Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino (Italian: [ˈluːka ɡwadaɲˈɲiːno]; born 10 August 1971) is an Italian film director and producer. His films are characterized by their emotional complexity, eroticism, and lavish visuals. Guadagnino has received numerous accolades, including a Silver Lion, alongside nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards. Born in Palermo, Guadagnino spent part of his childhood in Ethiopia. However, the family returned to Italy to escape the Ethiopian Civil War. Guadagnino began his career directing short films and documentaries. He made his feature-film debut with The Protagonists (1999), the first of his many collaborations with actress Tilda Swinton. His follow-up, Melissa P. (2005), was a commercial success in Italy but was met with mixed critical reception. Guadagnino gained further acclaim with his Desire trilogy, which consists of the films I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015), and Call Me by Your Name (2017). The latter brought him international recognition. Suspiria (2018), a remake of the 1977 film, was Guadagnino's first foray into the horror genre. It was a box office failure and polarized critics. Guadagnino's following projects were We Are Who We Are (2020), a coming-of-age miniseries for HBO, the romantic horror film Bones and All (2022), the romantic sports film Challengers (2024), and the period romantic drama Queer (2024). Guadagnino directed several documentaries, including Bertolucci on Bertolucci (2013) and Salvatore: The Shoemaker of Dreams (2020). Aside from filmmaking, he has been involved in the fashion world, directing advertisements for brands like Fendi and Salvatore Ferragamo. In 2012, Guadagnino founded the production company Frenesy Film Company. He also produced Belluscone: A Sicilian Story (2014), The Truffle Hunters (2020), Salvatore: The Shoemaker of Dreams (2020), Holiday, and Enea (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article about Luca Guadagnino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Dior and I

Behind-the-scenes documentary revealing what goes on inside the colourful, privileged, and sometimes stressful Christian Dior fashion house.

Release Date2015-03-06

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Luca Guadagnino: Projecting Desire

Video essay exploring Luca Guadagnino's filmmaking methods, focusing on the passionate dynamics of desire and ardent longing for connection that sizzles across his cinema.

Release Date2025-02-21

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Golden Globe Awards

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Release Date1944-01-20

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Episode Count1

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Quotidien

Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC.

Release Date2016-09-12

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Episode Count1

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Variety Studio: Directors on Directors

PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and T.V. shows of the past year through candid conversations with today's hottest actors. Hosted by Variety Film Awards Editor Clayton Davis and Variety Chief Correspondent Elizabeth Wagmeister, each episode brings together pairs of directors engaging in intimate one-on-one discussions about their craft and work.

Release Date2021-03-03

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Episode Count1

The Protagonists

An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.

Release Date1999-09-10

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That Click

A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has portrayed over sixty years of pop culture. This fascinating feature takes a closer look into the career of one of the most important photographers of the last century. His subjects, who are some of the biggest stars of Hollywood and the fashion world, provide testimonials.

Release Date2019-12-30

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Vote Count4

Mademoiselle C

A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld.

Release Date2013-09-11

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Vote Count31

We Are Cinema

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

Release Date2021-12-16

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Moments on the Set of I Am Love

A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.

Release Date2009-01-01

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Joie de vivre

Upcoming documentary about Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci.

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We Are Who We Are

Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.

Release Date2020-09-14

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count8

Vote Count355

Challengers

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

Release Date2024-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2235

Queer

1950. William Lee, an American expat in Mexico City, spends his days almost entirely alone, except for a few contacts with other members of the small American community. His encounter with Eugene Allerton, an expat former soldier, new to the city, shows him, for the first time, that it might be finally possible to establish an intimate connection with somebody.

Release Date2024-11-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count375

Diary of a Nymphomaniac

A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.

Release Date2008-10-17

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JobWriter

Vote Count335

Call Me by Your Name

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Release Date2017-07-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count12342

Suspiria

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Release Date2018-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2605

Bones and All

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Release Date2022-11-18

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Vote Count1453

Melissa P.

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Release Date2005-11-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count568

A Bigger Splash

An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.

Release Date2015-11-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count786

Beckett

An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.

Release Date2021-08-04

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JobProducer

Vote Count673

I Am Love

Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.

Release Date2010-03-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count368

April

Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after a newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite the risks.

Release Date2025-01-29

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Vote Count5

The Truffle Hunters

In the secret forests of Northern Italy, a dwindling group of joyful old men and their faithful dogs search for the world’s most expensive ingredient, the white Alba truffle. Their stories form a real-life fairy tale that celebrates human passion in a fragile land that seems forgotten in time.

Release Date2020-12-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count38

After the Hunt

A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Release Date2025-10-10

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Atropia

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

Release Date2025-01-25

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Vote Count2

The Staggering Girl

Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York, must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother. There, the ghosts of her childhood will come to her through her mother's art.

