
Directing
Gabriele Muccino
Born
1967-05-20 (59)
Place of birth
Rome, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
45 titles
Gabriele Muccino is an Italian film director. He is the elder brother of actor Silvio Muccino, who often appears in his brother's films. Born in Rome, Gabriele Muccino gained success with films such as L'ultimo bacio (One Last Kiss) and Remember Me, My Love (Ricordati di me) with Monica Bellucci. He is currently making a switch to directing Hollywood films after L'ultimo bacio won the Audience Award for World Cinema at the 2002 Sundance Film Festival bringing him to the attention of the American film industry. Muccino was handpicked by Will Smith to serve as the director of The Pursuit of Happyness. Said Muccino in a later interview, "Will had to defend me as a choice to the studio; I coul…
Known for
7.6An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Seven Pounds
2008
7.9A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
The Pursuit of Happyness
2006
7.9The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Sanremo Music Festival
1951
5.6A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
Playing for Keeps
2012
7.2A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Fathers and Daughters
2015
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Domenica In
1976
Film credits
2020s · 3 titles
2000s · 2 titles
9.0This is a "making of" documentary for the hit film "The Pursuit of Happyness". It chronicles a foreign director's perspective on The American Dream, and the challenges in making the film.
Making Pursuit: An Italian Take on the American Dream
2007
6.0A look into Will and Jaden Smith's father and son bond on and off the screen of The Pursuit of Happyness
Father and Son: On Screen and Off
2007
Series credits
7.9The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.
Sanremo Music Festival
1951
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Domenica In
1976
7.4Welcome behind the scenes of Italian show business from the point of view of those in charge of managing the careers - and lives - of the stars: the agents. Lea, Gabriele, Vittorio and Elvira are the soul of CMA and they give their souls to it, ready for anything to make their stars shine. Managers, friends, confidants and psychologists: a good agent is all that and more. And they, each with their own style, are the best. Between hectic days and mundane nights, it's their personal lives that lose out -- but deep down they have too much fun to notice. With the departure of founder Claudio Maiorana, however, things will get a little more complicated.
Call My Agent: Italy
2023
Behind the camera
7.6An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.
Seven Pounds
2008
7.9A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.
The Pursuit of Happyness
2006
5.6A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.
Playing for Keeps
2012
7.2A Pulitzer-winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forge connections of her own.
Fathers and Daughters
2015
6.2An extended family reunites on an idyllic island to celebrate their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. However, a storm causes them to get stuck in there longer than expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.
There's No Place Like Home
2018
6.2An extended family reunites on an idyllic island to celebrate their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. However, a storm causes them to get stuck in there longer than expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.
There's No Place Like Home
2018
6.8Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
The Best Years
2020
6.8Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
The Best Years
2020
6.1Michael has a great job, has his 4 best friends, and is in love with a beautiful girl at 30. He loves Jenna but his life seems predictable until someone else enters his life. It seems that everybody's having relationship problems.
The Last Kiss
2006
6.9Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.
Things We Don't Say
2026
6.9Carlo and Elisa are a successful couple. He’s a university professor and writer facing a creative block; she’s a brilliant, sharp-witted journalist, known for her internationally published editorials. They live in Rome, moving between accomplishments and routine, affection and something that might be fading. In search of new energy, they travel to Morocco with their lifelong friends, Anna and Paolo, and their thirteen-year-old daughter Vittoria—bright, curious, a little eccentric. Tensions soon rise.
Things We Don't Say
2026
6.4Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.
The Last Kiss
2001
6.4Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.
The Last Kiss
2001
5.5Sophie is a twenty-year-old American who has lived her life in isolation, cut off from the world. While on vacation in Palermo with her sister, she meets Giulio and his group of Sicilian friends during her final 24 hours before returning to California. Eager to break free from her sheltered past, Sophie embarks on a whirlwind romance with Giulio.
Here Now
2024
5.5Sophie is a twenty-year-old American who has lived her life in isolation, cut off from the world. While on vacation in Palermo with her sister, she meets Giulio and his group of Sicilian friends during her final 24 hours before returning to California. Eager to break free from her sheltered past, Sophie embarks on a whirlwind romance with Giulio.
Here Now
2024
7.2The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
The First Beautiful Thing
2010
5.8A middle-class Italian family is tore apart when the father meets an old flame, the mother—a frustrated onetime actress—auditions for a play, their insecure son tries to make friends through drugs, and their underaged daughter—who has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage—does what she does best to appear on TV.
Remember Me, My Love
2003
5.8A middle-class Italian family is tore apart when the father meets an old flame, the mother—a frustrated onetime actress—auditions for a play, their insecure son tries to make friends through drugs, and their underaged daughter—who has already figured out how to use sex to her advantage—does what she does best to appear on TV.
Remember Me, My Love
2003
5.9Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity—wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend and not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him—while clashing also with his parents, onetime Sixties radicals who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment.
But Forever in My Mind
1999
5.9Teenage problems intertwine during the occupation of a high school in Rome. Silvio—much like his peers desperate to lose his virginity—wants to make his move on the girl he likes, despite her being already his friend's girlfriend and not knowing that her best friend harbors feelings for him—while clashing also with his parents, onetime Sixties radicals who look down on the kids' aimless political commitment.
But Forever in My Mind
1999
6.3A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
Summertime
2016
6.3A gay couple living in San Francisco takes in two strangers traveling from Italy to start a new life in America, discovering each other and forming the most unlikely of relationships along the way.
Summertime
2016
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Io ricordo
2008
5.8A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
Kiss Me Again
2010
5.8A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.
Kiss Me Again
2010
5.2Matteo and Piterone, lifelong friends, try to pass their high school exams for the third time, but then Margherita arrives and love enters their lives. Muccino's debut film.
Ecco fatto
1998
5.2Matteo and Piterone, lifelong friends, try to pass their high school exams for the third time, but then Margherita arrives and love enters their lives. Muccino's debut film.
Ecco fatto
1998
3.4A comedy/drama about four Italian single fathers trying to cope with American ex-wives, children, family, and new relationships, set in New York and Rome.
Four Single Fathers
2009
3.4A comedy/drama about four Italian single fathers trying to cope with American ex-wives, children, family, and new relationships, set in New York and Rome.
Four Single Fathers
2009
9.0Laura Pausini's 'Best Of Laura Pausini' World Tour filmed in Milan.
Laura Pausini: Live 2001-2002 World Tour
2003
7.0A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Intolerance
1996
NRVasco and Viola are two sick children. He suffers from a form of immunodeficiency that forces him to live isolated from the world, even from his mother. While she fights against a tumor. Both have a great desire: to live. One day everything changes for Vasco: doctors are convinced that gene therapy could cure him. This is what happened. Now Vasco can go home to his family. Unfortunately for Viola there is no cure today, but the hope for the future is she can go back to her normal life as a child, thanks to scientific research.
Vasco e Viola
2018
NRVasco and Viola are two sick children. He suffers from a form of immunodeficiency that forces him to live isolated from the world, even from his mother. While she fights against a tumor. Both have a great desire: to live. One day everything changes for Vasco: doctors are convinced that gene therapy could cure him. This is what happened. Now Vasco can go home to his family. Unfortunately for Viola there is no cure today, but the hope for the future is she can go back to her normal life as a child, thanks to scientific research.
Vasco e Viola
2018
No synopsis available yet.
Giovani talenti italiani
2004
2.0A loving couple spends a vacation among the beauty of Calabria.
Calabria, terra mia
2020
2.0A loving couple spends a vacation among the beauty of Calabria.
Calabria, terra mia
2020




