Pietro Valsecchi (born 14 June 1953 in Crema, Italy) is an Italian film and television producer. In 1991, he and Camilla Nesbitt founded the Italian production company Taodue. In 1995, he won the David di Donatello for Best Producer for his film Un eroe borghese. In 2016, he won the Nastro d'argento for best producer, with Quo Vado?, Chiamatemi Francesco and Don't Be Bad. Source: Article "Pietro Valsecchi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
After her audition as Juliet fails to impress, a young actress determined to act in the latest production of Shakespeare's play crossdresses and is unexpectedly chosen for the role of Romeo.
Release Date: 2024-02-14
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 56
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
Release Date: 2022-06-29
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 253
The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutors have only scant DNA evidence and no database to compare them to. Based on a true story.
Release Date: 2021-10-18
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 412
Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.
Release Date: 2020-01-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1249
To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.
Release Date: 2018-10-17
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1371
Release Date: 2018-02-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
Release Date: 2018-01-28
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
Release Date: 2018-01-21
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 4
Release Date: 2018-01-14
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 8
This series is a spin-off of Squadra Antimafia and tells the story of Rosy Abate, believed dead in an explosion, but actually lives in Liguria under a new identity. Her new life turns upside down when she learns that her son Leonardo is still alive.
Release Date: 2017-11-12
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 6
Release Date: 2017-08-31
Department: Production
Job: Co-Producer
Vote Count: 1
Release Date: 2017-08-02
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 4
Three life-long friends struggle with an early middle-age crisis as they start to try to get a job for the first time. An ironic quest to avoid becoming an adult and accept responsibilities.
Release Date: 2016-01-21
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 112
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...
Release Date: 2016-01-01
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 2132
Biopic about Jorge Maria Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis I.
Release Date: 2015-12-03
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 46
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
Release Date: 2015-09-08
Department: Production
Job: Associate Producer
Vote Count: 987
Release Date: 2015-04-20
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Episode Count: 32
Vote Count: 5
A young psychologist returns to her hometown in order to investigate the death of her mother from twenty years ago.
Release Date: 2015-02-20
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 1
Release Date: 2014-06-22
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 4
Release Date: 2014-03-20
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 178
The story of a father and a son. An on the road trip from South to North.
Release Date: 2013-10-31
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1679
Release Date: 2013-01-07
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 3
The sequel to 2011 film "I soliti idioti".
Release Date: 2012-12-20
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 238
Two family owned restaurants of conflicting styles open up shop across the street from one another.
Release Date: 2012-04-12
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 5
Il tredicesimo apostolo - Il prescelto is an Italian television series produced in 2012.
Release Date: 2012-01-04
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 5
Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.
Release Date: 2011-12-06
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4
A movie based on the italian sitcom "I Soliti Idioti".
Release Date: 2011-11-04
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 375
Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him...
Release Date: 2011-01-05
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1507
Valerio is a famous advertising man who is going through a deep crisis of inspiration. His company is also going through a difficult time but the man gets the fundamental help of his sister Barbara and his brother-in-law Giulio, who offer him a considerable sum of money if he will take care of their son's dog, since they will be abroad for some time. Too bad Valerio can't stand dogs, but when he's forced to accept and starts taking care of Spugna: it will be the beginning of an experience that will change him in an unexpected way.
Release Date: 2010-12-23
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 5
An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.
Release Date: 2009-11-27
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1639
Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
Release Date: 2009-11-11
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 82
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.
Release Date: 2009-03-31
Department: Writing
Job: Head of Story
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 15
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, the band of the Red Brigades went on the attack. The terrorists kidnap Aldo Moro and kill all the men in his escort.
Release Date: 2008-05-09
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 1
A teen comedy-drama set in an Italian public high school following an ensemble cast of students and teachers.
Release Date: 2008-04-24
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 20
Vote Count: 12
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
Release Date: 2007-05-28
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 59
November 12, 2003. A terrorist attack kills 24 Italian soldiers deployed in Nasiriyah, Iraq for a peace-keeping mission as part of "Operation Ancient Babylon".
