Vittorio Cecchi Gori Filmography

Verso la luna con Fellini

Crew: Producer

L'Amore E Eterno- Finche Dura

Crew: Producer

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

Soul Mate

Crew: Producer

Actors: Valentina Cervi, Violante Placido, Michele Venitucci, Sergio Rubini, Dino Abbrescia

Synopsis: True love, jealousy, and betrayal bring about a good old-fashioned case of body swapping in Italian director Sergio Rubini's 2002 fantastical dark comedy Soul Mate. Rich and unbelievably spoiled, Teresa (Valentina Cervi) is accustomed to getting what she wants. In her most recent conquest, she Read More

La Vita Come Viene

Crew: Producer

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Alberto Gimignani, Lorenza Indovina, Alessandro Haber, Primo Reggiani

The Way We Laughed

Crew: Producer

Actors: Enrico Lo Verso, Francesco Giuffrida, Fabrizio Gifuni, Rosaria Danze, Claudio Contartese

Synopsis: Gianni Amelio directed this powerful drama that focuses on the relationship between two brothers as their goals and ideals drift apart over the course of seven years, each of which is represented by a single day. Giovanni (Enrico Lo Verso), an uneducated laborer from Southern Italy, arrives in Read More

Figli/Hijos

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carlos Echeverria, Giulia Sarano, Stefania Sandrelli, Enrique Pineyro, Antonella Costa

Synopsis: A young man finds his family history thrown into question in this politically charged drama. Javier Ramos (Carlos Echevarria) is the teenaged son of an Argentinean exile living in Italy (Enrique Pineyro) -- or so he's been led to believe. Recently, Javier has been receiving strange e-mail messages Read More

Commedia Sexy

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alessandro Benvenuti, Elena Sofia Ricci, Ricky Tognazzi, Giuppi Izzo, Micaela Ramazzotti

Synopsis: Two couples straying from fidelity find themselves looking in the same direction in this comedy from Italy. Filippo (Alessandro Benvenuti) and Anna (Elena Sofia Ricci) are a married couple looking to spice up their relationship, and one night while they're drinking they spot Giulia (Micaela Read More

My Name is Tanino

Crew: Producer

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

Momo Alla Conquista Del Tempo

Crew: Producer

Actors: Erica Necci, Giancarlo Giannini, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini

Streghe Verso Nord

Crew: Producer

Actors: Teo Mammucari, Paul Sorvino, Emmanuelle Seigner, Gérard Depardieu, Daniele Liotti

Il Grande Botto

Crew: Producer

Actors: Claudio Amendola, Carlo Buccirosso

Synopsis: In this broad comedy from Italy, five buddies -- the owner of a cafe (Carlo Buccirosso), his best friend (Emilio Solfrizzi), a mama's boy schoolteacher (Gennaro Nunziante), a one-time professional soccer player (Claudio Amendola), and a bus driver (Alessandro Di Carlo) -- buy lottery tickets as a Read More

Canone Inverso

Crew: Producer

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Domiziana Giordano, Gregory Harrison, Andy Luotto

Synopsis: Recalling François Girard's The Red Violin, Canone Inverso - Making Love is a multi-layered, multi-generational tale of music, fate, and passion. Based on the novel by Paolo Maurensig, the film opens in pre-WWII Europe, where Jeno, a half-Jewish boy, lives in relative poverty with his mother. His Read More

C'era un Chinese in coma

Crew: Producer

Actors: Beppe Fiorello, Nanni Tamma

Synopsis: Popular Italian director-actor Carlo Verdone stars in this wacky tale about a talent agent with a talentless client roster. Ercole Preziosi (Verdone) represents middling girl groups, bad magicians, and even worse comics. When a grizzly traffic accident leaves his star comedian client bed-ridden Read More

Tutto l'amore che c'è

Crew: Producer

Actors: Margherita Buy, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Italian actor and director Sergio Rubini spins this affable ensemble coming-of-age flick set in a small village in the southern region of Rubini. Teenaged Carlo (Damiano Russo) and his buddy are agog at the arrival of three northern beauties when their father is transferred in to run the local Read More

Faccia Di Picasso

Crew: Producer

Actors: Massimo Ceccherini, Alessandro Paci, Marco Giallini

A Ruota Libera

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vincenzo Salemme, Sabrina Ferilli, Carlo Buccirosso, Manuela Arcuri, Massimo Ceccherini

Synopsis: Post-operative paralysis gets played for laughs in this broad comedy starring popular Italian comic Vincenzo Salemme (who also directed and wrote the screenplay). Active and fun-loving Pericle (Salemme) finds himself confined to a wheelchair when an operation on his spine is botched by a careless Read More

Almost Blue

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lorenza Indovina, Claudio Santamaria, Rolando Ravello, Andrea Di Stefano, Dario D'Ambrosi

Denti

Crew: Producer

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

Al Momento Giusto

Crew: Producer

Actors: Giorgio Panariello, Giovanni Cacioppo, Carlo Pistarino

Lucignolo

Crew: Presented by, Producer

Actors: Massimo Ceccherini, Claudia Gerini, Alessandro Paci, Flavio Bucci, Cossetta Mercatelli

Synopsis: Comic actor Massimo Ceccherini makes his directorial debut in this broad comedy with fantasy elements. Ceccherini plays Lucio, a free-spirited bohemian who is forced into a job at a retirement home, where he soon falls in love with the beautiful head nurse, Fatima (Claudia Gerini). When Fatima Read More

La Fame e la Sete

Crew: Presented by, Producer

Actors: Antonio Albanese, Lorenza Indovina, Aisha Cerami, Lucia Guzzardi, Rosa Pianeta

Synopsis: Comedian Antonio Albanese directed this comedy about the strained relationship between three brothers -- and also played all three of the siblings himself. A funeral in Sicily reunites three brothers who have not seen each other in years -- Alex, an arrogant photographer; Salvatore, a businessman Read More

Baci e Abbracci

Crew: Producer

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

Prima Del Tramonto

Crew: Producer

Actors: Saïd Taghmaoui, Vincenzo Peluso, Ninni Bruschetta, Gigi Savoia, Simona Cavallari

Synopsis: The second feature of Steano Incerti, who learned his trade as assistant director to established fellow Neapolitan filmmakers Mario Martone and Pappi Corsicato, Prima del Tramonto (Before Sundown) is set on Italy's southern coast, a transit point for every kind of human and illegal cargo from Read More

Fantozzi 2000: La Clonazione

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotic, Paolo Paoloni

Synopsis: The tenth installment of the popular Fantozzi series about a hapless bureaucrat, this film features the title character getting cloned by multinational corporations looking for the ultimate salaried milquetoast. ~ Jonathan Crow, All Movie Guide Read More

Il Pesce Innamorato

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leonardo Pieraccioni, Paolo Hendel, Patrizia Loreti

Synopsis: Noted Italian filmmaker Leonardo Pieraccioni follows up on his cowboy epic My West (1998) with this good-natured fable about the fleeting and shallow nature of fame. Pure-hearted carpenter and amateur novelist Arturo (Pieraccioni) stumbles into fame after his collection of children's stories Read More

Amore a Prima Vista

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vincenzo Salemme, Mandala Tayde, Carlo Buccirosso, Maurizio Casagrande, Nando Paone

Synopsis: Italian playwright turned director Vincenzo Salemme's sophomore effort is a bizarre romance between a bereaved widower and a rakish Mafioso libertine, both of whom are supposedly heterosexual. Mobster scion Bruno (Salemme) runs into a widowed policeman whose dead wife's eyes were donated to him Read More

La Guerra Degli Anto

Crew: Producer

Actors: Flavio Pistilli, Paolo Setta, Danilo Mastracci, Federico Di Flauro, Regina Orioli

Synopsis: This Italian comedy opens by detailing the listless lives of a quartet of angry punks, all named Antonio, who live in the rural coastal town of Pescara in 1990. The focus changes, however, when one of them manages to go to Bologna to study at the local university. Books and college girls seem Read More

Gallo Cedrone

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Regina Orioli, Paolo Triestino, Ines Nobili, Enrica Rosso

Synopsis: Carlo Verdone directed this Italian comedy in which the refers to a capercaillie, a European grouse distinctive for its chest-puffing vanity. The story opens in an Arab country where Islamic fundamentalists condemn Armando Feroci (Verdone) to death, followed by a flashback to 17 years earlier when Read More

Viola Bacia Tutti

Crew: Producer

Actors: Asia Argento, Massimo Ceccherini, Valerio Mastandrea, Rocco Papaleo, Franco Califano

Synopsis: In this Italian road comedy, three pals (Rocco Papaleo, Massimo Ceccherini, Valerio Mastandrea) all are attracted to miniskirted Viola (Asia Argento) and attempt to help her elude both the law and the gangsters out to nab her bag of rare coins. Asia Argento (B Monkey) is the daughter of horror Read More

I Miei Piu Cari Amici

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alessandro Benvenuti, Eva Robin's, Athina Cenci, Alessandro Gassman, Vito

Synopsis: This Italian comedy focuses on a hapless half-dozen actors once exploited by their friend Alessio (Alessandro Benvenuti) who used their experiences in his hit play, My Dearest Friends. However, since they weren't cast in the production, they didn't share in the play's success, and friendship Read More

Naja

Crew: Producer

Actors: Enrico Lo Verso, Stefano Accorsi, Francesco Siciliano, Lorenzo Amato, Adelmo Togliani

Synopsis: For this Italian drama recalling Robert Altman's Streamers (1983), writer-director Angela Longoni and co-scripter Massimo Sgorbani adapted their own play, with the cast of stage production repeating their roles. Five young soldiers, doing compulsory one-year service, find themselves spending Read More

La Gabbianella e il Gatto

Crew: Producer

Actors: Luis Sepulveda, Carlo Verdone, Antonio Albanese, Melba Ruffo DiCalabria, Sofia Baratta

Synopsis: This animated feature, based on a best-selling Chilean children's book, was the most expensive Italian cartoon ever at the time of its release, produced at a cost of $6 million. Zorba, a cat, one day finds a dying seagull in his yard, a victim of a recent oil spill. Zorba promises the gull that Read More

L'Amico Del Cuore

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vincenzo Salemme, Eva Herzig, Carlo Buccirosso, Maurizio Casagrande, Nando Paone

Synopsis: Vincenzo Salemme wrote, directed, and stars in this romantic comedy about an unusual agreement among friends. Salemme plays Roberto, a doctor with a roving eye for women, but he's always had a soft spot in his heart for a beautiful Swedish women named Frida (Eva Herzigova). Frida, however, is Read More

Il Mio West

Crew: Presented by, Producer

Actors: Leonardo Pieraccioni, Harvey Keitel, David Bowie, Sandrine Holt, Alessia Marcuzzi

Synopsis: Popular Italian comedian Leonardo Pieraccioni shfts gears to take on the traditions of the American Western in this family-focused drama. In Il Mio West, Pieraccioni plays Doc, a physician in a small town in the American West. Doc is a peaceful man opposed to hunting, ecological waste and eating Read More

I Piccoli Maestri

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stefano Accorsi, Stefania Montorsi, Giorgio Pasotti, Diego Gianesini, Filippo Sandon

Synopsis: Daniele Luchetti directed this nostalgic Italian period drama adapted from Luigi Meneghello's novel about the WWII partisan movement. During the 20 months prior to Italy's liberation from fascism, a group of college students decide to trade hollow rhetoric for action by journeying into the Read More

La Seconda Moglie

Crew: Producer

Actors: Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Lazar Ristovski, Giorgio Noe, Jessica Auriemma, Patrizia Corti

Synopsis: Playwright Ugo Chiti directed this Italian romantic drama set in the summer of 1957. Single mother Anna (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) marries truckdriver Fosco (Lazar Ristovski) and moves with her infant daughter Santina (Jessica Auriemma) to a rural Tuscan coastal community where Fosco lives with his Read More

On Guard

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Fabrice Luchini, Vincent Perez, Marie Gillain, Yann Collette

Synopsis: This period swashbuckler, set during the years 1699 to 1716, is the seventh screen adaptation of Paul Feval's 1857 serialized novel. Trained in circus stunts and fencing, Lagardere (Daniel Auteuil) becomes the bodyguard of the Duke of Nevers (Vincent Perez), whose cousin is the greedy Gonzague (Luchini Read More

Marianna Ucria

Crew: Producer

Actors: Emmanuelle Laborit, Roberto Herlitzka, Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis: Based on an acclaimed, popular historical novel by Dacia Maraini, this 18th-century set costumer follows the adventures of a deaf-mute noblewoman who strives to escape her dark past and the social conventions that force her to remain married to a man she detests. The story begins when the already Read More

Nirvana

Crew: Producer

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

Il Viaggio Della Sposa

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Umberto Orsini, Carlo Mucari, Franco Javarone

Synopsis: Porzia, a beautiful and feisty aristocrat leaves her convent school when her wealthy, blue-blooded fiancé sends a small military regiment to bring her home for their wedding. Handsome Captain Palagano has been particularly charged with keeping the virginal lass safe and intact. The journey across Read More

Finalmente Soli

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Saying that she needs to "discover herself," Irene has just left her boyfriend, Andrea. Because she was the wealthy one with an apartment, he is now in need of a place to stay. In this comedy, when he goes to see his buddies for sympathy, he finds that they are in even worse straits. Sandro's wife Read More

Camere Da Letto

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this sexy comedy, four modern couples try to sort through the hubub of their lives and make time for making love. The story's main couple, Dario and Maddalena are so busy with their children, managing finances (Dario's ex-wife demands a larger alimony payment) and their two very different jobs Read More

Ovosodo

Crew: Producer

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

Uomo d'acqua Dolce

Crew: Producer

Actors: Antonio Petrocelli, Valeria Milillo, Antonio Albanese, Sara Anticoli

Synopsis: A loving young husband (popular Italian comedian Antonio Albanese) goes out one night to get his pregnant wife Beatrice (Valeria Milillo) the jar of mushrooms she craves and does not return for five years. Unbeknownst to either of them, Antonio was about to buy the mushrooms when a large package Read More

Facciamo Fiesta

Crew: Producer

Actors: Alessandro Gassman, Gian Marco Tognazzi, Lorena Forteza, Blas Roca Rey, Yoandra Suarez Borrego

Synopsis: Italians Sandro (Alessandro Gassman) and Marco (Gianmarco Tognazzi) arrive in Cuba to make a tourism video promoting Cuba, but they are distracted by local ladies Consuelo (Lorena Forteza) and Maria (Yoandra Suarez Borrego). Other problems develop from scams created by their Italian driver Antonio Read More

Fuochi D'Artificio

Crew: Producer

Actors: Leonardo Pieraccioni, Vanessa Lorenzo, Massimo Ceccherini, Barbara Enrichi, Mandala Tayde

Synopsis: Former cabaret performer Leonardo Pieraccioni (The Cyclone) directed, co-scripted (with Giovanni Veronesi), and stars in this popular Italian film, given the widest opening release in Italian film history. Ottone (Pieraccioni) and beautiful Lorenza (Claudia Gerini) are pet-store partners. He loses Read More

Uomini Senza Donne

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This frothy sex comedy is based on a long-running Italian play and follows the romantic travails of two disparate roommates. While ad-man Alex is a suave lady killer with great confidence in his ability to seduce women, sax player Max is insecure and unsure of himself, something he soothes by Read More

I Laureati

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Four roommates in their 30s hesitate to take the big plunge and take the final exams that would grant them their degrees. This episodic, Italian ensemble comedy explain each of their reasons. The recently divorced Leonardo is still in love with the beautiful sister of Rocco, who nurses a broken Read More

