Giuseppe Tornatore

Cinema Paradiso

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Release Date1988-11-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Projectionist (uncredited)

Vote Count4653

Good Morning, the Wind Blows

Release Date2020-12-10

Charactersd Himself

All Star - Ritorno al cinema

A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

Release Date2021-08-31

Charactersd Proiezionista

Vote Count7

Ennio

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.

Release Date2022-02-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count357

Citizen Rosi

The narrative wanders through Rosi’s films, not in the order they were shot but following the chronology of the historical facts they deal with. The documentary therefore not only narrates Rosi’s work, but also portrays half a century of Italian history.

Release Date2019-11-18

Charactersd Self

Vote Count6

Sartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema

Release Date2006-10-15

Charactersd Self

Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth

Documentary about Italian cinema.

Release Date2014-06-17

Charactersd Self

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.

Release Date2004-06-17

Charactersd Self

Ennio Morricone

From his quirky compositions for the spaghetti Westerns of Sergio Leone to his sublime musical contributions to director Roland Joffé's acclaimed 1986 drama The Mission, film composer Ennio Morricone has crafted more than 500 scores over the course of his enduring career in film. Now fans can take a look back at the life and career of one of cinema's most prolific composers through interviews with both the composer himself and many of his longtime collaborators. From his Italian efforts to his work in America, this documentary covers every aspect of Morricone's career as few have, offering insight into his childhood, his longtime association with Leone, and his ultimate disenchantment with the American studio system.

Release Date1995-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

Cinque mondi

Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore talk about their idea of cinema.

Release Date2016-10-10

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

Titanus 1904

Release Date2024-10-17

Charactersd Self

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

Release Date2019-10-25

Charactersd Self

Giuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima

Release Date2014-11-18

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America

To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema. The singular artistic vision of Sergio Leone has transcended national borders, creating the Spaghetti Western genre and transforming the international cinematic panorama forever with his innovative stylistic and narrative solutions, which have now become part of the language of the movies. The film, which is enriched with precious archive footage from the Cineteca di Bologna, including rare audio recordings and film clips shot behind the scenes, sees for the first time the direct participation of the Leone family and has interviews both with Leone’s longtime collaborators and with icons of Hollywood who have been profoundly influenced by his work.

Release Date2022-10-20

Charactersd Self

Vote Count60

Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana

Release Date2019-10-26

Charactersd Self

Vote Count8

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer

The Documentary Dante Ferretti – Production Designer retraces the life and the career of Dante Ferretti, the famous Italian Artist and Production Designer.

Release Date2010-09-10

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

The Magic of Fellini

Documentary with interviews and clips of Fellini's movies.

Release Date2002-01-27

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count5

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

Release Date2010-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

A Dream of Sicily

A 52-minute documentary profile of Giuseppe Tornatore featuring interviews with director and extracts from his early home movies as well as interviews with director Francesco Rosi and painter Peppino Ducato, set to music by the legendary Ennio Morricone.

Release Date2000-06-09

Charactersd Self

C'era una volta il prossimamente

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

Release Date2014-04-22

Charactersd Self

24/25 Il fotogramma in più

A documentary on how cinema and television influence each other and their close relationship.

Release Date2018-09-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

Release Date1997-08-06

Charactersd Self

Marcello, una vita dolce

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.

Release Date2006-05-21

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa

Release Date2015-03-01

Charactersd Self

A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise

The making of Cinema Paradiso and the characters of Toto and Alfredo

Release Date2006-12-01

Charactersd Self

Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori

Release Date2014-10-23

Charactersd Self

Malena

During WWII, a teenage boy discovering himself becomes love-stricken by Malèna, a sensual woman living in a small, narrow-minded Italian town.

Release Date2000-03-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2399

The Prince's Manuscript

A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.

Release Date2000-03-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

The Unknown Woman

Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.

Release Date2006-10-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count359

The King of Ads

A collection of European T.V. commercials directed by a variety of well-known directors from across Europe and the U.S. Compiled and produced by Jean-Marie Boursicot.

