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Paolo Sorrentino has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Il Divo.
Recurring themes

Remember Me, My Love
2003
Drama · Comedy

Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
2001
Drama

Bread and Roses
2000
Comedy · Drama

The Squid and the Whale
2005
Comedy · Drama

Me and You and Everyone We Know
2005
Comedy · Drama

Our Brand Is Crisis
2015
Comedy · Drama

American Splendor
2003
Comedy · Drama

Primary Colors
1998
Drama · Comedy

The Great Beauty
2013 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 10%Max · Included

The Hand of God
2021 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 11%Netflix · Included

La Grazia
2025 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 21%MUBI · Included

The Young Pope
2016 · Mini · Creator
Top 32%Max · Included

This Must Be the Place
2011 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 39%Prime Video · Included

The New Pope
2020 · Mini · Creator
Top 42%Max · Included

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Toni Servillo, Anna Bonaiuto, Giulio Bosetti

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo

Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Toni Servillo, Olivia Magnani, Adriano Giannini

Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football player whose career is cut short by an injury.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Toni Servillo, Andrea Renzi, Nello Mascia

Two lifelong friends bond whilst vacationing in a luxury Swiss Alps lodge as they ponder retirement. While Fred has no plans to resume his musical career despite the urging of his loving daughter Lena, Mick is intent on finishing the screenplay for what may be his last important film for his muse Brenda. And where will inspiration lead their younger friend Jimmy, an actor grasping to make sense of his next performance?
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz

As his tenure as President of Italy nears its end, Mariano De Santis faces wrenching decisions-both political and deeply personal. Amid these moral quandaries, he must confront his own conscience and seek guidance from those closest to him, including his confidante and daughter, Dorotea.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti, Massimo Venturiello

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Giacomo Rizzo, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Chiatti

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio

Lenny Belardo, the youngest and first American Pope in the history of the Church, must establish his new papacy and navigate the power struggles of the closed, secretive Vatican.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Jude Law, Diane Keaton, Silvio Orlando

A bored, retired rock star living in Ireland sets out to find his dead father's tormentor, an ex-Nazi war criminal who is a refugee in the U.S.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Sean Penn, Olwen Fouéré, Eve Hewson

As Pope Pius XIII hangs between life and death in a coma, charming and sophisticated moderate English aristocrat Sir John Brannox is placed on the papal throne and adopts the name John Paul III. A sequel series to “The Young Pope.”
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Jude Law, John Malkovich, Silvio Orlando

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio

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

Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Toni Servillo, Elena Sofia Ricci, Riccardo Scamarcio

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman