The best Paolo Sassanelli’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Paolo Sassanelli’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Paolo Sassanelli.
Youtopia
5.2/10
A young woman decides to sell her virginity to pay off her mother's debts when she realises that her earnings as an online x-rated model are not enough.
Magical Nights
6.1/10
Italy, 1990. On the night when Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber River. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, hauled in front of the Carabinieri to tell their version of what happened.
Don't Think About It
6.8/10
Having faced the reality of his failed career as a punk rock musician, 36-year-old Stefano Nardini returns home to his family in the small-town North.
Tutta un'altra vita
5.4/10
Ever Been to the Moon?
6.2/10
Giulia is thirty years old and unmarried. She has a good job which allows her to travel and lead a luxurious life in Milan and Paris. She is convinced that she has everything she needs for happiness, but after meeting Renzo, a charming Apulian farmer, Giulia understands that she's missing the most important thing in her life - true love.
Nevermind
5.5/10
Nevermind is an episodic comedy film. In each episode, we see common characters forced to suffer extremely weird, disturbing and paradoxical situations. These situations sometimes seem incredible but yet... can happen.
Days and Clouds
6.9/10
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new work, and making sacrifices.
Song of Napoli
6.8/10
Young musician becomes an undercover agent and is asked to join a neomelodic band in order to allow police to get their hands on an elusive camorra boss.
Tuttapposto
6.1/10
Roberto is a student in a corrupt university where teachers sell exams and only hire friends and relatives.
Red Like the Sky
7.7/10
A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.
Surprise Trip – Viaggio a sorpresa
4.4/10
Unlikely Revolutionaries
6/10
An socially inept dockworker (Fabio Volo), an unemployed 30-year-old teacher who works flipping pizzas (Piefrancesco Favino), a college professor nostalgic for the Marxist revolution (Giuseppe Battiston) and a man without a past who’s just been released from prison (Paolo Sassanelli) decide to kidnap a political minister and use the ransom money to compensate the family of a victim of an on-the-job accident. Motivated by disappointment, bitterness, rage, and the winds of anti-politics, they are also supremely clumsy. And, along with a journalist (Claudia Pandolfi) they involve in their scheme, they mistakenly grab an anonymous vice-minister (Giorgio Tirabassi) who turns out to be the only honest politician around.
The Life I Want
6.6/10
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 mounting jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.
Giulia Doesn't Date at Night
6.5/10
Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor, who is hiding a secret from her past.
L'eroe
5.1/10
Roman Summer
6.2/10
Former theatre actress comes back to Rome and meets old and new friends.
Passeggeri notturni
6.7/10
Last Minute Marocco
5.1/10
Moved by the spirit of adventure and the desire to escape, a group of boys decided to leave secretly to Morocco.
Sulla giostra
Cosimo and Nicole
6.4/10
Cosimo is Italian, Nicole French. They meet in Genoa during the G8 protests and immediately fall in love. Swept off their feet by an overwhelming and uncontrollable passion, they decide never to part. After much wandering they decide to return to Genoa, where they start working for a friend of theirs who organises concerts. Things seem to be going well until a tragic accident almost sours their relationship, as a result of which they’re faced with two options that can change their future. Forever.