Release Date2019-05-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count47

Enea

Enea chases after the myth he bears in his name; he does so to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does so together with Valentino, a newly baptized aviator. The two, in addition to dealing and partying, share youth. Lifelong friends, victims and perpetrators of a corrupt world, but moved by an incorruptible vitality. Beyond the boundaries of rules, on the other side of morality, there is a sea full of humanity and symbols to be discovered. Enea and Valentino will fly over it to the furthest extremes. However, drugs and the underworld are the invisible shadow of a story about something else: a melancholy father, a brother fighting at school, a mother defeated by love and a beautiful girl, a happy ending and a happy death, a palm tree falling on a glass world.

Release Date2023-09-05

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Vote Count150

Holiday

Veronica, after a long trial and two years in prison for the alleged murder of her mother and her lover, is found innocent. She is only twenty years old, but it is difficult to look ahead...

Release Date2023-10-23

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Vote Count18

Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory

At the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, Tilda Swinton talks to director Luca Guadagnino about cinema, loneliness and love.

Release Date2002-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. In 1927, he returned to Italy and founded in Florence his namesake luxury brand. This feature-length documentary recounts his adventures.

Release Date2021-10-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Separate Rooms

Fleeing from the image of his boyfriend who recently committed suicide, Leo arrives in England in order to descend into anonymity. Yet even here his mind continually turns to the reality of his lover’s death and their experiences together.

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Here

A young woman's journey across the world following a set of cryptic clues.

Release Date2012-01-24

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Vote Count2

Artificial

Described as a comedy-drama about the period at the artificial intelligence company OpenAI in 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days. Further details TBA.

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Walking Stories

Delicate and slightly surreal, “Walking Stories” is a romantic comedy directed by Luca Guadagnino.

Release Date2013-01-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

The Landlords

Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his big career comeback-concert in his home city. It all seems like an easy enough job, but the small town community doesn't like strangers.

Release Date2012-10-04

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Vote Count36

Diciannove

Leonardo, a 19-year-old student, leaves his hometown of Palermo to study economics in London. He soon grows restless and enrolls at the University of Siena to study literature before dropping out of school to study classics on his own. The following year, he travels to Turin where he meets a man who will help him on his journey of self-discovery.

Release Date2025-02-27

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Sgt. Rock

Follows WWII American sergeant, Frank Rock, who leads his infantry unit, Easy Company, through various battles across Europe, ultimately achieving victory against the enemy forces.

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Diarchy

Giano and Luc are traveling through the woods when a storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in Luc's villa. Gradually and insidiously, a competition emerges between them, with terrible consequences.

Release Date2010-08-07

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Vote Count10

The Levitants

In a sumptuous villa, three young people discover their desires.

Release Date2015-01-16

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Vote Count3

A Rose Reborn

A brilliant young CEO from London contemplates the possibility of selling his invention to a mysterious Chinese billionaire. Before actually meeting his potential investor however our protagonist must face a number of challenges in the form of journeys, riddles and the exchange of clothes.

Release Date2014-10-03

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Vote Count11

The Making of Lotus

Documenting the making of Elisa's 2003 album 'Lotus'

Release Date2003-12-05

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Kettice

After his successful film debut with “Diciannove” presented at the 2024 Venice Biennale - Orizzonti section, the director from Palermo Giovanni Tortorici returns to directing with “Kettice”. A film produced by Luca Guadagnino’s Frenesy company that will be shot in Palermo in spring 2025 and tells a choral story about a group of sixteen-year-old boys and girls in Palermo in the 2000s.

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O Night Divine

St. Moritz, Switzerland. On a snowy Christmas Eve in a grand mountain hotel, the lives of five people magically intertwine during a wild night full of extravagant adventures and joyous celebrations.

Release Date2021-12-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Belluscone: A Sicilian Story

This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi’s political and human defeat in his “twilight”, the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi’s unconditional supporter, deeply rooted in an ancient culture that dies hard, and the director’s artistic defeat in an Italy that recognised itself in this “Berlusconian culture” for a long time, and probably still does.

Release Date2014-09-04

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Vote Count69

Qui

Release Date1997-01-01

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Adele's Dream

Release Date2013-01-01

DepartmentProduction

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Antonia

Distinguished Italian poet Antonia Pozzi (1912–1938) was among those women who were at odds with the times in which they lived. Her poems record her inability to adapt to social norms and her desire to live fully, and in poetry she sought an escape from reality and from her own complex soul and emotional life.

Release Date2015-07-04

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Vote Count17

Part Deux

A modern-day paean to the good times, inspired by a Wolfgang Tillmans picture.

Release Date2007-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Fiori, Fiori, Fiori!

Luca Guadagnino left for Sicily from Milan to knock on the doors of his childhood friends and discuss with them their experience of this exceptional moment, which has united the entire world.

Release Date2020-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Leading Men

In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives.

