Biography
Rocco Papaleo was born on August 16, 1958 in Lauria, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy.
Known For
Complete Filmography

U.S. Palmese
2025
as Don Vincenzo
In Palmi, a small town in Calabria, Don Vincenzo, a genial retired farmer, has a crazy idea to revive the local soccer team by organizing a bizarre fu...

100 di questi anni
2025

100 di questi anni
2025
Director

Madly
2025
as Valium
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say...

If I May - Chapter II
2024
Over the course of a day, Fausto, invincible in his inertia, watches a paradoxical procession of visitors pass by: the mellifluous parish priest of th...

Another Summer Holiday
2024
as Pampiglione
Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends to...

I peggiori giorni
2023
as Vittorio (segment "Halloween")
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul.

Scordato
2023
as Orlando
The life of Orlando, a gentle piano tuner, tormented by back pain, changes when he meets Olga, a charming physiotherapist, who diagnoses him with an e...

Scordato
2023
Director, Writer, Story
The life of Orlando, a gentle piano tuner, tormented by back pain, changes when he meets Olga, a charming physiotherapist, who diagnoses him with an e...

Si vive una volta sola
2021
as l'anestesista Amedeo Lasalandra
Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decid...

Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
2020
as Athos
Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.

Pinocchio
2019
as Gatto
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pin...

Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
2019
as Self

Il grande spirito
2019
as Renato
In a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Taranto, high upon the rooftops framed by the Ilva steel factory, we meet Tonino a.k.a. “Barboncino” (poodle). ...

The King's Musketeers
2018
as Athos
In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last jo...

Tu mi nascondi qualcosa
2018
as Alberto

Bob & Marys
2018
as Roberto
A married couple must get their hands dirty when a bunch of mobsters start using their new home as a deposit for illegal material.

Il premio
2017
as Rinaldo
After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.

The Place
2017
as Odoacre
The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant...
Ballata dell'ipocondria
2016

What’s the Big Deal
2016
as Franco
A young man challenges the web to offer money for a sex tape of him and his girlfriend to finance his work and finally be able to afford having a chil...

Ears
2016
as Padre Giancarlo
A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". T...

Onda su onda
2016
as Gegé
Two under-appreciated artists meet while traveling to Montevideo, where one will give a concert. They initially dislike each other but eventually buil...

Onda su onda
2016
Director, Screenplay
Two under-appreciated artists meet while traveling to Montevideo, where one will give a concert. They initially dislike each other but eventually buil...

La voce - Il talento può uccidere
2015
as Gianni, l'imitatore

An Italian Name
2015
as Claudio
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of...

La scuola più bella del mondo
2014
as Prof. Gerardo Gergale

Happily Mixed Up
2014
as Michelangelo
A psychoanalyst learns to have an illness and as a consequence he decides to quit his job. All his patients get together to find a way to make him fee...

Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
2014
as Self

The Hole
2014
as Armando La Bella
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.

A Boss in the Living Room
2014
as Ciro Cimmaruta
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.

La brutta copia
2013
as Paolo Vandini

A Small Southern Enterprise
2013
as don Costantino
Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn't got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her son, h...

A Small Southern Enterprise
2013
Director, Writer
Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn't got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her son, h...

Viva l'Italia
2012
as Tony
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding ...

Pinocchio
2012
as Mangiafuoco (voice)
Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He wil...

È nata una star?
2012
as Fausto
Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose whe...

Happiness at Last
2011
as Sandrino Terracciano
A middle-aged man finds out his late mother was sponsoring a Brazilian girl who has now become a beautiful model and tries his best not to fall for he...

Escort in Love
2011
as Lionello
35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accid...

What a Beautiful Day
2011
as Nicola
Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third...

One Life, Maybe Two
2010
as Bertano
You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps into another car and life hasn't been the same anymo...

Basilicata Coast to Coast
2010
as Nicola Palmieri
A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.

Basilicata Coast to Coast
2010
Director, Story, Screenplay
A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.

Me & Marilyn
2009
as Arnolfo Biagioli
During a séance with some friends, divorced carny Gualtiero successfully conjures the spirit of Marilyn Monroe, who'll help him win his family back.

Cado dalle nubi
2009
as Vito
An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show.

Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess
2009
as Inspector Bartolini
A man arrives in the city upon news of a potential terrorist strike in Italy. He is Japanese foreign diplomat, Kosaku Kuroda, and he’s here under orde...

All Human Rights for All
2008
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 ar...

All Human Rights for All
2008
Writer
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 ar...

L'amore non basta
2008
as Nicola

L'amore non basta
2008
Writer

Non c'è più niente da fare
2008
as Avv. Massimo Lupi

A Beautiful Wife
2007
as Pomodoro
Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andre...

Non prendere impegni stasera
2007
as Nicola

Commediasexi
2006
as Tony Muciaccia
Congressman Bonfili, a family man and promoter in the Italian Parliament of a family law, has a clandestine affair with a feisty starlet wannabe actre...

I Love You in Every Language in the World
2005
as Prof. Anselmi
Divorced high school PE teacher Gilberto falls in love with Margherita, unaware that she is the mother of Paolina, a student who's been hitting on him...

What Will Become of Us
2004
as Concierge
A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.

Suddenly Heaven
2003
as Giandomenico Bardella
A confirmed bachelor sees his beliefs about commitment put to the test when a beautiful woman—deserted by her fiancée—forces him to take his place in ...

Il pranzo della domenica
2003
as Nicola Lo Iacono
The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour...

Il trasformista
2002
as Orlando Lanzetta
The Turin area is devastated by floods: the Pô River has overflown and toxic waste from a local dump is now being carried by the stream. Which is why ...

Cuore di donna
2002
as Goffredo

Volesse il cielo!
2002
as Commissario
A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory.

Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
2000
Cecchi Gori Cecchi Gori?
2000
as Rocco
Cecchi Gori Cecchi Gori?
2000
Director

La bomba
1999
as Gaetano

Voglio stare sotto al letto
1999
as Vincenzo
Leonardo is a young theater enthusiast who has written a comedy for a comedian at sunset, Giordani, and leaves for the Adriatic coast together with th...

Del perduto amore
1998
as Cucchiaro

Viola Kisses Everybody
1998
as Nicola
Three friends see their end-of-summer motorhome holiday trip hijacked by Viola, a beautiful girl on the run from both the law and violent gangsters a...

Viola Kisses Everybody
1998
Writer
Three friends see their end-of-summer motorhome holiday trip hijacked by Viola, a beautiful girl on the run from both the law and violent gangsters a...

Cinque Giorni Di Tempesta
1997
as Michele
Giovanni, a young boy who left Sicily for Bolzano to perform his military service , arrives five days early and is forced to stay outside the barracks...

Finalmente soli
1997
as Alberto

Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo
1996
as Esaminatore
Sergio has a degree in botanics, but cannot find a job. Then, he gets the announcement that his former girlfriend is getting married.

Intolerance
1996
as Worker (voice) (segment "Roma Ovest 143")
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.

Il barbiere di Rio
1996
as Ugo
Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister's invitation to Br...

I virtuali
1996
as L'alcolista

Wordless
1996
as Celestino
Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he l...

August Vacation
1996
as Brigadiere
Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house ne...

The Graduates
1995
as Rocco
Four thirtysomething college students share a flat in Florence: Leonardo pursues beautiful Letizia, Rocco moonlights as a night watchman, Bruno needs ...

With Closed Eyes
1994
as Bracciante
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl wi...

Dark Illness
1990
After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.
Ammazzare stanca
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Il bene comune
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Director, Screenplay