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Paolo Genovese has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 ranks 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

On a first date in Rome, the inner voices of recently separated Piero and furniture restorer Lara speak aloud, exposing the true thoughts and anxieties hidden behind their conversation.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Edoardo Leo, Pilar Fogliati, Emanuela Fanelli

The story of a loving couple who struggles to keep its relationship alive against the inescapable passing of time, told in a nonlinear way over the course of ten years in their lives.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Alessandro Borghi, Jasmine Trinca, Greta Scarano

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Valerio Mastandrea, Marco Giallini, Alba Rohrwacher

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
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Sergio Castellitto, Marco Giallini, Claudia Gerini
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

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

Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma, forcing them to repeat the final high school exam.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Raoul Bova, Barbora Bobuľová, Ambra Angiolini
Middle-aged family man Arnaldo is kicked out by his wife because of a misunderstanding. Instead of despairing, Arnaldo takes advantage of the situation to turn around his unsatisfying adult life by going to live in a flat shared with four university students.
Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni · With Leonardo Pieraccioni, Serena Autieri, Maurizio Battista

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
Seven thirty-something friends organise a post-grad trip they were never able to take after school. They find new adventures on a Greek island, and show that true maturity is never really achieved.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Raoul Bova, Barbora Bobuľová, Ambra Angiolini

Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth farmer Renzo will makes her realize she's missing the most important thing in life—true love.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Raoul Bova, Liz Solari, Nino Frassica
Four married couples find out their marriage is invalid because it was officiated by a fraudulent priest and have to decide what to do next.
Dir. Paolo Costella · With Ambra Angiolini, Luca Bizzarri, Carolina Crescentini
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Dir. Paolo Genovese, Luca Miniero · With Nicolas Vaporidis, Valentina Izumi, Massimiliano Bruno