Screenplay: Sandro Petraglia
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Sandro Petraglia. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Best of Youth (TV Miniseries)
2003 · Series · 366 min. · Italy
Direction Marco Tullio Giordana
Cast Luigi Lo Cascio · Alessio Boni · Jasmine Trinca · Adriana Asti
Plot "La Meglio Gioventù" tells the story of an Italian family from the late sixties to the present day. It focuses on two brothers, Nicola and Matteo. They share the same...
8.1
6K votes
8.1
6K 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
Suburra
2015 · Movie · 134 min. · Italy
Direction Stefano Sollima
Cast Pierfrancesco Favino · Elio Germano · Claudio Amendola · Alessandro Borghi
Plot A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal....
7.0
5K votes
7.0
5K votes
Who Killed Pasolini
1995 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Marco Tullio Giordana
Cast Carlo DeFilippi · Nicoletta Braschi · Toni Bertorelli · Andrea Occhipinti
Plot It's the story of the murder of a poet,a man,a great film director: PIER PAOLO PASOLINI. The story begin with the arrest of "PELOSI", a young man then accused of...
7.0
147 votes
7.0
147 votes
Piazza Fontana: The Italian Conspiracy
2012 · Movie · 129 min. · Italy
Direction Marco Tullio Giordana
Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Pierfrancesco Favino · Michela Cescon · Fabrizio Gifuni
Plot A chronicle of the 1969 bombing at a major national bank in Milan and the subsequent bombings in other Italian centers over the next three decades.
6.9
290 votes
6.9
290 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
Crime Novel
2005 · Movie · 147 min. · Italy
Direction Michele Placido
Cast Stefano Accorsi · Kim Rossi Stuart · Pierfrancesco Favino · Jasmine Trinca
Plot A master criminal has his sights on conquering Rome's underworld in this exciting gangster epic, spanning more than 25 years of criminal activity in Italy.
6.9
3K votes
6.9
3K votes
My Brother Is an Only Child
2007 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Daniele Luchetti
Cast Elio Germano · Riccardo Scamarcio · Angela Finocchiaro · Luca Zingaretti
Plot Accio and Manrico are two brothers forced to confront their choices, indeed their own lives, in suburban Italy during the '60's and '70's. Their paths are as separate as can...
6.8
3K votes
6.8
3K 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
Fiorile (Wild Flower)
1993 · Movie · 112 min. · Italy
Direction Paolo Taviani · Vittorio Taviani
Cast Claudio Bigagli · Galatea Ranzi · Michael Vartan · Lino Capolicchio
Plot While travelling to visit their grandfather, two children are told the story of a family curse that has lasted two hundred years. During Napoleon's Italian invasion, Elisabetta Benedetti fell in...
6.6
76 votes
6.6
76 votes
Once You're Born You Can No Longer Hide
2005 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy
Direction Marco Tullio Giordana
Cast Matteo Gadola · Alessio Boni · Michela Cescon · Andrea Tidona
6.6
379 votes
6.6
379 votes
The Factotum
1991 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Daniele Luchetti
Cast Nanni Moretti · Silvio Orlando · Giulio Brogi · Anne Roussel
6.5
103 votes
6.5
103 votes
Forever Mary
1989 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy
Direction Marco Risi
Cast Michele Placido · Claudio Amendola · Alessandro di Sanzo · Francesco Benigno
Plot A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries...
6.5
171 votes
6.5
171 votes
Front Line
2009 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Renato De Maria
Cast Riccardo Scamarcio · Giovanna Mezzogiorno · Michele Alhaique · Jacopo Maria Bicocchi
Plot The year is 1989 and a 35 year old man is telling his story from a dark prison cell in Turin. The prisoner is Sergio Segio, one of the founders...
6.5
116 votes
6.5
116 votes
School
1995 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy
Direction Daniele Luchetti
Cast Silvio Orlando · Anna Galiena · Fabrizio Bentivoglio · Antonio Petrocelli
Plot It is the last day of school in a run-down technical institute in the Roman suburbs: the pupils are not really diligent and the teachers give their worst both from...
6.4
41 votes
6.4
41 votes
The Seagull
1977 · Movie · 124 min. · Italy
Direction Marco Bellocchio
Cast Remo Girone · Laura Betti · Pamela Villoresi · Giulio Brogi
Plot A young writer is trapped between his awful actress mother (Laura Betti) and the knowledge that he has only a mediocre talent as a playwright and almost no force of...
6.4
23 votes
6.4
23 votes
The Truce
1997 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast John Turturro · Rade Serbedzija · Massimo Ghini · Roberto Citran
Plot John Turturro stars as an Auschwitz survivor returning to Italy after the war in director Franceso Rosi's new adaptation of Primo Levi's autobiographical "La Tregua" ("The Truce"). The film, an...
6.4
696 votes
6.4
696 votes
Those Happy Years
2013 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Daniele Luchetti
Cast Micaela Ramazzotti · Kim Rossi Stuart · Martina Gedeck · Niccolò Calvagna
Plot In this touching and insightful new drama from Italian writer-director Daniele Luchetti, a narcissistic artist finds his self-satisfied world turned upside down in the wake of a disastrous exhibition and...
6.3
93 votes
6.3
93 votes
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (TV)
2002 · Movie · 126 min. · Italy
Direction Alberto Negrin
Cast Luca Zingaretti · Amanda Sandrelli · Franco Castellano · Jerome Anger
6.3
477 votes
6.3
477 votes
Siberian Education
2013 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Gabriele Salvatores
Cast John Malkovich · Vilius Tumalavicius · Peter Stormare · Eleanor Tomlinson
Plot A drama based on a memoir about growing up as a member of the Urka community in the small republic of Transnistria.
6.0
2K votes
6.0
2K votes