Paolo Genovese

Paolo Genovese

Birth : 1966-08-20, Rome, Lazio, Italy

History

Paolo Genovese is an Italian director and screenwriter of comedies. His best known film is Perfect Strangers (2016), which holds the Guinness World Record for the most remade film ever, having since been adapted in more than 20 countries around the world.

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Paolo Genovese

Movies

The First Day of my Life
Screenplay
In the exact moment they’re hitting rock bottom, a man, two women and a boy meet a mysterious man capable of gifting them a week of time where they’ll discover how the world would be without them. Will they find the strength to start over and fall in love with life again?
The First Day of my Life
Story
In the exact moment they’re hitting rock bottom, a man, two women and a boy meet a mysterious man capable of gifting them a week of time where they’ll discover how the world would be without them. Will they find the strength to start over and fall in love with life again?
The First Day of my Life
Novel
In the exact moment they’re hitting rock bottom, a man, two women and a boy meet a mysterious man capable of gifting them a week of time where they’ll discover how the world would be without them. Will they find the strength to start over and fall in love with life again?
The First Day of my Life
Director
In the exact moment they’re hitting rock bottom, a man, two women and a boy meet a mysterious man capable of gifting them a week of time where they’ll discover how the world would be without them. Will they find the strength to start over and fall in love with life again?
Wild Game
Writer
At a dinner party in Vesturbær, seven friends decide to play a dangerous game. They put their phones on the table and agree that all incoming calls and messages will be shared with the party to prove that none of them have anything to hide
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
Seven friends who attend a dinner and decide to play a game with their cell phones. Unfortunately, the game ends in disaster when their dark secret is revealed.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
Do we truly know one another? Every one of us has three lives: a public, a private and secret one. What we once stored in our memories is now being stored in our phones - what happens when these are made public?
Superheroes
Novel
The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.
Superheroes
Screenplay
The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.
Superheroes
Story
The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.
Superheroes
Director
The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.
Per tutta la vita
Story Supervisor
Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.
Per tutta la vita
Screenplay
Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.
Per tutta la vita
Story
Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.
Alles op Tafel
Original Film Writer
Seven friends meet up for dinner and decide to play a revealing game. During the evening deep personal secrets will surface and threaten their relationships.
זרים מושלמים
Original Film Writer
Seven childhood friends with a history and shared experiences from their past, meet for dinner to see together a rare lunar eclipse. This bourgeois and routine event takes a turn as they start playing a game that will change their lives: every message, call or alert they receive on their phone is exposed to the eyes of everyone. Betrayals, lies, secrets and accounts that are 20 years old rise and float to the surface and question the long-standing friendships and internal relationships in it.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
One evening, a glass of wine, 7 friends enter a dangerous game: they put their phones on the table and decide that everything they receive that evening, calls, messages, emails, will be answered by a speaker or read aloud.
Gli amigos
Screenplay
Promotional short for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Gli amigos
Story
Promotional short for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Gli amigos
Director
Promotional short for Parmigiano Reggiano.
Známi neznámi
Original Film Writer
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
Seven men and women, consisting of three couples who are reluctant companions and one single man, play in the game with the secret that their relationship and friendship will collapse. Japanese remake of the Italian movie "Perfetti sconosciuti".
Blood Moon Party
Original Film Writer
In a group meeting of close friends, a member suddenly proposed a game of sharing the phone to increase the spirit of "solidarity".
The Perfect Secret
Original Film Writer
Seven friends - three women and four men - meet for dinner. Everyone should put their cell phone on the table. No matter what message comes in - anyone can read it and listen to the phone calls. However, this leads to a lot of chaos.
Unknown Subscriber
Original Film Writer
7 friends get together just to have good time. They decide to play an unusual game, according to the rules of which, everyone should put mobile phones on the table and read all incoming messages out loud and answer calls only on the speaker. Close friends could not imagine what secrets would be revealed during this game.
