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Paolo Calabresi has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by Boris.
High Society
2017
Comedy
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
Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.
Dir. Sydney Sibilia · With Edoardo Leo, Valerio Aprea, Stefano Fresi
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.
Dir. Sydney Sibilia · With Edoardo Leo, Valerio Aprea, Paolo Calabresi
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.
Dir. Sydney Sibilia · With Edoardo Leo, Valeria Solarino, Valerio Aprea
Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the Communists to government in Italy and achieve socialism in a democratic country. From 1973, when he escaped an attack by the Bulgarian secret services, to the assassination of his main ally Aldo Moro in 1978, not forgetting his trips to Moscow and the covers of Time: the story of a man who wanted to change the world, but failed.
Dir. Andrea Segre · With Elio Germano, Paolo Pierobon, Roberto Citran
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!
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Marco Giallini, Vittoria Puccini, Anna Foglietta
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?
Dir. Rolando Ravello · With Ambra Angiolini, Edoardo Leo, Paolo Calabresi
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
Sara and Nicola are married and in love. Their lives seem to be perfect: they have an angelic six-year-old daughter, thriving careers and a stable marriage. The birth of their second child, which disrupts the family balance, leads to tragicomic scenarios.
Dir. Giuseppe Bonito · With Valerio Mastandrea, Paola Cortellesi, Stefano Fresi
Fred works for a company that creates alibis for cheaters until Clio, the daughter of one of his client, falls in love with him.
Dir. Volfango De Biasi · With Giampaolo Morelli, Massimo Ghini, Alessandra Mastronardi
A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events.
Dir. Massimiliano Bruno, Edoardo Leo · With Edoardo Leo, Massimiliano Bruno, Anna Foglietta
The relationship between Ed, a married astronomer and Amy, his lover, who spend their years apart, is based only on phone calls and texts. One day Amy begins noticing something strange in Ed's messages.
Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Jeremy Irons, Olga Kurylenko, Simon Johns
as Teodoro Guerriero
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.
Dir. Giuseppe G. Stasi, Giancarlo Fontana · With Claudio Bisio, Sarah Felberbaum, Pietro Sermonti
Dir. Volfango De Biasi · With Lillo Petrolo, Claudio Gregori, Ambra Angiolini
Antonio and Giuseppe meet at the hospital, while awaiting the birth of their respective first children. The two leave together for a quick lunch, ending up involved against their will in an odyssey of amusing setbacks and bizarre characters.
Dir. Paolo Ruffini · With Paolo Ruffini, Frank Matano, Gianluca Fubelli
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