Mario Martone

Known for: Directing
Born: November 20, 1959, Naples, Campania, Italy
Movies: 71

Mario Martone (born 20 November 1959; Naples) is an Italian film/theatre director and screenwriter. He has directed more than 30 films since 1985. His film "Troubling Love" (1995) was entered into the 48th Cannes Film Festival. His film "We Believed" (2010) competed for the Golden Lion at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. His film "Nostalgia" (2022) entered into the 75th Cannes Film Festival for the first time in 24 years. He was the stage director for Lorenzo Ferrero's opera Charlotte Corday, which was premiered at Teatro dell'Opera di Roma on 21 February 1989.

Best-Known Movies

6.8

Leopardi

2014

6.8

Nostalgia

2022

7.4

The King of Laughter

2021

6.4

Capri-Revolution

2018

6.1

The Mayor of Rione Sanità

2019

6.4

Fuori

2025

6.6

We Believed

2010

7.7

Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me

2023

6.7

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

1992

6.0

Troubling Love

1995

Filmography

2024	Per sempre al Massimo
2023	Scarrozzanti e Spiritelli: 50 Years of the Franco Parenti Theatre
2023	Totò e il Principe De Curtis - L'uomo oltre la maschera
2023	Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis	Self
2023	Viva Viviani	Sé stesso
2023	Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me	Sé stesso
2021	Felicità - La stagione della rinascita	Guest
2020	Costellazione Bertolucci	Self
2019	Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax	Himself
2018	Buon compleanno Carlo Verdone!	Self
2017	Ferrante Fever
2017	Pina Bausch a Roma	Self
2015	I Don't Know the Men of this City	Self
2015	Mario Martone: Premio alla carriera	Self
2009	In the Eyes	Self
2002	Pier Paolo Pasolini and the Reason of a Dream	Self
1996	Westmoreland Naples
1996	Aspettando Totò	Self

Directing, Writing & Producing

2026	Trick	Director, Screenplay
2025	Medea	Director
2025	Fuori	Writer, Director
2025	Teatro Alla Scalla: Eugene Onegin	Director
2023	Un ritratto in movimento - Omaggio a Mimmo Jodice	Director, Writer
2023	Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me	Director, Screenplay
2022	Nostalgia	Screenplay, Director
2022	La Bohème	Director
2021	The King of Laughter	Screenplay, Director
2020	Il barbiere di Siviglia	Director
2019	The Mayor of Rione Sanità	Screenplay, Director
2018	Capri-Revolution	Director, Screenplay
2016	Mascagni: Cavallera Rusticana	Director
2016	Hindemith: Sancta Susanna	Director
2015	The Bassarids - Theatro dell’Opera di Roma	Director
2015	Pastorale cilentana	Director
2014	Leopardi	Director, Screenplay
2011	Small Moral Works	Director
2011	La meditazione di Hayez	Director
2011	Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci - Teatro alla Scala	Director
2010	We Believed	Director, Screenplay
2005	Caravaggio, the Last Act	Director, Writer
2005	Così venne ucciso Pasolini	Director
2004	The Scent of Blood	Director, Writer
2001	Lulu	Director
2001	Nella Napoli di Luca Giordano	Director, Writer
2001	I dieci comandamenti	Director
2000	Un posto al mondo	Writer, Director
2000	Così Fan Tutte - Teatro Comunale di Ferrara	Director
1998	Rehearsals for War	Screenplay, Director, Writer
1998	Una disperata vitalità	Director
1998	Appunti da Santarcangelo	Director, Writer
1998	The Earth Quakes	Director, Writer
1997	The Vesuvians	Director, Writer
1997	La salita	Director
1996	Badolato, 10 dicembre 1995. Per Antonio Neiwiller	Director, Writer
1996	A Sahrawi story	Director, Writer
1996	Finale di Partita	Director
1995	Troubling Love	Screenplay, Director
1994	The Only Country In The World	Director
1994	Miracoli - Storie per corti	Director
1994	Antonio Mastronunzio pittore sannita	Director, Writer
1993	Luciano Amelio/Terrae motus	Director, Writer
1993	Veglia	Director, Writer
1993	Razor	Director, Screenplay
1992	Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician	Screenplay, Director
1990	I Persiani	Director
1986	Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville	Director
1986	Il desiderio preso per la coda	Director
1985	Nella città barocca	Director, Writer
1985	Nessun dove - Studi su immagini di Napoli	Director
1984	Perfidi incanti	Director, Writer
1982	Foresta nera	Director

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