Loudspeaker
Original Film Writer
Seven friends, having gathered in a country house, begin to play the game in a joke - participants must read out aloud all messages that come to them, and answer calls only via speakerphone. They cannot even imagine what amazing revelations they will have to make about each other.
Kill Mobile
Original Film Writer
Seven friends get together for dinner, and decided to play a game where they must share all messages and calls of their cell phones. Throughout the evening, wechat messages, phone calls and APP notifications are coming out continuously. Hilarity and drama ensue together as everyone's secrets are unveiled and the seven friends find themselves more like strangers to each other.
Perfectos desconocidos
Original Film Writer
A group of longtime friends get together for dinner. When they decide to share the content of every text message, email, and phone call they receive, secrets are unveiled and the balance is upset.
Búék
Original Film Writer
The story takes place on New Year's Eve that a group of friends have been celebrating together for years. The host is the newly divorced psychologist, Aliz, and her guests are her younger brother, Döme, the chemistry teacher, Kristóf, the gynecologist, Gábor, the cook, and Márk, the photographer. They are all childhood best friends. In the meantime, Gábor's wife, Saci, the lawyer, and Márk's girlfriend, Fanni, the young special education teacher joins the group. The topic of the conversation veers in the direction of how nowadays people store many secrets and confidential information on their cell phones, and what kinds of conflicts may arise if the phones fall into unauthorized hands. Each of the seven members of the group insists on not having any secrets, on their lives being an open book, to which Aliz suggests that they should prove it.
Intimate Strangers
Original Film Writer
A group of people meet for the first time in a long time and play a game that reveals each other's secrets.
Nothing to Hide
Original Film Writer
To spice up a dinner party, old friends agree to share every private message that pops up on their phones -- with disastrous results.
Loudspeaker
Original Film Writer
Forgive Us Our Debts
Associate Producer
Threatened by creditors, a newly unemployed man agrees to work for a debt collector, but soon discovers his deal with the devil has unexpected costs.
Stranger in My Pocket
Original Film Writer
The seven old friends decide to come together for dinner. Everyone is seated at the table, chatting, eating laughing accompaniment. During the meal, it is decided to play a game. The game is pretty simple; everyone will put their phones on the desk, every incoming message and notification will be read aloud. Their relationship begins to deteriorate. The group who thinks they are very close friends for so long are in fact alien to each other.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
During a lunar eclipse, seven friends gather for dinner and decide to play a game in which they must share with each other the content of every message, email or phone call they receive throughout the evening.
The Place
Screenplay
In a coffee shop, nine seemingly unrelated strangers meet with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to grant all their wishes, in return for which they must carry out any task he decides to assign them.
The Place
Story
In a coffee shop, nine seemingly unrelated strangers meet with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to grant all their wishes, in return for which they must carry out any task he decides to assign them.
The Place
Director
In a coffee shop, nine seemingly unrelated strangers meet with a mysterious man who seems to have the power to grant all their wishes, in return for which they must carry out any task he decides to assign them.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
Seven friends meet up for dinner on a full moon Friday night and deep secrets will come to the surface, shaking their lives and threatening their relationships.
Per sempre
Story
Short film about foster care promoted by TWINSET.
Per sempre
Screenplay
Short film about foster care promoted by TWINSET.
Per sempre
Director
Short film about foster care promoted by TWINSET.
Perfect Strangers
Story
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Perfect Strangers
Screenplay
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Perfect Strangers
Director
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Se mi lasci non vale
Story
Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet...
Se mi lasci non vale
Screenplay
Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet...
Ever Been to the Moon?
Story
Giulia is 30, single and with a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth Apulian farmer Renzo makes Giulia realize she's missing the most important thing in life -- true love.
Ever Been to the Moon?
Screenplay
Giulia is 30, single and with a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth Apulian farmer Renzo makes Giulia realize she's missing the most important thing in life -- true love.
Ever Been to the Moon?
