Daniele Luchetti

Directing

Daniele Luchetti

Born 1960-07-25 · Rome, Italy

Acting credits

Palombella rossa poster
7.2

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors that of Italian communism itself.

Palombella rossa

1989

The Mass Is Ended poster
7.4

Young Father Giulio returns to Rome, where he was born and raised, to replace a priest who has left the clergy to start a family. He is delighted to reunite with his loved ones, especially his mother, sister, and old friends. Once radical leftists like Giulio himself, the latter are now each coping in their own way with the defeat of the revolution. Soon, however, Giulio realizes that despite his best efforts, he seems unable to solve the problems troubling those around him.

The Mass Is Ended

1985

A Magnificent Haunting poster
6.4

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

A Magnificent Haunting

2012

La scuola poster
6.8

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

La scuola

1995

Aprile poster
7.3

Nanni Moretti once again muses on the ebb and flow of life in April 1996, as he is about to become a father for the first time and finds himself unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming general elections, where the left is heading into a rematch against Berlusconi.

Aprile

1998

The Yes Man poster
7.0

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

The Yes Man

1991

Bianca poster
7.5

Michele, a young mathematics professor, moves into a new flat. Lonely, depressed and neurotic, he spends his time obsessively monitoring the couples around him, especially his neighbors, a young pair struggling to make their relationship work. When Bianca, a new teacher at the local high school, enters his life, Michele finds himself falling in love. At the same time, a string of murders rocks the neighborhood, casting suspicion on him.

Bianca

1984

Mario Verdone: Il critico viaggiatore poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mario Verdone: Il critico viaggiatore

2024

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

A Matter of Heart poster
6.0

Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as one of the men's condition deteriorates, the other becomes more deeply involved in his personal life.

A Matter of Heart

2009

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

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

1997

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La nostra magnifica ossessione - Bernardo Bertolucci e la sua generazione

2025

Behind the camera

My Brother Is an Only Child poster
6.7

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.

My Brother Is an Only Child

2007

My Brother Is an Only Child poster
6.7

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Accio is sulky, hot-headed, and treats life as a battleground — much to his parents' chagrin. After the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite, but his flimsy beliefs are put to test when he falls for Manrico's like-minded girlfriend.

My Brother Is an Only Child

2007

Trust poster
6.4

Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, it would destroy that person’s life. Time passes, Pietro’s stature as a writer grows and his family settles into the comfort of a bourgeois life. But he is haunted by the possibility that Teresa may one day reappear and tear apart his world with the secret she knows.

Trust

2024

Trust poster
6.4

Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, it would destroy that person’s life. Time passes, Pietro’s stature as a writer grows and his family settles into the comfort of a bourgeois life. But he is haunted by the possibility that Teresa may one day reappear and tear apart his world with the secret she knows.

Trust

2024

The Ties poster
6.7

Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.

The Ties

2020

The Ties poster
6.7

Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.

The Ties

2020

Our Life poster
6.5

Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.

Our Life

2010

Our Life poster
6.5

Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.

Our Life

2010

Call Me Francis poster
6.7

Biopic about Jorge Maria Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis I.

Call Me Francis

2015

Call Me Francis poster
6.7

Biopic about Jorge Maria Bergoglio before he became Pope Francis I.

Call Me Francis

2015

La scuola poster
6.8

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

La scuola

1995

La scuola poster
6.8

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

La scuola

1995

The Yes Man poster
7.0

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

The Yes Man

1991

The Yes Man poster
7.0

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

The Yes Man

1991

Ordinary Happiness poster
6.1

Died in a car crash, Paolo is allowed to come back to life for 92 minutes more, thanks to a miscalculation made by Heavenly accountants. He decides to use this newfound time on Earth to fix his mistakes as a father and husband.

Ordinary Happiness

2019

Ordinary Happiness poster
6.1

Died in a car crash, Paolo is allowed to come back to life for 92 minutes more, thanks to a miscalculation made by Heavenly accountants. He decides to use this newfound time on Earth to fix his mistakes as a father and husband.

Ordinary Happiness

2019

All Human Rights for All poster
NR

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.

All Human Rights for All

2008

All Human Rights for All poster
NR

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.

All Human Rights for All

2008

Those Happy Years poster
6.1

A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.

Those Happy Years

2013

Those Happy Years poster
6.1

A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.

Those Happy Years

2013

Io sono Tempesta poster
5.8

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

Io sono Tempesta

2018

Io sono Tempesta poster
5.8

To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

Io sono Tempesta

2018

Here Comes the Storm poster
6.1

Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.

Here Comes the Storm

1993

Here Comes the Storm poster
6.1

Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.

Here Comes the Storm

1993