Francesco Bruni

Francesco Bruni

1961-09-30 Rome - Lazio - Italy 44 Credits

Biography

Cresciuto a Livorno, città d'origine della madre[1], ha iniziato la propria carriera nel 1991, con la cosceneggiatura del film Condominio di Felice Farina. Dal 1994 ha scritto le sceneggiature dei film del regista Paolo Virzì (La bella vita, Ferie d'agosto, Ovosodo, Baci e abbracci, My Name Is Tanino, Caterina va in città, N (Io e Napoleone) e Tutta la vita davanti) e dal 1995 al 2003 anche quelle dei film del regista Mimmo Calopresti (La seconda volta, La parola amore esiste, Preferisco il rumo...

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Cinque secondi

2025

Writer

Writing
Another Summer Holiday

Another Summer Holiday

2024

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends to...

Everything's Gonna Be Alright

Everything's Gonna Be Alright

2020

Writer, Director

7.2
Writing Directing

Bruno Salvati is a director of little success, fresh from the separation from his wife Anna with whom he had two children, the twenty-year-old Adele a...

La concessione del telefono

La concessione del telefono

2020

Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Although Pippo Genuardi seems to have cleared his mind by marrying Taninè Schilirò, daughter of the richest man in Vigàta, he is in fact someone who i...

La stagione della caccia

La stagione della caccia

2019

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guardi...

La mossa del cavallo

La mossa del cavallo

2018

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

Montelusa, Sicily, Italy, 1877. Giovanni Bovara, the new chief inspector of the mills, is charged with collecting a severe tax. Sicilian by birth, but...

Everything You Want

Everything You Want

2017

Director, Screenplay

7.4
Directing Writing

An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prosp...

Let Yourself Go

Let Yourself Go

2017

Screenplay, Story

6.1
Writing

Depressed Jewish shrink Elia one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.

Slam

Slam

2016

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

Samuele is 16 and has a passion for skateboarding. He has big dreams: going to university, move to California, and travel, but things change when he m...

Four of Us

Four of Us

2014

Screenplay, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times.

Human Capital

Human Capital

2013

Screenplay

7.5
Writing

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.

I delitti del BarLume - Il re dei giochi

I delitti del BarLume - Il re dei giochi

2013

Teleplay

7.0

The King of Games - when a car accident results in death, the uncles suspect fowl play and want to investigate. Massimo is asked by the detective cove...

Studio illegale

Studio illegale

2013

Writer

4.8
Writing
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni

2012

as Self

Acting
Every Blessed Day

Every Blessed Day

2012

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposed characters and backgrounds. He works a night job as a doorman, while she works all day in a car rent...

Anche se è amore non si vede

Anche se è amore non si vede

2011

Story, Screenplay

6.3
Writing

Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to Turin, and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a d...

Easy!

Easy!

2011

Director, Story, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son.

Weddings and Other Disasters

Weddings and Other Disasters

2010

Story, Screenplay

5.2
Writing

A single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.

The First Beautiful Thing

The First Beautiful Thing

2010

Story, Screenplay

7.3
Writing

The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful A...

La matassa

La matassa

2009

Story, Screenplay

6.7
Writing

Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings t...

A Whole Life Ahead

A Whole Life Ahead

2008

Story, Screenplay

6.6
Writing

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for singl...

Non c'è più niente da fare

Non c'è più niente da fare

2008

Writer

5.8
Writing
I Vicerè

I Vicerè

2007

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its wan...

7 and 8

7 and 8

2007

Screenplay, Story

6.8
Writing

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-o...

Napoleon and Me

Napoleon and Me

2006

as Cicisbeo di corte

6.1
Acting

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man...

Napoleon and Me

Napoleon and Me

2006

Screenplay, Story

6.1
Writing

Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man...

L'estate del mio primo bacio

L'estate del mio primo bacio

2006

Screenplay

4.5
Writing
4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo

2006

Story, Screenplay

5.4
Writing

Four stories about football.

Caterina in the Big City

Caterina in the Big City

2003

Story, Screenplay

6.5
Writing

When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself...

Happiness Costs Nothing

Happiness Costs Nothing

2003

Screenplay, Story

3.6
Writing

A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a youn...

My Name Is Tanino

My Name Is Tanino

2002

Screenplay

6.3
Writing

During a sunny Sicilian summer Tanino has a sweet and tender story with Sally, a young American tourist. But when summer is over, Sally flies back to ...

Nati stanchi

Nati stanchi

2002

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends wi...

The Words of My Father

The Words of My Father

2001

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

At 30, Zeno's father dies, and he realizes that his youth is almost over. Meeting Giovanni Malfenti, a succesful gallery owner with four daughters, he...

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea

I Prefer the Sound of the Sea

2000

Screenplay, Story

5.8
Writing

This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a...

La guerra degli Antò

La guerra degli Antò

1999

as Piero Broccoli

6.7
Acting

The story of four implausible young rebellious in the Italy of the 90's.

Kisses and Hugs

Kisses and Hugs

1999

Screenplay, Story

6.2
Writing

A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome him in t...

Notes of Love

Notes of Love

1998

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confus...

Ovosodo

Ovosodo

1997

Story, Screenplay

7.2
Writing

From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici

Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici

1997

Screenplay

Writing

A group of Italian people go to Cuba, for various different reasons. One of them would like to remake Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief. But it won...

August Vacation

August Vacation

1996

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house ne...

The Second Time

The Second Time

1995

Screenplay, Story

5.8
Writing

A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and ...

Living It Up

Living It Up

1994

Writer

6.5
Writing

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

Bonus Malus

Bonus Malus

1993

Screenplay, Story

5.3
Writing

The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart.

Condominio

Condominio

1991

Writer

5.2
Writing