Giuseppe Piccioni

Directing

Giuseppe Piccioni

Born 1953-07-02 · Ascoli Piceno, Marche, Italy

Giuseppe Piccioni is an Italian filmmaker, best known for his melancholic urban romance dramas such as Not of this World (1999), Light of My Eyes (2002) and Giulia Doesn't Date at Night (2009).

Acting credits

Bits & Pieces poster
5.0

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.

Bits & Pieces

1996

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

2010

What Do You Know About Me poster
7.0

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. But what are the true causes and circumstances of this decline? In an attempt to provide an answer to this question, Di Me Cosa Ne Sai strives to depict this great cultural change. Begun as a loving examination of Italian cinema, the film transformed into a docu-drama that alternates between interviews with the great names of the past and fragments of cultural and political life of the last 30 years. It is a travel diary that shows Italy from north to south, through movie theatres; television-addicted kids; Berlusconi and Fellini; shopping centers; TV news editors; stories of impassioned film exhibitors and directors who fight for their films; and interviews with itinerant projectionists and great European directors.

What Do You Know About Me

2009

Preghiera della sera (Diario di una passeggiata) poster
6.0

The film recounts an experience, that of a director and his two actors at grips with a play: from the first meeting to the initial readings, the rehearsals done at home, the ones done on stage and finally the first performance. But an experience that took place in the peculiar situation in which the whole of Italian culture found itself in the days between the first and second wave of the pandemic, when it really seemed possible to restart and the feeling of euphoria was accompanied by the illusion that the worst was behind us. Once again we were suddenly checked in our desire for beauty, for life.

Preghiera della sera (Diario di una passeggiata)

2021

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sandra, ritratto confidenziale

2002

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Margherita, ritratto confidenziale

2003

Behind the camera

Venice 70: Future Reloaded poster
5.0

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema.

Venice 70: Future Reloaded

2013

Not of This World poster
6.5

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.

Not of This World

1999

Not of This World poster
6.5

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.

Not of This World

1999

The Shadow of the Day poster
6.4

In 1938 Italy, after Jews are banned from public life, fascist-abiding restaurateur Luciano nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules. Everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, begins working at his business.

The Shadow of the Day

2022

The Shadow of the Day poster
6.4

In 1938 Italy, after Jews are banned from public life, fascist-abiding restaurateur Luciano nonetheless believes he can still live by his own rules. Everything changes when Anna, a girl with a dangerous secret, begins working at his business.

The Shadow of the Day

2022

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night poster
6.4

Guido, an acclaimed writer, leads a seemingly perfect life with his wife and daughter, but his restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor who's hiding a secret.

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

2009

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night poster
6.4

Guido, an acclaimed writer, leads a seemingly perfect life with his wife and daughter, but his restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor who's hiding a secret.

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

2009

Condemned to Be Wed poster
4.5

A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to cheat on her. Things take a turn for the literal when one night he splits into two different versions of himself, a soon-to-be-married one and a confirmed bachelor one.

Condemned to Be Wed

1993

Condemned to Be Wed poster
4.5

A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to cheat on her. Things take a turn for the literal when one night he splits into two different versions of himself, a soon-to-be-married one and a confirmed bachelor one.

Condemned to Be Wed

1993

Light of My Eyes poster
6.7

Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.

Light of My Eyes

2001

Light of My Eyes poster
6.7

Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.

Light of My Eyes

2001

For One More Hour with You poster
7.5

Filmaker Alina Marazzi assembles old home movies trying to piece together the life of her mother, Liseli, who committed suicide when Alina was seven years old.

For One More Hour with You

2005

Love, Money and Philosophy poster
4.4

Stefano, a philosophy grad student without a future, tries to commit suicide after his girlfriend leaves him. He is saved by Giulio, a wisecracking plumber who takes him home and teaches him the tricks of the trade. When Lucia, a woman disappointed in both men and conventional jobs who has started to work as a prostitute, calls them to repair a sink, for Stefano it's love at first sight.

Love, Money and Philosophy

1996

Love, Money and Philosophy poster
4.4

Stefano, a philosophy grad student without a future, tries to commit suicide after his girlfriend leaves him. He is saved by Giulio, a wisecracking plumber who takes him home and teaches him the tricks of the trade. When Lucia, a woman disappointed in both men and conventional jobs who has started to work as a prostitute, calls them to repair a sink, for Stefano it's love at first sight.

Love, Money and Philosophy

1996

The Life I Want poster
6.8

A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.

The Life I Want

2004

The Life I Want poster
6.8

A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.

The Life I Want

2004

The Red and the Blue poster
6.0

In a Roman high school, a jaded art professor who lost the spark for the job clashes with an ex pupil of his, an adjunct literature teacher who is trying to rescue an eccentric and rebellious student, while the stern headmistress deals with a student from a difficult background.

The Red and the Blue

2012

The Red and the Blue poster
6.0

In a Roman high school, a jaded art professor who lost the spark for the job clashes with an ex pupil of his, an adjunct literature teacher who is trying to rescue an eccentric and rebellious student, while the stern headmistress deals with a student from a difficult background.

The Red and the Blue

2012

Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli poster
6.8

1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.

Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli

2025

Ask for the Moon poster
5.6

No-nonsense workaholic Marco runs the family business along with his older brother. When the latter suddenly disappears, Marco has to put aside his job and family to search for him together with Elena, his brother's girlfriend.

Ask for the Moon

1991

Ask for the Moon poster
5.6

No-nonsense workaholic Marco runs the family business along with his older brother. When the latter suddenly disappears, Marco has to put aside his job and family to search for him together with Elena, his brother's girlfriend.

Ask for the Moon

1991

These Days poster
4.5

Four girls unknowingly experience the happiest days of their lives during an uneventful best-friend trip to Belgrade.

These Days

2016

These Days poster
4.5

Four girls unknowingly experience the happiest days of their lives during an uneventful best-friend trip to Belgrade.

These Days

2016

The Great Blek poster
7.3

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his involvement in the protests of 1968 and a childhood friend died too soon.

The Great Blek

1988