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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Brunello, il visionario garbato
2025
Director
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
2024
as Self

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
as Self
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
2022
as Self
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
2022
Director, Screenplay, Story
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
2021
as Proiezionista
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

Good Morning, the Wind Blows
2020
as Himself

Citizen Rosi
2019
as Self
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
2019
as Self

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
2019
as Self

24/25 Il fotogramma in più
2018
as Self
A documentary on how cinema and television influence each other and their close relationship.

Cinque mondi
2016
as Self
Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore talk about their idea of cinema.

Correspondence
2016
Writer, Director
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

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
2014
as Self

Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
2014
as Self

Mafia Millionaires
2014
Thanks
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
2014

Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
2014
as Self
Documentary about Italian cinema.

C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014
as Self
A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

The Best Offer
2013
Director, Writer
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
2011
Director, Writer
The young Sardino and his parents are shopping at Esselunga when it becomes an adventurous voyage.

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer
2010
as Self
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
2010
as Self

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
Director

Everybody's Fine
2009
Original Film Writer
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
2009
Director, Writer
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
2009
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
2007
"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
2006
as Self
The making of Cinema Paradiso and the characters of Toto and Alfredo

Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
2006
as Self

The Unknown Woman
2006
Screenplay, Director
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
2006
as Self
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
2004
Thanks
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
2004
as Self
A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.

The Magic of Fellini
2002
as Self (archive footage)
Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.

A Dream of Sicily
2000
as Self
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
2000
Producer
A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.

Malena
2000
Director, Screenplay
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
1998
Director, Screenplay
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
1997
Producer
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
1997
as Self

The Star Maker
1995
Director, Story, Screenplay
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

Ennio Morricone
1995
as Self
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
1994
Director, Screenplay, Story
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
1991
Director
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
1991
Director, Adaptation
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
1990
Director, Writer
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
1988
as Projectionist (uncredited)
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
1988
Director, Screenplay, Story
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
1986
Director, Screenplay, Story
An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.

One Hundred Days in Palermo
1984
Screenplay, Second Unit Director
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
1982
Director
Il sognatore indiscreto
N/A
Director

With Her Eyes
N/A
Writer
Once again, an extraterrestrial mission concluded, and my request for leave was approved more smoothly than anticipated. Yet, unlike before, this time...