Gabriele Salvatores

Naples to New York (2024)

In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach Celestina's sister ...

Casanova's Return (2023)

Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He's approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he's deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova w ...

Comedians (2021)

Six aspiring comedians tired of the mediocrity of their lives, at the end of an evening stand-up course they prepare to face their first performance in a club. In the audience there is also an examiner, who will choose one of them for a TV show. For everyo ...

Fuori era primavera: Viaggio nell'Italia del lockdown (2020)

Volare (2019)

The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and South America. ...

The Invisible Boy: Second Generation (2018)

Three years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have stories and superpowers but their intentions may not be what Michele thinks. ...

Rossini: La Gazza Ladra - Teatro alla Scala (2017)

The Invisible Boy (2014)

Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible. ...

Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani (2014)

A crowd-sourced documentary with clips filmed all on the same day. ...

Siberian Education (2013)

The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, Kolyma ...

1960 (2010)

By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy during the 1960s. ...

Happy Family (2010)

A blocked screenwriter, Ezio, is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they're getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters ...

Stella (2009)

A young girl faces a traumatic event and grows up to meet someone who's gone through hardship aswell. ...

As God Commands (2008)

An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town. ...

Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005)

A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier. ...

I'm Not Scared (2003)

In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. ...

Amnèsia (2002)

On the Spanish island of Ibiza, porn filmmaker Sandro and Angelino, the manager of a beachside watering hole, find their very different lives overlapping. Meanwhile, the island police chief, who is currently at odds with his rebellious son Jorge, is invest ...

Teeth (2000)

Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist ...

Nirvana (1997)

Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "lif ...

Sud (1993)

During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed. ...

Puerto Escondido (1992)

Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions. ...

Mediterraneo (1991)

Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so t ...

La domenica delle salme (1990)

Turné (1990)

Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him. ...

Marrakech Express (1989)

After learning that an old friend of theirs has been arrested in Morocco on drug charges, four former college buddies set out for Marrakech to bail him out. ...

Kamikazen (Ultima notte a Milano) (1988)

A group of comedians are trying to be successful on stage. One night an important television network organises a public variety show to sort out some performers for their programs. Every one of them will try their hardest, but just a few will be chosen. ...

Dream of a Summer Night (1983)

Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream". ...

Inter. Due Stelle sul Cuore (2024)

Ezio Bosso - Le cose che restano (2021)

Ezio Bosso reveals his real self and takes us into his world and his imagination, as if were a diary. ...

The Vanja Earthquake (2019)

Through the rehearsals and the tour of the show based on Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov, Vinicio Marchioni takes us to the Italian province destroyed by the earthquake and the places of the Russian writer. The Vanja earthquake starts from the Chekhovian mast ...

Cinque mondi (2016)

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

Italy in a Day - Un giorno da italiani (2014)

A crowd-sourced documentary with clips filmed all on the same day. ...

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada (2008)

I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto (2004)

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them. ...

The True Life of Antonio H. (1994)

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Ita ...