Paolo Genovese (born August 20, 1966) is an Italian comedy film director and screenwriter. His best known film is Perfect Strangers (2016), which holds the Guinness World Record for most remade movie ever, having since been adapted in more than 20 countries around the world.
Release Date2023-11-27
Charactersd Sé stesso
Follow brothers Paolo and Ignazio, two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourishing business that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire.
Release Date2023-10-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count42
The series, which follows the film, will see old classmates reunite at high school after the Ministry of Education has canceled their state exams. To prevent their degrees and subsequent qualifications from being revoked by the Ministry, they will have to retake the exam and attend school among much younger people. Needless to say, old memories will resurface, as will hidden passions and unresolved issues.
Release Date2018-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count7
Series of promotional shorts for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Release Date2021-11-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count6
Release Date2021-02-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count11
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Release Date2016-02-11
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count4473
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say?
Release Date2025-02-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count426
To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.
Release Date2018-10-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1380
What if for one night your mobile phone was a public property? 7 friends at a wedding after-party decide to play a seemingly harmless but as it turns out, a dangerous game which might have earth-shattering consequences with relationships, marriages and identities being at stake.
Release Date2024-08-15
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count20
In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without them.
Release Date2023-01-26
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count154
Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos.
Release Date2019-10-31
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count318
During a lunar eclipse, seven friends gather for dinner and decide to play a game in which they must share with each other the content of every message, email or phone call they receive throughout the evening.
Release Date2017-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count657
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.
Release Date2017-11-04
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count1213
Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.
Release Date2021-11-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count109
A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.
Release Date2018-10-31
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count50
Seven friends get together for dinner, and decided to play a game where they must share all messages and calls of their cell phones. Throughout the evening, wechat messages, phone calls and APP notifications are coming out continuously. Hilarity and drama ensue together as everyone's secrets are unveiled and the seven friends find themselves more like strangers to each other.
Release Date2018-12-29
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count15
A dinner party unravels when a tight group of friends agree to leave their phones unlocked on the table, exposing juicy interactions and dark secrets.
Release Date2022-01-17
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count74
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.
Release Date2015-01-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count260
A group of longtime friends get together for dinner. When they decide to share the content of every text message, email, and phone call they receive, secrets are unveiled and the balance is upset.
Release Date2018-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count101
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.
Release Date2021-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count208
Gathered together in a country house, seven friends play an entertaining game, in which participants have to read aloud all of their incoming text messages, and can only answer their calls using loudspeaker mode. They can’t even imagine what stunning surprises about each other they will discover.
Release Date2019-02-14
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count55
On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...
Release Date2010-12-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1059
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!
Release Date2014-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1029
The seven old friends decide to come together for dinner. Everyone is seated at the table, chatting, eating laughing accompaniment. During the meal, it is decided to play a game. The game is pretty simple; everyone will put their phones on the desk, every incoming message and notification will be read aloud. Their relationship begins to deteriorate. The group who thinks they are very close friends for so long are in fact alien to each other.
Release Date2018-02-02
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count85
Seven men and women, consisting of three couples who are reluctant companions and one single man, play in the game with the secret that their relationship and friendship will collapse. Japanese remake of the Italian movie "Perfetti sconosciuti".
Release Date2021-01-08
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count2
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.
Release Date2012-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count609
Seven friends who attend a dinner and decide to play a game with their cell phones. Unfortunately, the game ends in disaster when their dark secret is revealed.
Release Date2022-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count8
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.
Release Date2011-01-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count786
Seven friends meet up for dinner on a full moon Friday night and deep secrets will come to the surface, shaking their lives and threatening their relationships.
Release Date2016-12-15
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count20
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.
Release Date2012-11-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count223
Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.
Release Date2018-05-04
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count283
In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!
Release Date2002-02-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count17
Seven childhood friends with a history and shared experiences from their past, meet for dinner to see together a rare lunar eclipse. This bourgeois and routine event takes a turn as they start playing a game that will change their lives: every message, call or alert they receive on their phone is exposed to the eyes of everyone. Betrayals, lies, secrets and accounts that are 20 years old rise and float to the surface and question the long-standing friendships and internal relationships in it.
