Luca Guadagnino

Luca Guadagnino, born 10 August 1971, is an Italian film director and producer. His films are characterized by their emotional complexity, eroticism, and lavish visuals. He has received numerous accolades, including a Silver Lion, alongside nominations for an Academy Award and three BAFTA Awards. Born in Palermo, Guadagnino spent part of his childhood in Ethiopia. However, the family returned to Italy to escape the Ethiopian Civil War. Guadagnino began his career directing short films and documentaries. He made his feature-film debut with The Protagonists (1999), the first of his many collaborations with actress Tilda Swinton. His follow-up, Melissa P. (2005), was a commercial success in Italy but was met with mixed critical reception. Guadagnino gained further acclaim with his Desire trilogy, which consists of the films I Am Love (2009), A Bigger Splash (2015), and Call Me by Your Name (2017). The latter brought him international recognition. Suspiria (2018), a remake of the 1977 film, was Guadagnino's first foray into the horror genre. It was a box office failure and polarized critics. Guadagnino's following projects were We Are Who We Are (2020), a coming-of-age miniseries for HBO, the romantic horror film Bones and All (2022), the romantic sports film Challengers (2024), and the period romantic drama Queer (2024). Guadagnino directed several documentaries, including Bertolucci on Bertolucci (2013) and Salvatore: The Shoemaker of Dreams (2020). Aside from filmmaking, he has been involved in the fashion world, directing advertisements for brands like Fendi and Salvatore Ferragamo. In 2012, Guadagnino founded the production company Frenesy Film Company. He also produced Belluscone: A Sicilian Story (2014), The Truffle Hunters (2020), Salvatore: The Shoemaker of Dreams (2020), Holiday, and Enea (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article about Luca Guadagnino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Dior and I

Behind-the-scenes documentary revealing what goes on inside the colourful, privileged, and sometimes stressful Christian Dior fashion house.

Release Date2015-03-06

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Luca Guadagnino: Projecting Desire

Video essay exploring Luca Guadagnino's filmmaking methods, focusing on the passionate dynamics of desire and ardent longing for connection that sizzles across his cinema.

Release Date2025-02-21

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Golden Globe Awards

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign, bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Release Date1944-01-20

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Episode Count1

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Quotidien

Quotidien (nicknamed "The French Show with the Good Lighting" abroad) is a French daily infotainment television program broadcast in the early evening on TMC since September 12, 2016. The show is hosted by Yann Barthès and produced by Bangumi. It consists of segments and reports produced by the team of commentators and journalists surrounding Yann Barthès and features daily guests including newsmakers, intellectuals, politicians, and French and international celebrities.

Release Date2016-09-12

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Episode Count1

Vote Count18

Directors on Directors

Release Date2021-03-03

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Mademoiselle C

A documentary focused on former Vogue Paris editor-in-chief and fashion stylist Carine Roitfeld.

Release Date2013-09-11

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Vote Count33

We Are Cinema

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

Release Date2021-12-16

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The Protagonists

An Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.

Release Date1999-09-10

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That Click

A man at the cutting edge of fashion, photojournalism and portraiture, photographer to the stars Douglas Kirkland has portrayed over sixty years of pop culture. This fascinating feature takes a closer look into the career of one of the most important photographers of the last century. His subjects, who are some of the biggest stars of Hollywood and the fashion world, provide testimonials.

Release Date2019-12-30

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The Death of Klinghoffer

An opera in a prologue and two acts by John Adams, with a libretto by Alice Goodman, inspired by the 1985 hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Conducted by Lawrence Renes, directed and designed by Luca Guadagnino. A new production by the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

Release Date2026-04-19

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Joie de Vivre

Upcoming documentary about Italian filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci.

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Moments on the Set of I Am Love

A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.

Release Date2009-01-01

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Call Me by Your Name

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-Roman culture. Soon, Elio and Oliver discover a summer that will alter their lives forever.

Release Date2017-10-01

DepartmentDirecting

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Vote Count12786

Challengers

Tennis player turned coach Tashi has taken her husband, Art, and transformed him into a world-famous Major champion. To jolt him out of his recent losing streak, she signs him up for a "Challenger" event — close to the lowest level of pro tournament — where he finds himself standing across the net from his former best friend and Tashi's former boyfriend.

