Francesca Marciano

Writing

Francesca Marciano

Born

1955-07-17 (71)

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

37 titles

Francesca Marciano (Rome, July 17, 1955) is an Italian writer, screenwriter and actress. With Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato, a film directed by Carlo Verdone, she won a David di Donatello for best screenplay in 1992. In New York she met Stefania Casini with whom she wrote the screenplay for her first film, which would become the film Lontano da dove produced by Gaumont Italia, which she directed with Casini. The film went into competition in Venice in 1983, achieving a fair amount of success. Returning to Italy that year, she directs an episode of the collective film Provvisorio quasi d'amore born of a collaboration with filmmakers from the Indigena group, including Silvio Soldin…

Known for

Vanished into the Night poster
5.6

A father, immersed in a difficult divorce process, embarks on a dangerous mission when his children disappear from their isolated country house.

Vanished into the Night

2024

Me & You poster
6.2

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom's basement. But things didn't go as planned after his half sister joins him.

Me & You

2012

Seven Beauties poster
7.4

Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.

Seven Beauties

1975

A Brighter Tomorrow poster
7.0

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.

A Brighter Tomorrow

2023

I'm Not Scared poster
7.1

In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dares not tell anyone about it...

I'm Not Scared

2003

Don't Tell poster
6.1

Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".

Don't Tell

2006

Film credits

2000s · 1 titles

1970s · 3 titles

Behind the camera

Vanished into the Night poster
5.6

A father, immersed in a difficult divorce process, embarks on a dangerous mission when his children disappear from their isolated country house.

Vanished into the Night

2024

Me & You poster
6.2

An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in his mom's basement. But things didn't go as planned after his half sister joins him.

Me & You

2012

A Brighter Tomorrow poster
7.0

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.

A Brighter Tomorrow

2023

I'm Not Scared poster
7.1

In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dares not tell anyone about it...

I'm Not Scared

2003

Don't Tell poster
6.1

Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".

Don't Tell

2006

Iris Blond poster
6.0

Romeo, a lovelorn Roman musician in his 40s with 20 years since his only hit, consults a fortuneteller who predicts he'll find love and money with a foreign singer named for a flower. In Brussels he meets Marguerite, an older chanteuse who interprets Jacques Brel and loves her yappy dog.

Iris Blond

1996

You Came Back poster
5.5

Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first born with his former wife Clara. Suddenly, however Perla, the new owner where the couple lived until the tragic accident, bursts into Marco’s and his ex-wife’s lives. The mysterious woman claims she keeps feeling a strange presence and hearing the voice of a child that is tormenting her and her son. Marco therefore finds himself torn between the ties of the past and an unwritten future.

You Came Back

2020

Me, Them and Lara poster
5.6

A priest, after spending years in humanitary missions in Africa, reunites with his family, which is in worse conditions than when he left, and above all meets a young lady who will make him doubt both himself and his faith.

Me, Them and Lara

2010

Euphoria poster
6.5

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.

Euphoria

2018

Me, Myself and Her poster
6.0

Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with.

Me, Myself and Her

2015

Me, Myself and Her poster
6.0

Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with.

Me, Myself and Her

2015

Pericle poster
5.4

A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.

Pericle

2016

Death Do Us Part poster
NR

Coming-of-age during the first Black Plague, a headstrong young healer defies medieval rules in an attempt to save her village, but crosses one line too many when she falls in love with Death himself.

Death Do Us Part

2026

Honey poster
6.6

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his invisible malaise.

Honey

2013

La mia generazione poster
8.8

Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.

La mia generazione

1996

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato poster
6.6

Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline and stars to see a psychologist but in the meantime he meets the problematic and shy Camilla, who disrupts his life.

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

1992

Turné poster
6.9

Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.

Turné

1990

a Jacket poster
NR

Una Giacca (a Jacket), the short film created for the first edition of Armani/Laboratorio, is the result of an intensive workshop dedicated to film students. Nine exceptional mentors selected the students and guided them throughout the process, from theoretical and practical lessons to the shooting and final editing of the short film. This work explores Giorgio Armani’s iconic garment through a blend of black-and-white and colour, in which the past overlaps with the present.

a Jacket

2018

La scuola è finita poster
5.3

Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions. When chronically bored student Alex seems to have no future, two of his teachers take the challenge to help him discover the motivation he lacks. The teachers, a couple in the middle of their divorce, will fight to impose the best way to make Alex a promising student.

La scuola è finita

2010

L'amore è eterno finché dura poster
6.2

Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte.

L'amore è eterno finché dura

2004

Ritorno a casa Gori poster
6.1

Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.

Ritorno a casa Gori

1996

Provvisorio, quasi d'amore poster
7.0

Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

Provvisorio, quasi d'amore

1988

Provvisorio, quasi d'amore poster
7.0

Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

Provvisorio, quasi d'amore

1988

A Five Star Life poster
5.7

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea, who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.

A Five Star Life

2013

Perdiamoci di vista poster
6.1

Comic tale of a cynical TV star's slow-combustion romance with a young paraplegic.

Perdiamoci di vista

1994

Lontano da dove poster
7.7

After his military service, Mario is hosted by a friend in New York and joins his circle of Italians residing abroad.

Lontano da dove

1983

Lontano da dove poster
7.7

After his military service, Mario is hosted by a friend in New York and joins his circle of Italians residing abroad.

Lontano da dove

1983

Raise Your Head poster
6.4

Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother Denisa and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's north east.

Raise Your Head

2009

Un Paradiso di Bugie poster
7.0

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Un Paradiso di Bugie

1997