Known for Production
Barbara Giordani, CSA, ICDN, UICD is a casting director born in Bologna and based in Rome (Italy). She is a member of the European Film Academy. Barbara has worked with directors such as Paolo Genovese, Gabriele Muccino, Rolando Ravello, Massimiliano Bruno, Vincenzo Marra, Davide Marengo, Danny Boyle, George Clooney, and Fernando Meirelles.
Born
December 30, 1963 (age 62)
Birthplace
Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Filmography
79 films, 14 shows


The History of Sound
2025 · 2h 8m
country: United Kingdom
In 1917, two young music students attending the Boston Conservatory bond over a mutual love of folk music. They reconnect a few years later, embarking on a song-collecting trip in the backwaters of Maine.


Somebody to Love
2025 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
On a first date in Rome, the inner voices of recently separated Piero and furniture restorer Lara speak aloud, exposing the true thoughts and anxieties hidden behind their conversation.


Group Therapy
2024 · 1h 40m
country: Italy


Immaculate
2024 · 1h 29m
country: United States
An American nun embarks on a new journey when she joins a remote convent in the Italian countryside. However, her warm welcome quickly turns into a living nightmare when she discovers her new home harbours a sinister secret and unspeakable horrors.


I Don't Understand You
2024 · 1h 36m
country: United States
Stranded in rural Italy without transportation or language skills, an American couple on the verge of adopting tries to reconnect during a disastrous vacation, as their fears and relationship problems threaten to boil over.


The Equalizer 3
2023 · 1h 49m
country: Italy
Robert McCall finds himself at home in Southern Italy but he discovers his friends are under the control of local crime bosses. As events turn deadly, McCall knows what he has to do: become his friends' protector by taking on the mafia.


A Freaking Wedding!
2023 · 1h 41m
country: Italy
Vladimiro and Brunilde are grappling with the disappearance of Nando, the head of the family. The sad event brought together the human family of Luna, daughter of Nando, and the monstrous one of her husband Adalberto. Humans, vampires, witches, werewolves and ghosts will find themselves in the throes of a new monstrous marriage...


Book Club: The Next Chapter
2023 · 1h 48m
country: United States
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.


Caravaggio's Shadow
2022 · 2h
country: Italy
The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.


Superheroes
2021 · 2h 2m
country: Italy
The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.


Trafficante di virus
2021
country: Italy


Help! My In-Laws Are Vampires!
2021 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
A loving young couple discover they're expecting a child, but the man isn't too keen on introducing her girlfriend to his family. Is it because he has a vampire father, a witch mother, a ghostly grandma, and a zombie uncle?


Holiday on Mars
2020 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
We are in 2030, and on vacation we go to Mars! Having made his wife and son Giulio lose his tracks for years, Fabio (Christian De Sica) is about to marry the wealthy Bea on Mars. But what could happen if during an excursion into space, something goes wrong and Giulio suddenly becomes a sprightly old man (Massimo Boldi)? Between hilarious unexpected events and amusing misunderstandings, Fabio will find himself dealing with a seventy-year-old son and a marriage that is in danger of jumping ...


Rita Levi-Montalcini
2020 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini receives the Nobel Prize, but something is missing. After meeting a young violinist, the scientist faces a difficult choice: take refuge in fame or get back in the game.


Three Perfect Daughters
2020 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.


Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem
2019 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course.


The Two Popes
2019 · 2h 5m
country: United States
Frustrated with the direction of the church, Cardinal Bergoglio requests permission to retire in 2012 from Pope Benedict. Instead, facing scandal and self-doubt, the introspective Pope Benedict summons his harshest critic and future successor to Rome to reveal a secret that would shake the foundations of the Catholic Church.


Appena un minuto
2019 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
Claudio is 50 years old and tired of his job as an real estate agent. He is also separated from his wife who left him for the "King of Zumba".


L'agenzia dei bugiardi
2019 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
Fred works for a company that creates alibis for cheaters until Clio, the daughter of one of his client, falls in love with him.


All You Need is Crime
2019 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
In the present day, three friends to make ends meet invent a "criminal tour" for the places which were scenes of the Banda della Magliana criminal acts, even with vintage clothes. Suddenly they are catapulted in the 1982, during the Spain World Cup, facing the real Banda della Magliana, which at that time had the control over illegal bets.


