- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- May 27, 1956
- Place of Birth
- Bagheria, Sicilia, Italia
Giuseppe Tornatore
Giuseppe Tornatore (born 27 May 1956) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Bagheria near Palermo, Tornatore developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo. He worked initially as a freelance photographer. Then, switching to cinema, he made his debut with Le minoranze etniche in Sicilia (The Ethnic Minorities in Sicily), a collaborative documentary film which won a Salerno Festival prize. He then worked for RAI before releasing his first full-length film, Il Camorrista, in 1985. This evoked a positive response from audience and critics alike and Tornatore was awarded the Silver Ribbon for best new director. Tornatore's best known screen work was released in 1988: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso, a film narrating the life of a successful film director who has returned to his native town in Si…
Filmography
Aldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis
movieAldeas, the Final Dream of Pope Francis
2026 · Self
Quelli che il cinema
tvQuelli che il cinema
2025 · Self
movieBrunello: The Gracious Visionary
2025 · Director, Writer
movieFerdinando Scianna - Il fotografo dell'ombra
2025 · Self
tvIl camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
2025 · Director, Writer, Creator
movieTitanus 1904
2024 · Self
movieSergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022 · Self
movieEnnio
2022 · Self, Director, Screenplay, Story
movieAll Star - Ritorno al cinema
2021 · Proiezionista
movieGood Morning, the Wind Blows
2020 · Self
movieDevotion
2020 · Director
movieCitizen Rosi
2019 · Self
movieCecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
2019 · Self
movieCarlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
2019 · Self
movie24/25 Il fotogramma in più
2018 · Self
movieCinque mondi
2016 · Self
movieCorrespondence
2016 · Writer, Director
movieI Don't Know the Men of this City
2015
Born in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
movieBorn in the U.S.E. - Nato negli Stati Uniti d'Europa
2015 · Self
movieGiuseppe Tornatore - Ogni film un'opera prima
2014 · Self
movieEnrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
2014 · Self
movieMafia Millionaires
2014 · Thanks
movieTutte le storie di Piera
2014
movieCinema Italiano: Moments of Truth
2014 · Self
movieC'era una volta il prossimamente
2014 · Self
movieThe Best Offer
2013 · Director, Writer
movieIl Mago di Esselunga
2011 · Director, Writer
movieDante Ferretti: Production Designer
2010 · Self
movieL'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010 · Self, Director
movieEverybody's Fine
2009 · Original Film Writer
movieBaaria
2009 · Director, Writer
movieFranco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
Intervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
movieIntervista a Riccardo Freda sul suo cinema
2007
movieA Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
2006 · Self
movieSartoria Tirelli - Vestire il cinema
2006 · Self
movieThe Unknown Woman
2006 · Director, Screenplay
movieMarcello, una vita dolce
2006 · Self
movieUnder a False Name
2004 · Thanks
movieThe Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004 · Self
movieThe Magic of Fellini
2002 · Self (archive footage)
movieMalena
2000 · Director, Screenplay
movieA Dream of Sicily
2000 · Self
movieThe Prince's Manuscript
2000 · Producer
movieThe Legend of 1900
1998 · Director, Screenplay, Writer
movieBakunin's Son
1997 · Producer
movieThe Man with the Cigar in His Mouth
1997 · Self
movieThe Star Maker
1995 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Lo schermo a tre punte
movieLo schermo a tre punte
1995 · Director, Screenplay
movieEnnio Morricone
1995 · Self
movieA Pure Formality
1994 · Director, Story, Screenplay, Editor
movieThe King of Ads
1991 · Director
movieEspecially on Sunday
1991 · Director, Adaptation
movieEverybody's Fine
1990 · Director, Writer
movieCinema Paradiso
1988 · Projectionist (uncredited), Director, Screenplay, Story
movieThe Professor
1986 · Director, Story, Screenplay
movieOne Hundred Days in Palermo
1984 · Screenplay, Second Unit Director
Diario di Guttuso
movieDiario di Guttuso
1982 · Director
The Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso
movieThe Kissing Sequence - Cinema Paradiso
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Il sognatore indiscreto
movieIl sognatore indiscreto
— · Director
movieWith Her Eyes
— · Writer
The First Dollar
movieThe First Dollar
— · Director, Writer
Paradiso
tvParadiso
— · Director, Writer, Creator