Screenplay: Emanuele Crialese

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Emanuele Crialese. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Grazia's Island (Respiro)

2002 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Emanuele Crialese

Cast Valeria Golino · Vincenzo Amato · Francesco Casisa · Veronica D'Agostino

Plot Lampedusa, an island near western Sicily. Rival boy gangs play roughly among seaside cliffs. Husbands go out to sea and wives work in the fish-packing plant. Fun is restricted to...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Nuovomondo (The Golden Door)

2006 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Emanuele Crialese

Cast Charlotte Gainsbourg · Vincenzo Amato · Francesco Casisa · Aurora Quattrocchi

Plot The story of a Sicilian family who leaves Italy in the early 1900s, in search of a better life in America.

6.2

615 votes

6.2

615 votes

Terraferma

2011 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Emanuele Crialese

Cast Filippo Pucillo · Donatella Finocchiaro · Beppe Fiorello · Claudio Santamaria

Plot A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.

6.1

1K votes

6.1

1K votes

L'immensità

2022 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Emanuele Crialese

Cast Penélope Cruz · Luana Giuliani · Vincenzo Amato · Aurora Quattrocchi

Plot Rome, 70s. The young Borghetti family has just moved to one of the many newly built apartments blocks in the city. But the family is no longer as united as...

5.7

521 votes

5.7

521 votes

Once We Were Strangers

1997 · Movie · 96 min. · United States

Direction Emanuele Crialese

Cast Vincenzo Amato · Jessica Whitney Gould · Anjalee Deshpande · Ajay Naidu

Plot Antonio is a seductive, charismatic Sicilian living illegally in New York. He wanders from job to job, lives as a squatter and enjoys a carefree romantic tryst with a wealthy...

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