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...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Cinque secondi
2025
Writer

Another Summer Holiday
2024
Screenplay
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
2020
Writer, Director
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
2020
Screenplay
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
2019
Screenplay
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
2018
Screenplay
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
2017
Director, Screenplay
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
2017
Screenplay, Story
Depressed Jewish shrink Elia one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.

Slam
2016
Screenplay
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
2014
Screenplay, Director
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times.

Human Capital
2013
Screenplay
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
2013
Teleplay
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
2013
Writer

Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012
as Self

Every Blessed Day
2012
Screenplay
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
2011
Story, Screenplay
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!
2011
Director, Story, Screenplay
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
2010
Story, Screenplay
A single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.

The First Beautiful Thing
2010
Story, Screenplay
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
2009
Story, Screenplay
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
2008
Story, Screenplay
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
2008
Writer

I Vicerè
2007
Screenplay
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
2007
Screenplay, Story
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
2006
as Cicisbeo di corte
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
2006
Screenplay, Story
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
2006
Screenplay

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
2006
Story, Screenplay
Four stories about football.

Caterina in the Big City
2003
Story, Screenplay
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
2003
Screenplay, Story
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
2002
Screenplay
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
2002
Screenplay
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
2001
Screenplay
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
2000
Screenplay, Story
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
1999
as Piero Broccoli
The story of four implausible young rebellious in the Italy of the 90's.

Kisses and Hugs
1999
Screenplay, Story
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
1998
Screenplay
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
1997
Story, Screenplay
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
1997
Screenplay
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
1996
Screenplay
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
1995
Screenplay, Story
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
1994
Writer
A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

Bonus Malus
1993
Screenplay, Story
The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart.

Condominio
1991
Writer