Carlo Verdone

Carlo Verdone (born 17 November 1950) is an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. His career was jumpstarted by his first three successes, "Un sacco bello" (1980), "Bianco, rosso e Verdone" (1981) and "Borotalco" (1982). Since the 1990s, he has been introducing more serious subjects in his work, linked to the excesses of society and the individual's hardships in confronting it. Along with Massimo Troisi, Francesco Nuti and Roberto Benigni, he is one of the most important and revelant comedy authors of the '80 and '90 italian cinema.

Works

Vita da Carlo

Carlo Verdone plays himself by portraying the drama and the comedy of his private life and his relationship with a loving and oppressive mother: Rome.

Release Date2021-11-05

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd se stesso

Episode Count10

Vote Count39

Libero

Release Date2000-01-27

Charactersd Ospite speciale

Episode Count1

Manual of Love 2

Paralyzed from a crash, Nicola falls for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela seek fertility treatment in Barcelona. Filippo and Fosco, a gay couple, plan their wedding. Ernesto, a waiter, has an affair with Spanish cook Cecilia.

Release Date2007-01-19

Charactersd Ernesto

Vote Count283

The Great Beauty

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

Release Date2013-05-21

Charactersd Romano

Vote Count3162

Luna

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Release Date1979-08-29

Charactersd Director of Caracalla

Vote Count104

Ages of Love

In Italy, three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a retired man falls in love with his friend's daughter.

Release Date2011-02-25

Charactersd Fabio

Vote Count205

Manual of Love

Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.

Release Date2005-03-18

Charactersd Goffredo

Vote Count320

Bianco, rosso e Verdone

Three Italians travel to their hometown to vote for elections: Pasquale is a Southern immigrant living in Munich who's genuinely happy to come back to Italy, even if just for a few days, but the country he dreams of is far from reality; Furio travels to Rome with his family, but his niggling attitude threatens to push his wife Magda over the edge; young Mimmo is also going to Rome, but the trip is repeatedly interrupted by worries about his grandma's health.

Release Date1981-02-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Pasquale Ametrano / Furio Zoccano / Mimmo

Vote Count718

Il bambino e il poliziotto

Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Seeing that Carlo is the person responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until his mother is freed. Carlo does everything possible to have Social Services or somebody look after the kid but is told by the Courts that he is the best candidate for his custody until a better one is found. Even though Giulio manages to turn Carlo's life inside out he ends up getting to like the kid and falling for the kid's mother, Rosanna, while she is in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out for dinner.

Release Date1989-12-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Carlo Vinciguerra

Vote Count78

Lucky and Zorba

A seagull is caught by the black tide of a sinking petrol ship. She manages to fly inland and falls down in a garden by a cat. Moribund, she asks the cat to fulfill three promises: that when she lays her egg he must not eat it; that he must take care of it until it hatches; that he would teach the newborn how to fly.

Release Date1998-12-22

Charactersd Zorba (voice)

Vote Count618

Zora la vampira

Count Dracula trades Transylvania for Italy in search of fresh blood and Western standards of living, but finds instead his ancient love Zora, reincarnated as a young graffiti artist from the Roman hip-hop scene.

Release Date2000-09-22

DepartmentCrew

JobPresenter

Charactersd Lombardi

Vote Count62

Fun Is Beautiful

Three stories set in summer Rome, three characters all played by Verdone: an awkward young man meets a Spanish tourist; another one plans a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens; a hippie is visited by his father, who tries to convince him to get back home.

Release Date1980-01-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Enzo / Ruggero / Leo / Don Alfio / Anselmo / Professor

Vote Count400

Sogni e bisogni

Release Date1985-01-01

Charactersd Armando

Episode Count11

Grand Hotel Excelsior

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.

Release Date1982-10-07

Charactersd Pericle Coccia

Vote Count178

Soap and Water

A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.

Release Date1983-10-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Rolando

Vote Count356

Troppo forte

Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.

Release Date1986-01-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Oscar Pettinari

Vote Count199

Talcum Powder

Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia.

Release Date1982-01-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Sergio Benvenuti

Vote Count464

Perdiamoci di vista

Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic.

Release Date1994-01-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Gepy Fuxas

Vote Count127

A Flat for Three

Ulisse, Fulvio and Domenico decide to rent an apartment together in order to live with their modest work. However the three encounter any difficulties that have forced them to always be one step away from starvation. Ulisse has to maintain his wife and daughter selling recordings of important foreign singers, Fulvio has the task of reviewing silly scandals of celebrities instead of writing articles for major artists, while Domenico must keep his wife and children going to make love with old single pensioners.

Release Date2012-03-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Ulisse Diamanti

Vote Count200

Compagni di scuola

A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost.

Release Date1988-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd Piero Ruffolo

Vote Count378

L'amore è eterno finché dura

Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.

Release Date2004-02-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Gilberto Mercuri

Vote Count244

Blessed Madness

A man dedicated to religion and very faithful husband suddenly finds himself single. The new shop assistant in his shop will overwhelm his life.

