Gabriele Muccino

Director

May 20, 1967 (59 years)

Rome, Italy

Biography

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 Americ…

Filmography

7.9

The Pursuit of Happyness

A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional career.

7.6

Seven Pounds

An IRS agent with a fateful secret embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing the lives of seven strangers.

7.1

Fathers and Daughters

A 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.

6.8

Things Unspoken

Carlo 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.

2.5

Viva Laughlin

Ripley Holden wrestles personally and professionally to open a casino in the desert city of Laughlin, Nevada. Against all odds, Ripley strives to support his family while pursuing his ultimate goal...the American dream.

5.7

Playing for Keeps

A former sports star who's fallen on hard times starts coaching his son's soccer team in an attempt to get his life together.

6.7

No Place Like Home

A loss and a secret from the past put in crisis an apparently perfect family.

7.1

Heartango

Promotional short for Italian intimates company Intimissimi.

5.8

Remember Me, My Love

A 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.

6.4

The Last Kiss

Giulia 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.

5.5

Here Now

Sophie 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.

6.2

There's No Place Like Home

An 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.

6.3

Summertime

A 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.

6.8

The Best Years

Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.

5.8

Kiss Me Again

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.

5.2

Ecco fatto

Matteo 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.

5.9

But Forever In My Mind

Teenage 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.

N/A

She Was Here

Promotional short film for Lancia.

2.0

Calabria, terra mia

A loving couple spends a vacation among the beauty of Calabria.

7.0

Intolerance

A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.