Screenplay: Federica Pontremoli

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


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

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

Days and Clouds

2007 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Silvio Soldini

Cast Margherita Buy · Antonio Albanese · Giuseppe Battiston · Alba Rohrwacher

Plot Vito and Elsa, a middle class couple, find themselves with financial difficulties as a consequence of Vito's being sacked from his job. The circumstances will be difficult to adjust to.

6.4

104 votes

6.4

104 votes

The 1000-Euro Generation

2009 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Massimo Venier

Cast Alessandro Tiberi · Valentina Lodovini · Carolina Crescentini · Francesco Mandelli

Plot In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying,...

6.2

48 votes

6.2

48 votes

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

2009 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe Piccioni

Cast Valerio Mastandrea · Valeria Golino · Sonia Bergamasco · Lidia Vitale

Plot Guido writes novels and short stories; he's detached, diffident. When his wife and teenage daughter move, he stays behind to write. He takes swimming lessons; his teacher is Giulia, somber,...

6.1

67 votes

6.1

67 votes

A Magnificent Haunting

2012 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Ferzan Ozpetek

Cast Elio Germano · Margherita Buy · Vittoria Puccini · Beppe Fiorello

Plot The only dream of Pietro is to become a famous actor. 28 year-old Pietro is so obsessed with becoming an actor that he does not mind trying every single way....

6.1

338 votes

6.1

338 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

Il giorno in più

2011 · Movie · 111 min. · Italy

5.8

68 votes

5.8

68 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

Lucia's Grace

2018 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

Direction Gianni Zanasi

Cast Alba Rohrwacher · Elio Germano · Giuseppe Battiston · Hadas Yaron

Plot Lucia is a 36-year-old surveyor who lives with her daughter. While she does her best to get by amidst financial problems and eternally ambiguous personal relationships, the town council hires...

4.8

164 votes

4.8

164 votes

4.7

29 votes

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Onda su onda

2016 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Not rated

Not rated

Good Thing You're Here

2009 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Luis Prieto

Cast Claudia Gerini · Chiara Martegiani · Alessandro Sperduti · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot Based on the eponymous novel by Maria Daniela Raineri, who wrote the script - the film's two main characters are troubled teen Allegra (Chiara Martegiani, created on Maria De Filippi's...

Not rated

Not rated