Release Date2018-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Guglielmo

Vote Count382

My Best Enemy

When a neurotic hotel manager fires a maid for allegedly stealing a laptop, her son swears revenge and begins to expose his deepest secrets — only to regret it after falling for his daughter.

Release Date2006-03-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Achille De Bellis

Vote Count300

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline and stars to see a psychologist but in the meantime he meets the problematic and shy Camilla, who disrupts his life.

Release Date1992-01-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Bernardo

Vote Count230

My Sister and I

Carlo is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia in this situation comedy. When Silvia returns after many years to attend her mother's funeral, Carlo deals with the fallout caused by her many love affairs. Carlo is convinced to kidnap Silvia's child whom she left in a Hungarian children's home, but she soon abandons Carlo and the baby when she takes up with a British rock star.

Release Date1987-12-19

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd Carlo

Vote Count68

Honeymoon Trips

The vicissitudes of three couples of newlyweds from the celebration of weddings to their respective honeymoons.

Release Date1995-12-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Raniero / Giovannino / Ivano

Vote Count497

Ma che colpa abbiamo noi

Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.

Release Date2003-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Gegé

Vote Count118

Me, Them and Lara

A priest, after spending years in humanitary missions in Africa, reunites with his family, which is in worse conditions than when he left, and above all meets a young lady who will make him doubt both himself and his faith.

Release Date2010-01-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Carlo Mascolo

Vote Count298

Iris Blond

Romeo, a lovelorn Roman musician in his 40s with 20 years since his only hit, consults a fortuneteller who predicts he'll find love and money with a foreign singer named for a flower. In Brussels he meets Marguerite, an older chanteuse who interprets Jacques Brel and loves her yappy dog.

Release Date1996-12-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Romeo

Vote Count180

Journey with Papa

Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.

Release Date1982-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Cristiano Ferretti

Vote Count200

Grande, grosso e Verdone

A comic movie divided in three episodes.

Release Date2008-03-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Leo Nuvolone / Callisto Cagnato / Moreno Vecchiarutti / L'onorevole

Vote Count384

Il mio amico Massimo

The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.

Release Date2022-12-15

Charactersd Sé stesso

Vote Count9

Gallo cedrone

The life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish year old, who's been everything, a divorced husband, a careless father, an unreliable brother. The story is told in flashback by his friends while Armando has been mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death.

Release Date1998-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Armando Feroci

Vote Count192

A Matter of Heart

Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as one of the men's condition deteriorates, the other becomes more deeply involved in his personal life.

Release Date2009-04-17

Charactersd se stesso

Vote Count86

Italians

Two stories of Italians abroad: in Dubai, a truck driver who smuggles Ferraris for a living teaches the tricks of the trade to his young disciple; in Russia, a clumsy dentist experiences the consequences of sex tourism.

Release Date2009-01-23

Charactersd Giulio Cesare Carminati

Vote Count207

7 Kilos in 7 Days

Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.

Release Date1986-12-18

Charactersd Alfio Tamburini

Vote Count246

L'abbiamo fatta grossa

Yuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted in his inability to remember his lines. Arturo Merlino is a shabby “investigator” who chases cats escaped from their homes. When Arturo and Yuri cross paths, Yuri is under the mistaken impression that Arturo is a consummate professional. He contracts Arturo to follow his ex-wife in order to find proof of her infidelity. But when he accidentally comes into the possession of a mysterious suitcase containing 1 million Euro, a series of hilarious troubles and daring adventures will result in an unpredictable finale…

Release Date2016-01-28

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd Arturo Merlino

Vote Count273

Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore

Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators at every latitude. On scene the artistic path and life full of unpredictable events of an actress both introverted and sunny are recalled, through excerpts from her films and television programs, testimonies of friends and colleagues, leading exponents of Italian cinema of yesterday and today, critics, writers and costume experts.

Release Date2021-10-20

Charactersd Sé stesso

Vote Count1

Sotto una buona stella

A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.

Release Date2014-02-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Federico Picchioni

Vote Count290

Cuori nella tormenta

Walter is a non-commissioned officer of the Navy, while Raf is a ship's cook. They become great friends but unfortunately they fall in love, without knowing it, with the same girl Sonia.

Release Date1984-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Walter

Vote Count33

Al lupo, al lupo

Vanni, Gregorio and Livia are brothers. The first is a well-known pianist, the second has abandoned his career as an aspiring violinist to become a deejay. When Vanni discovers that his father has disappeared into thin air, together with Gregorio they decide to call his sister Livia. The three relatives travel the length and breadth of Tuscany to find their missing parent.

Release Date1992-12-18

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd Gregorio Sagonà

Vote Count100

Tonight at Alice's

Saverio and Filippo are two friends and religious leaders of a travel agency in Rome. However, Filippo has trouble with his wife, because she finds out that he cheated on her with a comely girl named Alice.

