Francesco BruniFilmography

Occupation:: Screenwriter

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La Matassa

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Safroncik, Claudio Gioe, Domenico Centamore

Synopsis: This crime comedy from the nutty Italian duo Valentino Picone and Salvatore Ficarra features the two writer-director-stars, respectively, as Paolo and Gaetano, cousins estranged from one another. The boys haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward Read More

3/13/09
Non c'e piú niente da fare

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rocco Papaleo, Alba Rohrwacher, Raffaele Pisù, Paolo Ruffini, Cristina Cirilli, Isabella Cecchi, Lucia Poli

Synopsis: An amateur theatrical troupe struggles to earn a living by day and bring the crowds to their feet every night in director Emanuele Barresi's madcap ensemble farce featuring Rocco Papaleo, Alba Rohrwacher, Raffaele Pisu, and Paolo Ruffini. Every night, the dedicated actors at a small theater put Read More

2/8/08
A Whole Life Ahead

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Isabella Ragonese, Massimo Ghini, Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Elio Germano

2008
N (Napoleon and Me)

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci, Francesca Inaudi, Sabrina Impacciatore

Synopsis: A young firebrand learns the hard way about the practical problems behind political assassination in this lavish period comedy. In 1814, with his reputation in tatters and his rule of France come to an inglorious end, Napoleon Bonaparte (Daniel Auteuil) flees to the Island of Elba, where his Read More

2006
Caterina in the Big City

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alice Teghil

Synopsis: Writer/director Paolo Virzì and co-writer Francesco Bruni follow up their sly fish-out-of-water comedy My Name Is Tanino with another comedy in a similar vein, Caterina in the Big City. Giancarlo (Sergio Castellitto) is delighted when he has an opportunity to leave his provincial teaching job and Read More

6/3/05
La Felicita Non Costa Niente

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Mimmo Calopresti, Vincent Perez, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Francesca Neri, Fabrizia Sacchi

Synopsis: Mimmo Calopresti directs and stars in the existential drama La Felicita Non Costa Niente (Happiness Costs Nothing). Calopresti stars as Sergio, a successful architect who is suddenly afflicted with a malaise. Haunted by the ghost of a co-worker, Sergio takes a mistress, offends his best friends Read More

2003
Le Parole Di Mio Padre

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Fabrizio Rongione, Chiara Mastroianni

Synopsis: A young man who was an outcast in his own family finds himself embraced by another, with troubling results, in this drama based on a novel by Italo Svevo. Zeno (Fabrizo Rongione) is the son of a wealthy family whose father (Toni Bertorelli) did not place much faith in the young man's abilities; Read More

2001
Come si fa un martini

Crew: Screenwriter

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

2001
My Name is Tanino

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Corrado Fortuna, Rachel McAdams, Frank Crudele, Jessica De Marco, Mary Long

Synopsis: A young, clue-free Italian finds and eludes trouble on numerous occasions as he journeys to and through America in director Paolo Virzi's 2001 comedy My Name Is Tanino. Naïve optimist Tanino (Corrado Fortuna) gets romantically involved with an American tourist named Sally (Rachel McAdams), who Read More

2001
Preferisco il rumore del mare

Crew: Screen Story, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Mimmo Calopresti directs this subtle coming-of-age drama about the prejudices between the north and the south of Italy. Rosario (Michele Raso) is from Calabria in the Italian deep south. Because of the fact that his father is in jail and his mother was rubbed out in a mob hit, he has grown into a Read More

2000
Baci e Abbracci

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Francesco Paolantoni, Massimo Gambacciani, Piero Gremigni, Samuele Marzi, Paola Tiziana Cruciani

Synopsis: Dominated by a cast of newcomers, this comedy of errors from director Paolo Virzi aims for both laughter and poignance. Three factory workers who lose their jobs when their employer closes shop decide to join forces and open an ostrich ranch, in hopes that ostrich meat will find favor on Italian Read More

1999
La Parola Amore Esiste

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Marina Confalone, Emanuela Macchniz, Giovanna Giuliani

Synopsis: Former documentary filmmaker Mimmo Calopresti (The Second Time) made this Italian-French romantic drama that focuses on fragile and phobic 30-year-old Angela (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi). She should have a comfortable life, yet she sinks into solitude, hungers for love, can't communicate with her Read More

1998
Ovosodo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Edoardo Gabbriellini, Malcolm Lunghi, Matteo Campus, Alessio Fantozzi, Pietro Fornaciari

Synopsis: In this bittersweet coming-of-age comedy, seven-year-old Piero (Matteo Campus) lives in Livorno, a city along the coast of Tuscany, in a low-rent shantytown the locals call "Ovosodo" (which literally translates as "hard boiled eggs"). Piero is forced to grow up at an early age after the death of Read More

1997
Ferie D'Agosto

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Two disparate Italian families battle it out on a remote island during summer vacation in this barbed social comedy that sharply comments on the yawning chasm created by ideological and political differences between liberal-but-narrow-minded intellectual elitists and ultra-conservative, ignorant Read More

1996
La Seconda Volta

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: A former terrorist from the early 1970s, who has totally suppressed the memory of the night in which she almost executed a man; encounters her intended victim a few years after the crime was committed. He, who wound up with a bullet lodged in his skull has never forgotten her, and so begins a Read More

1995
La Bella Vita

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Claudio Bigagli, Sabrina Ferilli, Massimo Ghini, Giorgio Algranti, Emanuele Barresi

Synopsis: This Italian romantic comedy examines the life of the working class in modern Tuscany. Bruno is going to be among those laid off from the local steel mill. His consternation is compounded by his wife Mirella's discontent. Though they've only been married three years, she is already involved in an Read More

1994
Bonus Malus

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Claudio Bigagli, Gigio Alberti, Felice Andreasi, Claudio Bisio, Giulia Boschi

Synopsis: Marco (Claudio Bigagli) is an insurance adjuster who must travel all over Tuscany in order to investigate and settle claims put through by his firm's various branches. This brings in a tidy sum of money, and he has every reason to expect that he will continue to prosper in his work. He manages Read More

1993
Condominium

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Carlo delle Piane, Ottavia Piccolo, Ciccio Ingrassia, Roberto Citran, Nicoletta Boris

Synopsis: It's pretty clear that the people who are attending the tenants' management meeting for the low income housing unit they live in are there unwillingly. They don't care about much except their own lives -- certainly not maintaining their building. When a new tenant, Carlo Delle Piane, arrives at Read More

1991