Release Date2024-04-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2716

Bones and All

Abandoned by her father, a young woman embarks on a thousand-mile odyssey through the backroads of America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

Release Date2022-11-18

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Vote Count1647

Diary of a Nymphomaniac

A chronicle of the life of a middle-class French girl's sexual adventures, her then fall into prostitution, and her ultimate redemption.

Release Date2008-10-17

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JobWriter

Vote Count365

We Are Who We Are

Two American kids who live on a U.S. military base in Italy explore friendship, first love, identity, and all the messy exhilaration and anguish of being a teenager.

Release Date2020-09-14

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Episode Count8

Vote Count381

Melissa P.

An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Release Date2005-11-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count611

After the Hunt

A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.

Release Date2025-10-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count503

Queer

In 1950s Mexico City, William Lee, an American ex-pat in his late forties, leads a solitary life amidst a small American community. However, the arrival in town of Eugene Allerton, a young student, stirs William into finally establishing a meaningful connection with someone.

Release Date2024-11-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count537

Suspiria

A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the artistic director, an ambitious young dancer, and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare. Others will finally wake up.

Release Date2018-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2777

A Bigger Splash

An American couple, Paul and Marianne, spend their vacation in Italy and experience trouble when Marianne invites a former lover and his teenage daughter to visit, which leads to jealousy and dangerous sexual scenarios.

Release Date2015-11-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count858

I Am Love

Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.

Release Date2010-03-19

DepartmentDirecting

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Vote Count409

Atropia

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

Release Date2025-11-15

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Vote Count16

Artificial

Described as a comedic drama set in the world of artificial intelligence, around the period at OpenAI in 2023 that saw CEO Sam Altman fired and rehired in a matter of days.

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Beckett

An American tourist in Greece finds himself on the run after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination.

Release Date2021-08-04

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Vote Count740

American Psycho

A reimagined adaption of the novel in the fast-paced modern era. Plot TBA.

DepartmentDirecting

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The Staggering Girl

Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York, must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother. There, the ghosts of her childhood will come to her through her mother's art.

Release Date2019-05-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count57

Nineteen

Leonardo, a 19-year-old student, leaves his hometown of Palermo to study economics in London. He soon grows restless and enrolls at the University of Siena to study literature before dropping out of school to study classics on his own. The following year, he travels to Turin where he meets a man who will help him on his journey of self-discovery.

Release Date2025-02-27

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Vote Count20

Leading Men

In July 1953, at a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote in Portofino, Italy, Tennessee Williams and his longtime lover Frank Merlo meet Anja Blomgren, a mysteriously taciturn young Swedish beauty and aspiring actress. Their encounter will go on to alter all of their lives.

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The Truffle Hunters

In the secret forests of Northern Italy, a dwindling group of joyful old men and their faithful dogs search for the world’s most expensive ingredient, the white Alba truffle. Their stories form a real-life fairy tale that celebrates human passion in a fragile land that seems forgotten in time.

Release Date2020-12-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count47

Ketticè

Explores the dynamics between two local sixteen-year-olds, Ketty and Giulio, who together build an exclusive friendship, a shared refuge in their search for freedom, away from the judging eye of the adult world.

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L'uomo risacca

From a poem of Gabriele Frasca.

Release Date2000-06-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

O Night Divine

St. Moritz, Switzerland. On a snowy Christmas Eve in a grand mountain hotel, the lives of five people magically intertwine during a wild night full of extravagant adventures and joyous celebrations.

Release Date2021-12-14

DepartmentDirecting

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Vote Count5

A Rose Reborn

A brilliant young CEO from London contemplates the possibility of selling his invention to a mysterious Chinese billionaire. Before actually meeting his potential investor however our protagonist must face a number of challenges in the form of journeys, riddles and the exchange of clothes.

Release Date2014-10-03

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Vote Count12

Diarchy

Giano and Luc are traveling through the woods when a storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in Luc's villa. Gradually and insidiously, a competition emerges between them, with terrible consequences.

Release Date2010-08-07

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Vote Count12

The Switch

Release Date2012-12-01

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Delfinasia

Release Date2007-01-01

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Part Deux

Cinema's reigning romantic Luca Guadagnino premiers a modern-day paean to the good times, inspired by a Wolfgang Tillmans picture.

Release Date2019-12-07

DepartmentDirecting

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Vote Count3

April

Nina, an OB-GYN, faces accusations after a newborn's death. Her life undergoes scrutiny during investigation. She persists in her medical duties, determined to provide care others hesitate to offer, despite the risks.

Release Date2025-01-29

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Vote Count23

Au revoir

Release Date2001-01-01

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Inconscio Italiano

A documentary in which seven Italian intellectuals survey the political history of their country from its imperial adventure in Ethiopia in 1937 to the ascent of Silvio Berlusconi, focusing on the evolving role of the Fascist Party.

Release Date2011-08-05

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Vote Count1

Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams

In the early 20th century, impoverished teenage Italian cobbler Salvatore Ferragamo sailed from Naples to America to seek a better life. He settled in Southern California, and became Hollywood's go-to shoemaker during the silent era. In 1927, he returned to Italy and founded in Florence his namesake luxury brand. This feature-length documentary recounts his adventures.

Release Date2021-10-11

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Vote Count7

Buddenbrooks

Adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1901 novel, which chronicles the decline of a wealthy German merchant family over the course of four generations, portraying the manner of life and mores of the Hanseatic bourgeoisie in the years from 1835 to 1877.

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Cuoco Contadino

Up the hills between Liguria and France, a car goes up towards the Pre-Alps. Paolo Masieri, one of the most innovative of the great Italian chefs, has his vegetable garden, his country house, his herbs. Luca Guadagnino's camera follows him, moving among the fronds with the step of a weasel, sniffing the moss and the dried leaves of the chestnut trees, becoming nature among nature.

Release Date2004-09-01

DepartmentDirecting

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Vote Count1

Walking Stories

Delicate and slightly surreal, "Walking Stories" is a romantic comedy directed by Luca Guadagnino (Melissa P, I Am Love) who narrates a life-changing trip full of surprising coincidences, unexpected revelations, and fortunate encounters--a love story that literally "walks" swiftly across the world.

Release Date2013-10-29

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Camaraderie

For the exhibition "Tilda Swinton: Ongoing" at Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, Luca Guadagnino created a short film in which Swinton appears as a timeless icon - recognisable in her red sweater, the same sweater she wore when they first met.

Release Date2025-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tilda Swinton: The Love Factory

At the Hotel Majestic in Cannes, Tilda Swinton talks to director Luca Guadagnino about cinema, loneliness and love.

Release Date2002-10-10

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Vote Count1

Rosso

The monster comes out to devour with its deadly bite in prey of its subconscious.

Release Date2002-01-01

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Separate Rooms

Fleeing from the image of his boyfriend who recently committed suicide, Leo arrives in England in order to descend into anonymity. Yet even here his mind continually turns to the reality of his lover’s death and their experiences together.

DepartmentDirecting

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Qui

Release Date1997-01-01

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Vote Count1

The Landlords

Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his big career comeback-concert in his home city. It all seems like an easy enough job, but the small town community doesn't like strangers.

Release Date2012-10-04

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Vote Count39

Bread and Milk

Late one night, a middle-aged man is visited by the ghost of his father.

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Fiori, Fiori, Fiori!

Luca Guadagnino left for Sicily from Milan to knock on the doors of his childhood friends and discuss with them their experience of this exceptional moment, which has united the entire world.

Release Date2020-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Enea

Enea chases after the myth he bears in his name; he does so to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does so together with Valentino, a newly baptized aviator. The two, in addition to dealing and partying, share youth. Lifelong friends, victims and perpetrators of a corrupt world, but moved by an incorruptible vitality. Beyond the boundaries of rules, on the other side of morality, there is a sea full of humanity and symbols to be discovered. Enea and Valentino will fly over it to the furthest extremes. However, drugs and the underworld are the invisible shadow of a story about something else: a melancholy father, a brother fighting at school, a mother defeated by love and a beautiful girl, a happy ending and a happy death, a palm tree falling on a glass world.