My Beloved Enemy
2018 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
A professor saves the life of a wounded hitman who, in exchange, promises to find and kill his enemy. Even though the professor says he has no enemies, the killer goes on a mission and transforms the professor's life.


There's No Place Like Home
2018 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
An extended family reunites on an idyllic island to celebrate their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. However, a storm causes them to get stuck in there longer than expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.


The Place
2017 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.


Ignorance Is Bliss
2017 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.


Poorly Rich
2016 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
The Tuccis, a close-knit family of country bumpkins, become millionaires overnight. When word gets out, nagging neighbors and acquaintances force them to leave for the big city to start anew—and openly flaunt their newfound wealth. Soon they'll realize they ain't got the faintest idea how today's upper classes actually live.


Non si ruba a casa dei ladri
2016 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy, a country in which the justice process is very long and uncertain, he decides to take revenge in another way: he discovers that his enemy has hidden the proceeds of his misdeeds in a Swiss bank and decides to organize a hit to get back what was stolen from him. To accomplish the feat, Antonio sets up a small gang, made up of non-professionals who have only one thing in common: they too have been defrauded by corrupt politics. The heist takes place in Zurich where the bank in which Simone hid the money is based. With a series of unpredictable consequences, and with a funny substitution of people (Antonio and his wife pretend to be Simone and his partner), a comic clockwork mechanism starts. And the heist begins.


Per sempre
2016 · 9m
country: Italy
Short film about foster care promoted by TWINSET.


Miami Beach
2016 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
Miami is one of the most sought by young Italians. It is there, in fact, is going to study at university Luca, a Roman, the son of John and Valentina, Milan, daughter Olivia. During the plane trip from Rome to Miami, Olivia and John argue furiously.


Perfect Strangers
2016 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.


Loving Only You
2015 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.


Torno indietro e cambio vita
2015 · 1h 23m
country: Italy
Marco is married to a gorgeous woman, has a child and a great job. Everything seems perfect, at least until his wife of 25 years announces that she has another man and wants a separation. Marco is forced to leave home.


Ever Been to the Moon?
2015 · 1h 55m
country: Italy
Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth farmer Renzo will makes her realize she's missing the most important thing in life—true love.


Ma tu di che segno 6?
2014 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.


A Fairy Tale Wedding
2014 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
After twenty years, five high school classmates meet again at Daniele's wedding, the only one who has built a career for himself. During a long weekend in Switzerland, the five friends rediscover the affection and complicity of the past, and they get a chance to straighten out their destinies. A whirlwind of misunderstandings will bring down their shaky balances, and they'll all find the courage to put themselves on the line and start their lives afresh


Tutta colpa di Freud
2014 · 2h
country: Italy
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!


Taste of You
2014 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
It depicts the lives of several groups of characters interacting at the beach of Forte dei Marmi during the mid-1980s.


White as Milk, Red as Blood
2013 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
Like all sixteen-year-olds, Leo prefers the company of friends, motorbike rides and music to school. None of the teachers seem to be able to arouse his interest until the arrival in his class of a young history and philosophy substitute who, with his modern methods, helps him see the world with different eyes. In love with Beatrice, the ethereal girl of his dreams, Leo divides the world by colours. Beatrice is the red of love but he is forced to confront his own beliefs and fears when he discovers that the girl is suffering from leukemia, a disease that he links to white, a symbol of emptiness and loss.


A Perfect Family
2012 · 2h
country: Italy
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred.


Buona giornata
2012 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen.


The Immature: The Trip
2012 · 1h 54m
country: Italy
Seven thirty-something friends organise a post-grad trip they were never able to take after school. They find new adventures on a Greek island, and show that true maturity is never really achieved.


Ex 2: Still Friends
2011 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken for psychiatrist by a beautiful girl Valentina with whom he falls in love. A divorce lawyer Sandra is romantically attracted to her client's husband Massimo.


The Last Fashion Show
2011 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
The triumph of the designer Federico Marinoni in the world of Milanese fashion was marred by the tragic death of the maison's main model and the designer's muse, Alexandra Larsson, who was hit by a hit-and-run car while on her way to celebrate her consecration as a top model .


The Immature
2011 · 1h 48m
country: Italy
Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma, forcing them to repeat the final high school exam.


