Screenplay: Daniela Ceselli

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


Good Morning, Night

2003 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Luigi Lo Cascio · Maya Sansa · Roberto Herlitzka · Paolo Briguglia

Plot In 1978, the Red Brigade kidnapped the Italian Prime Minister. One of the group is no longer convinced of the wisdom of the idea. With inner division, the situation quickly...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Kidnapped

2023 · Movie · 134 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Filippo Timi · Fabrizio Gifuni · Barbara Ronchi · Paolo Pierobon

Plot A Jewish boy kidnapped and converted to Catholicism in 1858.

6.5

645 votes

6.5

645 votes

La spettatrice (The Spectator)

2004 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Paolo Franchi

Cast Barbora Bobulova · Andrea Renzi · Brigitte Catillon · Chiara Picchi

Plot Valeria is a passive onlooker to her own life in Turin, and she grows so obsessed with the activities of her neighbor Massimo that when he moves to Rome she...

6.3

235 votes

6.3

235 votes

Vincere

2009 · Movie · 128 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Giovanna Mezzogiorno · Filippo Timi · Michela Cescon · Fabrizio Costella

Plot Italy, 1907. Beauty shop worker Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) falls for union activist Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi). The couple marry but, as Mussolini switches his political tack from socialism to...

6.2

2K votes

6.2

2K votes

La Balia

1998 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Fabrizio Bentivoglio · Valeria Bruni Tedeschi · Maya Sansa · Jacqueline Lustig

Plot Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife...

6.0

157 votes

6.0

157 votes

Fallen Heroes

2007 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Paolo Franchi

Cast Elio Germano · Irène Jacob · Bruno Todeschini · María de Medeiros

Plot A psychologically damaged youth decides to kill his parents.

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Life is (not) a game

2022 · Documentary · 83 min. · Italy

Direction Antonio Valerio Spera

Plot Two years of our recent history told through the eyes of Laika, the Roman street artist whose real identity is unknown. The pandemic gathers steam, as the virus and its...

Not rated

Not rated

And They Call It Summer

2012 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

Direction Paolo Franchi

Cast Jean-Marc Barr · Luca Argentero · Isabella Ferrari · Filippo Nigro

Plot Dino is a tormented, sexually deviant man who loves his wife Anna madly, but finds having sex with her impossible. He looks for pleasure elsewhere: sees prostitutes, and goes to...

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