mob Girl

Mob Girl

N/A

Producer, Director

Producing Directing

The film follows Arlyne Brickman, who grows up among racketeers on the Lower East Side of New York City where she’s drawn to the glamorous and flashy ...