Life Is a Wonderful Thing
2010 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely complicated and troubled lives ... Even if, after all, life is a wonderful thing ...


Amore 14
2009 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Come ogni 14enne Carolina, detta Caro,è impegnata a districarsi tra la scuola, gli amici e il rapporto spesso conflittuale con i genitori, si trova improvvisamente alle prese con i turbamenti legati al primo amore che ha il nome e il volto di Massimiliano. Ad aiutarla nel suo cammino verso la scoperta delle gioie e dei dolori sentimentali ci saranno le sue amiche del cuore e la sua famiglia


A Summer in the Caribbean
2009 · 1h 50m
country: Italy
Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the characters are there simply for rest and relaxation, while others act with different motivations. Multiple plot lines unfold simultaneously as different characters' stories are presented.


Pane e libertà
2009 · 3h 30m
country: Italy
About comunist politician and labor union leader Giuseppe Di Vittorio.


Men of Corleone
2007 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state.


SMS: Sotto Mentite Spoglie
2007 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
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 along and starts texting her as if he were his lover.


Baciami piccina
2006 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.


4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
2006 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Four stories about football.


...e se domani
2006 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Mimì reunites after many years with Caterina, with whom he has always been secretly in love. When her husband dies, Mimì decides to become part of her life.
Il bambino sull'acqua
Il bambino sull'acqua
2005
country: Italy


In This World of Thieves
2004 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
A group of middle-aged time-share investors get ripped off and their desire for revenge is well-timed for them to be recruited by a bank clerk who feels the same about his employers.


Se devo essere sincera
2004 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
Adelaide is a 40-year-old literature teacher married with children. One day, she learns about the murder of a wealthy and arrogant co-worker of hers, strangled in her own home. Adelaide meets Gaetano, the charming inspector dealing with the case and decides to help him in the investigation, much to her husband's chagrin.


Al cuore si comanda
2003 · 1h 47m
country: Italy
Lorenza is 30 years old and has not yet found the man of her life. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to take the penniless Riccardo as her husband "for rent".


Kiss Me First
2003
country: Italy
Adele and Marcello, born at the same moment on April 16, 1927, were destined to be intertwined. Their friend Loris witnessed their childhood romance, playing bride-and-groom in an abandoned chapel. Separated by WWII, their lives ran parallel, occasionally crossing paths briefly.


Merry Christmas
2001 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam.


South Kensington
2001 · 1h 52m
country: France
A London aristocrat (Rupert Everett) rents out rooms in his posh estate to a pair of Italians who are wooing two wealthy British gals (Elle Macpherson, Judith Godrèche).


Ravanello pallido
2001 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
Gemma works as an employee in the office of an agency that is responsible for launching novice models into their first career steps. However, Gemma does not work in a peaceful atmosphere due to her particularly demanding employer and the harassment she suffers from her own clients. Equally unhappy is her love life, which is why her only friend, as well as her trusted hairdresser, dyes her hair pink. It is from that moment that her life changes radically.


And now sex
2001 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this kind of reality.


Quello che le ragazze non dicono
2000 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
Francesca, Paola, Laura, and Alicia are four friends who all fall in love with the same man, a musician named Gigi. Alicia is a woman who fears compromising in her relationships, Laura is an overprotected dreamer, Paola is a lawyer who seeks true love, and Francesca is a dancer on a TV show


Il segreto del giaguaro
2000 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
‘Romano de Roma’, incurable ‘70s maniac and born optimist, er Piotta alias “the Jaguar” has his headquarters in a bar near Piazza Vittorio, a meeting point for bizarre characters of various generations. Every now and then, some strange event interrupts the routine, while the Jaguar imparts lessons in life and conquest...


Jesus
1999 · 2h 54m
country: Czech Republic
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.


E allora mambo!
1999 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
After receiving a large sum of money on his bank account by mistake, a small-town thirtysomething dissatisfied with his life sees the opportunity of turning back the clock to when things were good, reliving the carefree life of an university student in a big city. Here, he falls in love with a girl and gets her pregnant. There's just one problem: he already has a wife and a daughter back home!


Screw Loose
1999 · 1h 25m
country: Italy
The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and bring him to his deathbed. He does so and finds the man in a sanitarium and must deal with his hijinks all the way back to Milan.


Jeremiah
1998 · 1h 31m
country: Germany
The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.