Paolo Virzì — Playwright (12)
Dry (2022) [Movie] TMDB
Siccità
other title: Siccità
In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
Like Crazy (2016) [Movie] TMDB
La pazza gioia
director: Paolo Virzì actor: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi / Micaela Ramazzotti
other title: La pazza gioia / Springtur i Toscana
Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world.
Ovosodo (1997) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Ovosodo
director: Paolo Virzì actor: Edoardo Gabbriellini / Claudia Pandolfi
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
Human Capital (2013) [Movie] TMDB
Il capitale umano
director: Paolo Virzì actor: Valeria Bruni Tedeschi / Fabrizio Bentivoglio
other title: Il capitale umano / Die süße Gier
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
Tolo Tolo (2020) [Movie] TMDB
Tolo Tolo
director: Checco Zalone actor: Checco Zalone / Manda Touré
Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.
A Whole Life Ahead (2008) [Movie] TMDB
Tutta la vita davanti
director: Paolo Virzì actor: Isabella Ragonese / Massimo Ghini
other title: Tutta la vita davanti / Das ganze Leben liegt vor Dir
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.
Magical Nights (2018) [Movie] TMDB
Notti magiche
director: Paolo Virzì actor: Mauro Lamantia / Giovanni Toscano
other title: Notti magiche / Magiske nætter
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
The First Beautiful Thing (2010) [Movie] TMDB
La prima cosa bella
director: Paolo Virzì actor: Valerio Mastandrea / Micaela Ramazzotti
other title: La prima cosa bella / A Primeira Coisa Bela
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
Caterina in the Big City (2003) [Movie] TMDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Caterina va in città
director: Paolo Virzì actor: Sergio Castellitto / Margherita Buy
other title: Caterina va in città / Caterina va en ville
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Every Blessed Day (2012) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Tutti i santi giorni
director: Paolo Virzì actor: Luca Marinelli / Thony
other title: Tutti i santi giorni / Chaque jour que Dieu fait
Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposed characters and backgrounds. He works a night job as a doorman, while she works all day in a car rental service. This is the story of what happens when they decide to have a child.