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Antonio Catania has 22 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Ask Me If I'm Happy.
How to Be a Latin Lover
2017
Comedy
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing their dream production of Cyrano de Bergerac, until love for the same woman tears their friendship apart. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after learning that Aldo is dying.
Dir. Giovanni Storti, Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Massimo Venier · With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered in 2022. The show brings to the stage the behind the scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many fictions airing on the Italian TV networks.
Dir. Luca Manzi, Carlo Mazzotta · With Francesco Pannofino, Alessandro Tiberi, Pietro Sermonti
While on the run from the police, an unlikely companionship blossoms between a funny con man who just broke out of jail, the bumbling cop whose car he seized at gunpoint, and a nitpicking civilian he unwittingly took hostage.
Dir. Massimo Venier, Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti · With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
Hapless Depression-era gangsters Al, John and Jack find out their boss wants to get rid of them and come up with a plan to sell him to the FBI, but Al's short-term memory loss could make it difficult.
Dir. Massimo Venier, Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti · With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family.
Dir. Silvio Soldini · With Licia Maglietta, Bruno Ganz, Giuseppe Battiston
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach Celestina’s sister, who emigrated to America several years earlier. The two children join the many Italian emigrants seeking a new life in America and arrive in an unknown metropolis, which, after several misadventures, they will learn to call home.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Dea Lanzaro, Antonio Guerra
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini
Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Golino, Claudio Bisio
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
Dir. Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Vincenzo Amato
A stressed-out mom takes off on a 10-day solo vacation, sending her family into chaos as the dad tries to take over the household duties.
Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Fabio De Luigi, Valentina Lodovini, Angelica Elli
Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy, Anita Caprioli
Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Laura Morante, Stefania Rocca
Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he’s deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova written by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine. Schnitzler’s Casanova is aged, glory days are over: he lost his charm and his attraction to women, he’s broke and no more eager to travel through Europe. After a long exile, he just wants to go back to Venice, his homeland. While traveling home Casanova meets a girl, Marcolina. She reawakens his desire, lost for years. So, he tries to seduce her but that leads him to a tragic understanding: he’s an old man now. It’s not by chance that Leo Bernardi decided to tell this story right now, in a pivotal moment of his life and career. The destiny of both Casanova and his director leads them to a final confrontation.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Toni Servillo, Sara Serraiocco, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Seven days before his wedding, a man must contend with a series of never-ending disasters.
Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Fabio De Luigi, Cristiana Capotondi, Monica Guerritore
The wealthy businessman Vincenzo realizes that he is a father too absent, but also that his two sons and 1aughter are spoiled and unable to support themselves economically. So Vincenzo stages their fraudulent bankruptcy and runs with their children in Taranto, in his old house. The boys are struggling to settle, but Vincenzo is confident about them and hope that they will soon find a job in the city. Meanwhile, an impostor blackmailer, who wants to marry the daughter of Vincenzo, arrives in Puglia, to expose the scam.
Dir. Guido Chiesa · With Diego Abatantuono, Andrea Pisani, Matilde Gioli
Political strategists in a northern Italian city push gay-rights campaigner Piero into the mayoral race, pairing him with uptight conservative toughie Adele. Piero and his partner, Remo, are the stable ones, while buttoned-up divorcee Adele nurses her bitterness.
Dir. Umberto Riccioni Carteni · With Luca Argentero, Claudia Gerini, Filippo Nigro
Paolo needs to reach the castle of Alberto Caccia, where he was invited to spend Christmas with his family and Margherita, the ninth month of pregnancy. With them there will also be blessed, daughter of Alberto and childhood friend of Margherita, who was also pregnant. Among various mishaps and blunders, Paolo will combine another of his, coming to make everyone believe, because of a misunderstanding, that Alberto's died for his fault.
Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Fabio De Luigi, Cristiana Capotondi, Antonio Catania
On Andrea's birthday, his boss asks him to babysit his son while he's away for work: while Andrea is babysitting, his friends arrive and throw a big party.
Dir. Giovanni Bognetti · With Francesco Mandelli, Paolo Ruffini, Andrea Pisani
A father, who calls himself "open" and tolerant and fights against any form of discrimination, reveals himself as not so liberal when his son announces the engagement to his partner. Overwhelmed by the news, he regresses into the most fierce opponent of same-sex marriage, and tries to undermine his son's happiness with a series of embarrassing situations.
Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Diego Abatantuono, Monica Guerritore, Salvatore Esposito
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.
Dir. Roberto Andò · With Micaela Ramazzotti, Renato Carpentieri, Laura Morante
First day of last year for the students of a high school science, but at school there is something new: some guys have been moved from their respective classes in a section created especially for them, the section H. Students of the H section are not were chosen at random, are in fact notoriously problematic elements, too exuberant and listless. Among them is Ricky who is awake and never misses a chance to make jokes irritating that it shares on its Youtube channel, Star whose only interest is its look and Viola intelligent but always at war with the world.
Dir. Guido Chiesa · With Alessandro Preziosi, Andrea Pisani, Enrico Oetiker
Inside Bar Sport, a bar on the outskirts of Bologna managed by the histrionic Onassis, the adventures of regulars and casual patrons unfold. Searching for a pinball machine or a payphone, they encounter the omnipresent "technician," so called for his passion for soccer and always ready to chat or moderate other people's discussions. Thus, the ordeals of the handyman Bovinelli as he deals with the disasters at Muzzi's house, the diary of a provincial playboy's conquests, the sex life of the fiery prostitute Elvira, the search for a good restaurant during a dazed motorcycle trip with Cocosecco, or a trip to see Bologna play with the lawyer Della Lana become epic tales of tragicomic exploits.
Dir. Massimo Martelli · With Claudio Bisio, Giuseppe Battiston, Antonio Catania
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