Release Date2024-01-11

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Vote Count153

Shadows from Within

Domenico Quirico, correspondent for the daily La Stampa, was abducted in Syria in 2013 and released after 152 days of captivity. Here he evokes a career spent collecting fragments of other people's lives, and journeys back to the cell where he found himself sharing the fate of the people he writes about. His words, the narrative fabric of the film, turn into action: we follow him first along the Donbass front and then on his return journey, to the place "where it all began and where it all ended:" Syria. Because "it's not about going home; it's about coming back here."

Release Date2016-09-09

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Vote Count2

Dream Generation

Francesca, Morgana, Edo and Antonio. Four of today’s youngsters. Four inadvertent representatives of today’s generation of 20-year-olds who “do whatever I want”.By chance they find that they’re spending a week in Catania together, the Baroque city perched on the slopes of a volcano, the continual rumbling of which seems to reflect their restlessness…

Release Date2003-08-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Magic Triangle

Release Date2013-03-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Levitants

In a sumptuous villa, three young people discover their desires.

Release Date2015-01-16

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count4

Stile Alberto

Release Date2025-10-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood

A biopic about Scotty Bowers, a Hollywood hustler who was known for procuring male sex workers for closeted gay and bisexual film stars. [Searchlight Pictures acquired in 2020 the rights to the eponymous documentary with a feature film based on Bowers' life in development, with Luca Guadagnino attached to direct and Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg as scriptwriters.]

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Belluscone: A Sicilian Story

This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi’s political and human defeat in his “twilight”, the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi’s unconditional supporter, deeply rooted in an ancient culture that dies hard, and the director’s artistic defeat in an Italy that recognised itself in this “Berlusconian culture” for a long time, and probably still does.

Release Date2014-09-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count74

The Making of Lotus

Documenting the making of Elisa's 2003 album 'Lotus'

Release Date2003-12-05

DepartmentCamera

JobAdditional Camera

The Search

Release Date2012-09-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Holiday

Veronica, after a long trial and two years in prison for the alleged murder of her mother and her lover, is found innocent. She is only twenty years old, but it is difficult to look ahead...

Release Date2023-10-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count20

The Home Front – A Journey in Italy with Domenico Quirico

Human technology has made great leaps forward in recent decades, but what about humanity itself? Post-industrialization is causing distressing social changes, and Home Front: A Journey in Italy with Domenico Quirico shows what that means in practice.

Release Date2021-11-20

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JobProducer

Antonia

Distinguished Italian poet Antonia Pozzi (1912–1938) was among those women who were at odds with the times in which they lived. Her poems record her inability to adapt to social norms and her desire to live fully, and in poetry she sought an escape from reality and from her own complex soul and emotional life.

Release Date2015-07-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count21

Bertolucci on Bertolucci

Documentary on the life and work of legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci, using filmed interviews he has given over the last 50 years.

Release Date2013-08-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Adele's Dream

Release Date2013-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Afonso's Smile

After spending his childhood in Macau, Afonso returns to Lisbon during the Carnation Revolution of April 25, 1974. Amidst the country’s upheaval, he navigates an agitated adolescence and experiences a personal revolution - discovering himself and his sexuality.

DepartmentProduction

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The Meatseller

Follows Selinna Ajamikoko, a young Nigerian woman with aspirations of following in her mother's footsteps as a meat seller. She sets out on her journey to Italy in pursuit of her ambition, a journey fraught with horror and bestiality.

Release Date2023-08-30

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Vote Count2

Arto Lindsay, Forgive the Beauty: The Love Factory

In the void created ad hoc to throw us into desperation, fear, shock, the torment of an infinite present, Arto Lindsay sings with words, silences and small gestures of/with/for/about love, a force that is so violent that nothing will ever be the same again.

Release Date2004-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Pippo Delbono, You Have to Die: The Love Factory

Filmed mostly in close-ups, the film documents a personal conversation that the two film directors had with each other. Delbono addresses a wide range of different topics: death and life, love, politics and religion, even private things, such as moving and diets.

Release Date2008-11-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

GialappaShow

Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci - supported in the studio by Mago Forest, a great cast of comedians and many surprise guests - comment with biting irony on the most popular TV programs, the main sporting events and the last web trends.

Release Date2023-05-21

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

Peter Del Monte e Luca Guadagnino: Un Incontro

Interview with Peter Del Monte conducted by Luca Guadagnino.

Release Date2021-07-03