Herbert Simone Paragnani (Writer)
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Works
Father Matteo
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
Release Date2000-01-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count72
The Cesaronis
Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.
Release Date2006-09-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count19
Vote Count59
Inspector Coliandro
Coliandro is an inspector serving at the Bologna police headquarters who constantly finds himself embroiled, against his will, in matters bigger than himself. But Coliandro never backs down, even though his carelessness and investigative incompetence inevitably land him in trouble.
Release Date2006-08-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count26
Donne assassine
True crime anthology series about female murderers.
Release Date2008-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Modalità aereo
Diego is a successful entrepreneur. Rich and not caring for the good of others, no scruples to belittle the next. His attitude turns against him when he forgets in his airport bathroom his latest-generation mobile phone with social profiles, contacts and credit cards.
Release Date2019-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count239
Ignorance Is Bliss
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.
Release Date2017-02-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count458
Classmates
An English teacher at technical school in the outskirts of Rome knows that her twenty-four eighteen-year-old students do not consider her a human being, speak ill of her, are ready to contest her and feel a morbid curiosity towards her private life. Still, she tries to relate to them and the result of this effort is "a great love story". Cenciarelli describes the lessons (strictly in English, despite the students' protestations), the fights in and out of class, the students' tricks, their need to confront each other, their desire to show themselves superior, their weaknesses and their loneliness. As the seasons go by, the relationship between teacher and students becomes more complicated and deepens, alternating moments of great enthusiasm and great disappointment, until the baccalaureate exam, about which she cares more than they do.
Release Date2026-02-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count17
Il malloppo
Diego Viani is a former robber, well-known in the 1980s for his "unarmed" heists. His best friend is Michele Ragusa, a shabby private investigator scraping by on cases of marital infidelity. Working alongside him is Alex, an unpaid intern—a clumsy "mama’s boy" who dreams of becoming a detective despite having no talent for it. Everything spirals out of control when Diego’s past resurfaces in the form of Salamandra, an old accomplice. Salamandra accuses him of stealing the loot from their final job: five billion lire in gold bullion that vanished into thin air. When Salamandra dies under mysterious circumstances, Diego becomes the prime suspect. Commissioner Castrone, fueled by a long-standing personal vendetta, is convinced of his guilt. The only person who believes in Diego’s innocence is Ragusa, who decides to investigate with the help of the unlikely Alex.
Release Date2026-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Where Storks Dare
A couple is desperately looking to conceive a child and moves to Spain to get the help of a renowned doctor. Their plans change after they meet an apparently perfect girl that volunteers to carry on the pregnancy in their place.
Release Date2025-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count88
If You Love Me
After a suicide attempt, depressed lawyer Diego decides to take up the mantle of good Samaritan by helping his loved ones fix the problems in their life, but ends up bringing only utter havoc.
Release Date2019-10-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count130
Quasi vera
Release Date2026-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Quasi orfano
Valentino Tarocco invents a new life as a famous Milanese designer. He has removed all connection with the past, but an accident will bring him back to his twenties, causing him to recover his Apulian dialect and love for his origins.
Release Date2022-10-06
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count60
The Worst Days
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.
Release Date2023-08-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count126
Zora la vampira
Count Dracula trades Transylvania for Italy in search of fresh blood and Western standards of living, but finds instead his ancient love Zora, reincarnated as a young graffiti artist from the Roman hip-hop scene.
Release Date2000-09-22
DepartmentCamera
JobBTS Footage
Vote Count68
Out of the Blue
Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be just perfect... until the day he comes home and finds there Layla, a teenage girl who claims to be his daughter. Alongside Layla is her grandfather Enzo, a former rockstar and the father of Andrea's first fleeting and forgotten conquest. And they've come to stay!
Release Date2013-03-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count324
The Best Days
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events.
Release Date2023-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count173
Sei come sei
Six shorts.
Release Date2002-06-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Angela and I
Arturo, a placid forty-year-old, unexpectedly receives the visit of an Angel of Death: a sexy woman with a weakness for tequila and younger boys. The supernatural being, Angela, invites him to a quick departure. However, Arturo wants to make a pact with his incorrect escort: he will accept his Destiny only if she helps him take revenge on all those who have made fun of him. The bet is tough: if Arturo disappears from the Register of the Morituri, Angela will lose her immortality. Who between the two will be able to defeat Igli Hasani a second time?
Release Date2021-11-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count25
2 fantasmi di troppo
Release Date2021-10-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count8
Bla Bla Baby
After a freak accident, a nursery school janitor finds out he can now understand babyspeak.
Release Date2022-04-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count47
Non smettere di sognare
Stella lives in Genoa with his sister and his alcoholic stepfather. His is not an easy life, and that to remain divided between his work in the harbor by day and dancer by night, despite his dream of becoming a professional dancer gives strength to continue. However, later the death of his mother is forced to put aside their aspirations.
Release Date2009-06-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count21
Honey Horn
A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.
Release Date2000-05-10
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count2
Adesso vinco io
The documentary explores the life and career of Marcello Lippi, an iconic football figure.
Release Date2023-11-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
Il segreto del giaguaro
‘Romano de Roma’, incurable ‘70s maniac and born optimist, er Piotta alias “the Jaguar” has his headquarters in a bar near Piazza Vittorio, a meeting point for bizarre characters of various generations. Every now and then, some strange event interrupts the routine, while the Jaguar imparts lessons in life and conquest...
Release Date2000-03-24
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
All you need is crime
The series follows the ups and downs of a clumsy and oafish group of friends: Moreno, Giuseppe and Claudio who are forced to go back in time to regain access to their finances and help Giuseppe find his biological mother.
Release Date2023-12-01
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count15
Una canzone per te
Release Date2010-11-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count72