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Giuseppe Battiston has 18 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Perfect Strangers.
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During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini

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

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

Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?
Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Jean Reno, Nicoletta Braschi

Rich entrepreneur Rebecca Zuin has died from an alleged heart attack, raising suspicions on the part of a police inspector after her body disappears from the morgue. When her handsome young husband becomes a suspect, he starts thinking she may have faked her death to sadistically torment him.
Dir. Vincenzo Alfieri · With Giuseppe Battiston, Claudia Gerini, Andrea Di Luigi
An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.
Dir. Simone Spada · With Giuseppe Battiston, Barbora Bobuľová, Luca Argentero

A wooden puppet embarks on a thrilling adventure to become a real boy.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Tom Hanks, Benjamin Evan Ainsworth
Lucia is a young and talented advertiser but is out of luck when it comes to love. Madly in love with her best friend's boyfriend, she struggles with her feelings when they are set to get married.
Dir. Luca Lucini · With Francesca Inaudi, Riccardo Scamarcio, Gabriella Pession

The owner of a dilapidated B&B has an idea: in order to dodge bankruptcy, he has to turn his business into a place of worship—a tax-free activity, where he'll host pilgrims in exchange for a generous donation. He joins forces with an unscrupulous accountant and a failed novelist to come up with his new religion.
Dir. Alessandro Aronadio · With Margherita Buy, Edoardo Leo, Giuseppe Battiston
Enrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailing companies. His latest assignment proves more difficult than anticipated—since his target are two young siblings whose parents just died in a car accident.
Dir. Gianni Zanasi · With Valerio Mastandrea, Hadas Yaron, Giuseppe Battiston
During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be the Virgin Mary.
Dir. Gianni Zanasi · With Alba Rohrwacher, Elio Germano, Giuseppe Battiston

as Antonio (segment "Primo Maggio")
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno, Edoardo Leo · With Edoardo Leo, Massimiliano Bruno, Anna Foglietta
Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.
Dir. Rolando Ravello · With Marco Giallini, Isabella Ferrari, Giuseppe Battiston
Dir. Luca Lucini · With Claudio Bisio, Filippo Nigro, Claudia Pandolfi
Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.
Dir. Carlo Mazzacurati · With Valerio Mastandrea, Isabella Ragonese, Giuseppe Battiston

The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.
Dir. Antonio Padovan · With Giuseppe Battiston, Teco Celio, Liz Solari

Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship with children, home, etc. Anna, feeling as though the fire has fizzled in that relationship takes up with co-worker Domenico and the two begin a passionate affair.
Dir. Silvio Soldini · With Alba Rohrwacher, Pierfrancesco Favino, Giuseppe Battiston
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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