Release Date: 2007-03-12
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 10
Release Date: 2006-12-22
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 35
The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Especially for the families of the victims killed: professors D'Antona and Biagi, and subsequently the police superintendent Petri.
Release Date: 2006-05-22
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Vote Count: 5
After the shocking assassination of a labor lawyer, an Italian anti-terrorism unit races against time to stop the new incarnation of the Red Brigades from killing their next target — and strike fear at the heart of the State.
Release Date: 2006-05-22
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 2
Santa Claus has 24 hours to transform an evil and egoistic rich businessman into a better and honest person.
Release Date: 2005-12-19
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 66
A crime drama focusing on the scientific aspects of crime investigations.
Release Date: 2005-01-12
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 11
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-mafia pool, investigating into the criminal activities of various mafia bands, in particular the gang headed up by Totò Riina.
Release Date: 2004-11-08
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 70
Italy, 1989. After a prominent coffee industrialist is kidnapped by elusive Sardinian bandits, authorities turn to NOCS (Central Security Operative Unit) commander Valerio Attico, who hastily assembles a task force made of rookies. Based on the true story of the Dante Belardinelli kidnapping.
Release Date: 2003-10-05
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4
In 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for 237 days in their hideout in the mountains of Sardinia.
Release Date: 2002-01-30
Department: Writing
Job: Story
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
Italian thriller
Release Date: 2001-05-30
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 10
Uno bianca thriller
Release Date: 2001-02-05
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
Distretto di Polizia is an Italian television series.
Release Date: 2000-09-26
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 13
Release Date: 1998-11-17
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 14
In the Tiber sports club, Alberto, a ruthless property developer, the cynical surgeon who makes thirty million dollars after a prostate operation, the actor exhausted by failure and the failed salesman who sells caviar by discounting prices and who tries to make up for continuous overdrafts in the bank, meet. There is also the starlet with a Venetian accent and the hateful scion with a Ferrari, the waiter who dreams of being the scion and the jeweler who loses his house, wife and wealth because of the hot Spanish woman.
Release Date: 1998-02-20
Department: Crew
Job: Presenter
Vote Count: 34
Release Date: 1998-02-04
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Release Date: 1997-02-07
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 4
Enza is a beautiful and lively Sicilian teenager who is starting out in life, but due to her naivety, she always ends up getting into trouble. She has no parents, but lives with her aunt and uncle together with her older sister who acts as her mother and tries to put her on the right path, even ending up in prison for some time. Enza, keeping faith with her rebellious nature, falls in love with Sebastiano, with whom she has her first sexual relations, but for him she also goes as far as stealing. All men are the same.
Release Date: 1993-08-20
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 8
Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils from Monday to Saturday in the steamy, candle-lit labyrinths. Repeatedly beaten and abused by his "owner" and with constant threats of being raped, Aclà plots his escape to the sea...
Release Date: 1992-09-10
Department: Production
Job: Producer
Vote Count: 9
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò.
Release Date: 1990-03-25
Department: Production
Job: Executive Producer
Vote Count: 2
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
Release Date: 1989-05-04
Department: Production
Job: Production Consultant
Vote Count: 232
Release Date: 1980-09-13
Character: Uribe
Diamante, an actress engaged in the filming of a drama, is shot down in a warehouse used to store the cinema "pizzas". Another actress, Ely, get a glimpse of the corpse, which however is immediately disappears.
Release Date: 1980-02-01
Character: Paolo
Release Date: 1979-01-01
Character: L'uomo della festa da ballo
A 3 part drama series about the notorious powerful Borgia family who took power in Italy in the 15th/16th centuries.
Release Date: 1977-12-31
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
Jean Bellard and Carl Mank, two Western engineers supported by Hamid are in search of a terrorist group that murdered their colleague in the Tunisian desert.
Release Date: 1977-09-10
Character: Arabian terrorist
Vote Count: 1