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...
Known For
Complete Filmography

La Grazia
2025
Director, Producer, Writer
A love story set somewhere in Italy.

L'infinito
2025
Screenplay
An autobiographical bittersweet drama centered on Contarello’s rapport with his daughter.

The Flood
2024
Associate Producer
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
2024
Producer, Writer, Director
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
2024
Producer
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
2023
Creative Producer

Room 999
2023
as Self
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
2023
Producer
In Nazi-occupied France, the heart of a young nun is torn between God and Love.

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
2023
as Sé stesso
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
2022
Thanks
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
2021
as Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

The Hand of God: Through the Eyes of Sorrentino
2021
as Self
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
2021
Producer, Screenplay, Director
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
2018
Writer, Director
Rome, outdoors, at night. A photographer is frantically shooting a fashion feature, with the Colosseum in the backdrop, when the unexpected occurs: th...

Loro
2018
Director, Writer
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
2018
Writer, Director
"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
2018
Writer, Director
"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
2017
Screenplay, Director
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
2016
as Self
Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore talk about their idea of cinema.

Cercando La grande bellezza
2015
as Self
Drama, documentary

Youth
2015
Director, Writer
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
2014
as se stesso
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
2014
Stage Director
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
2014
Director
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
2014
Director, Writer
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
2014
The Dream
2014
Director, Writer
Valeria follows her parents in a jewelry shop during closure time.

The Great Beauty
2013
as Comparsa
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
2013
Screenplay, Director
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
2011
Writer, Director
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
The past is a locked door.
Napoli 24
2010
Writer, Director
The city of Naples is told through 24 short stories that emphasize its complexity, looks and characters.

The Other Half
2009
Presenter
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
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...

A Matter of Heart
2009
as se stesso
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
2009
Screenplay, Director
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
2009
Director

Il Divo
2008
Director, Screenplay
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
2006
Director, Screenplay
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
2006
as il marito di Aidra in "Cataratte"
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
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
Short film selling Fiat Croma in different scenarios.

Saturday, Sunday & Monday
2004
Stage Director
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
2004
Screenplay, Director
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
2004
as Self
Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.
Giovani talenti italiani
2004
Director
The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops
2002
Director

The Long Night
2001
Writer, Director
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
2001
Screenplay, Director
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
1998
Director, Writer
A camorrista follows a surreal path.

The Dust of Naples
1998
Screenplay
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
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
Sventramento
1995
Director of Photography

Paradise
1994
Director, Writer
A short film by Paolo Sorrentino and Stefano Russo.

Ladri di futuro
1992
First Assistant Director
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
N/A
Director
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
N/A
Producer, Director
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 ...