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Margherita Buy has 28 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
Losers' Club
2011
Comedy · Drama

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.
Dir. Marco Bellocchio · With Fabrizio Gifuni, Margherita Buy, Toni Servillo

When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.
Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Serra Yılmaz

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Silvio Orlando

as Camilla
Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline and stars to see a psychologist but in the meantime he meets the problematic and shy Camilla, who disrupts his life.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Margherita Buy, Elisabetta Pozzi

When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.
Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Sergio Castellitto, Margherita Buy, Alice Teghil

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

This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, married with children; Nerval and her policeman husband.
Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefano Accorsi, Margherita Buy
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

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.
Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy

as Dir. Silvia Rufini
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."
Dir. Luca Lucini · With Leonardo Cecchi, Saul Nanni, Beatrice Vendramin

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Silvio Orlando, Margherita Buy, Jasmine Trinca

In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without them.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Toni Servillo, Margherita Buy, Valerio Mastandrea

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.
Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Margherita Buy, Nanni Moretti, John Turturro

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
What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex-husband?
Dir. Luca Lucini · With Margherita Buy, Claudia Gerini, Giampaolo Morelli
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
Dir. Alberto Sironi · With Bob Hoskins, Robbie Kay, Luciana Littizzetto
Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with.
Dir. Maria Sole Tognazzi · With Margherita Buy, Sabrina Ferilli, Alessia Barela

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.
Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Elio Germano, Margherita Buy, Vittoria Puccini
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
Dir. Nanni Moretti · With Margherita Buy, Riccardo Scamarcio, Alba Rohrwacher
In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last job: saving her son Louis and the whole kingdom.
Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea, Rocco Papaleo
Dir. Paolo Costella · With Claudio Bisio, Margherita Buy, Claudio Santamaria

as Queen Anne of Austria
Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.
Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea, Rocco Papaleo

as Rossana
Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Silvio Orlando, Luciana Littizzetto, Michele Placido

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea, who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.
Dir. Maria Sole Tognazzi · With Margherita Buy, Stefano Accorsi, Fabrizia Sacchi
When the family patriarch is murdered, seven women find themselves trapped together in his mansion to solve the mystery.
Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Margherita Buy, Diana Del Bufalo, Sabrina Impacciatore

Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.
Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Carlo Verdone, Silvio Muccino, Luciana Littizzetto
Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his life.
Dir. Francesco Patierno · With Claudio Bisio, Margherita Buy, Diego Abatantuono
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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