Francesco Nuti Movies

A single parent finds out the hard way that his daughter isn't as angelic as he thought in this comedy from Italy. Lorenzo Caruso (Francesco Nuti) is a successful psychoanalyst whose wife died when their daughter Giulia was an infant. Since then Lorenzo has gone out of his way to raise Giulia in a positive and nurturing manner, while using his status as a single parent to prevent his (many) relationships with women from ever becoming too close. Lorenzo is convinced the now-teenage Giulia (Giulia Serafini) is a model child, but he gets a wake-up call when a police officer stops by his home to inform him that Giulia was picked up for shoplifting along with a group of her friends. Shocked, Lorenzo begins to imagine his daughter has a corrupt other life she's kept hidden from him, and he begins spying on her during the day, while occasionally rummaging through her room when she's not around. One day, he discovers a package of condoms in Giulia's book bag, and goes into a panic, imagining the worst about her sex life. Leading man Francesco Nuti also directed Caruso, Zero in Condotta, as well as co-authoring the screenplay. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Elements of the original Italian fairy tale, Pinocchio can still be found in this modern and loose adaptation which was filmed in Texas, Louisiana, and Tuscany. In a mythical, unnamed country, Brando is a tough old banking magnate who discovers upon his despised brother suicide that he has a son. Excited about the prospect of an heir. The son, known as "Pinocchio," works as an orderly at a nursing home. He was raised in this place, and though not intelligent, Pinocchio is a hard worker. Brando, excited at finally having an heir, removes his son from the home and takes him into his fast-paced, luxury filled world. Upon meeting the other aging bankers in Brando's world, Pinocchio has trouble adjusting. The company psychiatrist examines Pinocchio and determines that he will probably never adapt. This prompts Pinocchio to run away. While in flight, he meets hard-bitten, streetwise Lucy, who saw a murder and now is a suspect. They run together and encounter a variety of shady characters that parallel those in the original story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Not only lawyers are "ambulance chasers." In this film, Willy (Francesco Nuti) is an ambulance chaser of another sort, a newspaper reporter. While driving around one evening looking for a story, he has an collision with a car being driven too fast by a drunkard. The drunk dies, leaving behind a pregnant girlfriend. While he feels he is (legally, at least) blameless in the incident, the dead man's girl, Lucia (Isabella Ferrari), has decided that he should take full responsibility for her and her unborn baby. For some reason, Willy accepts this scheme of things, despite the crimp it puts into his relationship with another woman and with his family. All sorts of conflicts arise, but in the end, everyone reaches some sort of accomodation with Willy's changed life. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

Francesco Nuti directed this Italian romantic comedy set during the '50s in a small factory town where Cecco (Nuti) excels at billiards, pocketing 15 balls in a single stroke and becoming the world champ. When Cecco meets $1000 call girl Sissi (Sabrina Ferilli), he hires her to pose as his religious fiancee before his conservative female relatives. Sissi dreams of marriage and children, but Cecco thinks she will lured back to her lucrative life on the streets. Meanwhile, Cecco prepares for the upcoming world billiards championship. Music score by Francesco Nuti's brother, Giovanni Nuti. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide

When Marco was a teenager, his brother and sister were much younger. They watched his trials and tribulations with unsympathetic eyes, never imagining that their own difficulties at that age would be at least as complicated and painful. Yuri and his sister Claudia are now teens like their brother before them. Yuri has spend most of his early teens in the company of a pal named Razzo, but when Yuri starts to take an interest in politics and girls, he leaves his old friend behind. His new best friend is an ardent communist who steals books from the shop where Claudia works, in the process, falling in love with her. Yuri, too, would like to find love, but first he has to survive a beating planned for him by a gang of neo-fascist kids. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In a well-rounded tale of fatherly love and its sacrifices, (Francesco Nuti) stars as Romeo Casamonica, a thief just released from a five-year prison sentence who returns to his old haunts to look for his wife and son. The neighborhood has changed beyond recognition, his wife is nowhere to be seen, and only after outsmarting a cold-blooded social worker does he find out the truth about his son. The boy has been adopted by a couple living in the mountains. In order to get closer to the eight-year-old Lorenzo, Romeo anonymously insinuates himself into the household and promptly falls for his son's adoptive mother (Ornella Muti). Matters become even more complicated when he sees how happy his son is with his new parents. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

A slow pace tends to drag the storyline down in this film about a stand-up comedian (Francesco Nuti) whose live-in companion leaves him for another man. When she walks out, he slides into an alcoholic haze and does not come out of it until he hits rock bottom. Once he finds contracts for his act again and is re-establishing himself as a dependable performer, he runs into his old flame at a party, and for a moment it looks like they might end up together -- almost. Touches of the comic talents of Francesco Nuti appear in the nonsense words he composes to a song supposedly in English, and to his treatment of an unsuspecting mailman whom he believes is his ex-lover's new romantic interest. Otherwise, the story is slow and uneven. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Francesco (Francesco Nuti) has had better days (his lover just dumped him) but the 24 hours in this day are still much like those in any other -- he messes up more than once, and when not fouling up on his own, there is always an outside agent to do it for him. At work, he has a go-around with a machine in which the machine definitely seems to have the upper hand, and yet he still manages to cultivate his friendships with young and old -- "old" in this case being Magnifico (Massimo Sarchielli), someone willing to listen to his remembrances of his father, missing for several years now. At the end of the day, just as Francesco thinks he can settle down with his favorite prostitute, he has miscalculated again, and the night is not to be spent as he had blissfully hoped. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide