Antonio CataniaFilmography

Night Bus

Actors: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Valerio Mastandrea, Ennio Fantastichini, Anna Romantowska, Roberto Citran

Synopsis: Not to be confused with Kiumars Poorahmad's 2007 Iranian feature of the same title, Davide Marengo's Italian-language crime comedy Night Bus (2007) concerns a microchip with potentially damning evidence against a Polish magnate. An ex-secret service agent, Carlo Matera (Ennio Fantastichini) Read More

Ballroom Dancing

Actors: Laura Morante, Antonio Catania, Umberto Morelli, Giorgia Brunacchi, Giordano Di Pietro

Synopsis: An unusually wise twelve year old boy attempts to save his mother's failing love life by setting her up with his handsome music teacher in director Claudio Antonioni's entry into the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival. Raul is a precocious adolescent who lives with his mother Monica - a singer in Read More

Il Caimano

Actors: Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Daniele Rampello, Giacomo Passarelli, Jasmine Trinca

Synopsis: Controversial Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berluscoi is just one of the targets of writer and director Nanni Moretti's satiric focus in this sharp comedy-drama. In the 1970's, Bruno (Silvio Orlando) was one of Italy's most daring and best-respected filmmakers, while his wife Paola (Margherita Read More

L'Amore E Eterno- Finche Dura

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Laura Morante, Stefania Rocca, Rodolfo Corsato, Lucia Ceracchi

Segreti Di Stato

Actors: Antonio Catania, David Coco, Aldo Puglisi, Sergio Graziani, Francesco Guzzo

Synopsis: Directed by Paolo Benvenuti, Segreti Di Stato (Secret File) is a pseudo-documentary chronicling an old political incident which many Italians believe to be a violently anti-Communist plot masterminded by the Christian Democratic Party and bandit Salvatore Giuliano. Most of the focus centers on the Read More

La Leggenda di Al, John e Jack

Actors: Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti, Aldo Maccione, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Directed by Aldo Baglio, La Leggenda di Al, John e Jack (The Legend of Al, John and Jack) follows a trio of klutzy mobsters fumbling through the Italian crime underworld in the late '50s. The film begins at a drive-in movie where Al (Aldo Baglio), John (Giovanni Storti), and Jack (Giacomo Poretti) Read More

Ma Che Colpa Abbiamo Noi?

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy, Anita Caprioli, Stefano Pesce, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Italian actor/director Carlo Verdone teams up with screenwriter Piero De Bernardi for the ensemble comedy Ma Che Colpa Abbiamo Noi? (What Fault is it of Ours?). The story follows eight people in a therapy group headed by an elderly psychotherapist who dies of a heart attack during one of their Read More

Bread and Tulips

Actors: Giuseppe Battiston, Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Marina Massironi, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Silvio Soldino directs this gentle comedy about a housewife who temporarily flees from the grinding tedium of her household duties and drifts into a world of amicable weirdos. When Rosalba (Licia Maglietta) is accidentally forgotten by her tour bus at a roadside restaurant, she does not wait there Read More

Ogni Lasciato E Perso

Actors: Piero Chiambretti, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Piero C. (Piero Chiambretti) has an unusual knack for meeting beautiful women -- which, in this comedy, turns out to be more of a curse than a blessing. As we first meet Piero, he's just been given his walking papers by his beautiful girlfriend (Vanessa Asbert), and a close friend (Gretha Read More

Ribelli per caso

Actors: Antonio Catania, Giovanni Esposito, Franco Javarone, Renato Scarpa, Tiberlo Murgia

Come si fa un martini

Actors: Adriana Asti, Flavio Bucci, Antonio Catania, Ivano Marescotti, Elena Sofia Ricci

Guarda Il Cielo: Stella, Sonia, Silvia

Actors: Sandra Ceccarelli

Synopsis: Sandra Ceccarelli plays three different women in three separate decades in this three-part anthology drama. In the opening segment, set in the 1940s, Stella (Ceccarelli) is a woman who, after years of working on other people's property, hopes to soon have enough money to buy farmland of her own. Read More

Chiedimi Se Sono Felice

Actors: Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Marina Massironi

Synopsis: Three feuding friends discover making up is hard to do in this broad comedy. Aldo (Aldo Baglio), Giovanni (Giovanni Storti), and Giacomo (Giacomo Poretti) are thee actors who were once close friends and long dreamed of staging a new production of their favorite stage play, Cyrano de Bergerac. Read More

Ormai E Fatta!

