Direction: Gianni Amelio
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Gianni Amelio. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Lamerica
1994 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Enrico Lo Verso · Michele Placido · Piro Milkani · Elida Janushi
Plot An opportunistic Italian swindler heads to Albania and finds himself involved with the life of an impoverished local in this somber political drama. Gino (Enrico Lo Verso) and his partner...
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
The Stolen Children
1992 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Enrico Lo Verso · Valentina Scalici · Giuseppe Iaeracitano · Florence Darel
Plot Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing...
7.3
988 votes
7.3
988 votes
The Way We Laughed
1998 · Movie · 124 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Enrico Lo Verso · Francesco Giuffrida · Fabrizio Gifuni · Giuliano Spadaro
Plot Set in Turin in the late 1950s two brothers, who have emigrated from Sicily, strive for better things with the older working to enable the younger to study and escape...
7.1
495 votes
7.1
495 votes
The House Keys
2004 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Kim Rossi Stuart · Andrea Rossi · Charlotte Rampling · Pierfrancesco Favino
Plot Night time in the railway station, Munich, Bavaria. Gianni is meeting Paolo, his fifteen-year-old son whom he has never met and who is fast asleep on the train heading for...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Lord of the Ants
2022 · Movie · 134 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Luigi Lo Cascio · Elio Germano · Leonardo Maltese · Sara Serraiocco
Plot At the end of the sixties, a trial was held in Rome that caused a sensation. Playwright and poet Aldo Braibanti was sentenced to nine years’ prison, found guilty of...
6.8
114 votes
6.8
114 votes
I ragazzi di via Panisperna
1989 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Andrea Prodan · Mario Adorf · Ennio Fantastichini · Laura Morante
6.7
22 votes
6.7
22 votes
Open Doors
1990 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Ennio Fantastichini · Renzo Giovampietro · Renato Carpentieri
Plot On 10 March 1937, in Palermo, the clerk Tommaso Scalia that was the scapegoat for embezzlement in the Confederation Building kills with a bayonet his former chief, the lawyer Spadafora...
6.6
107 votes
6.6
107 votes
First Man
2011 · Movie · 102 min. · France
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Jacques Gamblin · Maya Sansa · Denis Podalydès · Régis Romele
Plot Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood...
6.6
84 votes
6.6
84 votes
6.2
33 votes
Blow to the Heart
1983 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Fausto Rossi · Laura Morante · Sonia Gressner
6.1
29 votes
6.1
29 votes
Holding Hands
2017 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Elio Germano · Renato Carpentieri · Micaela Ramazzotti · Maria Nazionale
Plot Cesare is an old and cynical widower with two children. One day comes the young and enigmatic Emma, married to a shady individual that so little resembles to her. Cesare...
6.0
99 votes
6.0
99 votes
The Missing Star (La stella che non c’è)
2006 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Sergio Castellitto · Ling Tai · Angelo Costabile · Hiu Sun Ha
Plot Gianni Amelio’s new film explores the cultural divide between West and East through the character of Vincenzo, an Italian engineer who finds himself on a startling, life-changing voyage. “The Dismissal,”...
6.0
649 votes
6.0
649 votes
A Lonely Hero
2013 · Movie · 111 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Antonio Albanese · Livia Rossi · Gabriele Rendina · Alfonso Santagata
Plot Gianni Amelio (Lamerica) directs this affecting and timely story about a middle-aged, precariously employed jack-of-all-trades in Milan, who doggedly tries to get by in an unfeeling city while trying to...
5.4
58 votes
5.4
58 votes
The Little Archimedes (TV)
1979 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast John Steiner · Laura Betti · Shirley Corrigan · Renato Moretti
Plot This tragic story explores the situation of a little Italian peasant boy who is discovered by an Englishman to have unusual musical and mathematical gifts. Based on a book by...
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Death at Work (TV)
1978 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Fausta Avelli · Eva Axén · Clara Colosimo · Giovannella Grifeo
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Passatempo (S)
2019 · Movie · 18 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Renato Carpentieri · Daouda Sissoko
Plot A retired teacher is sitting at a table outside a bar; it’s a beautiful sunny day. The waiter brings him breakfast. Soon after a young man arrives and the teacher...
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Effetti speciali (TV)
1978 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Aldo Reggiani · José Quaglio · Olga Karlatos · Jacques Herlin
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Hammamet
2020 · Movie · 126 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Pierfrancesco Favino · Claudia Gerini · Omero Antonutti · Renato Carpentieri
Plot The last year of Bettino Craxi's life, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.
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Se c’è l’amore (S)
1968 · Movie · 2 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio · Alfredo Angeli
Cast Patty Pravo
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Dieci registi italiani, dieci racconti italiani (TV Series)
1983 · Series · min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Lizzani · Gianni Amelio · Luigi Comencini · Luigi Magni
Cast Anna Lelio · Omero Antonutti · William Berger · Domenico Cundari
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