Gabriele Salvatores Filmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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As God Commands

Crew: Director

Actors: Elio Germano, Filippo Timi

Synopsis: Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores returns to the helm for this, his second feature film, based on the novel by best-selling author Niccolo Ammanniti and following the tale of an eleven year old boy and his neo-Nazi father. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2008
Quo Vadis, Baby?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Giorgia Cantini, Andrea Berti, Claudia Zanella, Andrea Renzi, Elio Germano

2005
I'm Not Scared

Crew: Director

Actors: Aitana Sanchez-Gijon, Dino Abbrescia, Giorgio Careccia, Giuseppe Cristiano, Mattia Di Perro

Synopsis: Gabriele Salvatores' kidnapping drama lo Non Ho Paura (I'm Not Scared) is about a boy dealing with issues he cannot quite comprehend. While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele (Giuseppe Cristiano) discovers Filippo (Mattia Di Perro), who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Read More

3/14/03
Amnesia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini, Martina Stella, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Ruben Ochandano

Synopsis: Directed by Gabriele Salvatores, Amnesia takes place in the Spanish island of Ibiza, where an odd mix of commercialism, ex-hippies, fisherman, and artists co-exist. Town locals Sandro (Diego Abatantunono), a pornographic film director, and Angelino (Sergio Rubini), the manager of a beachside Read More

2002
Denti

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Anouk Grinberg, Tom Novembre, Anita Caprioli, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Synopsis: In this bizarre and darkly comic fantasy, Antonio (Sergio Rubini) is a man who was born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth make him an outcast from his peers as a child, and he attempts more than once to break off the offending choppers. The emotionally fragile Antonio was Read More

2000
Nirvana

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

5/28/97
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

1996
La Vera Vita di Antonio H.

Actors: Alessandro Haber, Adriana Innocenti, Giancarlo Maestri, Beatrice Kruger, Doris Von Thury

Synopsis: This unique Italian pseudo-documentary deftly blends fact with fiction in its portrait of stage, screen, and television actor Alessandro Haber (a.k.a. Antonio Hutter). Haber, considered one of Italy's finest comic actors, has worked with some of the greatest Italian directors of all time Read More

1994
Sud

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

1993
Puerto Escondido

Crew: Director

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

1993
Mediterraneo

Crew: Director

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

3/22/92
Turné

Crew: Director

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Synopsis: Dario (Diego Abatantuono) is a lively, loyal friend, and a good trouper who can recover cheerfully from even the worst onstage disasters. He needs to be, because he is constantly onstage with his best friend Federico (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), who is a barely adequate actor. In everyday life Read More

1990
Marrakech Express

Crew: Director

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Giuseppe Cederna

Synopsis: When Teresa (Cristina Marsillach), an old school chum from ten years before, shows up at his house, Marco (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) lets her in. She wants him to help her get hold of $20,000 to pay off a Moroccan judge to get her boyfriend Rudy (another old school chum) out of jail. Somehow, this Read More

5/11/89
Kamikazen - Ultima Notte a Milano

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

2/12/88
Sogno Di Una Notte d'estate

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Flavio Bucci, Gianna Nannini, Erika Blanc, Alberto Lionello

Synopsis: Shakespeare buffs might be quite surprised to learn that his Midsummer Night's Dream had been turned into a rock musical, but here it is. The early '80s Italian rock star Gianna Nannini plays Titania, and belts out a raucous score, missiles flash by, Oberon dances through a woman's shower room Read More

11/15/83