Giuseppe Tornatore

Giuseppe Tornatore

1956-05-27 Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia 56 Credits

Biography

Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo. He worked initially as a freelance photographer. Then, switching to cinema, he made his debut with Le minoranze etniche in Sicilia (The Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a collaborative documentary film which won a Salerno Festival prize. H...

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Brunello, il visionario garbato

2025

Director

Directing

A documentary about the life and work of Brunello Cucinelli, an Italian designer and entrepreneur, founder of the globally renowned company of the sam...

Titanus 1904

Titanus 1904

2024

as Self

Acting
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

2022

as Self

7.3
Acting

To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema...

Ennio

Ennio

2022

as Self

8.3
Acting

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-...

Ennio

Ennio

2022

Director, Screenplay, Story

8.3
Directing Writing

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-...

All Star - Ritorno al cinema

All Star - Ritorno al cinema

2021

as Proiezionista

7.6
Acting

A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

Good Morning, the Wind Blows

Good Morning, the Wind Blows

2020

as Himself

Acting
Citizen Rosi

Citizen Rosi

2019

as Self

7.8
Acting

The narrative wanders through Rosi’s films, not in the order they were shot but following the chronology of the historical facts they deal with. The d...

Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana

Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana

2019

as Self

7.6
Acting
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

2019

as Self

Acting
24/25 Il fotogramma in più

24/25 Il fotogramma in più

2018

as Self

6.0
Acting

A documentary on how cinema and television influence each other and their close relationship.

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.

Correspondence

Correspondence

2016

Writer, Director

6.4
Writing Directing

The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, is based only on phone calls and texts. One day Amy...

Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa

2015

as Self

Acting
Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima

2014

as Self

9.0
Acting
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori

Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori

2014

as Self

Acting
Mafia Millionaires

Mafia Millionaires

2014

Thanks

6.1

The rise and fall of a Neapolitan criminal clan through the story of a boss and his family, divided between the aspiration for a bourgeois life and th...

Tutte le storie di Piera

Tutte le storie di Piera

2014

Acting
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth

Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth

2014

as Self

Acting

Documentary about Italian cinema.

C'era una volta il prossimamente

C'era una volta il prossimamente

2014

as Self

Acting

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

The Best Offer

The Best Offer

2013

Director, Writer

7.8
Directing Writing

Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his ...

Il Mago di Esselunga

Il Mago di Esselunga

2011

Director, Writer

2.5
Directing Writing

The young Sardino and his parents are shopping at Esselunga when it becomes an adventurous voyage.

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

2010

as Self

6.3
Acting

The Documentary Dante Ferretti – Production Designer retraces the life and the career of Dante Ferretti, the famous Italian Artist and Production Desi...

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

2010

as Self

6.5
Acting
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

2010

Director

6.5
Directing
Everybody's Fine

Everybody's Fine

2009

Original Film Writer

6.8
Writing

Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at...

Baaria

Baaria

2009

Director, Writer

7.2
Directing Writing

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), ...

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

2009

Acting

Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema

2007

Acting

"I was the highest paid director in Italy'. Filming in Paris for Giuseppe Tornatore's ‘Four Talks with Freda’ (prod. Cristiano Bortone - Orisa Film)-

A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise

A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise

2006

as Self

Acting

The making of Cinema Paradiso and the characters of Toto and Alfredo

Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema

Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema

2006

as Self

Acting
The Unknown Woman

The Unknown Woman

2006

Screenplay, Director

7.2
Writing Directing

Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little gir...

Marcello, una vita dolce

Marcello, una vita dolce

2006

as Self

5.2
Acting

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his ne...

Under a False Name

Under a False Name

2004

Thanks

6.0

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

2004

as Self

Acting

A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.

The Magic of Fellini

The Magic of Fellini

2002

as Self (archive footage)

2.8
Acting

Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.

A Dream of Sicily

A Dream of Sicily

2000

as Self

Acting

A 52-minute documentary profile of Giuseppe Tornatore featuring interviews with director and extracts from his early home movies as well as interviews...

The Prince's Manuscript

The Prince's Manuscript

2000

Producer

8.2
Producing

A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.

Malena

Malena

2000

Director, Screenplay

7.4
Directing Writing

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

The Legend of 1900

The Legend of 1900

1998

Director, Screenplay

8.3
Directing Writing

The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside worl...

Bakunin's Son

Bakunin's Son

1997

Producer

Producing

Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, ...

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

1997

as Self

Acting
The Star Maker

The Star Maker

1995

Director, Story, Screenplay

7.1
Directing Writing

The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome...

Lo schermo a tre punte

1995

Screenplay, Director

8.0
Writing Directing
Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone

1995

as Self

6.7
Acting

From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé's acclaimed 1986...

A Pure Formality

A Pure Formality

1994

Director, Screenplay, Story

7.4
Directing Writing

Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kin...

The King of Ads

The King of Ads

1991

Director

4.3
Directing

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-...

Especially on Sunday

Especially on Sunday

1991

Director, Adaptation

6.3
Directing

Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed so...

Everybody's Fine

Everybody's Fine

1990

Director, Writer

7.3
Directing Writing

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to...

Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso

1988

as Projectionist (uncredited)

8.4
Acting

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's proje...

Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso

1988

Director, Screenplay, Story

8.4
Directing Writing

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's proje...

The Professor

The Professor

1986

Director, Screenplay, Story

7.1
Directing Writing

An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.

One Hundred Days in Palermo

One Hundred Days in Palermo

1984

Screenplay, Second Unit Director

6.9
Writing Directing

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Da...

Diario di Guttuso

Diario di Guttuso

1982

Director

Directing

Il sognatore indiscreto

N/A

Director

Directing
With Her Eyes

With Her Eyes

N/A

Writer

Writing

Once again, an extraterrestrial mission concluded, and my request for leave was approved more smoothly than anticipated. Yet, unlike before, this time...