Ferie D'Agosto

Crew: Producer

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

Il Ciclone

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this gentle Italian comedy, a troupe of flamenco dancers has been stranded in a town in rural Tuscany. When a stolid wine-growing family agrees to give them accommodations, the family members' lives of dull endurance are transformed as they are affected the romance, excitement and sensuality of Read More

Iris Blond

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Romeo Spera (Carlo Verdone), an ordinary-looking middle-aged man, is a musician who used to be fairly popular. Even now he earns his living in music as an accompanist to female singers. His big problem, though, is that he is hungry for romance. The predictions of a fortune teller encourage his Read More

Vesna Va Veloce

Crew: Producer

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

3

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: 3 is indeed the title of this Italian film about a menage a trois, set among the nobility in the Tuscany of the 1780s. It is interesting to note that the film's director and star, Christian De Sica, is a son of notable Italian director Vittorio De Sica (Umberto D, The Garden of the Fitzi-Continis, Read More

Vite Strozzate

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vincent Lindon, Sabrina Ferilli, Luca Zingaretti, Ricky Memphis

Synopsis: Usury is a serious problem in mid-'90s Italy, a country torn by the realities of a long-term economic recession and the people's desires for material prosperity. Unforutnately, with the closure of many Italian banks and the lack of available credit, these things are hard to come by legally, so Read More

Il Barbiere Di Rio

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Popular comic actor Diego Abatantuono headlines this lively comedy that follows the adventures of a small-town barber from Italy who one day spontaneously heads for Rio de Janeiro to see his estranged sister. Life there is bewilderingly busy and colorful and the simple barber has many riotous Read More

Ritorno A Casa Gori

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Italy's favorite dysfunctional family returns to their small-town home in Tuscany to mourn the passing of Adele, who watches over the mournful festivities as the family pays their respects and prepares for her funeral. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Star Maker

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sergio Castellitto

Synopsis: This Italian film was released in 1995 and slowly made its way around the world; its English title is The Star Maker. Like the Oscar-winning Cinema Paradiso by the same writer-director, Guiseppe Tornatore, it's drenched in the filmmaker's love for cinema. In Sicily in the early 1950s, Joe Morelli (Sergio Castellitto Read More

Viaggi di nozze

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Carlo Verdone both directed and starred in this lightweight comedy comprised of three segments, each dealing with the experiences of three grooms embarking upon disastrous honeymoons. In the first a very proper, fastidious and socially conscious doctor marries a nervous wreck of Read More

Viva San Isidro!

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: In this quirky comedy, a farmer living in a remote, primitive Mexican village finds a downed plane and assumes the fine, white powder inside is fertilizer. The tale begins as the villagers are celebrating a football victory with their star soccer player, Quintino, who scored the winning goal. The Read More

La Scuola

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This intelligent Italian comedy centers on an academically and physically run-down school and is presented from the viewpoint of the teachers. The main character is Vivaldi, who passionately believes that the purpose of education is to allow students to creatively express themselves. To this end Read More

OcchioPinocchio

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: Elements of the original Italian fairy tale, Pinocchio can still be found in this modern and loose adaptation which was filmed in Texas, Louisiana, and Tuscany. In a mythical, unnamed country, Brando is a tough old banking magnate who discovers upon his despised brother suicide that he has a son. Read More

Camerieri

Crew: Producer

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

Pasolini: Un Delitto Italiano

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carlo DeFilippi, Nicoletta Braschi, Giulio Scarpati, Massimo De Francovich

Synopsis: Pier Paolo Pasolini was a beloved Italian filmmaker, poet and novelist whose murder in 1975 threw the whole nation into shock. This drama attempts to document the killing and the aftermath while exploring the true motives for the killing. The film opens as the police are in hot pursuit of a car Read More

Beyond the Clouds

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: John Malkovich, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ines Sastre, Sophie Marceau, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi Stuart Read More

Il Toro

Crew: Producer

Actors: Diego