Known For
Complete Filmography

Nuovo Olimpo
2023
Writer, Producer
In 1970s Rome, a casual encounter between Enea and Pietro at a movie theater turns into an unforgettable romance — until destiny pulls them apart.

Don't Kill Me
2021
Writer
After Mirta dies of a drug overdose with her lover, she resuscitates alone and discovers she's part of a violent world she never knew existed.

The Goddess of Fortune
2019
Writer, Producer
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...

Naples in Veils
2017
Screenplay, Producer
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
2017
Screenplay
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
2014
Producer
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...

The Face of Another
2013
Writer
Bella is the host of a popular television program about plastic surgery. Her husband René is a surgeon who performs operations on guests during the sa...

Love Is Not Perfect
2012
Screenplay, Producer
Elena is a beautiful, 35-year-old accomplished woman who has an unhealthy obsession with perfection. Elena's well-ordered life is thrown into chaos, h...

The Sicilian Girl
2008
Writer, Producer
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to deno...

The Past Is a Foreign Land
2008
Producer
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had...

Saturn in Opposition
2007
Writer, Producer, Presenter
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...

Death Is Beautiful: Michele Soavi Directs Dellamorte Dellamore
2006
A brief overview of the inspiration and process behind making Cemetery Man.

Sacred Heart
2005
Screenplay
Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.

The Holy Girl
2004
Associate Producer
Amalia is an adolescent girl who is caught in the throes of her emerging sexuality and her deeply held passion for her Catholic faith. These two drive...

Facing Windows
2003
Writer, Producer
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...

Eden
2001
Co-Producer
In 1939, Kalman, an ambitious young businessman, leaves Europe to join his sister Samantha in Palestine. She lives with Dov, an idealistic architect o...

His Secret Life
2001
Screenplay, Story, Producer
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...

Kippur
2000
Co-Producer
The film takes place in 1973 during the Yom Kippur War in which Egypt and Syria launched attacks in Sinai and the Golan Heights. The story is told fro...

Last Harem
1999
Writer
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.

The Princess and the Pauper
1997
Screenplay
A fairy tale about a twin princess and a prince who where seperated after their birth.

The Cave of the Golden Rose 5
1996
Writer
In this last episode princess Fantaghirò ends up in a parallel dimension fairy land full of kids. Here the princess must fight against a villain calle...

Snowball
1995
Screenstory
Snowball, a dolphin, gets into trouble when it swallows a bottle with the records of pension payments owed to Billy Bolla, an aged cruise ship enterta...

The Cave of the Golden Rose 4
1994
Writer
A black cloud travels across country, kills animals and plants and dries up the rivers. When the cloud reaches Fantaghiro's kingdom she meets Prince P...

Cemetery Man
1994
Writer, Producer
Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.

The Dragon Ring
1994
Writer
The Dragon Ring is an italian film of two parts. It's about Desideria, the dragon king's daughter and Selvaggia, her adopted and magical sister. To ge...

The Cave of the Golden Rose 3
1993
Writer
The powerful evil wizard Tarabas gets knowledge about a prophecy that a king's child will defeat him. So he sends out his army of dead soldiers to kid...

Trauma
1993
Story
A young Romanian woman and a recovering drug addict launch an unlikely investigation after her parents are murdered by a vicious serial killer known a...

The Cave of the Golden Rose 2
1992
Writer
Fantaghiro and Romualdo are preparing their marriage when the Black Queen disgusted by their deep love captures Fantaghiro's father. Romualdo and his ...

The Sect
1991
Writer
A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely schoolteacher almost runs over an elderly man and take...

Women in Arms
1991
Writer
Nadia Cossa is a political prisoner who manages to escape during a transfer to a new prison. The young policewoman who was escorting her is suspended ...

Stuff for the Rich
1987
Screenplay
3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an ...

Rimini Rimini
1987
Story, Screenplay
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.

I Am an ESP
1985
Story, Screenplay
Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that...

My Darling, My Dearest
1982
Writer
Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the No...

L'Occhio L'Orecchio La Bocca
1978
as Himself
A short documentary about a 70s Roman film club.