Renato De Maria (Director)

Aprile

Nanni Moretti once again muses on the ebb and flow of life in April 1996, as he is about to become a father for the first time and finds himself unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming general elections, where the left is heading into a rematch against Berlusconi.

Release Date1998-03-27

Charactersd Renato De Maria

Vote Count244

La Piazza che verrà, Bologna e il Cinema

Release Date2022-07-11

Charactersd Self

Colpiti al cuore

Release Date2019-11-26

Charactersd Self

Vote Count2

Vanished into the Night

A father, immersed in a difficult divorce process, embarks on a dangerous mission when his children disappear from their isolated country house.

Release Date2024-07-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count191

The Ruthless

Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.

Release Date2019-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count425

Robbing Mussolini

Near the end of WWII, a young bootlegger and his nightclub-singing girlfriend assemble a ragtag team for an dangerous heist: to steal Mussolini's treasure right from his headquarters.

Release Date2022-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count261

Franco Battiato: The Long Journey

The story of the young Franco Battiato’s journey, from Sicily to his arrival in Milan, exploring the encounters and pivotal moments along the path to success, right up to his return to his beloved Sicily. The account of an inner journey in which the artist’s nature, already inclined towards spirituality, evolves into a more conscious quest.

Release Date2026-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count41

Uno sbirro in Appennino

Inspector Vasco Benassi is known in Bologna as the “best cop,” but after making a mistake, he is sent to the Apennines, to the small village of Muntagò, the hometown he had left years earlier following a traumatic loss. Investigating various cases will help him reconnect with his roots, in a process of “reopening his heart” that will lead him to become less solitary, to form new relationships, and to deepen others from the past.

Release Date2026-04-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count10

Il segreto dell'acqua

Release Date2011-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

The Front Line

United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and thrown in jail. Putting his life on the line, Sergio embarks on a radical plan... Loosely based on the memoir by Prima Linea's 'commander' Sergio Segio.

Release Date2009-11-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count35

L'ombra cinese

Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.

Release Date2004-11-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Doppio agguato

Italy, 1989. After a prominent coffee industrialist is kidnapped by elusive Sardinian bandits, authorities turn to NOCS (Central Security Operative Unit) commander Valerio Attico, who hastily assembles a task force made of rookies. Based on the true story of the Dante Belardinelli kidnapping.

Release Date2003-10-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Amatemi

Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly deserted by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers.

Release Date2005-06-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count11

La trappola di Maigret

A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in order to catch him.

Release Date2004-11-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

La vita oscena

The tragic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, but he finds the strength to survive and tell about his “obscene life”.

Release Date2014-04-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Caterina Caselli - Una vita, 100 vite

The film tells Caselli’s story in her own words, as the artist herself shares anecdotes and reflections on her life and career. What emerges is a portrait of a woman who has made her great passion—music—her entire life.

Release Date2021-12-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Italian Gangsters

A journey inside the most sensational exploits of the forgotten post–WWII Italian underworld. Thirty years told through first-hand accounts, reenactments, old movies, newsreels and other archive footage—painting the portrait of a country undergoing major social changes.

Release Date2015-09-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

Paz!

Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sharing a flat in 1970s Bologna, grappling with drugs, classes, girls and half-hearted political activism.

Release Date2002-02-22

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count111

Hotel Paura

Release Date1996-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Il trasloco

It's moving day for the Via Marsili 19th apartment in Bologna, Italy, a former hotbed of the Movement of 1977. While waiting for the movers to finish their job, cultural agitator Franco Bifo Berardi leads us through a decade-long trip down memory lane.

Release Date1991-12-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2