Director
Giulia is 30, single and with a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth Apulian farmer Renzo makes Giulia realize she's missing the most important thing in life -- true love.
Giulio Cesare: Class Mates
The history of a great school is the history of a great nation. On the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liceo Giulio Cesare - the historical school of Rome - the journalist and director Antonello Sarno reconstructs its history with a documentary.
Ti ricordi di me?
Screenplay
Sharing the same psychologist, kleptomaniac Roberto, who writes stories a bit too realistic and scary for kids, and a narcoleptic Beatrice, who documents everything in her life, begin to think that love could be the cure for their problems. But nothing comes easy to either of them, and, just like in one of Roberto's stories, the happy ending really needs to be sought after. Will they find their own?
Tutta colpa di Freud
Screenplay
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!
Tutta colpa di Freud
Story
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!
Tutta colpa di Freud
Director
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!
Un fantastico via vai
Screenplay
Middle-aged family man Arnaldo is kicked out by his wife because of a misunderstanding. Instead of despairing, Arnaldo takes advantage of the situation to turn around his unsatisfying adult life by going to live in a flat shared with four university students.
Un fantastico via vai
Story
Middle-aged family man Arnaldo is kicked out by his wife because of a misunderstanding. Instead of despairing, Arnaldo takes advantage of the situation to turn around his unsatisfying adult life by going to live in a flat shared with four university students.
Una famiglia perfetta
Story
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred.
Una famiglia perfetta
Screenplay
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred.
Una famiglia perfetta
Director
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred.
The Immature: The Trip
Screenplay
After the events of the first movie, the "immatures" go on a trip to the Greek island of Paros.
The Immature: The Trip
Story
After the events of the first movie, the "immatures" go on a trip to the Greek island of Paros.
The Immature: The Trip
Director
After the events of the first movie, the "immatures" go on a trip to the Greek island of Paros.
The Immature
Screenplay
Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma, forcing them to repeat the final high school exam.
The Immature
Story
Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma, forcing them to repeat the final high school exam.
The Immature
Director
Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma, forcing them to repeat the final high school exam.
La banda dei Babbi Natale
Director
On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what seems to be an attempted robbery and taken to the police, accused of being the infamous Santa Claus Gang of burglars. While trying to prove their innocence, the trio explains the reasons for which they found themselves in such a strange situation.
Questa notte è ancora nostra
Story Developer
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Questa notte è ancora nostra
Screenplay
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Questa notte è ancora nostra
Director
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Sorry, You Can't Get Through!
Story
Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's working for him." He chooses Piero, a model worker and upstanding citizen so shy that he can't bring himself to declare his feelings for night-time street cleaner Francesca. Walter starts giving him some old-hand advice on the matter.
Sorry, You Can't Get Through!
Screenplay
Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's working for him." He chooses Piero, a model worker and upstanding citizen so shy that he can't bring himself to declare his feelings for night-time street cleaner Francesca. Walter starts giving him some old-hand advice on the matter.
Sorry, You Can't Get Through!
Director
Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's working for him." He chooses Piero, a model worker and upstanding citizen so shy that he can't bring himself to declare his feelings for night-time street cleaner Francesca. Walter starts giving him some old-hand advice on the matter.
Incantesimo napoletano
Story
In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!
Incantesimo napoletano
Screenplay
In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!
Incantesimo napoletano
Director
In a family of full-blooded Neapolitans, tragedy strikes: a girl is born speaking and acting like a northerner!
Piccole cose di valore non quantificabile
Writer
A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen.
Piccole cose di valore non quantificabile
Director
A police officer records an unusual deposition from a young woman: all her dreams have been stolen.
Perfect Strangers
Original Film Writer
A dinner party where a group of friends decide to play a risky game where they place their phones face-up on the table and agree to make all texts and phone calls public in an attempt to prove they have nothing to hide.