Known For
Complete Filmography

Mario Verdone: Il critico viaggiatore
2024
as Self

Trust
2024
Director, Screenplay, Story
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa sugges...

Codice Carla
2023
Director, Writer

Raffa
2023
Director
An account of the life and artistic career of Raffaella Carrà (1943-2021), Italian pop star and television personality, told through the voices of tho...

The Ties
2020
Story, Director, Screenplay
Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt ...

Ordinary Happiness
2019
Story, Director, Screenplay
Died in a car crash, Paolo is allowed to come back to life for 92 minutes more, thanks to a miscalculation made by Heavenly accountants. He decides to...

Io sono Tempesta
2018
Story, Director, Screenplay
To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

That's Life
2018
Thanks
Margherita is a 14 year old living in Milano, who shares everything with her friends. They discuss clothes, music, school and that first kiss. A delig...

Call Me Francis
2015
Director, Screenplay
Biopic about Jorge Maria Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis I.

Those Happy Years
2013
Screenplay, Story, Director
A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.

A Magnificent Haunting
2012
as Regista
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

La scuola è finita
2010
Screenplay
Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to hav...

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self

Our Life
2010
Story, Screenplay, Director
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dra...

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...

All Human Rights for All
2008
Writer, Director
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 ar...

My Brother Is an Only Child
2007
Story, Director, Screenplay
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Acc...

Ginger and Cinnamon
2003
Screenplay, Director
Stefania works in a bookshop. Shortly before closing for summer holidays, Andrea, who was left behind by his fiancée, enters the store.

I piccoli maestri
1998
Director, Screenplay, Story
During the 20 months before Italy's liberation from Fascism, a group of university students trade empty rhetoric for action by joining the Partisans i...

Aprile
1998
as Self
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on h...

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997
as Self

Bits & Pieces
1996
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy'...

La scuola
1995
as prof. Giovannelli (uncredited)
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders wha...

La scuola
1995
Director, Story, Screenplay
In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders wha...
The Only Country In The World
1994
Director
Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general...

Arriva la bufera
1993
Screenplay, Story, Director
Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinera...

The Yes Man
1991
as Campaign ad director (uncredited)
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

The Yes Man
1991
Screenplay, Director
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

La settimana della sfinge
1990
Screenplay, Story, Director
Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman.

Palombella rossa
1989
as Assistente di Michele in TV
Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election...

It's Happening Tomorrow
1988
Director, Screenplay
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, dams...

Man on Fire
1987
Casting
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swank...

Notte italiana
1987
Thanks
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to m...

The Mass Is Ended
1985
as uomo che ride
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his fri...

The Mass Is Ended
1985
First Assistant Director
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his fri...
Juke Box
1985
Director
The elderly president of a film production company bitterly prepares to face the board meeting ready to ask for his resignation in the face of recent ...

Bianca
1984
as guy with bobtail (uncredited)
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaning...

Bianca
1984
Second Assistant Director
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaning...