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Ridere fino a volare (2012)

Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano (2010)

Cenci in Cina (2009)

Via Varsavia (2006)

La mia vita a stelle e strisce (2003)

Un posto tranquillo (2003)

In a small convent immersed in the tranquility of the Tuscan countryside, four friars spend their days: Raniero, the gruff but friendly guardian, Gervasio, jovial but hypochondriac, the naive Bettino, and Vittorio, an elderly friar who tends the garden. Th ...

Un altr'anno e poi cresco (2001)

I Love Andrea (2000)

Dado likes the beautiful Francesca who likes Andrea, a girl that lives with her. ...

Mr. Fifteen Balls (1998)

Francesco is a Tuscan who is very good at playing American pool, so much so that he is nicknamed "Mr. Quindicipalle", for the time he performed the unlikely feat of pocketing fifteen (quindici) balls (palle) in one shot, using the wooden handle of a broom ...

Gli Inaffidabili (1997)

Ritorno a casa Gori (1996)

Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo. ...

Hotel Rome (1996)

1939: a Tuscan village awaits the arrival of Il Duce. A dog finds a decomposing fetus. Investigations begin immediately: given the exceptional circumstances, someone must be found responsible. And they find someone: a member of the only poor family in the ...

OcchioPinocchio (1994)

A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son. ...

Miracolo italiano (1994)

7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce hi ...

L'ombra della sera (1994)

After being fired for suspecting illegal toxic waste trafficking at her company, a secretary falsely accuses her superior, Marc, of sexual harassment on the radio. This lie drives Marc's fiancée to suicide, while simultaneously, the company owner frames t ...

Dear Goddamned Friends (1994)

In 1944 Tuscany, a group of boxers struggling through World War II stages rigged matches to earn money and travel, accompanied by a missing black American soldier and a girl resisting marriage, as they navigate the challenges of their war-torn world. ...

Bonus Malus (1993)

The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart. ...

Daddy, Don't Blush (1993)

Tullio Venturini, a retired widower, has a daughter, Anna, who is an actress. However, he is the only one not to know that she works in the porn industry. ...

Caino e Caino (1993)

After the death of their industrialist father leaves them each with 49% of his company shares, two quarrelling brothers go to war for the remaining 2%. ...

Allullo drom (1992)

Zitti e mosca (1991)

In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about the fall of Communism, the lives of some dazed characters intertwine. ...

Benvenuti in casa Gori (1990)

The film is set in a house in a Tuscan landscape, has an ironic content and a Christmas frame. The film is divided into 5 episodes: The Family, The Lunch, Unexpected Pregnancy, The Videotape and Epilogue. ...

Willy Signori e vengo da lontano (1989)

Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth. ...

Musica per vecchi animali (1989)

Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco) (1988)

Psychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Even today, he can think of little else besides sex, sex, sex. ...

Cuore in gola (1988)

Crimes and Perfumes (1988)

Eddy is the detective of a general store. His girl is Barbara who works in the same store. Barbara receives a gift, a bottle of scent, and later she dies burned. Police detective Turoni begins to investigate and Eddy, wanting to revenge Barbara, does the s ...

Maramao (1987)

A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood, while experiencing his sexual awakening during a summer vacation of an island. ...

Us Real Men, We Hard Men (1987)

Mario, a tram-driver, and Silvio, a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course. ...

Stregati (1986)

Lorenzo is the conductor of Radio Strega's night show, making up false court sentences for those who suffer from insomnia. ...

Blame it on Paradise (1985)

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him ...

Casablanca, Casablanca (1985)

Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards. ...

Son contento (1983)

The Pool Hustlers (1983)

Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, b ...

What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight (1982)

A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco. ...

Ad ovest di Paperino (1982)

It is the first film of the comedy trio "I GianCattivi", formed by Athina Cenci, Francesco Nuti and Benvenuti, who won the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. The film is set in Florence, Tuscany, with some scenes shot in Prato.The title is an inside j ...