Ferzan Özpetek

Ferzan Özpetek

1959-02-03 Istanbul, Turkey 40 Credits

Biography

He is a Turkish-Italian director, screenwriter and writer. In 1976, he first went to Perugia Foreigners University in Italy, learned Italian for a year, and then transferred to Rome La Sapienza University to study cinema. After completing his education there, he went to Accademia Navona and Accademia d'Arte Dramatica schools to study art history, costume and theater direction and took lessons from Silvio D'Amico. During this period, he worked with Julien Beck in various positions on the European...

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Diamonds

Diamonds

2024

as Ferzan

7.2
Acting

A film director gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal muc...

Diamonds

Diamonds

2024

Director, Story, Screenplay

7.2
Directing Writing

A film director gathers his favorite actresses, those he worked with and those he loved. He wants to make a film about women but he doesn’t reveal muc...

Musicanti con la pianola

Musicanti con la pianola

2024

as Himself

Acting
Istanbul Trilogy: Music

Istanbul Trilogy: Music

2024

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

A man facing some issues with his business gets the chance to see how a seemingly simple event from his childhood affected someone life's forever.

Istanbul Trilogy: Muhabbet

Istanbul Trilogy: Muhabbet

2024

Director, Writer

8.4
Directing Writing

A man who moved away from his hometown engages in deep conversations with his friends and family while toasting, eating and celebrating life.

Istanbul Trilogy: Meze

Istanbul Trilogy: Meze

2024

Writer, Director

6.5
Writing Directing

In order to cope with a big disappointment on her wedding day, a woman gathers at the table with her loved ones to share delicious mezes.

Nuovo Olimpo

Nuovo Olimpo

2023

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

In 1970s Rome, a casual encounter between Enea and Pietro at a movie theater turns into an unforgettable romance — until destiny pulls them apart.

Buon compleanno Massimo

Buon compleanno Massimo

2023

as Sé stesso

7.5
Acting
L'uomo che inventò il futuro

L'uomo che inventò il futuro

2021

Director

7.0
Directing

A father, a son. Two distant words. United by the same story.

The Goddess of Fortune

The Goddess of Fortune

2019

Writer, Director

7.1
Writing Directing

Alessandro and Arturo have been together for over 15 years and, despite the feeling they still have for each other, their relationship is now at crisi...

Stranger in My Pocket

Stranger in My Pocket

2018

Producer

6.6
Producing

The seven old friends decide to come together for dinner. Everyone is seated at the table, chatting, eating laughing accompaniment. During the meal, i...

Naples in Veils

Naples in Veils

2017

Director, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden lo...

Red Istanbul

Red Istanbul

2017

Novel, Director, Screenplay

5.7
Directing Writing

Orhan who lived in London for years and did not come back to Turkey agrees to help Deniz -a famous director- edit his first book. Deniz has been livin...

Fasten Your Seatbelts

Fasten Your Seatbelts

2014

Director, Screenplay

6.7
Directing Writing

Elena and Antonio seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate t...

A Magnificent Haunting

A Magnificent Haunting

2012

Screenplay, Director, Story

6.5
Writing Directing

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Aida

Aida

2012

Stage Director

Directing
Voi siete qui

Voi siete qui

2011

as Self

Acting
Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano

Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano

2010

as Self

7.0
Acting
Loose Cannons

Loose Cannons

2010

Director, Screenplay, Story

7.3
Directing Writing

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip...

L'Aquila 2009 - Five Directors in the Rubble

L'Aquila 2009 - Five Directors in the Rubble

2009

Director

Directing
A Perfect Day

A Perfect Day

2008

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intr...

Saturn in Opposition

Saturn in Opposition

2007

Director, Writer, Idea

6.9
Directing Writing

This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. L...

Sacred Heart

Sacred Heart

2005

Story, Director, Screenplay

6.4
Writing Directing

Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.

Facing Windows

Facing Windows

2003

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to refle...

His Secret Life

His Secret Life

2001

Screenplay, Director, Story

7.3
Writing Directing

When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholes...

Last Harem

Last Harem

1999

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

A story of the impossible love between one of the Sultan's concubines and one of his eunuchs in a harem at the end of the Ottoman Empire.

Steam: The Turkish Bath

Steam: The Turkish Bath

1997

Director, Writer

6.6
Directing Writing

Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turk...

OcchioPinocchio

OcchioPinocchio

1994

First Assistant Director

4.3
Directing

A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.

The Pack

The Pack

1994

Casting, First Assistant Director

5.7
Directing

In the Roman province a group of boys accepted Sola's proposal: to rape two German tourists on holiday in Italy held captive in a shack by a junkyard....

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima

1994

Assistant Director

5.9
Directing
Donne con le gonne

Donne con le gonne

1991

First Assistant Director

6.3
Directing

Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an h...

Ultrà

Ultrà

1991

Assistant Director

6.6
Directing

The "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, ...

Willy Signori e vengo da lontano

Willy Signori e vengo da lontano

1989

First Assistant Director

6.4
Directing

Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it...

Mortacci

Mortacci

1989

First Assistant Director

7.0
Directing

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who reme...

The Man Who Didn't Want to Die

The Man Who Didn't Want to Die

1989

Assistant Director

Directing

A young man lies in a hospital suspended between life and death. The police know nothing about him. The patient, in his rare moments of consciousness,...

The Big Fox

The Big Fox

1988

First Assistant Director

6.9
Directing

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltor...

Maramao

Maramao

1987

Assistant Director

6.5
Directing

A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood, while experiencing his sexual awa...

Us Real Men, We Hard Men

Us Real Men, We Hard Men

1987

First Assistant Director

5.7
Directing

Mario, a tram-driver, and Silvio, a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course.

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri

The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri

1986

First Assistant Director

5.4
Directing

Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is lin...

Son contento

Son contento

1983

as Il madonnaro

6.0
Acting