Release Date1990-12-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Saverio

Vote Count86

That Movement Which I Love So Much

Noblewoman Livia and her friend Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni take revenge against politician Fabrizio Siniscalchi, Livia's lover who dumped her for political reasons, by setting him up with a young prostitute Anna to cause a scandal.

Release Date1976-01-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Charactersd Bar Customer (uncredited)

Vote Count5

Si vive una volta sola

Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decide instead to organize him an unforgettable holiday trip to the South.

Release Date2021-04-28

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd il Professore Umberto Gastaldi

Vote Count246

I due carabinieri

Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way.

Release Date1984-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Charactersd Marino Spada

Vote Count131

C'era un cinese in coma

A talent agent with a truly talentless client roster, Ercole Preziosi finds himself in trouble when a car crash injures his star comedian, so he turns to his young plucky driver to do stand-up duty.

Release Date2000-03-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Charactersd Ercole Preziosi

Vote Count240

Carlo!

Release Date2013-06-03

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count6

Il Bar del Cult

Release Date2025-10-23

Charactersd Sé stesso

Roma, santa e dannata

Release Date2023-11-06

Charactersd Sé stesso

Vote Count4

La scuola romana delle risate

Release Date2025-04-17

Charactersd Sé stesso / Narratore

Vote Count4

Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!

The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.

Release Date1982-01-21

Charactersd Himself

Vote Count32

24 Hours... Not a Minute More

Release Date1973-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Charactersd Ambassador's Bodyguard (uncredited)

L'altro buio in sala

Release Date2022-03-25

Charactersd Sé stesso

Niente paura

Release Date2010-09-17

Charactersd Sé stesso

Vote Count7

Eroici! - 100 anni di passione e racconti di sport

Release Date2024-10-19

Charactersd Himself

Verdone racconta Leone

Release Date2009-05-03

Charactersd Se stesso

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

Charactersd Self

Vote Count340

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 Count55

We Are Cinema

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

Release Date2021-12-16

Charactersd Self (archive footage)

Vote Count1

What Do You Know About Me

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.

Release Date2009-10-16

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Noi c'eravamo

Release Date2011-10-26

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

Documentary about Sergio Leone

Release Date2006-03-08

Charactersd Self

Vote Count5

Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori

Release Date2014-10-23

Charactersd Self

Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?

Release Date2020-04-12

Charactersd Self

Vote Count5

Io tu noi, Lucio

Release Date2020-09-10

Charactersd Self

Vote Count13

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Release Date1984-09-08

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana

Release Date2019-10-26

Charactersd Self

Vote Count8

Cercando La grande bellezza

Drama, documentary

Release Date2015-10-24

Charactersd Self

Vote Count16

RomAmor: Alberto Sordi, from Rome to the whole world

If Rome is the capital of the world, then Alberto Sordi is his true son. He absorbed all the vices and valor of his homeland. His whole life was connected with his beloved city. He owed his first success to another great Roman - Fellini, and Italian became the only obstacle in his international career. On stage, Alberto Sordi might have seemed uncontrollable and rude, but could have been charming and slightly ridiculous. He played scammers and victims, sweet losers and unsurpassed drunkards with the manners of great comedians. But, even jokingly, he always remained serious.

Release Date2007-01-01

Charactersd Self

A Beautiful Vacation

This 2006 documentary was filmed on the occasion of director Dino Risi's ninetieth birthday. It features interviews with his collaborators, friends, and family, as well as Risi himself, who talks candidly about his personal successes and the obstacles he has faced.

Release Date2006-12-23

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

Release Date2010-09-07

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

Release Date1997-08-06

Charactersd Self

The Last Movie Painter

A fantastic journey through the world of Renato Casaro, one of the most important illustrators that the world’s film poster industry has ever known.

Release Date2020-02-06

Charactersd Self

Vote Count10

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

Release Date2010-09-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano

Release Date2010-11-05

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

Release Date2019-10-25

Charactersd Self

Voi siete qui

Release Date2011-09-08

Charactersd Self

C'era una volta il prossimamente

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

Release Date2014-04-22

Charactersd Self

Mario Verdone: Il critico viaggiatore

Release Date2024-10-18

Charactersd Self

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic screen persona cannily reflected and critiqued mid-20th-century Italian society, while shedding light on the complex inner life of the man himself.

Release Date2018-10-21

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

Alberto il grande

Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 2003. Through this documentary Verdone’s brothers with deep respect towards the Roman actor trace an affectionate and sincere portrait not only about an Artist but, above all, about a man with his habits, his ideas, his tics, his vices and his virtues. And for the first time Mrs Aurelia – Alberto Sordi’s sister who is dedicated the documentary – opens the doors of the beautiful house of Via Druso where the actor has lived since 1958. In this way we are led by Carlo Verdone (a sort of Virgilio whose Dante Alighieri wrote about but we are not in the Hell but in the Seven Heaven where there is the source of the Italian Cinema) and on the tips and staying in silence we can go into the rooms of this wonderful house which reveals the true, authentic character of Alberto Sordi.

Release Date2013-02-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1