Release Date1991-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Mafia Millionaires

The rise and fall of a Neapolitan criminal clan through the story of a boss and his family, divided between the aspiration for a bourgeois life and the deep impulses of oppression. Thirty years of history of one of the most beautiful and discussed cities in the world, the dream of a boy who is overwhelmed by the desire for power as an end in itself, to become the nightmare of a man and those who live next to him.

Release Date2014-10-19

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count40

The Legend of 1900

The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.

Release Date1998-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2361

One Hundred Days in Palermo

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.

Release Date1984-04-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Unit Director

Vote Count44

Everybody's Fine

Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.

Release Date1990-09-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count156

The Professor

An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.

Release Date1986-09-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count123

Everybody's Fine

Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.

Release Date2009-12-04

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Film Writer

Vote Count1052

Especially on Sunday

Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a stray dog; a lonely widow spies on her newly-wed son and daughter-in-law; a German tourist tries to seduce a younger nurse. The fourth segment was cut in the US by its distributor Miramax.

Release Date1991-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12

Bakunin's Son

Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel...

Release Date1997-10-03

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

A Pure Formality

Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.

Release Date1994-05-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count373

Baaria

Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.

Release Date2009-09-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count653

The Best Offer

Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally damaged Claire to oversee the valuation and sale of her family’s priceless art collection, Virgil allows himself to form an attachment to her – and soon he is engulfed by a passion which will rock his bland existence to the core.

Release Date2013-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2962

Correspondence

The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, is based only on phone calls and texts. One day Amy begins noticing something strange in Ed's messages.

Release Date2016-01-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count409

Under a False Name

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

Release Date2004-11-10

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count26

With Her Eyes

Once again, an extraterrestrial mission concluded, and my request for leave was approved more smoothly than anticipated. Yet, unlike before, this time I was required to carry a special pair of "eyes" during my vacation. The owner of these "eyes" would share all five senses with me throughout this period. Together, we traversed countless places and held many conversations. "She" shifted between melancholy and resolve, alternating between rationality and poetry. Growing curious, I began yearning to uncover more of "her" story—and so, as my vacation ended, I embarked on a quest to do exactly that…

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Lo schermo a tre punte

Release Date1995-09-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Star Maker

The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.

Release Date1995-09-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count187

Il sognatore indiscreto

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Il Mago di Esselunga

The young Sardino and his parents are shopping at Esselunga when it becomes an adventurous voyage.

Release Date2011-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore

Release Date2025-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Vote Count2

Brunello - Il visionario garbato

A documentary about the life and work of Brunello Cucinelli, an Italian designer and entrepreneur, founder of the globally renowned company of the same name.

Release Date2025-12-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Paradiso

Giuseppe Tornatore’s Oscar-winning film “Cinema Paradiso,” about a marvellous Sicilian cinema where a boy nicknamed Toto embarks on a lifelong love affair with the movies, is being spun off into a high-profile TV series that Tornatore will write and direct. The six-episode “Paradiso” show is being developed by prominent Rome-based producer Marco Belardi (“Perfect Strangers”) through his new shingle Bamboo Production, which he launched in February.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Diario di Guttuso

Release Date1982-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Devotion

Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana draw on the suggestions of Sicilian popular culture and the great iconic heritage of Italian Neorealist cinema, reinventing these twin sources of inspiration in a perpetually renewed code of endless stylistic contamination.

Release Date2020-07-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema

"I was the highest paid director in Italy'. Filming in Paris for Giuseppe Tornatore's ‘Four Talks with Freda’ (prod. Cristiano Bortone - Orisa Film)-

Release Date2007-10-18

Tutte le storie di Piera

Release Date2014-06-26

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

Release Date2009-09-16

I Don't Know the Men of this City

Franco scaldati - died in 2013 - was one of the most important autors of italian theatre plays, Maresco describes his role in the cultural and social field. Through his opera we can observe Italy from another point of view.

Release Date2015-09-04

Vote Count3

The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso