Known for Directing
Luca Guadagnino, born 10 August 1971, is an Italian film director and producer. His films are characterized by their emotional complexity, eroticism, and lavish visuals. He has received numerous accolades, including a Silver Lion, alongside nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards. Born in Palermo, Guadagnino spent part of his childhood in Ethiopia. However, the family returned to Italy to escape the Ethiopian Civil War. Guadagnino began his career directing short films and documentaries. He made his feature-film debut with The Protagonists (1999), the first of his many collaborations with actress Tilda Swinton. His follow-up, Melissa P. (2005), was a commercial success in Italy but was met with mixed critical reception. Guadagnino gained further acclaim with his Desire trilogy, which consists of the films I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015), and Call Me by Your Name (2017). The latter brought him international recognition. Suspiria (2018), a remake of the 1977 film, was Guadagnino's first foray into the horror genre. It was a box office failure and polarized critics. Guadagnino's following projects were We Are Who We Are (2020), a coming-of-age miniseries for HBO, the romantic horror film Bones and All (2022), the romantic sports film Challengers (2024), and the period romantic drama Queer (2024). Guadagnino directed several documentaries, including Bertolucci on Bertolucci (2013) and Salvatore: The Shoemaker of Dreams (2020). Aside from filmmaking, he has been involved in the fashion world, directing advertisements for brands like Fendi and Salvatore Ferragamo. In 2012, Guadagnino founded the production company Frenesy Film Company. He also produced Belluscone: A Sicilian Story (2014), The Truffle Hunters (2020), Salvatore: The Shoemaker of Dreams (2020), Holiday, and Enea (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article about Luca Guadagnino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
August 10, 1971 (age 55)
Birthplace
Palermo, Italy
Filmography
94 films, 8 shows


Artificial
2026 · 2h 20m
country: Italy
Described as a comedic drama set in the world of artificial intelligence, around the period at OpenAI in 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days.


The Death of Klinghoffer
2026 · 2h 36m
country: Italy
An opera in a prologue and two acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman, inspired by the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Conducted by Lawrence Renes, directed and designed by Luca Guadagnino. A new production by the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.


After the Hunt
2025 · 2h 19m
country: United States
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.


Camaraderie
2025 · 2m
country: Unknown
For the exhibition "Tilda Swinton: Ongoing" at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Luca Guadagnino created a short film in which Swinton appears as a timeless icon - recognisable in her red sweater, the same sweater she wore when they first met.


Queer
2024 · 2h 18m
country: Italy
In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.


Challengers
2024 · 2h 12m
country: Italy
Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.


Bones and All
2022 · 2h 11m
country: Italy
Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.


O Night Divine
2021 · 43m
country: Italy
St. Moritz, Switzerland. On a snowy Christmas Eve in a grand mountain hotel, the lives of five people magically intertwine during a wild night full of extravagant adventures and joyous celebrations.


Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams
2021 · 1h 49m
country: Italy
In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. In 1927, he returned to Italy and founded in Florence his namesake luxury brand. This feature-length documentary recounts his adventures.


Fiori, Fiori, Fiori!
2020 · 12m
country: Italy
Luca Guadagnino left for Sicily from Milan to knock on the doors of his childhood friends and discuss with them their experience of this exceptional moment, which has united the entire world.


The Staggering Girl
2019 · 37m
country: Italy
Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York, must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother. There, the ghosts of her childhood will come to her through her mother's art.


Suspiria
2018 · 2h 32m
country: Italy
A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.


Call Me by Your Name
2017 · 2h 12m
country: Brazil
In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.


A Bigger Splash
2015 · 2h 5m
country: France
An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.


Part Deux
2015 · 22m
country: Italy
Cinema's reigning romantic Luca Guadagnino premiers a modern-day paean to the good times, inspired by a Wolfgang Tillmans picture.


Walking Stories
2013 · 21m
country: Unknown
Delicate and slightly surreal, "Walking Stories" is a romantic comedy directed by Luca Guadagnino (Melissa P, I Am Love) who narrates a life-changing trip full of surprising coincidences, unexpected revelations, and fortunate encounters--a love story that literally "walks" swiftly across the world.


Bertolucci on Bertolucci
2013 · 1h 45m
country: Austria
Documentary on the life and work of legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci, using filmed interviews he has given over the last 50 years.


Inconscio Italiano
2011 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
A documentary in which seven Italian intellectuals survey the political history of their country from its imperial adventure in Ethiopia in 1937 to the ascent of Silvio Berlusconi, focusing on the evolving role of the Fascist Party.


I Am Love
2010 · 2h
country: Italy
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
Pippo Delbono, You Have to Die: The Love Factory
Pippo Delbono, You Have to Die: The Love Factory
2008 · 1h 1m
country: Italy
Filmed mostly in close-ups, the film documents a personal conversation that the two film directors had with each other. Delbono addresses a wide range of different topics: death and life, love, politics and religion, even private things, such as moving and diets.


Melissa P.
2005 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory
Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory
2004 · 35m
country: Italy
In the void created ad hoc to throw us into desperation, fear, shock, the torment of an infinite present, Arto Lindsay sings with words, silences and small gestures of/with/for/about love, a force that is so violent that nothing will ever be the same again.


Cuoco Contadino
2004 · 1h 10m
country: Italy
Up the hills between Liguria and France, a car goes up towards the Pre-Alps. Paolo Masieri, one of the most innovative of the great Italian chefs, has his vegetable garden, his country house, his herbs. Luca Guadagnino's camera follows him, moving among the fronds with the step of a weasel, sniffing the moss and the dried leaves of the chestnut trees, becoming nature among nature.


The Making of Lotus
2003 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
Documenting the making of Elisa's 2003 album 'Lotus'


Dream Generation
2003 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Francesca, Morgana, Edo and Antonio. Four of today’s youngsters. Four inadvertent representatives of today’s generation of 20-year-olds who “do whatever I want”.By chance they find that they’re spending a week in Catania together, the Baroque city perched on the slopes of a volcano, the continual rumbling of which seems to reflect their restlessness…


Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory
2002 · 35m
country: Italy
At the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, Tilda Swinton talks to director Luca Guadagnino about cinema, loneliness and love.
Au revoir
Au revoir
2001 · 12m
country: Italy


L'uomo risacca
2000 · 4m
country: Italy
From a poem of Gabriele Frasca.


The Protagonists
1999 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.


Qui
1997 · 14m
country: Italy