Paolo Hendel

Non Aprite Quella Bara (2024)

Improvvisamente a Natale mi sposo (2023)

Improvised Christmas (2022)

Mare di grano (2018)

A boy searches for his parents and is joined by some new friends. ...

L'universale (2016)

This is the story of 3 friends, destined to lose and find each other over and over again. More importantly, this is the (true) story of a film theatre in Florence, The Universale, which was a cultural landmark in the city between the '60s and the '80s. It ...

Basta Poco (2015)

Sergio, a forty-year-old with no steady job, has a brilliant idea and decides to open an agency that sells happiness and fights depression. With his friend Fulvio, he founds "Happy & Content" with the goal of fulfilling people's wishes and bizarre requests ...

Ci vuole un gran fisico (2013)

Torn between family and work, Eva is a woman enslaved by her sense of duty, always in a rush and invariably stressed. Four days shy of her fateful 50th birthday, Eva works as a clerk in the cosmetics department of a department store to support Francesca, h ...

My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began (2011)

Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic. ...

A Fish in Love (1999)

Carpenter Arturo becomes a literary sensation when the children's stories he writes in his spare time get published, but he comes to resent success and the spotlight that comes with it. During a press tour he falls in love with beautiful married woman, Mat ...

Tutti gli uomini del deficiente (1999)

Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: several people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous exploits, and the winner will inherit his billion-dollar fortune. ...

The Cyclone (1996)

The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the serendipitous arrival of five gorgeous Spanish flamenco dancers. ...

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. ...

La settimana della sfinge (1990)

Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman. ...

Cavalli si nasce (1989)

It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way. ...

Love and Fear (1988)

Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von Trotta's film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play. ...

I picari (1987)

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century. ...

Let's Hope It's a Girl (1986)

A multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm he ...

The Night of the Shooting Stars (1982)

The Night of San Lorenzo, the night of the shooting stars, is the night when dreams come true in Italian folklore. In 1944, a group of Italians flee their town after hearing rumours that the Nazis plan to blow it up and that the Americans are about to arri ...

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 ...