Paolo Sorrentino

L'infinito (2025)

An autobiographical bittersweet drama centered on Contarello's rapport with his daughter. ...

The Flood (2024)

1792. Louis XVI, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their children have been arrested and imprisoned in the Tour du Temple, a sinister chateau in Paris, awaiting their trial. Far from the splendour of Versailles, they are isolated and vulnerable for the first ...

Parthenope (2024)

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost. ...

M. Il Figlio del Secolo (2024)

The series follows Benito Mussolini's career from his founding of the Fasci Italiani in 1919 through the assassination of socialist politician Giacomo Matteotti in 1925. ...

I Told You So (2024)

In Rome, during a January weekend a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the heat quickly escalates to a frightening degree, resulting in people and animals losing self-control. ...

Roma, santa e dannata (2023)

Lost Love (2023)

In Nazi-occupied France, the heart of a young nun is torn between God and Love. ...

Sei pezzi facili (2022)

Amanda (2022)

Amanda, 24, lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it's the thing she wants the most. Amanda chooses her new mission as to convince her childhood friend to believe that they are still best friends. ...

Bulgari: Unexpected Wonders (2022)

The advertising is meant to be an invitation to the appreciation of simple things as even the ordinary can turn out to be extraordinary. ...

Mob Girl (2021)

The Hand of God (2021)

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona. ...

Little Adventure in Rome (2018)

Rome, outdoors, at night. A photographer is frantically shooting a fashion feature, with the Colosseum in the backdrop, when the unexpected occurs: the camera jams and the lens has to be changed. ...

Loro (2018)

Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tyc ...

Loro 2 (2018)

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a momen ...

Loro 1 (2018)

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a momen ...

Killer in Red (2017)

A man who looks like many others enters a bar to meet a girl. As he waits for her, the bartender tells him about Floyd, a former bartender from the late '70s. ...

Youth (2015)

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what ma ...

Le voci di dentro (2014)

Alberto Saporito spent a very eventful night. His friend Aniello Amitrano was brutally killed and his body was hidden by his neighbors, the Cimmarutas. But he can't remember if it was just a dream or if he actually lived it. That's why he shows up early to ...

Sabbia (2014)

Academy Award winning director Paolo Sorrentino conveyed a seductive stillness of the volcanic islands of Lipari and Stromboli in Southern Italy in a short film for Giorgio Armani ...

Rio, I Love You (2014)

The third episode of the Cities of Love franchise, Rio, I Love You is an anthology, created by 10 visionary directors from across the globe. The story line of each segment focuses on an encounter of love in a different neighborhood of the city, demonstrati ...

The Dream (2014)

Valeria follows her parents in a jewelry shop during closure time. ...

The Great Beauty (2013)

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. ...

This Must Be the Place (2011)

A bored, retired rock star living in Ireland sets out to find his dead father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S. ...

In the Mirror (2011)

The past is a locked door. ...

Napoli 24 (2010)

The city of Naples is told through 24 short stories that emphasize its complexity, looks and characters. ...

The Other Half (2009)

It tells the story of an elderly woman, confined in a nursing home because of her poor health. Her daughters do not want to take her to the wedding of her granddaughter. The woman, with the complicity of a nurse, escaped from there, determined at all costs ...

The Slow Game (2009)

In an atmosphere between fiction and reality, a rugby game in the suburbs becomes the allegory of the daily struggle of an Italian family against the trials and tribulations of life. ...

L'Aquila 2009: Five Directors in the Rubble (2009)

Il Divo (2008)

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant ...

The Family Friend (2006)

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affa ...

Fiat Croma (2005)

Short film selling Fiat Croma in different scenarios. ...

Nature: Consuelo (2005)

In a small rail-station, a young soldier and a girl are waiting for the train. They both share a very specific attraction to scars. ...

Saturday, Sunday & Monday (2004)

Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of individual members of the family, especially the father, Peppino, who gets angry with anyone who happens to s ...

The Consequences of Love (2004)

Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a livin ...

Giovani talenti italiani (2004)

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops (2002)

The Long Night (2001)

The long night of Manolo, hairdresser to the stars, on the Champs Élysées during his first experience with cocaine. ...

One Man Up (2001)

Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury. ...

Love Has No Bounds (1998)

A camorrista follows a surreal path. ...

The Dust of Naples (1998)

The title deliberatly recalls the famous L'oro di Napoli (Napoli's Gold) by Vittorio De Sica (1954). Alike De Sica's film here Naples is the real protagonist: Naples and its dust, not its gold. Through five episodes expressing different aspects of Naples, ...

Man Who Check the Meter (1995)

The portly meter reader Crecenzio is first seen blowing up a building. The reasons for this drastic, desperate act provide the basis for the story, which is told in flashback. ...

Drogheria (1995)

Sventramento (1995)

Paradise (1994)

A short film by Paolo Sorrentino and Stefano Russo. ...

Ladri di futuro (1992)

Everyday people, everyday stories. Normal, therefore special. They crave for a tomorrow what they haven't got today: the man or the woman of their dreams, a child all of their own, the hope of making it... The only thing they all have in common is the plac ...

Room 999 (2023)

In 1982, Wim Wenders asked 16 of his fellow directors to speak on the future of cinema, resulting in the film Room 666. Now, 40 years later, in Cannes, director Lubna Playoust asks Wim Wenders himself and a new generation of filmmakers (James Gray, Rebecca ...

MCAINE: An Anagram of Cinema (2023)

Legendary British actor Michael Caine, who began his brilliant career on stage during the 1950s, talks about his private life, his work in film and the books he has written. ...

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me (2023)

The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming an astonishing film director. ...

We Are Cinema (2021)

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema. ...

The Hand of God: Through the Eyes of Sorrentino (2021)

Director Paolo Sorrentino returns to Naples, his hometown, and reflects on his youth in an exclusive tour of the locations of "The Hand of God". ...

Cinque mondi (2016)

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

Cercando La grande bellezza (2015)

Drama, documentary ...

Three Touches (2014)

Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man ...

The Great Beauty (2013)

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. ...

What Do You Know About Me (2009)

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. ...

A Matter of Heart (2009)

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. Ho ...

The Caiman (2006)

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the '70s. ...

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

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