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Complete Filmography

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

Caccia al tesoro
2017
Writer, Director

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
as Self - Filmmaker
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth o...

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
as Self
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moment...

Non si ruba a casa dei ladri
2016
Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer
Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy, ...

Miami Beach
2016
Director, Screenplay
Miami is one of the most sought by young Italians. It is there, in fact, is going to study at university Luca, a Roman, the son of John and Valentina,...

Torno indietro e cambio vita
2015
Story, Director, Screenplay
Marco is married to a gorgeous woman, has a child and a great job. Everything seems perfect, at least until his wife of 25 years announces that she ha...

Ma tu di che segno 6?
2014
Screenplay, Story
Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.

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

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

A Fairy Tale Wedding
2014
Director, Screenplay, Story
After twenty years, five high school classmates meet again at Daniele's wedding, the only one who has built a career for himself. During a long weeken...

Taste Of You
2014
Screenplay, Director, Idea
It depicts the lives of several groups of characters interacting at the beach of Forte dei Marmi during the mid-1980s.

Alberto il grande
2013
as Self
Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 20...

Us in the U.S.
2013
Director, Story, Screenplay
Five people who never met are convened by a notary for the reading of a will, and learn they are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father...

Buona giornata
2012
Director, Writer
A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st cen...

Monicelli: La versione di Mario
2012
as Self
The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

Vacanze di Natale a Cortina
2011
Screenplay, Story
Roberto Covelli, a Roman lawyer, goes on a Christmas holiday to his chalet in Cortina with his wife Elena and their daughters.

Ex 2: Still Friends
2011
Director, Story, Screenplay
Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European tr...

The Last Fashion Show
2011
Director, Writer
The triumph of the designer Federico Marinoni in the world of Milanese fashion was marred by the tragic death of the maison's main model and the desig...

Meet My Friend
2010
Director, Screenplay
Marco Ferretti is an Italian manager who is young and beautiful, but he cannot stand the presence of women after a difficult affair. When Marco goes t...

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
as Self

Life Is a Wonderful Thing
2010
Writer, Director, Idea
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an...

A Summer In The Caribbean
2009
Director, Writer, Idea
Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the characters are there s...

VIP
2008
Director, Writer

A summer at the sea
2008
Writer, Director, Idea
Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship.

Ci sta un francese, un inglese e un napoletano
2008
Story

Matrimonio alle Bahamas
2007
Writer
Getting ready for the wedding that will unite two very different families- the humble Italian taxi driver Cristoforo Colombo and his wife Rosy, and th...

2061 - Un anno eccezionale
2007
Director, Screenplay, Story
In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.

Piper
2007
Director
Rome, 1965. The entire city awaits the inauguration of the Piper. While the journalist Roberto Benetti falls in love with Sabrina May, the kept woman ...

Olé
2006
Director, Writer
Two quarreling teachers vie for the same woman. In the same time the two will have to accompany a class on a trip in Spain.

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me
2006
Director, Writer
The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s ...

Il ritorno del Monnezza
2005
Director, Screenplay, Story

In This World of Thieves
2004
Director, Writer
A group of middle-aged time-share investors get ripped off and their desire for revenge is well-timed for them to be recruited by a bank clerk who fee...

The Jokes
2004
Screenplay, Director, Story
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.

Natale in India
2003
as Self
Destinies intertwined for two antithetical people who meet during a trip to India, where lots of misunderstandings and funny situations will take plac...

Il pranzo della domenica
2003
Story, Screenplay, Director
The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour...

Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting
2002
Director, Story, Screenplay
Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?

Un maresciallo in gondola
2002
Director, Writer

South Kensington
2001
Director, Screenplay
A London aristocrat (Rupert Everett) rents out rooms in his posh estate to a pair of Italians who are wooing two wealthy British gals (Elle Macpherson...

And now sex
2001
Screenplay, Director
Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From pro...

Quello che le ragazze non dicono
2000
Director, Writer
Francesca, Paola, Laura, and Alicia are four friends who all fall in love with the same man, a musician named Gigi. Alicia is a woman who fears compro...

Christmas Vacation 2000
1999
Director, Screenplay, Story
Superenalotto winner Pasquale Esposito with his family, two penniless students from Emilia and the Colombo and Covelli families, who accidentally rent...

Tifosi
1999
Story
Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter.

Il cielo in una stanza
1999
Director, Story, Screenplay
Clashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being old and stifling. They time travel to the 1960s, where P...

Simpatici & antipatici
1998
Story, Screenplay
In the Tiber sports club, Alberto, a ruthless property developer, the cynical surgeon who makes thirty million dollars after a prostate operation, the...

A Walk in Time: The Adventure Continues
1997
Director, Writer
The back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way t...

Banzai
1997
Director, Writer
Sergio Colombo is an insurance agent. He had just gone through a divorce so he is a little bit scattered. Wanting to unwind he plans to go to vacation...

Fratelli coltelli
1997
Screenplay, Producer, Story
Guelfo is a Florentine noble who has never worked and has no money. On the death of his mother, he believes he can inherit a large fortune, but from t...

A Walk in Time
1996
Director, Story, Screenplay
While visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in ti...

Squillo
1996
Story, Screenplay, Director
Maria, a provincial Polish girl, travels to Milan to pay her older sister Eva a surprise visit. The sisters haven't seen each other in seven years an...

Savages
1995
Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer
A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.

Christmas Vacation '95
1995
Story
Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wa...

I Don't Speak English
1995
Director, Screenplay, Story
If Sergio Colombo, a middle age man, doesn't want to lose his job, has to attend a full immersion English course in UK. So Sergio leave his wife and s...

S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago
1994
Director, Screenplay
In 71 BC in Rome, utter disorder reigns in the form of political corruption and bribery involving the senator Cynic (Leslie Nielsen). The situation is...

The Heroes
1994
Story, Screenplay, Director
Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the ...

Pretty Princess
1993
Screenplay, Director
A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful sw...

Sognando la California
1992
Director, Writer

Piedipiatti
1991
Director, Screenplay, Story
The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old...

Millions
1991
Writer, Director
A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.

Tre colonne in cronaca
1990
Director, Writer
Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a ...

Life with the Kids
1990
Producer
The story of one man dealing with an unexpected series of events, discovering his youth once again in the relationship with a much younger woman and f...

Fratelli d'Italia
1989
Story, Screenplay
Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters.

Mano rubata
1989
Producer
A young writer meets an enigmatic girl who becomes his obsession. Over the course of a strip poker game at a wealthy household, an extreme game of sed...

Le finte bionde
1989
Director, Writer

La moglie ingenua e il marito malato
1989
Producer
A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was st...

To Save Nine
1989
Producer
Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed...

The Gamble
1988
Director, Writer
When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost ever...

Il vizio di vivere
1988
Executive Producer

Montecarlo Gran Casinò
1987
Director, Writer
The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky.

My First 40 Years
1987
Director, Writer
Marina is a woman who never says no...to men, money and fame! Determined to climb the social ladder, she works her way up from a marriage of a million...

Via Montenapoleone
1987
Director, Writer
Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diver...
Cronaca nera
1987
Writer, Producer

Italian Fast Food
1986
Screenplay, Producer
The Film centers around an American-style fast food restaurant in Milan, the employees who work there and the clients that frequent the place.

Yuppies
1986
Director, Screenplay, Story
Willy, Giacomo, Lorenzo and Sandro are 4 young yuppies rampant in the "Milano da bere" of the 80s, who live in the myth of Lawyer Gianni Agnelli and S...

Nothing Underneath
1985
Screenplay, Director
Bob Crane has long maintained a psychic connection to his twin sister, Jessica, who works as a fashion model in Milan. When Bob senses that his sister...

Vacanze in America
1984
Story, Screenplay, Director
A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Do...

Amarsi un po'...
1984
Director, Writer
In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a ge...

A Boy and a Girl
1984
Story
Anna and Calogero are in love and living together in a low-scale apartment while going to the University of Milan. When Anna discovers she is pregnant...

Il Ras del quartiere
1983
Director, Story, Screenplay

Christmas Holidays
1983
Story, Screenplay, Director
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girl...

Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later
1983
Story
More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.

Dagger Eyes
1983
Director, Writer
Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a poli...

Taste of the Sea
1983
Director, Screenplay, Story
A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

Viuuulentemente mia
1982
Director, Screenplay
Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he...

Eccezzziunale... veramente
1982
Director, Story, Screenplay
Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.

I Fichissimi
1981
Director, Story, Screenplay
Romeo and Felice lead two rival bands who constantly make fun of each other. One day, Romeo meets and falls in love with Giulietta, without knowing th...

Una vacanza bestiale
1980
Director, Screenplay, Story
A group of friends decide to go on vacation and they use an agency, the Via Col Vento tours, to organize it. The latter promises them a holiday of dre...

Arrivano i gatti
1980
Screenplay, Story, Director
Four young comedians from Verona ('I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli') go to Rome trying to achieve big success on cinema or TV.

Figlio delle stelle
1979
Director
Daniel, a young singer, tries to break into the world of music, but falls into a depressive crisis from which it only comes out thanks to a girl, Elis...

Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi
1978
Screenplay, Story
For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a...

Luna di miele in tre
1976
Director, Screenplay, Story
Close to the honeymoon, hotel waiter wins a stay in Jamaica with a pin-up. Direction directed by Carlo Vanzina, with the star of "Deep Throat".

Colpita da improvviso benessere
1976
Screenplay
Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist.

My Friends
1975
First Assistant Director
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

While There's War There's Hope
1974
First Assistant Director
Alberto Sordi directs and interprets a corrosive comedy, another "story of an Italian" that makes you smile and reflect. An arms dealer is exposed and...

Come Home and Meet My Wife
1974
First Assistant Director
50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks...

Stardust
1973
First Assistant Director
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Br...

We Want the Colonels
1973
First Assistant Director
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts m...

Lady Liberty
1971
First Assistant Director
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a hu...

Brancaleone at the Crusades
1970
Second Assistant Director
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Cru...

Transplant
1970
Script Supervisor
To satisfy his wife, an elderly man has to have a penis transplant and is willing to pay a lot to do so. Three men are selected, who, for different re...

Oh, Grandmother's Dead
1969
Second Assistant Director
Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.

Toto and the Women
1952
as il piccolo Filippo Jr
Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
Once Upon A Time...
N/A
Writer
A look at The Hermitage museum.