Nanni Moretti Filmography

Born:: August 19, 1953 in Brunico, Bolzano, Italy
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: An intensely private and independent individual, Italian auteur Nanni Moretti creates moving, incisive, and humorous portraits of life, filtered through a unique worldview. Born in 1953 in Brunico, Bolzano, Italy, Moretti began to develop his passions for filmmaking and water polo throughout his...Read More

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Quiet Chaos

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Valeria Golino, Isabella Ferrari, Alessandro Gassman, Blu Yoshimi

Synopsis: With Quiet Chaos (Caos calma), acclaimed Italian helmer Nanni Moretti steps away from his standard directorial role to essay the lead and co-author the script in a gentle psychological drama directed by Antonello Grimaldi. Moretti stars as Pietro, a film executive whose life takes an irreversible Read More

2008
To Each His Own Cinema

Crew: Director

Synopsis: At the time of its production, To Each His Own Cinema represented the latest arrival in a tidal wave of internationally oriented omnibus films, with no official relation between them but all produced within a few years of one another. Few could claim a roster of talent comparable to this one Read More

2007
Il Caimano

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

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

2006
Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
I Can See it in Your Eyes

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Teresa Saponangelo, Camilia Di Nicola, Luigi Maria Burruano

2004
The Son's Room

Crew: Director, Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice, Sofia Vigliar, Silvio Orlando

Synopsis: A family struggles to go on after a devastating loss in this deeply emotional drama from Italy. Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) is a psychiatrist with a successful practice in a small community near the ocean. Giovanni has a warm relationship with his wife Paola (Laura Morante), and they have a pair of Read More

1/25/02
The Last Customer

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Godfrey Cheshire

2002
Aprile

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Silvio Orlando, Silvia Nono, Pietro Moretti, Agata Apicella Moretti

Synopsis: Film essayist Nanni Moretti, winner of the Cannes "Best Director" Award for his memorable Caro Diario (1994), continues in a diaristic mode with this Italian-French comedy-drama blending his political observations with his personal life, a chronicle of a two-and-a-half year period that includes Read More

1998
Il Grido D'Angoscia Dell'uccello Predatore

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Agata Apicella, Silvia Nono, Silvio Orlando, Carlo Mazzacurati

1998
Three Lives and Only One Death

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni plays several different roles in this off-beat, witty exploration of a man with multiple personalities from world-class filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. Mastroianni first appears as Parisian traveling salesman Mateo Strano who suddenly shows up at the home of Maria, the wife he abandoned Read More

1996
La Seconda Volta

Crew: Producer

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
Caro Diario

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Neiwiller, Carlo Mazzacurati, Jennifer Beals

Synopsis: Writer/director/actor Nanni Moretti offers a three-part film diary which takes a sharply satiric look at Italian life. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide Read More

1994
Il Portaborse

Crew: Producer

Actors: Silvio Orlando, Nanni Moretti, Giulio Brogi, Anne Roussel, Angela Finocchiaro

Synopsis: The system established early in the days of the Roman Empire (whereby those who have a powerful patron prosper and no one without a patron can get anywhere) still exists in present-day Italy. Today, this system is given many pejorative labels and is classified as a form of corruption when it Read More

1991
The Thing

Crew: Director

1990
Palombella Rossa

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Mariella Valentini, Silvio Orlando, Alfonso Santagata, Claudio Morganti

Synopsis: This humorous and peculiarly Italian movie is unlikely to have been released outside that country, largely because of the intricacies of its political references. Writer/producer/director/lead actor Nanni Moretti has filmed a semi-autobiographical story which combines the action in a rousing Read More

9/15/89
Domani Accadra

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paolo Hendel, Giovanni Guidelli, Angela Finocchiaro, Agnese Nano, Margherita Buy

Synopsis: Lupo (Paolo Hendrel) and Edo (Giovanni Guidelli) take to the swamps after robbing a wealthy Italian in this neo-western comedy. They are pursued by the victim's son and three Austrian mercenaries. The duo goes through several memorable adventures as they encounter many offbeat characters in their Read More

3/4/88
Notte Italiana

Crew: Producer

Actors: Marco Messeri, Giulia Boschi, Mario Adorf, Meme Perlini, Tino Carraro

Synopsis: Otello (Marco Messeri) is the honest lawyer who accepts the position of planning a natural park in Italy's Po valley region. He turns down corrupt officials who offer bribes in exchange for favors. He continues his work but soon uncovers a scandal that led to the murder of an unfortunate Read More

9/4/87
La Messa E Finita

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Ferrucio de Ceresa, Enrica Maria Modugno

Synopsis: Onetime campus radical Nanni Moretti (who also directed this film) renounces his past to become a priest. Returning to his home village, Moretti is appalled at the lack of religious reverence amongst the townsfolk. Unable to communicate with any of his old friends, who've all gleefully succumbed Read More

11/15/85
Bianca

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Remo Remotti

Synopsis: The comedic touches in Bianca and its setting at the "Marilyn Monroe High School" whose faculty need the services of the school's clinical psychologist, are at odds with the somber theme of a schizophrenic math teacher and a series of murders. That cinematic split personality leaves the film in Read More

2/23/84
Sogni d'oro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Piera Degli Esposti, Laura Morante, Alessandro Haber

Synopsis: In scenes that can be read as fantasy, reality, or dreams - or somewhere in-between all three - the director and writer Nanni Moretti takes the viewers into his world: as a director fighting a flawed establishment, as an artist seeking a true expression of his visions, and as a neurotic, disturbed Read More

9/10/81
Ecce Bombo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Luisa Rossi, Fabio Traversa, Lina Sastri

Synopsis: This non-narrative, sketch-based film is a non-stop feast of antic and black humor. The sketches are framed within the context of a Roman student's school year, which is disrupted by political and amorous misadventures. The title Ecce Bombo means "Behold the Bumblebee" and spoofs both the ancient Read More

3/8/78
Padre Padrone

Actors: Omero Antonutti, Marcella Michelangeli, Fabrizio Forte

Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical book by Gavino Ledda, Padre Padrone is filmed in Sardinian, a regional Italian dialect. The film concentrates on a young, barely literate shepherd boy, who lives under the thumb of his tyrannical peasant father. Rescued from his family--and his isolated lifestyle--when Read More

9/2/77
Io Sono un Autarchico

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

5/7/77
Come Parli, Frate?

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

1974