Screenplay: Nanni Moretti

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


The Son's Room

2001 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Laura Morante · Jasmine Trinca · Giuseppe Sanfelice

Plot This film explores the question of whether even the most well-adjusted and happy family can deal effectively with the sudden death of one of the children of the family. Giovanni,...

7.1

14K votes

7.1

14K votes

Dear Diary

1993 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

6.9

9K votes

6.9

9K votes

Red Wood Pigeon

1989 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

6.8

473 votes

6.8

473 votes

Aprile

1998 · Movie · 78 min. · Italy

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Santiago, Italia

2018 · Documentary · 80 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti

Plot After the coup d'État of the Democratic government of Allende, the embassy of Italy in Santiago played a major role in helping the opposers of the regime, and extradited many...

6.8

195 votes

6.8

195 votes

Bianca

1983 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Laura Morante · Roberto Vezzosi · Remo Remotti

Plot Michele (Nanni Moretti) is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele...

6.8

381 votes

6.8

381 votes

The Mass Is Ended

1985 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Margarita Lozano · Ferruccio de Ceresa · Enrica Maria Modugno

Plot The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many...

6.6

501 votes

6.6

501 votes

Quiet Chaos

2008 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Antonello Grimaldi

Cast Nanni Moretti · Valeria Golino · Isabella Ferrari · Alessandro Gassman

Plot Time and again Pietro (Nanni Moretti) is gripped by a strange mixture of chaos and calm. Since the death of his wife he has found no peace. Lara died, quite...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

A Brighter Tomorrow

2023 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Margherita Buy · Mathieu Amalric · Silvio Orlando

Plot A movie director struggles with his relationship with his family, and with his latest movie, about the impact on the Italian Communist Party of the USSR invasion of Hungary in...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Three Floors

2021 · Movie · 119 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Riccardo Scamarcio · Alba Rohrwacher · Nanni Moretti · Margherita Buy

Plot The story of three families living in three apartments in the same bourgeois condominium.

6.5

672 votes

6.5

672 votes

Ecce bombo

1978 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Luisa Rossi · Lina Sastri · Piero Galletti

Plot This non-narrative, sketch-based film is a non-stop feast of antic and black humor. The sketches are framed within the context of a Roman student's school year, which is disrupted by...

6.5

360 votes

6.5

360 votes

My Mother

2015 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Margherita Buy · Nanni Moretti · John Turturro · Giulia Lazzarini

Plot Margherita, a film director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

The Caiman

2006 · Movie · 122 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Silvio Orlando · Margherita Buy · Jasmine Trinca · Elio De Capitani

Plot Nanni Moretti is one of the most overtly political of contemporary filmmakers, although his films are deeply humanist and humorous. The Caiman is his cri de coeur against what he...

6.4

1K votes

6.4

1K votes

Sweet Dreams

1981 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Dario Cantarelli · Nicola Di Pinto · Alessandro Haber

Plot In scenes that can be read as fantasy, reality, or dreams - or somewhere in-between all three - the director and writer Nanni Moretti takes the viewers into his world:...

6.3

132 votes

6.3

132 votes

To Each His Cinema

2007 · Movie · 111 min. · France

Direction Theodoros Angelopoulos · Olivier Assayas · Bille August · Jane Campion

Cast Cindy Beckett · Audrey Dana · Jacques Frantz · George Babluani

Plot To Each His Cinema is a 2007 film, produced and conceived by Gilles Jacob, celebrating the Cannes Film Festival's 60th anniversary. The film is comprised of a collection of 35...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

I Am Self Sufficient

1976 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

6.0

127 votes

6.0

127 votes

We Have a Pope

2011 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Michel Piccoli · Nanni Moretti · Margherita Buy · Jerzy Stuhr

Plot Following the death of the Pope, the Conclave meets to elect his successor. A cardinal is chosen who seems unable to bear the weight of such a responsibility. Is it...

5.9

4K votes

5.9

4K votes

The Opening Day of Close-Up (S)

1996 · Movie · 7 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Fabia Bergamo · Paolo Di Virgilio · Paola Orfei

Plot A micro-manager as movie theater owner. Nanni starts his day getting last night's gross ticket sales, city by city, for "The Lion King." Then he's on the phone to a...

5.8

183 votes

5.8

183 votes

Paté de bourgeois

1973 · Documentary · 26 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Luca Codignola · Maurizio Flores d'Arcais · Fabio Traversa · Franco Moretti

Plot A story of a group of friends and a couple in crisis, exposing the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie.

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The Thing

1990 · Documentary · 59 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Plot Italian Communist Party (PCI) is going to change name and identity and renew itself into a new 'Thing'. This is a selection of talks that took place in various sections...

Not rated

Not rated