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Complete Filmography
The Illusion
2025
as Domenico Tricò
1860. Giuseppe Garibaldi began from Quarto the adventure of the Thousand surrounded by the enthusiasm of the young idealists who had come from all reg...
From Father to Son - Life as a Fan
2024
as Self
The Ultras are not ordinary spectators of a football match, but fans who live in a territory sacred to them: the Curva. A sort of non-place that takes...
Santocielo
2023
as Nicola
Santocielo
2023
Writer
Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me
2023
as Sé stesso
The life of a dying young man at the short age of only forty-one after playing the lead in Il postino. He was a brilliant stage actor before becoming ...
Il mio amico Massimo
2022
as Sé stesso
The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.
The Bone Breakers
2022
Screenplay
Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an a...
Strangeness
2022
as Onofrio "Nofrio" Principato
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello...
Maestrale
2021
Producer
A man goes to work, sees a boat for sale. He dreams of a life to leave behind. He leaves, the dream gives way to memory, the mistral forces him to a l...
Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem
2019
as Salvo
A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course.
Once Upon a Time in Bethlehem
2019
Story, Screenplay, Director
A thief and a priest end up magically transported in the year 0's Palestine, where they'll have to make sure that the Nativity will follow its course.
It’s the Law
2017
as Salvatore "Salvo"
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
It’s the Law
2017
Story, Screenplay, Director
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
Escape From Reuma Park
2016
as Salvatore
Old and forgotten, comedian Aldo is brought by his sons into a nursing home called Reuma Park where he finds his old friends and partners Giovanni and...
Let's Go to the Country
2014
as Salvo
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try ...
Let's Go to the Country
2014
Story, Screenplay, Director
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try ...
Belluscone: A Sicilian Story
2014
This film tells the story of three defeats: Berlusconi’s political and human defeat in his “twilight”, the one of Ciccio Mirra, Berlusconi’s unconditi...
Anche se è amore non si vede
2011
as Salvo
Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to Turin, and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a d...
Anche se è amore non si vede
2011
Director, Screenplay, Idea
Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to Turin, and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a d...
Women Vs Men
2011
as Rocco
Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his ...
Baaria
2009
as Nino Terranuova
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), ...
La matassa
2009
as Gaetano
Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings t...
La matassa
2009
Director, Story, Screenplay
Two cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings t...
7 and 8
2007
as Tommaso Scavuzzo
6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-o...
7 and 8
2007
Story, Screenplay, Director
6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-o...
Sono cose che capitano
2005
Ficarra & Picone return to the scene with a new work entitled I'm These things happen and directed by Giambattista Avellino. The center is the man and...
Sono cose che capitano
2005
Director
Ficarra & Picone return to the scene with a new work entitled I'm These things happen and directed by Giambattista Avellino. The center is the man and...
Diciamoci la verità
2003
as Salvatore Ficarra
Nati stanchi
2002
as Salvo
Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends wi...
Nati stanchi
2002
Story, Screenplay
Salvo and Valentino are two happy Sicilian friends, who do not want to work, because they know that if they find a permanent job, their girlfriends wi...
Ask Me If I'm Happy
2000
as spettatore a teatro
Aspiring thespians Aldo, Giovanni and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing the dream of staging their production of Cyrano de Bergerac, but love...
Vuoti a perdere
1999
as Salvatore Ficarra