Known For
Complete Filmography

La valanga azzurra
2024
Director, Writer
“La Valanga Azzurra” traces the unparalleled journey of the Italian national alpine skiing team of the 1970s, led by the legendary coach Mario Cotelli...

Romeo Is Juliet
2024
Director, Screenplay, Story
After her audition as Juliet fails to impress, a young actress determined to act in the latest production of Shakespeare's play crossdresses and is un...

Happiness
2023
as Sé stesso
This is the story of a broken family, of egotistic and manipulative parents, a two-headed monster that devours every hope of freedom on the part of th...

La divina cometa
2023
as Pontormo

Romantiche
2023
Screenplay, Story
A portrait of the flaws and peculiarities of four type of girls living in different districts of Rome.

Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti
2021

Si vive una volta sola
2021
Screenplay, Story
Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decid...

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

Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
2020
as Self
Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte.

The King's Musketeers
2018
Story, Director, Screenplay
In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last jo...

Not for the Young
2017
Screenplay, Story, Director
Frustrated with their lack of upward mobility, some young Italians move to Cuba to start a wi-fi café and attempt to build a new life.

Mr. Cinderella
2015
Screenplay
Convict Umberto is allowed to work outside prison during daytime as a librarian. There he falls for a beautiful woman who mistakes him for a volunteer...

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

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

La brutta copia
2013
Screenplay, Story

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

Happiness at Last
2011
Screenplay, Story
A middle-aged man finds out his late mother was sponsoring a Brazilian girl who has now become a beautiful model and tries his best not to fall for he...

Ages of Love
2011
Screenplay, Story, Director
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

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self

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

Me & Marilyn
2009
Screenplay, Story
During a séance with some friends, divorced carny Gualtiero successfully conjures the spirit of Marilyn Monroe, who'll help him win his family back.

Italians
2009
Director, 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 ...

All Human Rights for All
2008
Director, Writer
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 ar...

A Beautiful Wife
2007
Screenplay, Story
Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andre...

Manual of Love 2
2007
Director, 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...

I Love You in Every Language in the World
2005
as Frate
Divorced high school PE teacher Gilberto falls in love with Margherita, unaware that she is the mother of Paolina, a student who's been hitting on him...

I Love You in Every Language in the World
2005
Screenplay, Story
Divorced high school PE teacher Gilberto falls in love with Margherita, unaware that she is the mother of Paolina, a student who's been hitting on him...

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

What Will Become of Us
2004
Story, Screenplay, Director
A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.

Suddenly Heaven
2003
Story, Screenplay
A confirmed bachelor sees his beliefs about commitment put to the test when a beautiful woman—deserted by her fiancée—forces him to take his place in ...

La mia vita a stelle e strisce
2003
Screenplay, Story

The Prince and the Pirate
2001
Story, Screenplay
After his father's death, elementary school teacher Leopoldo discovers he has to share the inheritance with a half-brother he didn't know existed: hus...

Streghe verso nord
2001
Director, Writer, Idea
Gallio and Teo are two witch defusers. Their task is to track them down and fight them by any means. The second is secretly in love with his sister-in...

Faccia di Picasso
2000
as sacerdote
The usual story of the young director who tells the movie that fails to do. Zany gags, quotes, the eternal exasperation to get at all costs to laugh, ...

Faccia di Picasso
2000
Writer
The usual story of the young director who tells the movie that fails to do. Zany gags, quotes, the eternal exasperation to get at all costs to laugh, ...

Fughe da fermo
2000
as Anarchico

C'era un cinese in coma
2000
Screenplay, Story
A talent agent with a truly talentless client roster, Ercole Preziosi finds himself in trouble when a car crash injures his star comedian, so he turns...

A Fish in Love
1999
Screenplay
Carpenter Arturo becomes a literary sensation when the children's stories he writes in his spare time get published, but he comes to resent success an...

Candlewick
1999
Writer
Red-haired, sex-obsessed manchild Lucio lazes all day long with his friend Pino until he falls for the beautiful head of the local loony bin.

I fobici
1999
Screenplay
Four stories about phobias, manias and other complexes.

Gunslinger's Revenge
1998
Director, Screenplay, Story
The idealistic lifestyle of an old West farmer, his Indian wife, and half-breed son is interrupted when the boy's old gunslinger father returns. They ...

Viola Kisses Everybody
1998
Director, Writer
Three friends see their end-of-summer motorhome holiday trip hijacked by Viola, a beautiful girl on the run from both the law and violent gangsters a...

Fireworks
1997
Story, Screenplay
Ottone, a professional dog sitter who's uncertain about most things in life, asks an analyst if he made the right decision love-wise while recounting ...

Cinque Giorni Di Tempesta
1997
Writer
Giovanni, a young boy who left Sicily for Bolzano to perform his military service , arrives five days early and is forced to stay outside the barracks...

The Cyclone
1996
Screenplay
The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the serendipit...

Il barbiere di Rio
1996
Writer, Director
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...

3
1996
Writer, Idea, Story
Baron Jacopo lives with his beautiful wife and spends his days playing funny pranks and worrying about not having children. His life could change when...

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

The Graduates
1995
Screenplay, Story
Four thirtysomething college students share a flat in Florence: Leonardo pursues beautiful Letizia, Rocco moonlights as a night watchman, Bruno needs ...

Men Men Men
1995
Screenplay
Four homosexual men in their 40s have issues and no small degree of self hatred. Yet, can laugh at themselves and their comrades and often do.

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.

Per amore, solo per amore
1993
Story, Director, 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 ...

Daddy, Don't Blush
1993
Writer
Tullio Venturini, a retired widower, has a daughter, Anna, who is an actress. However, he is the only one not to know that she works in the porn indus...

Nineties
1992
Story, Screenplay
Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on...

Donne con le gonne
1991
Writer
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...

Christmas Vacation '91
1991
Story, Screenplay
This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed ar...

Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
1989
as Solidarnosc
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...

Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
1989
Story, 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
as il secchione
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...

Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco)
1988
Story, Screenplay
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
Director, Writer
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
Story, Screenplay
Lorenzo is the conductor of Radio Strega's night show, making up false court sentences for those who suffer from insomnia.

Blame it on Paradise
1985
as uomo alla locanda
A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

Blame it on Paradise
1985
Story, Screenplay, Second Assistant Director
A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

A School Trip
1983
as Giuseppe
Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
Dio ride
N/A
Director, Screenplay