12 Movies Starring Giuseppe Battiston

Bread and Tulips

Bread and Tulips

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-11-02

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, Switzerland

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (7606 Reviews)

Director:

Silvio Soldini

Cast:

Writer:

Silvio Soldini (story)

Doriana Leondeff (story)

Silvio Soldini (screenplay)

Doriana Leondeff (screenplay)

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Life is often just "for sake of" and we need to know about it and want to benefit when we are presented with the occasion to. A bit for "sake of", a bit for choice, Rosalba, young and apart from anything a housewife of Pescara, during a bus trip after she found herself alone and...forgotten in a highway cafè, decides not to wait for her husband and sons to come back to pick her up but instead decides to find her own way home. She is a little offended that she has been forgotten by her family and has been told by her husband to stay put so, rebelling a little she finds herself hitch-hiking direct for Venice. Her adventure in Venice begins meeting strange but fascinating people. Fermo; an anarchistic florist, Grazia; a masseuse and Fernando; a waiter from Iceland that speaks his own language of Italian.

Agata and the Storm

Agata and the Storm

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-02-27

Languages:

Italian, English

Countries:

Italy, Switzerland, UK, France

Runtime:

125 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (981 Reviews)

Director:

Silvio Soldini

Cast:

Writer:

Doriana Leondeff

Francesco Piccolo

Silvio Soldini

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In Genoa, Agata runs her bookstore and, without meaning to, causes light bulbs and appliances to burn out. At the same time that a younger man declares his attraction to her, her brother Gustav, a morose architect, a distant husband, and an indifferent father, discovers that he was adopted and has a half-brother in the Po Valley. To Agata's great pain, she sees her young man with another woman - plus, Gustav cuts himself off from her and from his wife and son. Agata goes to the Po Valley, meets Gustav's brother and the brother's wife, and tries to reconnect by letting life wash over her. Wisdom comes from traditional Chinese medicine and from good literature.

Days and Clouds

Days and Clouds

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-07-11

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, Switzerland, France

Runtime:

118 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

(1226 Reviews)

Director:

Silvio Soldini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Silvio Soldini (story)

Doriana Leondeff (story)

Francesco Piccolo (story)

Silvio Soldini (screenplay)

Doriana Leondeff (screenplay)

Francesco Piccolo (screenplay)

Federica Pontremoli (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Manager Michele lost his job but didn't tell his self-absorbed wife Eve, who finished her art history story and resumes work in restoration. Michele ponders whether to accept quickly a less lucrative job or hope for a better one. meanwhile he puts their house on sale, regardless of her ingrate wining.

The Right Distance

The Right Distance

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-10-19

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

(628 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Doriana Leondeff

Carlo Mazzacurati

Marco Pettenello

Claudio Piersanti

Fullplot:

Non pensarci

Non pensarci

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-04-04

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (894 Reviews)

Director:

Gianni Zanasi

Genres:

ComedyDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Michele Pellegrini (screenplay)

Gianni Zanasi

Fullplot:

Stefano Nardini is still a punk rock musician at the age of 36. One day, as he is in a fix, he decides to leave Rome and to go back to his family in Rimini where he intends to get in touch with his inner self. However, as soon as he is back in the family house, he realizes that he is not the only one to be in trouble. And instead of being taken care of as he expected he sets about taking care of everyone and everything.

We Can Do That

We Can Do That

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2008-10-31

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

111 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1024 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Fabio Bonifacci (screenplay)

Giulio Manfredonia (screenplay)

Fabio Bonifacci (story)

Fullplot:

Come Undone

Come Undone

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-12-03

Languages:

Italian, French

Countries:

Italy, Switzerland, France

Runtime:

126 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (1639 Reviews)

Director:

Silvio Soldini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Silvio Soldini (story)

Doriana Leondeff (story)

Silvio Soldini (screenplay)

Doriana Leondeff (screenplay)

Angelo Carbone (screenplay)

Fullplot:

One day at a colleague's going away party, Anna meets Domenico, a virile, slightly older chap who's married with two small kids. Passion's flames are rapidly kindled and result in steamy encounters.

Unlikely Revolutionaries

Unlikely Revolutionaries

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2010-10-22

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

102 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.1 (294 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Francesco Cenni

Lucio Pellegrini

Michele Pellegrini (screenplay)

Fullplot:

An industrial accident ; a widow ; a few angry workers... Toni is chosen to be their representative on a TV set. But confronted with a minister, he does not measure up to him. After the recording of the show, Toni meets a substitute gym teacher and the two men become friends. They decide to kidnap the minister and hold him to ransom in order to compensate the widow and her family. Ramon, a man recently released from prison, joins them. The kidnapping succeeds... at least at first sight!

Garibaldi's Lovers

Garibaldi's Lovers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2012-10-18

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, Switzerland, France

Runtime:

108 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.2 (411 Reviews)

Director:

Silvio Soldini

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Doriana Leondeff (screenplay)

Marco Pettenello (screenplay)

Silvio Soldini

Fullplot:

A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.

The Human Factor

The Human Factor

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-08-29

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

83 min

IMDB Ratings:

(169 Reviews)

Director:

Bruno Oliviero

Genres:

Crime

Cast:

Writer:

Valentina Cicogna (story)

Valentina Cicogna (screenplay)

Doriana Leondeff (screenplay)

Bruno Oliviero (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Zoran, il mio nipote scemo

Zoran, il mio nipote scemo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2013-09-14

Languages:

Italian, Slovenian, English

Countries:

Italy, Slovenia, France

Runtime:

106 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (491 Reviews)

Director:

Matteo Oleotto

Genres:

ComedyFamily

Cast:

Writer:

Daniela Gambaro

Matteo Oleotto

Marco Pettenello

Pier Paolo Piciarelli

Fullplot:

Paolo, passes his days dragging himself between drinking sessions in the local bar with his friends, an unsatisfying job and an infantile stalking of his ex-wife. One day, he comes across his nephew Zoran, a curious boy of fifteen, born and raised in the mountains along with an aunt that Paolo did not know to have. After her death, Paolo is the only person who can take care of the boy. Thanks to the wise man owner of the Paolo's usual bar, he discovers that Zoran has a bizarre and unexpected gift: he is a real champion in playing darts. This is an opportunity for Paolo to take a revenge against the world. But things do not always develop as we would like them to.

La sedia della felicitè

La sedia della felicitè

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-04-24

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

94 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (375 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Doriana Leondeff

Carlo Mazzacurati

Marco Pettenello

Fullplot:

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