Stefano Rulli

Stefano Rulli

1949-10-03 Rome, Italy 43 Credits

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The House of Looks

The House of Looks

2025

Screenplay, Story

7.4
Writing

20-year-old Marco is remarkably attuned to the suffering of people everywhere. He writes poetry but turns to drugs and drink to achieve “the forgettin...

Suburra

Suburra

2015

Screenplay

7.3
Writing

A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common ...

L'Oriana

L'Oriana

2015

Story, Screenplay

6.6
Writing

The life of Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci.

Those Happy Years

Those Happy Years

2013

Screenplay, Story

6.0
Writing

A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.

Siberian Education

Siberian Education

2013

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community reje...

Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno

Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno

2013

Writer

7.1
Writing

A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.

Dormant Beauty

Dormant Beauty

2012

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a ...

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy

2012

Screenplay, Story

7.2
Writing

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local an...

Our Life

Our Life

2010

Screenplay, Story

6.5
Writing

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

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...

'O professore

'O professore

2008

Writer

10.0
Writing

The story of Pietro Filodomini, professor of Italian in a middle school in the Sanità district of Naples, who tries to offer with books an alternative...

My Brother Is an Only Child

My Brother Is an Only Child

2007

Story, Screenplay

6.7
Writing

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...

Cefalonia

Cefalonia

2005

Writer

6.5
Writing

Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in t...

Romanzo Criminale

Romanzo Criminale

2005

Story, Screenplay

7.2
Writing

After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the...

Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide

Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide

2005

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

The life of a Northern Italian middle-class family is turned upside down after their 12-year-old son falls overboard during a sea trip, only to be pic...

Un silenzio particolare

Un silenzio particolare

2005

5.0
Acting

A Donatello award nominated documentary following the life of an autistic boy and his family.

Un silenzio particolare

Un silenzio particolare

2005

Screenplay, Director

5.0
Writing Directing

A Donatello award nominated documentary following the life of an autistic boy and his family.

The Keys to the House

The Keys to the House

2004

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

Doppio agguato

Doppio agguato

2003

Story Editor

6.9
Writing

Italy, 1989. After a prominent coffee industrialist is kidnapped by elusive Sardinian bandits, authorities turn to NOCS (Central Security Operative Un...

The Best of Youth

The Best of Youth

2003

Screenplay, Story

8.1
Writing

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the...

Almost America

Almost America

2001

Writer

Writing

Antonia travels with her children and sister from Italy to Canada to reunite with her husband Vincenzo. But when Antonia discovers Vincenzo has been s...

Girotondo: Giro Attorno al Mondo

Girotondo: Giro Attorno al Mondo

1999

Thanks

6.2

Angelo is an orphan who grew up with a nomad woman. He reacts to his pain over the death of his best friend for overdose, thanks to the encounter with...

I piccoli maestri

I piccoli maestri

1998

Story, Screenplay

6.6
Writing

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...

Auguri professore

Auguri professore

1997

Screenplay, Story

6.3
Writing

Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the ...

Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana

Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana

1997

Writer

6.1
Writing
The Truce

The Truce

1997

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

Vesna Goes Fast

Vesna Goes Fast

1996

Screenplay, Story

6.3
Writing

Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help cha...

Who Killed Pasolini?

Who Killed Pasolini?

1995

Screenplay, Story

6.4
Writing

November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, ...

La scuola

La scuola

1995

Story, Screenplay

6.8
Writing

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

Directing

Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general...

Il toro

Il toro

1994

Story, Screenplay

6.6
Writing

After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to...

Arriva la bufera

Arriva la bufera

1993

Screenplay, Story

5.8
Writing

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 Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall

1991

Screenplay, Story

6.9
Writing

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. ...

The Yes Man

The Yes Man

1991

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

Tomato

Tomato

1990

Story, Writer

3.5
Writing

Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the N...

Mary Forever

Mary Forever

1989

Screenplay, Dialogue

7.5
Writing

A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school po...

Una vittoria (TV)

1988

Screenplay

Writing
The Ferrywoman

The Ferrywoman

1986

Writer

Writing

Giulì is a traveling puppeteer who meets Viola, a young ferrywoman who transports passengers on a raft. Giulì's desire is to have a child, so he build...

The Cinema Machine

The Cinema Machine

1979

Director

Directing

Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry.

In the Highest of Skies

In the Highest of Skies

1977

Writer

6.0
Writing

A group of pilgrims in the Vatican is trapped in an enclosed elevator. Then chaos erupts, and repressed urges come to the surface.

The Seagull

The Seagull

1977

Screenplay, Assistant Director

6.0
Writing Directing

A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of...

Fit to Be Untied

Fit to Be Untied

1975

as Himself (uncredited)

8.5
Acting

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be...

Fit to Be Untied

Fit to Be Untied

1975

Director

8.5
Directing

This documentary was distilled from a 3 1/2-hour television film Nessuno o Tutti, to make the point that many inmates now in mental hospitals could be...