Biography
Paolo Virzì is an Italian film director and screenwriter.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Cinque secondi
2025
Director, Writer

Like There Is No Tomorrow
2025
Producer

Another Summer Holiday
2024
Screenplay, Director, Story
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...

Quel maledetto film su Virzì
2023
as Sè stesso

Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis
2023
as Self
The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic c...

Dry
2022
Story, Screenplay, Director
In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions move...

La dannazione della sinistra - Cronache di una scissione
2021
as Self

Maverick Modigliani
2020
as Self - Interviewee
Born in Livorno, Tuscany, artist Amedeo Modigliani (1884–1920) lived a short, tormented life, narrated here from an original point of view, that of hi...

Tolo Tolo
2020
Screenplay, Story
Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt...

Vivere
2019
Screenplay
In a respectable suburb made up of row houses, Luca Attorre — a freelance journalist who struggles to get his features published in the papers — is un...

Magical Nights
2018
Story, Director, Screenplay
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is fou...

The Leisure Seeker
2018
Director, Screenplay
A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road tr...

Like Crazy
2016
Story, Director, Screenplay
Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world.

An Italian Name
2015
Associate Producer
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of...

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"

Human Capital
2013
Screenplay, Director
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.

Furio Scarpelli - Il racconto prima di tutto
2012
as Sé stesso

Every Blessed Day
2012
Director, 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...

I più grandi di tutti
2012
Producer

Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011
as Self

Voi siete qui
2011
as Self

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self

The First Beautiful Thing
2010
Director, Screenplay, Story
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...

What Do You Know About Me
2009
as Self
Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, t...

L'uomo che aveva picchiato la testa
2009
as Self
Both from the same neighborhood of Livorno, filmmaker Paolo Virzì interviews singer-songwriter Roberto 'Bobo' Rondelli about his art.

L'uomo che aveva picchiato la testa
2009
Director, Producer
Both from the same neighborhood of Livorno, filmmaker Paolo Virzì interviews singer-songwriter Roberto 'Bobo' Rondelli about his art.

A Matter of Heart
2009
as se stesso
Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. A...

A Whole Life Ahead
2008
Director, Producer, Story
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for singl...

Napoleon and Me
2006
Director, 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
Producer, Screenplay, Story
Four stories about football.

The Caiman
2006
as dirigente Maoista in "Cataratte"
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...

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

Caterina in the Big City
2003
Director, 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...

Nemmeno in un sogno
2002
Story
A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidental...

My Name Is Tanino
2002
Director, Screenplay, Story
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 ...

La strana coppia. Incontro con Age e Scarpelli
2001
Director
Documentary about Italian screenwriting legends Agenore 'Age' Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli.
Provino d'ammissione
1999
Director, Writer

Kisses and Hugs
1999
Director, 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...

Ovosodo
1997
Story, Screenplay, Director
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997
as Self

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...

Intolerance
1996
Director
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.

August Vacation
1996
Director, Story, 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...

Living It Up
1994
Writer, Director
A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.
Una questione privata
1993
Teleplay

Centro storico
1992
Story

Condominio
1991
Story

Turné
1990
Story
Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very go...

Time to Kill
1989
Screenplay
During the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier ends up stranded in the desert after a truck wreck. He makes his way to the nearest...