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Fabio De Luigi has 28 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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Two brothers reunite at their father’s funeral after many years apart. Between bitterness from the past and forgotten affection they will embark on a trip onboard their motorbikes which they built when they were children.
Dir. Fabio De Luigi · With Fabio De Luigi, Stefano Accorsi, Elisa Di Eusanio
Filippo is a star on the Italian TV. He works for a documentary series about wild animals and nature. He is sent to Tenerife (Spain) to shot an issue about the local stork. It is the 13th of August. After he did his job is time to leave, but the ferry couldn't operate. He has to spend the night in the island. The day after is again the 13th of August, and Filippo live again the same day for different times. Something has to change to exit the paranoid and unrealistic situation.
Dir. Giulio Manfredonia · With Antonio Albanese, Goya Toledo, Fabio De Luigi

Arturo loses his tech job to an algorithm he created and ends up working as a delivery man, monitored by an unreasonably strict app. His only solace comes from Stella, a hologram-for-girlfriend whose free trial is running out. Unable to renew the subscription due to his financial uncertainty, Arturo decides to take a stand.
Dir. Pif · With Fabio De Luigi, Ilenia Pastorelli, Pif

Suddenly and inexplicably Marco and Giulia wake up with three children aged 10, 9 and 6 who call them mum and dad. Getting rid of it and returning to the happy "previous" life will become their only goal.
Dir. Fabio De Luigi · With Fabio De Luigi, Virginia Raffaele, Barbara Chichiarelli

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
A blocked screenwriter, Ezio, is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters welcome, as they’ve got some ideas of their own for bigger and better roles.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Fabio De Luigi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Margherita Buy

Simone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the body in a freezer, and sets up a fraud with the help of some friends to avoid bankruptcy.
Dir. Giancarlo Fontana, Giuseppe G. Stasi · With Fabio De Luigi, Miriam Leone, Barbara Bouchet
Gabriele is a divorced dad who owns a music store and is completely focused on taking care of his 10-year-old daughter Sofia who spends time with both parents. One day he bumps into his old friend Mara who - for the first time since his separation - reignites his desire to be in a relationship. There is only one problem, Mara hates children!
Dir. Guido Chiesa · With Fabio De Luigi, Caterina Sbaraglia, Micaela Ramazzotti
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

Carlo and Giulia are grappling with new problems regarding the division of their respective tasks within the family. Since Giulia has started working again, it is Carlo who takes care of the children and the household chores. However, he starts to find the role of “Mr. Mom” a bit tight-fitting. Just when he decides to get back into the game and look for a job, Giulia reveals to him that she is up for a promotion that would lead her to move to Sweden. As if that weren’t enough, she will have to take the interview on December 24 in Stockholm. Everything seems to threaten the family unity. What should they do? Carlo comes up with a "brilliant" idea… To recover the old camper and drag the family into an adventure that will lead them on a journey to the North to spend Christmas all together lovingly. Unexpected events along the way and a hilarious encounter/confrontation with a self-styled Santa Claus will make the trip unforgettable.
Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Fabio De Luigi, Valentina Lodovini, Diego Abatantuono

An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Filippo Timi, Elio Germano, Alvaro Caleca
A group of desperate men, unsatisfied by their lives, decides to attempt a heist to a postal armored truck guard.
Dir. Vincenzo Alfieri · With Fabio De Luigi, Edoardo Leo, Giampaolo Morelli

as Mr. Sacro Wok
Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: several people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous exploits, and the winner will inherit his billion-dollar fortune.
Dir. Paolo Costella · With Claudia Gerini, Paolo Hendel, Marina Massironi

as Paolo · Writer
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
Fired from his HR job in the big city, Fulvio returns home and sees a leaky pipe in his brother's church as the way to save the crumbling town.
Dir. Alessandro Siani · With Alessandro Siani, Fabio De Luigi, Ana Caterina Morariu
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
Dir. Edoardo Falcone · With Fabio De Luigi, Elio Germano, Massimo De Lorenzo
From married couples to platonic roommates to testy rivals with romantic chemistry, the never-ending battle of the sexes gets personal.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Paola Cortellesi, Fabio De Luigi, Sarah Felberbaum
Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Cristiana Capotondi
When the kooky tenants of an apartment block experience a sudden and shocking situation, they let their private lives, past secrets and crazy passions intervene as the confessions and absurd twists come thick and fast. Previous lovers, wild accusations, a possible murder and more boil to the surface days before New Year’s Eve, but can they even make it until then?
Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Fabio De Luigi, Ricky Memphis, Cristiana Capotondi
Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school, to stay in the family home with their teenage son, some new attitudes begin to form.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Fabio De Luigi, Claudia Gerini, Filippo Timi

as Antonio Moscati · Director · Writer
Antonio, a representative of medical supplies with no success, finds a brilliant way to present himself to the customers and improve his sales: the special tiramisù made by his beautiful wife Aurora.
Dir. Fabio De Luigi · With Fabio De Luigi, Vittoria Puccini, Angelo Duro
Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
Dir. Pupi Avati · With Diego Abatantuono, Pierpaolo Zizzi, Neri Marcorè
Fabio is in love with his colleague Linda, but she has never even seen him until he's mistaken for her boyfriend. Paolo and Mario leave for a luxurious vacation in Rio de Janeiro for Christmas, without knowing that their sons have booked a trip for the same low-cost destination and, for a problem of homonymy between fathers and sons, the two holidays are exchanged.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Michelle Hunziker, Fabio De Luigi
Francesco and Claudia are best friends. They're inseparable and tell each other everything, until another man enters the picture stealing Claudia's heart. Francesco then realizes that friendship between man and woman is a complicated thing.
Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Fabio De Luigi, Laetitia Casta, Valentina Lodovini
Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on her, under penalty of divorce and not even a penny of alimony. But one day he meets Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli) and it's immediately irresistible passion... Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) is a young surgeon who, to make a career, is forced to suffer the harassment of his head, Professor Benci (Claudio Bisio). Filippo is about to go to New York to get married and Benci does not miss an opportunity to further harass him by asking him to bring a gift to his son, a "model" student at Riverside College.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Claudio Bisio, Sabrina Ferilli
Paolo Cioffa, as Christmas approaches, is ready to leave on a cruise with his mistress Magda Venni, freed by his wife Francesca Zanchi and his son Federico, who is about to go skiing.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Michelle Hunziker, Fabio De Luigi
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo".
Dir. Massimo Venier · With Fabio De Luigi, Luciana Littizzetto, Ale
Congressman Bonfili, a family man and promoter in the Italian Parliament of a family law, has a clandestine affair with a feisty starlet wannabe actress. In his murky scheming, he also involves his blameless private driver.
Dir. Alessandro D'Alatri · With Paolo Bonolis, Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy
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