Actors: Stefano Accorsi, Giovanni Esposito, Emilio Solfrizzi, Fabrizia Sacchi, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Horst Fantazzini was a thief who became famous in Italy for a long series of bank robberies where he made a point of never hurting his victims and behaving with as much courtesy as the situation allowed. When he was handed a 20-year prison sentence after finally being caught by the police, Fantazzini Read More

La Cena

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Lea Gramsdorff, Eros Pagni

Synopsis: This complexly plotted comedy interweaves snippets from the lives of nearly 40 diverse patrons sitting at 14 tables in a little Italian trattoria. Though the diners come from all levels of society, most are bound by one or two common threads: their engagement in illicit romantic affairs and the Read More

Cosi è la Vita

Actors: Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti, Marina Massironi, Antonio Catania

Nirvana

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis: A computer virus endows Solo (Diego Abatantuono), the hero of a virtual reality game, with human consciousness, thereby creating all kinds of headaches for his creator Jimi (Christopher Lambert). The trouble begins in the futuristic metropolis of Northern Agglomerate three days before Christmas. Read More

In Barca A Vela Contromano

Actors: Valerio Mastandrea, Antonio Catania, Emanuela Rossi, Davide Bechini, Maurizio Mattioli

Synopsis: Writer-director Stefano Reali adapted his play Operations (staged in the UK by Alan Ayckbourn) for this comedy-drama. Unemployed medical grad Massimo (Valerio Mastandrea) is hired by medical authorities to uncover a scam. He poses as an injured soccer player and shares a hospital room with Luigi (Antonio Catania Read More

Il Carniere

Synopsis: Three foolish Italian hunters head into the Yugoslavian wilderness for a vacation. Unfortunately, their timing is terrible and the trio end up trapped by the dawn of the war that would tear the country apart. This fact-based actioner tells their terrifying and horrific tale. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Read More

Cuori Al Verde

Synopsis: Three losers in the game of love find solace in each other's company in this touching Italian comedy. Stefano is an unemployed intellectual who just lost another lover. For him it is the third strike and wanting out, he crawls into an empty van, gobbles down sleeping pills and awaits his death. Read More

Il Cielo e Sempre Piu Blu

Synopsis: The English title of this complex Italian film is apt. Featuring 65 main characters and 130 speaking parts (famous faces abound and many of the actors appeared gratis), and ranging in tone from tartly humorous to darkly tragic, it presents 30 interwoven slices from the lives of modern day Romans Read More

Vesna Va Veloce

Synopsis: A 20-year-old Eastern European girl impetuously ditches the rest of her tour group to embark upon a new life in Italy. Though she writes friends and family glowing accounts of her fabulous and successful adventures in her adopted home, the truth is much more tragic. Intelligently and poignantly Read More

Camerieri

Synopsis: Four hard-working, under-appreciated waiters must deal with the rude, demanding middle-class at a wedding anniversary in this Italian comedy. The story is set at Eden, a run-down restaurant that has just been bought by Azzaro. The restaurant staff do not know whether or not they will still have Read More

Puerto Escondido

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Golino, Claudio Bisio, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Mario (Diego Abatantuono) is a gentle soul living in a big Italian city. He works as a bank teller. When his bank is robbed for the umpteenth time, and he sees yet another policeman killed, he throws in the towel on city life, and attempts to get away from it all by fleeing to a small town in Read More

Sud

Actors: Silvio Orlando, Francesca Neri, Antonio Catania, Marco Manchisi

Synopsis: How bad can political corruption get? Try this on for size: the four men in this story had already lost their jobs when an earthquake hit their part of Sicily and destroyed their houses. The government promised them money to rebuild with, but all of it went into the pockets of a local politician Read More

Mediterraneo

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna, Claudio Bisio, Gigio Alberti

Synopsis: Gabriele Salvatores' antiwar story Mediterraneo is set during World War II on a seemingly deserted island in the middle of the Aegean Sea. After their ship is sunk by the British, a unit of Italian soldiers finds refuge on the island, where they soon realize that the area is not deserted after Read More

Kamikazen - Ultima Notte a Milano

Cuori Senza Frontiere

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Raf Vallone, Erno Crisa, Cesco Baseggio

Synopsis: The White Line is a modest anti-war statement set in a tiny Italian village near Trieste. As the result of an International Peace Conference, the nearby borders are changed, with a white line drawn in the middle of the town. One half of the community belongs to the Italians, while the other half Read More