Screenplay: Francesca Comencini

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


The Boy from Calabria

1987 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Santo Polimeno · Gian Maria Volonté · Diego Abatantuono · Thérèse Liotard

Plot A BOY FROM CALABRIA is the story of 13-year-old Mimi (Santo Polimeno), who achieves earthly ecstasy whenever he is running... and always in bare feet, like his hero, the Ethiopian...

6.6

42 votes

6.6

42 votes

Our Country

2006 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Francesca Comencini

Cast Luca Zingaretti · Valeria Golino · Giuseppe Battiston · Laura Chiatti

Plot Director Francesca Comencini teams with screenwriter Franco Bernini to explore the manner in which money dictates the lives of people in Milan at the dawn of the 21st century in...

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

White Space

2009 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Francesca Comencini

Cast Gaetano Bruno · Margherita Buy · Salvatore Cantalupo · Guido Caprino

Plot Maria is waiting for a little girl; she is no longer pregnant but is waiting anyway. She is waiting for her daughter to be born or to die. If there...

5.8

30 votes

5.8

30 votes

The Words of My Father

2001 · Movie · 85 min. · Italy

Direction Francesca Comencini

Cast Fabrizio Rongione · Chiara Mastroianni · Viola Graziosi · Claudia Coli

Plot At 30, Zeno's father dies, and he realizes that his youth is almost over. Meeting Giovanni Malfenti, a succesful gallery owner with four daughters, he's impressed by Malfenti's energy, and...

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The Time It Takes

2024 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Francesca Comencini

Cast Romana Maggiora Vergano · Fabrizio Gifuni · Anna Mangiocavallo

Plot A father and his daughter. The years of lead and the 'missing generation'.

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Mobbing

2004 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

Direction Francesca Comencini

Cast Nicoletta Braschi · Camille Dugay Comencini · Rosa Matteucci · Alessio Sperati

Plot A woman comes across the difficulties of modern work: to force her to resign from her job, her firm tries all the humiliation techniques known as "mobbing". The film is...

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Pianoforte

1984 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

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Carlo Giuliani, Boy

2002 · Documentary · 64 min. · Italy

Direction Francesca Comencini

Plot Documentary about the death of Carlo Giuliani, who was shot by a police officer in Genoa on July 20, 2001 during a peaceful protest.

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A Special Day

2012 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

Direction Francesca Comencini

Cast Filippo Scicchitano · Giulia Valentini · Roberto Infascelli · Eleonora Albrecht

Plot Gina and Marco are both very young and are determined to be “someone.” They meet one morning in a shabby suburb at the gates of Rome. She has an appointment...

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La lumière du lac

1988 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Francesca Comencini

Cast Nicole García · Wadeck Stanczak · Francesca Prandi · Jean-Louis Barrault

Plot An urban gigolo on the run from a mobster hides out at the remote cabin of a female novelist in this plodding romantic drama. Her neighbors include an elderly man...

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Stories of Love That Cannot Belong to This World

2017 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Francesca Comencini

Cast Lucia Mascino · Thomas Trabacchi · Carlotta Natoli · Iaia Forte

Plot Claudia and Flavio loved one another for a long time, obsessively, and with the clemency of the changing and passage of time. Then it all ended. For her, it was...

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