Release Date2021-10-27
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count5
Seven friends meet up for dinner and decide to play a revealing game. During the evening deep personal secrets will surface and threaten their relationships.
Release Date2021-11-04
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count20
Short film about foster care promoted by TWINSET.
Release Date2016-09-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Middle-aged family man Arnaldo is kicked out by his wife because of a misunderstanding. Instead of despairing, Arnaldo takes advantage of the situation to turn around his unsatisfying adult life by going to live in a flat shared with four university students.
Release Date2013-12-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count317
Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet...
Release Date2016-01-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count90
Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?
Release Date2014-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count238
Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
Release Date2022-02-25
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count5
A group of seven friends come together for dinner. What starts out as a normal evening, evolves into something else when they decide to play a game and read all text messages aloud and answer all phone calls on speakerphone...
Release Date2019-09-27
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count36
A group of friends meet for a dinner, and for fun start a party game where everyone must share everything that comes into their phones. Before long, the secrets spill out and threaten to spoil the most important thing of all, the 'hygge'.
Release Date2023-10-26
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count11
Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's working for him." He chooses Piero, a model worker and upstanding citizen so shy that he can't bring himself to declare his feelings for night-time street cleaner Francesca. Walter starts giving him some old-hand advice on the matter.
Release Date2005-05-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Four childhood friends and their wives at an upscale dinner party. After a much-heated discussion about how smartphones influence their personal lives, the group proposes a late-night game: everyone is to place their mobiles on the table; whoever gets a text, notification or call must share it with the group. It is a recipe for disaster.
Release Date2020-10-23
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count11
Release Date2018-08-10
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
At a dinner party in Vesturbær, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. They put their phones on the table and agree that all incoming calls and messages will be shared with the party to prove that none of them have anything to hide
Release Date2023-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count2
A group of middle-aged friends get together for dinner. The playful banter between couples who have known each other all their lives escalates into a adult version of the childhood game of truth or dare when no one dares to refuse the challenge. For this evening, all calls, texts, WhatsApps and other messages are public. Is it true that no one has any secrets?
Release Date2025-09-19
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Release Date2008-03-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count105
One evening, a glass of wine, 7 friends enter a dangerous game: they put their phones on the table and decide that everything they receive that evening, calls, messages, emails, will be answered by a speaker or read aloud.
Release Date2021-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count16
The story takes place on New Year's Eve that a group of friends have been celebrating together for years. The host is the newly divorced psychologist, Aliz, and her guests are her younger brother, Döme, the chemistry teacher, Kristóf, the gynecologist, Gábor, the cook, and Márk, the photographer. They are all childhood best friends. In the meantime, Gábor's wife, Saci, the lawyer, and Márk's girlfriend, Fanni, the young special education teacher joins the group. The topic of the conversation veers in the direction of how nowadays people store many secrets and confidential information on their cell phones, and what kinds of conflicts may arise if the phones fall into unauthorized hands. Each of the seven members of the group insists on not having any secrets, on their lives being an open book, to which Aliz suggests that they should prove it.
Release Date2018-12-06
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count24
7 friends get together just to have good time. They decide to play an unusual game, according to the rules of which, everyone should put mobile phones on the table and read all incoming messages out loud and answer calls only on the speaker. Close friends could not imagine what secrets would be revealed during this game.
Release Date2019-09-05
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count3
Seven friends decide to play a game at their dinner party, in which each member needs to read aloud all incoming text messages or put phone calls on speaker for all to hear. This causes many revelations to materialize.
Release Date2022-12-28
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count4
A close-knit group of Czech and Slovak friends gathers in a Prague apartment to ring in the New Year, sharing laughs and memories. When a seemingly innocent wager forces them to place their phones on the table and read every message and call aloud, hidden secrets emerge and long-standing bonds are tested in one unforgettable night.
Release Date2021-08-05
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count12
A group of friends at a dinner party decide to play a risky game where they place their phones face-up on the table and agree to make all texts and phone calls public in an attempt to prove they have nothing to hide.
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen.
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
The history of a great school is the history of a great nation. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liceo Giulio Cesare - the historical school of Rome - the journalist and director Antonello Sarno reconstructs its history with a documentary.
Release Date2014-10-17
