Known for Directing
Filmography
27 films


In the Hand of Dante
2026 · 2h 33m
country: Chile
A Vatican priest discovers Dante's original Divine Comedy manuscript. When asked to authenticate it, writer Nick Tosches steals it, while a parallel story follows Dante's quest to create his masterpiece.


La Dolce Villa
2025 · 1h 39m
country: United States
When his daughter decides to buy a crumbling Tuscan villa, Eric rushes to Italy to talk her out of it — and instead finds beauty, romance and new purpose.


I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
2017 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.


I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
2017 · 1h 53m
country: Italy
Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.


Suburra
2015 · 2h 10m
country: Italy
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.


I Can Quit Whenever I Want
2014 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.


Those Happy Years
2013 · 1h 40m
country: France
A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.


A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards
2012 · 1h 45m
country: France
A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.


Easy!
2011 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son.


Days and Clouds
2007 · 1h 56m
country: Italy
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new work, and making sacrifices.


Happiness Costs Nothing
2003 · 1h 33m
country: France
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test.


The Soul Keeper
2003 · 1h 30m
country: France
Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.


Ripley's Game
2002 · 1h 50m
country: United Kingdom
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?


One Man Up
2001 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.


I Prefer the Sound of the Sea
2000 · 1h 24m
country: Italy
This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ones of his son Matteo. Rosario lives in a "commune" and Matteo in a beautiful, comfortable house. They're both introverted and shy and find a common ground: they meet, go out together, become friends and show each other a completely different way of living their lives as teenagers.


Making Love
2000 · 1h 47m
country: Italy
Costanza is drinking a beer in a Prague pub, a summer night in 1968, while a violinist enters and starts playing a "canone inverso" for her. It is not a case, that music and that violin have a story behind that could concern her. It is the love story between Jeno Varga and the music, between Jeno and Sophie.


My Best Friend's Wife
1998 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Roberto is a doctor in a small town near Naples. He suffers from a severe heart disease and he is heading toward an American hospital for a dangerous surgery with little or no hope of surviving. Therefore he talks to his best friend since childhood, Michele, a columnist at the local newspaper, explaining his last and long-wanted desire: having sex once with his Swedish beautiful wife, Frida.


The Way We Laughed
1998 · 2h 4m
country: Italy
Studying to become a teacher in 1950s Northern Italy, Sicilian immigrant Pietro is joined by his big brother Giovanni. Pietro shows considerable promise in his field, prompting illiterate Giovanni to take on even the toughest jobs in order to support his sibling's academic pursuits.


Broken Hearts
1996 · 1h 36m
country: Germany
The daughter of a gangster tries to seduce her driver.


Bonus Malus
1993 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart.