Known For
Complete Filmography

The Illusion
2025
Screenplay, Story
1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all reg...

Mimì – Prince of Darkness
2023
Writer
Mimì is an orphaned teenager born with deformed feet who works at a pizzeria in Naples. One fateful day, he meets Carmilla, a young girl convinced she...

Through the Waves
2022
Writer
Salvo and Lea travel in the night in a refrigerator truck. Theirs is a mysterious destination as well as the cargo they carry. That journey becomes an...

Strangeness
2022
Screenplay
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello...

Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
2020
Writer
Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.

The Life Ahead
2020
Screenplay
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.

Alone With Her Dreams
2019
Writers' Assistant
Set in the late 1960s, the film explores the issues of immigration, community values and family devotion through the eyes of a young girl, Lucia, who ...
Aria
2018
Screenplay
A short film by Brando de Sica.

Dogman
2018
Screenplay, Story
Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who te...

Si muore tutti democristiani
2018
Scenario Writer
Enrico, Fabrizio and Stefano are three left-winged friends.

As Needed
2018
Screenplay
A 40-year-old world-famous chef with anger management issues is assigned to run a cooking class at a centre for young people with autism.

The Stuff of Dreams
2016
Screenplay
Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone wher...

On Air: Storia di Un Successo
2016
Screenplay, Idea, Story
In an alternation of stories from the past and present of Marco Mazzoli, radio DJ and creator of Lo Zoo di 105 (one of the most followed radio program...

Tale of Tales
2015
Screenplay, Story
The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomon...

Basta poco
2015
Screenplay

A Woman as a Friend
2014
Screenplay, Story
Francesco and Claudia are best friends. They're inseparable and tell each other everything, until another man enters the picture stealing Claudia's he...

The Fifth Wheel
2013
Story, Screenplay
The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his friends and family.

Aspirante vedovo
2013
Screenplay
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve j...

Reality
2012
Screenplay
A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fra...

L'erede
2011
Writer
Dopo la morte del padre, Bruno, medico milanese, prende possesso di una vecchia villa immersa nella natura selvaggia degli Appennini. Non sarà un’ered...

Ages of Love
2011
Screenplay, Story
In Italy, three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a reti...

Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
2010
as Self

The Black Sheep
2010
Story, Screenplay
Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, ...

Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
2010
Screenplay, Story
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.

Black Sea
2009
Screenplay
It depicts the relationship between an elderly woman and her caregiver.

Italians
2009
Screenplay, Story
Two stories of Italians abroad: in Dubai, a truck driver who smuggles Ferraris for a living teaches the tricks of the trade to his young disciple; in ...

Gomorrah
2008
Screenplay
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: th...

Manual of Love 2
2007
Story, Screenplay
Paralyzed from a crash, Nicola falls for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela seek fertility treatment in Barcelona. Filippo and Fosco, a gay...

SMS: Sotto Mentite Spoglie
2007
Writer, Idea, Story
A married man with two children, faithful and in love with his wife, discovers that his wife would like to spice up the menage a little. He plays alo...

Manual of Love
2005
Screenplay, Story
Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.

Ti spiace se bacio mamma?
2003
Story, Screenplay

The Embalmer
2002
Screenplay, Story
Peppino is an aging taxidermist constantly ridiculed for being short and somewhat creepy. He meets Valerio, a handsome young man fascinated by Peppino...

Caruso, zero in condotta
2001
Script, Writer
Lorenzo Caruso is a piscologist who lives in a provincial town with his daughter Giulia, the only company since the death of his wife. Suddenly Lorenz...

I Love Andrea
2000
Screenplay
Dado likes the beautiful Francesca who likes Andrea, a girl that lives with her.

The Second Wife
1998
Director, Writer
In the early 1960's, a Sicilian single mother marries an older, crass widowed truck driver. When he is arrested trying to smuggle an antique, she ends...

I volontari
1998
Writer
Episode movies with stories about a volunteer and relief association.

Il barbiere di Rio
1996
Writer
Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister's invitation to Br...

Ritorno a casa Gori
1996
Story, Screenplay
Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the sto...

Albergo Roma
1996
Director, Writer

Silenzio... si nasce
1996
Screenplay, Story
Two dizygotic twins in the womb become aware of their existence in a series of surrealistic situations.

Ivo il tardivo
1995
Story, Screenplay

OcchioPinocchio
1994
Story, Screenplay
A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.

Belle al bar
1994
Story, Screenplay
During a marriage crisis, unhappy Leo has to go to another town for work. There he meets his long-lost cousin Giulio, who has become... Giulia, a very...

Per amore, solo per amore
1993
Story, Screenplay
In 1st century BC Palestine, Joseph is a carpenter who wants to travel and see the world, but destiny makes him meet young Mary. The two fall in love ...

Caino e Caino
1993
Writer
After the death of their industrialist father leaves them each with 49% of his company shares, two quarrelling brothers go to war for the remaining 2%...

Donne con le gonne
1991
Writer, Production Design
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...

Zitti e mosca
1991
Writer
In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about the fall of Communism, the lives of some dazed cha...

Benvenuti in casa Gori
1990
Screenplay, Story, Costume Design
The film is set in a house in a Tuscan landscape, has an ironic content and a Christmas frame. The film is divided into 5 episodes: The Family, The Lu...

Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
1989
Production Design, Screenplay
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...

Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco)
1988
Production Design
Psychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Ev...

Maramao
1987
Production Design, Set Decoration
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...

Stregati
1986
Production Design
Lorenzo is the conductor of Radio Strega's night show, making up false court sentences for those who suffer from insomnia.

What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight
1982
Costume Design
A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco.

Ad ovest di Paperino
1982
Production Design, Costume Design
It is the first film of the comedy trio "I GianCattivi", formed by Athina Cenci, Francesco Nuti and Benvenuti, who won the Nastro d'Argento for Best N...

Bebo's Girl
1964
as Arnaldo
At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is findin...