Ivan Cotroneo (Writer)

A Five Star Life

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene (Margarita Buy) is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea (Stefano Accorsi), who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.

Release Date2013-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count134

Me, Myself and Her

Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with.

Release Date2015-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count172

That's Life

Margherita is a 14 year old living in Milano, who shares everything with her friends. They discuss clothes, music, school and that first kiss. A delightful coming-of-age film in which the here and now is all that really matters. Where every little thing is so very important and where feelings sometimes bubble over. In your teens, there’s no room for anything but friendship and love.

Release Date2018-04-05

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count204

The Man Who Loves

A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.

Release Date2008-10-24

DepartmentWriting

JobCo-Writer

Vote Count50

Libera

Three episodes. In the first, Aurora lives in a luxurious apartment. Among some workers called to her house, she recognizes an old lover, who returns to courting her, but then empties her house. In the second, a boy released from reform school discovers that his mother is actually his father: a transvestite. In the third, a newsagent, suspecting her husband, who constantly pretends to be ill, is cheating on her, places a video camera in her room. She records his sexual encounters on a videotape that she sells at newsstands. In his directorial debut, Corsicato demonstrates a sharp and poetic talent (he was Almodovar's assistant) in creating three portraits of women that are also portraits of his city, Naples.

Release Date1993-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Vote Count14

The Swan Company

The story of the friendship of seven talented young musicians enrolled at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan contending with the rules and discipline of a very tough conductor who demands the best from them.

Release Date2019-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count12

Vote Count14

La pupa e il secchione e viceversa

Release Date2020-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

Tutti pazzi per amore

Paolo Giorgi and Laura Del Fiore, coincidentally approaching their forties, find themselves sharing the ups and downs of life with growing children, extended families, and a hilarious love story.

Release Date2008-12-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count14

Un posto tranquillo

Release Date2003-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count6

Do You See Me?

Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can live and work there. She will soon find out that her native country is not as open minded and she will struggle to find a job that she truly loves and is passionate about. Along the way she will meet Francesco a gay man who will help and support her throughout her journey.

Release Date2014-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count583

È arrivata la felicità

Release Date2015-10-08

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count4

The Life You Wanted

Gloria is finally happy after transitioning and settling down — until a longtime friend reappears with disrupting news and throws her world into chaos.

Release Date2024-05-29

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count29

Pinocchio

The enchanted story of Pinocchio.

Release Date2009-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count101

The Vesuvians

Five Neapolitan directors depict life in the city under the shadow of Mount Vesuvius for this anthology film of comedy, drama, surrealism, and political commentary.

Release Date1997-06-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Damn Poverty!

Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace prize winner, is known in the whole world as the banker of the poor, because he pioneered and tested a funding system in Bangladesh: by lending little sums of money to the less well-off with no interest, and returning it by installments gained with their work, people are able to get free from extreme misery. Thus, what can happen if three boys, just graduated, who live in Naples, try to import this funding system that subverts every economic rule?

Release Date2009-11-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Piano, Solo

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Release Date2007-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count23

In principio erano le mutande

Imma falls in love with a fireman.

Release Date1999-05-07

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

The Front Line

United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and thrown in jail. Putting his life on the line, Sergio embarks on a radical plan... Loosely based on the memoir by Prima Linea's 'commander' Sergio Segio.

Release Date2009-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count33

Questo piccolo grande amore

From the album of the same name by Claudio Baglioni the film tells the love story of two teenagers during the legendary seventies. A story so overwhelming as to compel the world to retreat, to step aside. Andrea and Giulia come from two different worlds, have different friends, and two different lives who call them strongly in opposite directions. Will they keep their love alive in spite of everything?

Release Date2009-02-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count145

Ginger and Cinnamon

Stefania works in a bookshop. Shortly before closing for summer holidays, Andrea, who was left behind by his fiancée, enters the store.

Release Date2003-04-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count57

Raccontami una storia

Laura and Mark hope to adopt a Ukrainian child. When they finally have the opportunity to travel the country, her father, Salvatore, help them all he can. By knowing the small Maruska, is created between them a very special relationship.

Release Date2004-02-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Sei donne - Il mistero di Leila

Commissioner Laura Moretti investigates the disappearance of a young girl but the investigation reveals a reality in which everyone has secrets to protect. Original location, a not particularly attractive, modern, cold, flat Taranto

Release Date2023-02-28

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

Sirens

Sirens of the Mediterranean sea look for the lost last Triton in the city of Naples.

Release Date2017-10-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count18

I Am Love

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.

Release Date2010-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count389

Pinocchio

Release Date2009-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Episode Count2

While I Was Away

Monica Grossi wakes up after four months from a coma without remembering anything about the last eight years of her life. With the help of Stefano, brother of her alleged lover, who died in mysterious circumstances, she tries to reconstruct her past step by step to understand if she is really the woman that everyone remembers.

Release Date2019-03-28

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

Loose Cannons

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.

Release Date2010-03-12

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count799

One Kiss

Lorenzo, Blue and Antonio have a lot in common: they are sixteen, attending the same class in the same school in a small town in the northeast, each have a family that loves them. And all three, though for different reasons, have come to be isolated from other peers. Their new friendship helps them to resist, until the mechanical attraction and fear the judgment of others do not grasp them unprepared.

Release Date2016-03-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count282

Paz!

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sharing a flat in 1970s Bologna, grappling with drugs, classes, girls and half-hearted political activism.

Release Date2002-02-22

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count105

Il Natale della mamma imperfetta

Release Date2013-12-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Kryptonite!

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.

Release Date2011-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count52

14 Days

A love story between a husband and wife who got lost, and not just because of a betrayal.

Release Date2021-11-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

Laura Pausini – Pleased to Meet You

It's the movie that retraces the Laura’s life in a wholly original way. Through never-seen-before footage of her real and fictional life, the artist shows us her essence, giving an honest and bold analysis of her life and how it could have been without that victory at Sanremo that, in 1993, changed her destiny forever.

Release Date2022-04-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count41

Chimera

The true natures of love, commitment, and reality are called into question in this offbeat drama. One night in bed, Tomas, a magician, begins telling a story to his wife Desirè about Emma and Sal, a married couple whose love life has gone stale. In order to fire up their relationship, Emma and Sal begin playing an increasingly elaborate series of role-playing games, in which they assume different personas -- Sal saves Emma as she is tied to railroad tracks, or Emma must seduce another man to pull her husband out of debt. But the question soon arises -- are Emma and Sal real? And who really holds the power in their lives? Chimera also features Franco Nero as one of the participants in Emma and Sal's sexual fantasies.

Release Date2001-05-26

DepartmentWriting

JobIdea

Nato Raro

Release Date2020-12-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Cosa c’entra con l’amore

Release Date1997-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Quadri espansi

Release Date2013-11-14