Screenplay: Marco Pettenello
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Marco Pettenello. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 20
La Chimera
2023 · Movie · 130 min. · Italy
Direction Alice Rohrwacher
Cast Josh O'Connor · Carol Duarte · Vincenzo Nemolato · Isabella Rossellini
Synopsis We all have a chimera, something we wish to do, to have, but we never find it. For the gang of 'tombaroli', the thieves of ancient tombs and archaeological sites, the chimera is to dream of stopping working and becoming...
7.0
4K votes
7.0
4K votes
The Right Distance
2007 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Mazzacurati
Cast Giovanni Capovilla · Valentina Lodovini · Ahmed Hefiane · Giuseppe Battiston
Synopsis A beautiful young woman named Mara (Valentina Lodovini) comes to replace a schoolteacher in the Po Valley. Trouble ensues. One person in town doesn't miss a trick: 18-year-old Giovanni (Giovanni Capovilla). He is highly motivated to become a journalist and...
6.8
81 votes
6.8
81 votes
Shun Li and the Poet
2011 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy
Direction Andrea Segre
Cast Zhao Tao · Rade Serbedzija · Marco Paolini · Roberto Citran
Synopsis Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome in order to get her papers and enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Veneto lagoon,...
6.6
1K votes
6.6
1K votes
Direction Duccio Chiarini
Cast Daniele Parisi · Silvia D'Amico · Anna Bellato · Sergio Pierattini
Synopsis Guido thought he had an peaceful life, until, on a winter’s afternoon, an unexpected accident in bed sends his relationship with girlfriend Chiara into disarray. As they head to the pharmacy to buy the morning after pill, Guido suggests that...
6.4
23 votes
6.4
23 votes
Holy Tongue
2000 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Mazzacurati
Cast Antonio Albanese · Fabrizio Bentivoglio · Toni Bertorelli · Ivano Marescotti
Synopsis A pair of would-be criminals get more than they bargained for during a robbery of a Catholic church in this satiric comedy from Italy. Willy (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is a salesman who has been fired from his job, while his friend...
6.2
30 votes
6.2
30 votes
The Order of Things
2017 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy
Direction Andrea Segre
Cast Paolo Pierobon · Giuseppe Battiston · Fabrizio Ferracane · Valentina Carnelutti
Synopsis Corrado, a policeman for the European task force in charge of immigration control, is on a field assignment in Libya. During a night patrol in the desert, he meets Swada, a young Somaliwoman who left her war-ravaged country.
6.2
58 votes
6.2
58 votes
Zoran, My Nephew the Idiot
2013 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy
Direction Matteo Oleotto
Cast Giuseppe Battiston · Teco Celio · Rok Prasnikar · Marjuta Slamic
Synopsis Paolo, passes his days dragging himself between drinking sessions in the local bar with his friends, an unsatisfying job and an infantile stalking of his ex-wife. One day, he comes across his nephew Zoran, a curious boy of fifteen, born...
6.1
91 votes
6.1
91 votes
The Passion
2010 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Mazzacurati
Cast Silvio Orlando · Giuseppe Battiston · Corrado Guzzanti · Cristiana Capotondi
Synopsis "The passion" tells the story of a group of assorted people, bound together by the most unlikely circumstances, who find themselves busy staging the tale of the passion of Christ on a Good Friday in a Tuscan village, an old...
6.0
80 votes
6.0
80 votes
The Commander and the Stork
2012 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy
Direction Silvio Soldini
Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Alba Rohrwacher · Claudia Gerini · Giuseppe Battiston
Synopsis A modern tale on contemporary Italy where a love story intertwined with family affairs collides with the materialism of our times. The main characters are a plumber (Valerio Mastandrea) and his deceased wife (Claudia Gerini), who appears to him in...
5.6
56 votes
5.6
56 votes
La sedia della felicità
2013 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Mazzacurati
Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Isabella Ragonese · Giuseppe Battiston · Antonio Albanese
5.2
39 votes
5.2
39 votes
First Snowfall
2013 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy
Direction Andrea Segre
Cast Anita Caprioli · Giuseppe Battiston · Paolo Pierobon · Roberto Citran
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Si muore solo da vivi
2020 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Alberto Rizzi
Cast Alessandra Mastronardi · Alessandro Roja · Amanda Lear · Francesco Pannofino
Synopsis Orlando, a former musician whose private life has been devastated by an earthquake, decides to get a second chance with help of his former manager and motivated by love for Chiara.
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The Big Step
2019 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy
Direction Antonio Padovan
Cast Stefano Fresi · Giuseppe Battiston · Flavio Bucci · Francesco Roder
Synopsis A bittersweet sci-fi tale focusing on two brothers who meet for the first time, set against the backdrop of a foggy Venetian landscape and featuring improbable experiments with DIY space rockets
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Short Skin
2014 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy
Direction Duccio Chiarini
Cast Matteo Creatini · Francesca Agostini · Nicola Nocchi · Marianna Raschillà
Synopsis Eduardo has all the normal longings and desires of an adolescent. And he does not lack opportunities to live them out. If it weren’t for that little medical problem. A coming-of-age drama about friendship, yearnings and a too-tight foreskin.
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The Great Ambition
2024 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Andrea Segre
Cast Elio Germano · Paolo Pierobon · Roberto Citran · Stefano Abbati
Synopsis The life of the great and popular political leader Enrico Berlinguer, who almost led Italy's Communist Party into power in 1978.
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Il segreto dell'acqua (TV Miniseries)
2011 · Movie · 600 min. · Italy
Direction Renato De Maria
Cast Riccardo Scamarcio · Valentina Lodovini · Michele Riondino · Luigi Maria Burruano
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Welcome Venice
2021 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Andrea Segre
Cast Andrea Pennacchi · Paolo Pierobon · Stefano Scandaletti · Samantha Levitt
Synopsis Two brothers are in conflict over the way the Venetian lagoon has been transformed, and the identity of the city and its residents has drastically changed.
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The Last Prosecco
2017 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy
Direction Antonio Padovan
Cast Giuseppe Battiston · Teco Celio · Liz Solari · Roberto Citran
Synopsis The film follows Inspector Stucky investigating a series of murders and the theatrical suicide of Desiderio Ancillotto, a count who lives in the hills of Conegliano and Valdobbiadene, in a story that recounts the conflict between greed and respect for...
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Citizens of the World
2019 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Di Gregorio
Cast Giorgio Colangeli · Gianni Di Gregorio · Ennio Fantastichini · Andrea Sartoretti II
Synopsis Three Italian men plot a move to the east to eke out meagre pensions.
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