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Complete Filmography

The Garbage Man
2024

Una preghiera per Giuda
2023
as Salvatore

A Breath of Fresh Air
2022
as Nunzio
Two proud and estranged brothers, a disputed inheritance and a past that comes back. When he hears about the passing of his father - whom he has not s...

Medium
2021
as Cagliostro
A gang of robbers steals thousands of euros in a provincial bar without imagining that the owner of the business is Cagliostro (Tony Sperandeo), a sha...

Breathless
2021
as Franco
In the DR, hardened cop Manolo tries to take down an infamous drug cartel; meanwhile, his daughter has fallen in love with Lorenzo, a construction wor...

School of Mafia
2021

Lui è mio padre
2020
as Don Mimmo

Amo la tempesta
2020
A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kid...

Il delitto Mattarella
2020
as Vito Ciancimino
January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in c...

Qui non si muore
2019
as Prete

Amare Amaro
2018
as Marcello
Gaetano decided that he would bury his deceased brother with his family at all costs, even if it meant defying the laws of his Sicilian village and pu...

La settima onda
2018

Il mondo di mezzo
2017

It’s the Law
2017
as Gaetano Patanè
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.

Mò vi mento: Lira di Achille
2017
as Il Guercio

I siciliani
2016

Quel bravo ragazzo
2016
as Vito Mancuso
On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue i...

Il ragazzo della Giudecca
2016
as Procuratore
The life of singer Carmelo Zappulla is disrupted by the testimony of a repentant who accuses him of being involved in a murder. This is just the begin...

The Broken Crown
2014
as Don Vito Romano
A crime drama directed by Ruben Maria Soriquez.

The Tailor's Wife
2014
as vecchio puparo

Il ragioniere della mafia
2013
Based on Donald Vergari Best Seller Book. In the middle of the crisis a man loses his job, starts gambling but cannot pay back his debts, the only way...

Il caso Enzo Tortora - Dove eravamo rimasti?
2012
as Siciliano

Vi perdono ma inginocchiatevi
2012
as Cupane

Roma nuda
2011

Dreamland: The Land of Dreams
2011
as Don Nicola
Giacomo, a boy from Puglia, leaves immediately after the war for the United States of America, where, after a few years, he will be known by the name ...

Prigioniero di un segreto
2010
as Don Alfredo

Un neomelodico presidente
2010
as Il Professore

Baaria
2009
as allevatore
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), ...

Pochi giorni per capire
2009
as Sacerdote

Blood of the Losers
2008
as Salustri

A Beautiful Wife
2007
as Don Pierino
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...

L'uomo di vetro
2007
as Zio Titta

7 and 8
2007
as Gino La Monica
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...

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me
2006
as Don Pippo Calì
The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s ...

Miracolo a Palermo!
2005
as Sparagna
One day in Palermo and in the life of young boy Toto who is madly in love with the beautiful teenager Lina.

Blindati
2003
as Colonnello Brando Massari

Il Latitante
2003
as Ispettore Sarnataro
A Police Inspector hunts him down: Nicola, supported by the boss Cantalamessa, and protected by some criminal families, moves away from Naples, leaves...

Il testimone
2001
Italian thriller

L'attentatuni
2001
as Nino Noè
The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.

Once Upon a Time in Sicily
2001

And now sex
2001
as Don Calogero
Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From pro...

Un giudice di rispetto
2000

One Hundred Steps
2000
as Tano Badalamenti
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps fr...

Arresti Domiciliari
2000
as Boss mafia #2
Stefano is caught with a bag of cocaine in his pocket and placed under house arrest. Yet the boy knows full well that he has never used drugs. There i...

L'uomo della fortuna
2000
as Salvatore

Excellent Cadavers
1999
as Stefano Bontate
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthl...

Enzo, domani a Palermo!
1999
as Self
Ciprì and Maresco's delicious documentary portrays Sicilian super-agent Enzo Castagna, a man with some 20,000 extras on his books, who has worked with...

To Fly!
1999
as Don Ciccio
1950s. Gege (Giuseppe Cristofaro) is a delicate child who lives in a hard world that does not accept it. He thus takes refuge in the dream to escape t...

La stanza dello Scirocco
1998
as Sollima

Altri uomini
1997
as Salvatore Marinello
In 1985 in Milan Michele Croce is now in prison and decides to answer the magistrate's questions, telling how in the seventies he became the ruler of ...

Vesna Goes Fast
1996
as il camionista
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help cha...

Palermo – Milan One Way
1996
as Marinnà
A mob accountant accepts to be witness for the prosecution at a trial involving Mafia higher-ups. Seven cops are tasked with escorting him and his fam...

The Star Maker
1995
as 1st Badalamenti
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome...

Segreto di Stato
1995
as gangster
A bomb blows up in Milan and five people die. After only three hours Ravida, the chief of the Secret Service, knows the name of the killer and that of...

Miracolo italiano
1994
as on. Munafò
7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a wo...

Bandits: Love and Liberty
1994
as Malacarne
In 1838 in the kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies, Malacarne, gamekeeper of Baron San Germano, kills the bandit Caruso, whose widow gives birth to...

The Heroes
1994
as Tonino
Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the ...

Uomo di rispetto
1993

The Escort
1993
as Raffaele Frasca
The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politic...

On the Dark Continent
1992
as Don Secondino
In the 1950s, a big stir was made by a book (and its corresponding movie) called The Ugly American. Its subject was the grievous damage done to local ...

Acla's Descent into Floristella
1992
as Caramazza
Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destit...

Johnny Stecchino
1991
as Picciotto in auto
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow...

Piedipiatti
1991
as Agente della buoncostume
The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old...

The Invisible Wall
1991
as Sottufficiale Areonautica
June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. ...

A Simple Story
1991
as Il primo agente
After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth...

Suffocating Heat
1991
as Aiutante Giuliano
On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cu...

Boys on the Outside
1990
as Turris (uncredited)
Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work...

Boys on the Outside
1990
First Assistant Director
Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work...

Night Sun
1990
as Gesuino
Based on Leo Tolstoy's novel, Father Sergius, Night Sun stars Julian Sands as Sergio, a nobleman in 18th-century Italy who is expected to marry a duch...

Tre colonne in cronaca
1990
as Trapani, poliziotto
Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a ...

The Dark Sun
1990
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to p...

Mary Forever
1989
as Turris
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school po...

The Sicilian
1987
as Barracks Policeman
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.

The Repenter
1985
as killer
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But ...

The Repenter
1985
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But ...

The Sicilian Connection
1985
as Vincenzo
An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals ...

Kaos
1984
Five stories center on a werewolf, a feudal landlord, peasants, a ghost, and a mother and her sons.

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