DepartmentProduction

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Life in Technicolor

A story of intrigue, suspense and beauty, set in the streets of Milan, with a mysterious succession of encounters, déjà-vu and enigmatic glances echoing the surreal atmospheres of Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpieces. A unique sequence of places, evocations and indelible feelings bring the Maison back to its timeless bond with the world of cinema, through a subtle and impenetrable plot, in a growing tension between elegance and passion, rigor and colour.

Release Date2021-01-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

American Psycho

A new film adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis's influential novel 'American Psycho'. It aims to reimagine Patrick Bateman in the fast-paced modern era.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Meatseller

Follows Selinna Ajamikoko, a young Nigerian woman with aspirations of following in her mother's footsteps as a meat seller. She sets out on her journey to Italy in pursuit of her ambition, a journey fraught with horror and bestiality.

Release Date2023-08-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

L'uomo risacca

From a poem of Gabriele Frasca

Release Date2000-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Bertolucci on Bertolucci

Documentary on the life and work of legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci, using filmed interviews he has given over the last 50 years.

Release Date2013-08-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Cuoco Contadino

Up the hills between Liguria and France, a car goes up towards the Pre-Alps. Paolo Masieri, one of the most innovative of the great Italian chefs, has his vegetable garden, his country house, his herbs. Luca Guadagnino's camera follows him, moving among the fronds with the step of a weasel, sniffing the moss and the dried leaves of the chestnut trees, becoming nature among nature.

Release Date2004-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Search

Release Date2012-09-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Aryan Papers

An unrealised Stanley Kubrick project about the Holocaust.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Untitled João Pedro Rodrigues Movie

New João Pedro Rodrigues movie, produced by Luca Guadagnino as said in this interview https://www.rollingstone.it/cinema-tv/interviste-cinema-tv/luca-guadagnino-io-sono-queer/974249/

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Au revoir

Release Date2001-01-01

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JobWriter

Dream Generation

Francesca, Morgana, Edo and Antonio. Four of today’s youngsters. Four inadvertent representatives of today’s generation of 20-year-olds who “do whatever I want”.By chance they find that they’re spending a week in Catania together, the Baroque city perched on the slopes of a volcano, the continual rumbling of which seems to reflect their restlessness…

Release Date2003-08-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Pippo Delbono, You Have to Die: The Love Factory

Filmed mostly in close-ups, the film documents a personal conversation that the two film directors had with each other. Delbono addresses a wide range of different topics: death and life, love, politics and religion, even private things, such as moving and diets.

Release Date2008-11-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Inconscio Italiano

A documentary in which seven Italian intellectuals survey the political history of their country from its imperial adventure in Ethiopia in 1937 to the ascent of Silvio Berlusconi, focusing on the evolving role of the Fascist Party.

Release Date2011-08-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Chronology

The Italian director Luca Guadagnino knows how to work a wardrobe into a narrative, and this fashion fairytale is no exception. Starring the dark Italian beauty Mariacarla Boscono in Miu Miu, Yves Saint Laurent, Valentino and Christopher Kane.

Release Date2010-09-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Switch

Release Date2012-12-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Shadows from Within

Domenico Quirico, correspondent for the daily La Stampa, was abducted in Syria in 2013 and released after 152 days of captivity. Here he evokes a career spent collecting fragments of other people's lives, and journeys back to the cell where he found himself sharing the fate of the people he writes about. His words, the narrative fabric of the film, turn into action: we follow him first along the Donbass front and then on his return journey, to the place "where it all began and where it all ended:" Syria. Because "it's not about going home; it's about coming back here."

Release Date2016-09-09

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Vote Count2

Rosso

The monster comes out to devour with its deadly bite in prey of its subconscious.

Release Date2002-01-01

DepartmentProduction

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Lord of the Flies

Director Luca Guadagnino is remaking Lord of the Flies, leaning into its potential as a psychological horror and tapping into unexplored elements of the story. The new adaptation is expected to be a fresh and refreshing take on the classic novel, with a focus on character drama and psychological horror.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Buddenbrooks

Adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1901 novel, which chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family over the course of four generations, portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory

In the void created ad hoc to throw us into desperation, fear, shock, the torment of an infinite present, Arto Lindsay sings with words, silences and small gestures of/with/for/about love, a force that is so violent that nothing will ever be the same again.

Release Date2004-11-01

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JobWriter

Delfinasia

Release Date2007-01-01

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Magic Triangle

Release Date2013-03-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Bread and Milk

Late one night, a middle-aged man is visited by the ghost of his father.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Home Front – A Journey in Italy with Domenico Quirico

Human technology has made great leaps forward in recent decades, but what about humanity itself? Post-industrialization is causing distressing social changes, and Home Front: A Journey in Italy with Domenico Quirico shows what that means in practice.

Release Date2021-11-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

GialappaShow

Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci - supported in the studio by Mago Forest, a great cast of comedians and many surprise guests - comment with biting irony on the most popular TV programs, the main sporting events and the last web trends.

Release Date2023-05-21

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

Peter Del Monte e Luca Guadagnino: Un Incontro

Release Date2021-07-03