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.
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 Date:2025-02-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:48
Release Date:2023-11-27
Character:Sé stesso
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 Date:2023-10-26
Department:Writing
Job:Idea
Vote Count:11
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 Date:2023-10-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:38
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 Date:2023-01-26
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:149
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 Date:2023-01-06
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:2
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 Date:2022-10-20
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:7
Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
Release Date:2022-02-25
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:5
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 Date:2022-01-17
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:73
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 Date:2021-12-23
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:203
Series of promotional shorts for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Release Date:2021-11-30
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Episode Count:6
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 Date:2021-11-11
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:106
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 Date:2021-11-04
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:16
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 Date:2021-10-27
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:5
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 Date:2021-09-24
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:16
Promotional short for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Release Date:2021-09-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Release Date:2021-08-05
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:11
Release Date:2021-02-05
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:10
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 Date:2021-01-08
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:2
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 Date:2020-10-23
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:11
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 Date:2019-10-31
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:301
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 Date:2019-09-27
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Vote Count:35
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 Date:2019-09-05
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:3
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 Date:2019-02-14
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:51
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 Date:2018-12-29
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:15
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 Date:2018-12-25
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:100
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 Date:2018-12-06
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:23
A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.
Release Date:2018-10-31
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:50
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:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1356
Release Date:2018-08-10
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
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 Date:2018-05-04
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:281
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 Date:2018-02-02
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:83
Release Date:2018-01-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:6
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 Date:2017-12-01
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:642
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 Date:2017-11-04
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:1202
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 Date:2016-12-15
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:20
Short film about foster care promoted by TWINSET.
Release Date:2016-09-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
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 Date:2016-02-11
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:4416
Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet...
Release Date:2016-01-21
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:90
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 Date:2015-01-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:256
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 Date:2014-10-17
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 Date:2014-04-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:237
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 Date:2014-01-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1022
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 Date:2013-12-12
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:316
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 Date:2012-11-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:220
After the events of the first movie, the "immatures" go on a trip to the Greek island of Paros.
Release Date:2012-01-04
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:605
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 Date:2011-01-21
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:782
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 Date:2010-12-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1049
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 Date:2008-03-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:105
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 Date:2005-05-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!
Release Date:2002-02-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:17
A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen.
Release Date:1999-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:12
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.
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Department:Directing
Job:Director