Marco Tullio Giordana (born 1 October 1950 in Milan) is an Italian director and screenwriter. His film Quando sei nato non puoi più nasconderti was entered into the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marco Tullio Giordana, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In Vicenza, a beautiful Italian art city, a young wealthy couple joyfully welcomes the birth of a long-awaited daughter in the early 1980s. But the child’s face is disfigured by a red birthmark that covers half her face. This spot haunts the mother to the point that she rejects her responsibilities as a mother. The child’s aunt, a famous concert pianist, takes over her education, thus discovering her exceptional musical talent.
Release Date:2024-08-22
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:30
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 Date:2022-02-17
Character:Self
Vote Count:327
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:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:405
A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.
Release Date:2021-05-17
Character:Self
Vote Count:5
Release Date:2019-11-26
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
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 Date:2019-11-18
Character:Self
Vote Count:6
A single mother faces a culture of sexual harassment at her new workplace.
Release Date:2018-03-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:60
The life and work of Giuseppe Bertolucci, as told by his father and brother, friends and colleagues.
Release Date:2017-09-04
Character:Himself
Vote Count:1
A grieving woman unexpectedly comes face to face with the Camorra.
Release Date:2017-07-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
Release Date:2016-07-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Lea grew up in a crime family in Calabria. The father of her daughter Denise is also a member of the Mafia. Lea, however, wants a different life for her daughter, free of violence, fear and falsehood. She decides to cooperate with justice, to benefit of the witness protection scheme and attempts to run away... Inspired by the true story of Lea Garofalo, the struggle of a woman to escape the Mafia.
Release Date:2015-07-13
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:24
Actor turned director Luigi Lo Cascio stars as the talented architect and fervent environmentalist Michele who has moved from Palermo to his ideal city, Siena. He holds a successful job and is living out a dream experiment of functioning one year without running water or electricity. Not surprisingly, he also displays a passionate opposition to cars and driving. One evening, after being forced to borrow his boss’ car in order to collect a colleague for a work function, Michele’s life takes an unexpected turn. In the blinding rain Michele hits something he cannot identify. After leaving a note on a parked car he believes he damaged, he continues down the road only to come across a dead body a few miles down which he later discovers belongs to one of Siena’s most important luminaries. Michele immediately calls the police, but in doing so, he unwittingly brings intense suspicion on himself as his uncertainty raises more questions than he has answers for.
Release Date:2013-04-11
Department:Crew
Job:Thanks
Vote Count:23
On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.
Release Date:2012-03-30
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:231
The bad romance between Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, two of the foremost movie stars in Fascist Italy, who were supporters of the regime to the bitter end, and shared its brutal downfall.
Release Date:2008-05-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:27
The life of a Northern Italian middle-class family is turned upside down after their 12-year-old son falls overboard during a sea trip, only to be picked up by a boat of illegal immigrants.
Release Date:2005-05-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:28
A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi.
Release Date:2004-06-17
Character:Self
Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.
Release Date:2004-01-01
Character:Self
A family saga set in Italy which chronicles the life of a middle-class family. It explores the relationship between two brothers Nicola and Matteo as their life paths separate during youth, encompassing major political and social events in post–World War II Italian history.
Release Date:2003-12-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:18
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
Release Date:2003-06-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:547
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
Release Date:2000-09-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:677
An episode of the anthology series 'Alfabeto italiano'. Meditation about the concept of Fatherland and its evolution through the last 50 years comprised of footage from RAI archives.
Release Date:1999-02-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
RAI documentary filmed in 1996 about Angola, whose people, after more than ten years of anti-colonial struggle and twenty of civil war, still suffer due to the amount of active landmines scattered all over the country.
Release Date:1997-01-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?
Release Date:1995-09-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:48
Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general elections, which Berlusconi nevertheless won in a landslide. In Nanni Moretti's segment, he and Silvio Orlando reprise their roles from The Yes Man (1991).
Release Date:1994-12-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
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 Date:1991-09-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:11
Caterina's father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she's summoned by British police to look at some possible suspects. She recognizes her father's murderer, a Scouser cab driver, but doesn't say anything, choosing to track him down and exact revenge on her own.
Release Date:1988-09-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist resistance.
Release Date:1984-11-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is happily married, has a lovely child and a good job: yet she decides to join him and to become his lover, sharing his destiny right up to its tragic conclusion.
Release Date:1981-09-09
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
When successful racer Nick, with friend and business manager Paul are threatened off the racing circuit they call in a favor from a stock car mechanic who delivers more than they bargained for as he gives them the ultimate power car which he has spent years perfecting.
Release Date:1981-07-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
Young radical Riccardo returns home after hiding in South America for five years, only to find out that his comrades either gave up their ideals or turned to drugs, while all they fought for seems to have set the stage for near-anarchy.
Release Date:1980-08-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Much-censored documentary encompassing thirty years of Italian politics under the governance of the Christian Democracy (DC), entirely composed of — occasionally dubbed — archival footage.
Release Date:1977-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:2