Biography
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (Italian pronunciation: [ˈnanni moˈretti]; born 19 August 1953; Brunico) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. The Palme d'Or winner in 2001, in 2012 he was the President of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. His films have won accolades including a Palme d'Or at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for "The Son's Room", a Silver Bear at the 1986 Berlin Film Festival for "The Mass is Ended" and a Silver Lion at the 1981 Venice Film Festival for "Swe...
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Complete Filmography

Vittoria
2024
Producer
Jasmine is 40 and has everything she ever wanted: a devoted husband, three loving sons, and a thriving hair salon just south of Naples. But after her ...

Quasi a casa
2024
Producer
Caterina is in her 20s, her dream is to become a musician but she’s paralyzed by fear. One summer she meets her idol, the French singer Mia. It is the...

Carlo Mazzacurati - A Certain Idea of Cinema
2024
as Self
Explore the life and work of acclaimed Italian filmmaker Carlo Mazzacurati, who passed away in 2014. It delves into his distinctive poetic style, blen...

A Brighter Tomorrow
2023
as Giovanni
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divor...

A Brighter Tomorrow
2023
Director, Producer, Screenplay
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divor...

Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone
2022
Documentary by Marco Spagnoli.

The Hummingbird
2022
as Daniele Carradori
Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real l...

Las Leonas
2022
as Sé stesso
The story of a group of women immigrants in Rome, the majority from South America, working as caregivers or house cleaners, and all of them avid socce...

Las Leonas
2022
Producer
The story of a group of women immigrants in Rome, the majority from South America, working as caregivers or house cleaners, and all of them avid socce...

Piazza
2022
Producer

We Are Cinema
2021
as Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

Senza troppo recitare la follia
2021

Three Floors
2021
as Vittorio
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Three Floors
2021
Screenplay, Producer, Director
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Santiago, Italia
2018
as Self
After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the reg...

Santiago, Italia
2018
Screenplay, Producer, Director
After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the reg...

Dalla quercia alla palma - 40 anni di Padre Padrone
2017
as Himself
Memories and anecdotes of the making of "Padre Padrone"

Evviva Giuseppe
2017
as Himself
The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.
Cheerful Ischia and Smiling Collarbones
2017
as Self
Nanni Moretti talks about films while he works out with a personal trainer.
Piazza Mazzini
2017
Nanni Moretti talks about the making of Ecce bombo while working out with his personal trainer.
Cheerful Ischia and Smiling Collarbones
2017
Director
Nanni Moretti talks about films while he works out with a personal trainer.
Piazza Mazzini
2017
Director
Nanni Moretti talks about the making of Ecce bombo while working out with his personal trainer.

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'
2016
as Self
A documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015).

Venanzio Revolt: I miei primi 80 anni di cinema
2016
as Narrator
The producer and writer from Turin, Lorenzo Ventavoli, talks to his friend, the critic Steve Della Casa, in a brilliant conversation that touches on t...

The Legend of the Palme d'Or
2015
as Self
From Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the greatest recipients of this trophy recall special moments ...

Mia madre
2015
as Giovanni
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Mia madre
2015
Director, Writer, Producer
Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Tutte le storie di Piera
2014
Gently Dig the Abdomen
2013
Director

Autobiography of the Masked Man
2013
Director

The King
2013
Producer
Transposing the story of the Passion of Jesus to Sardinia, Su Re draws for the very first time on the four gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John tog...

Girlfriend in a Coma
2012
as Self
Girlfriend in a Coma is a documentary that exposes the dire situation of Italian politics and the process of economic and social decline the country h...

A Special Day
2012
as Self
At the 60th anniversary of Cannes Film Festival, 34 famous directors are followed by camera.

Voi siete qui
2011
as Self

We Have a Pope
2011
as Dott. Brezzi
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince...

We Have a Pope
2011
Director, Producer, Screenplay
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince...
Block-notes di Habemus Papam
2011
Producer

Quiet Chaos
2008
as Pietro Paladini
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns...

Quiet Chaos
2008
Screenplay
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns...

Film Quiz
2008
as Himself
Nanni Moretti speaks of the forty films that have inspired him.

Film Quiz
2008
Director
Nanni Moretti speaks of the forty films that have inspired him.

To Each His Own Cinema
2007
as Nanni Moretti (segment "Diario di uno spettatore")
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

To Each His Own Cinema
2007
Director, Writer
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brought together 33 of the world's pre-eminent filmmak...

Cinema 16: European Short Films (U.S. Edition)
2007
Director
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

Diary of a Moviegoer
2007
Director
Through diary-style format, Nanni Moretti explores and confesses his thoughts and reflections on cinema, including a Vespa ride where he mulls over ci...

The Last Championship
2007
as Self
Documentary by Moretti (later to become “Palombella rossa”) about his last competitive waterpolo tournament (1986), accompanied by his voice-over. It ...
Say Something Left-Wing
2007
as Himself
The filmmaker Nanni Moretti recounts the story of his relationship with politics, both through his films and his political activism.

The Last Championship
2007
Writer, Producer, Director
Documentary by Moretti (later to become “Palombella rossa”) about his last competitive waterpolo tournament (1986), accompanied by his voice-over. It ...
The Caiman's Diary
2006
Director
The filmmaker's diary of the making of "Il caimano" and the political events that led up to it.

Cinema 16: European Short Films (European Edition)
2006
Director
A collection of short films by 16 European directors.

The Caiman
2006
as Nanni Moretti / Silvio Berlusconi
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s p...

The Caiman
2006
Director, Screenplay, Producer
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s p...

Colpi di testa
2005
Producer
Rome, 1968. A football passionate PE teacher formed the first woman team. Thirty eight years later, these women players remember with proud and a ting...

Te lo leggo negli occhi
2004
as Cliente negozio

Te lo leggo negli occhi
2004
Producer

I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto
2004
as Self
Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

Anguish Cry of Predator Bird
2003
as Self
A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".

Anguish Cry of Predator Bird
2003
Director, Producer, Writer
A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".

The Last Customer
2003
Director, Producer
A New York pharmacy and the feelings of the people who have run it, putting their heart and soul into it, for two generations: the Gardini family.

Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
2003
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he cre...

Il salumificio
2002
Producer
A builder from the province of Potenza tries to set up a large sausage factory to create employment and well-being in a predominantly agricultural tow...
Zappaterra,
2002
Producer

The Son's Room
2001
as Giovanni
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

The Son's Room
2001
Director, Screenplay, Story
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Aprile
1998
as Self
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on h...

Aprile
1998
Producer, Director, Writer
Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on h...

Three Lives and Only One Death
1996
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers ...

Opening Day of Close-Up
1996
as Himself
At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abba...

Opening Day of Close-Up
1996
Director, Writer
At his cinema in Rome, the Nuovo Sacher, Nanni Moretti anxiously oversees preparations for the premiere of the film Close-up, by Iranian director Abba...

The Second Time
1995
as Alberto Sajevo
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 ...

The Second Time
1995
Producer
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 ...
The Only Country In The World
1994
as Cesare Botero / Self
Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general...
The Only Country In The World
1994
Director
Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general...

Dear Diary
1993
as Nanni Moretti
Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted ...

Dear Diary
1993
Director, Writer, Producer
Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted ...
Caro Nanni
1993
as Himself
Making of "Caro Diario"

The Yes Man
1991
as Cesare Botero
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

The Yes Man
1991
Producer
Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

The Thing
1990
Director, Editor, Producer
1989. Amidst the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the largest Communist party in Western Europe—Italy's PCI—announces it's going to change name and ident...

Palombella rossa
1989
as Michele Apicella
Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election...

Palombella rossa
1989
Director, Writer, Producer
Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election...

It's Happening Tomorrow
1988
as Matteo, il carbonaio
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, dams...

It's Happening Tomorrow
1988
Producer
1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, dams...

Notte italiana
1987
Producer
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to m...

The Mass Is Ended
1985
as Don Giulio
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his fri...

The Mass Is Ended
1985
Director, Story, Screenplay
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his fri...

Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985
as Self
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.

Riso in bianco – Nanni Moretti atleta di se stesso
1984
as Self
Part interview, part monologue, part documentary with Nanni Moretti talking about his work.

Bianca
1984
as Michele Apicella
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaning...

Bianca
1984
Director, Screenplay, Story
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaning...

Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
Director

Sweet Dreams
1981
as Michele Apicella
Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 stu...

Sweet Dreams
1981
Director, Story, Screenplay
Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 stu...

Ecce Bombo
1978
as Michele Apicella
Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four frie...

Ecce Bombo
1978
Director, Story, Screenplay
Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four frie...

Padre Padrone
1977
as Cesare
The true story of the life of Gavino Ledda, the son of a Sardinian shepherd, and how he managed to escape his harsh, almost barbaric existence by slow...

An Autarchic at 'Palazzo'
1977
as Himself
A short about the film "I Am Self-Sufficient"

An Autarchic at 'Palazzo'
1977
Director, Writer
A short about the film "I Am Self-Sufficient"

I Am Self-Sufficient
1976
as Michele Apicella
Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an ex...

I Am Self-Sufficient
1976
Director, Writer, Editor
Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an ex...

How Do You Speak, Brother?
1974
as Don Rodrigo
A parody of Manzoni's canonical 19th-century novel "I promessi sposi" (The Bethroded) from the point of view of the villain Don Rodrigo, who, however,...

How Do You Speak, Brother?
1974
Producer, Director, Writer
A parody of Manzoni's canonical 19th-century novel "I promessi sposi" (The Bethroded) from the point of view of the villain Don Rodrigo, who, however,...

Defeat
1973
Demonstrations of metalworkers, students, and their allies on the left, seen from the point of view of an increasingly disillusioned young leftist. Fi...

Defeat
1973
Producer, Director, Writer
Demonstrations of metalworkers, students, and their allies on the left, seen from the point of view of an increasingly disillusioned young leftist. Fi...
Bourgeois Pâté
1973
as Il ragazzo con la cinepresa
A story of a group of friends and a couple in crisis, exposing the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie.
Bourgeois Pâté
1973
Producer, Director, Writer
A story of a group of friends and a couple in crisis, exposing the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie.
Segni particolari: documentarista
N/A
A passionate, disillusioned and possibly (self)ironic portrait of a generation of filmmakers who decided to tread the rugged paths of real cinema.
It Will Happen Tonight
N/A
The film will explore contemporary emotions, fears, and relationships through intertwined stories, resembling Nevo's narrative style.
My Life with the Waters
N/A
Thanks
Vito Zagarrio, who in 1985 directed the famous documentary "Divine Waters", after 40 years goes again through it's relationship with John Waters and i...
It Will Happen Tonight
N/A
Director, Screenplay
The film will explore contemporary emotions, fears, and relationships through intertwined stories, resembling Nevo's narrative style.