Known For
Complete Filmography

The House of Looks
2025
Screenplay, Story
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
2015
Screenplay
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
2015
Story, Screenplay
The life of Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci.

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

Siberian Education
2013
Screenplay
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
2013
Writer
A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.

Dormant Beauty
2012
Screenplay
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
2012
Screenplay, Story
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
2010
Screenplay, Story
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...

'O professore
2008
Writer
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
2007
Story, 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...

Cefalonia
2005
Writer
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
2005
Story, Screenplay
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
2005
Screenplay
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
2005
A Donatello award nominated documentary following the life of an autistic boy and his family.

Un silenzio particolare
2005
Screenplay, Director
A Donatello award nominated documentary following the life of an autistic boy and his family.

The Keys to the House
2004
Screenplay
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

Doppio agguato
2003
Story Editor
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
2003
Screenplay, Story
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
2001
Writer
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
1999
Thanks
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
1998
Story, Screenplay
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
1997
Screenplay, Story
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
1997
Writer

The Truce
1997
Screenplay
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
1996
Screenplay, Story
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?
1995
Screenplay, Story
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
1995
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...

Il toro
1994
Story, Screenplay
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
1993
Screenplay, Story
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
1991
Screenplay, Story
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
1991
Screenplay
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

Tomato
1990
Story, Writer
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
1989
Screenplay, Dialogue
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

The Ferrywoman
1986
Writer
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
1979
Director
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
1977
Writer
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
1977
Screenplay, Assistant Director
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
1975
as Himself (uncredited)
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
1975
Director
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...