Biography
Alba Rohrwacher is an Italian actress. In 2009, she received a David di Donatello for Best Actress for her performance in Pupi Avati's Giovanna's Father. On 6 September 2014, Rohrwacher won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 71st Venice International Film Festival for the film Hungry Hearts.
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Complete Filmography

Jay Kelly
2025
Two middle-aged friends rediscover their youthful spirit during a chaotic weekend reunion, facing hilarious mishaps and heartfelt moments that force t...
Tre ciotole
2025
as Marta
Follows a couple, Marta and Antonio, who split up after what seems like an trivial argument.

Maria
2024
as Bruna
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Out of Season
2024
as Alice
Mathieu lives in Paris, Alice in a small seaside resort in Western France. He is a famous actor, about to turn fifty. She is a piano teacher in her fo...

Finally Dawn
2024
as Alida Valli
A young Roman woman during the 1950s is on the verge of becoming engaged to a man. She goes to Cinecittà to do an audition as an extra and is thrust i...

I Told You So
2024
as Caterina
In Rome, during a January weekend a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the heat quickly escalates to a frightening degree, re...

In the Mirror
2023
as Monica
The film is freely inspired by the great actress Monica Vitti, but it is in no way a biopic. It is the story of a woman named Monica, who loses her me...

La Chimera
2023
as Spartaco
Just out of jail, rumpled English archaeologist Arthur reconnects with his wayward crew of tombaroli accomplices – a happy-go-lucky collective of itin...

A Brighter Tomorrow
2023
as Self
An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divor...

The March on Rome
2022
as Anna
The fascinating story of the rise to power of dictator Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) in Italy in 1922 and how fascism marked the fate of the entire wor...

The Peacock’s Paradise
2022
as Adelina
On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a small journey into the intimacy and authenticity of...

Marcel!
2022
as Mother
The young girl, an insomniac. The mother, an artist. The dog, named Marcel. The little girl loves her mother immensely, but her mother loves Marcel mo...

Le Pupille
2022
as Mother Superior Fioralba
During WWII, in the days leading up to Christmas, a woman arrives at an Italian Catholic boarding school for orphaned girls with a large cake and a pl...

The Lost Daughter
2021
as Female Hiker
A woman's seaside vacation takes a dark turn when her obsession with a young mother forces her to confront secrets from her past.

Three Floors
2021
as Monica
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Skies of Lebanon
2021
as Alice Kamar
In the fifties, young Alice leaves her natal Swiss mountains for the sunny and vibrant shores of Beirut. She falls madly in love with Joseph, a quirky...

Last Words
2020
as Anna
The year is 2085 and no human babies have been born in over a decade. A group of disparate survivors respond to a call to meet in Athens, where the fi...

The Ties
2020
as Vanda prima
Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt ...

Being My Mom
2020
as madre
Autobiographically based short about the relationship between a mother and her daughter in a deserted, sun drenched Rome.

If Only
2020
as Benedetta
Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, the children of divorced parents, arrive in Rome from Paris on a visit to their father. During a holiday, the family’s tens...

The Staggering Girl
2019
as Vera
Francesca, an Italian-American writer who lives in New York, must return to Rome to retrieve her aging mother. There, the ghosts of her childhood will...

Angelo
2019
as Countess
In early 18th century an African slave boy is chosen by a European Comtesse to be baptized and educated. Reaching adulthood, Angelo achieves prominenc...

Hellhole
2019
as Alba
Three starkly different people deal with the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in Brussels in May 2016. A Flemish doctor, whose son is a fighter jet ...

Lucia's Grace
2018
as Lucia
During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be the Virgin Mary.

Happy as Lazzaro
2018
as Antonia
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.

Daughter of Mine
2018
as Angelica
A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

The Place
2017
as Chiara
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...

Ismael's Ghosts
2017
as Arielle / Faunia
Just as the disheveled and alcoholic filmmaker Ismaël embarks on a difficult new film project, his life is sent into a tailspin. His wife Carlotta, pr...

Scribe
2016
as Sara
Two years after a burn-out, Duval is still unemployed. Contacted by an enigmatic businessman, he is offered a simple and well-paid job: transcribing t...

L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères
2016
as Chiara
The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.

Perfect Strangers
2016
as Bianca
During a dinner, a group of friends decide to share whatever message or phone call they will receive during the evening, with unforeseen consequences.

Taj Mahal
2015
as Giovanna
One evening, while her parents go out for dinner, 18-year-old Louise, alone in her hotel room at Taj Mahal Mumbai, hears strange noises out in the cor...

Blood of My Blood
2015
as Maria Perletti
In the Middle Ages, Federico, a soldier, visits the convent in Bobbio, where Sister Benedetta is facing charges of witchery for seducing Fabrizio, Fed...

Long Live the Bride
2015
as Sofia
In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminal...

De Djess
2015
as Divina
The ninth short film of the Miu Miu’s Women’s Tales series reflects Alice Rohrwacher’s attention to the surreal world of ordinariness and exceptions.

Tale of Tales
2015
as Mother Circus Performer
The Queen of Selvascura risks everything to be a mother; the King of Roccaforte falls in love with the voice of a mysterious girl; the King of Altomon...

Sworn Virgin
2015
as Hana / Mark
Years after declaring her eternal virginity and opting to live life as a man in the mountains of Albania, Hana looks to return to living as a woman as...

Hungry Hearts
2015
as Mina
The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.

Crossing the Bardo
2014
An engaging reflection on the meaning of existence and on the theme of death in the different spiritual traditions of the East and West.

The Wonders
2014
as Angelica
In the Tuscan countryside, a family of traditional honey farmers struggles to make ends meet. The household consists of only daughters—four of them—le...
Free-go
2013

A Street in Palermo
2013
as Clara
Shut inside their cars, two women face off in a silent duel that is fought out in the intimate violence of their stares. A wholly female duel punctuat...

Con il fiato sospeso
2013

Garibaldi's Lovers
2012
as Diana
A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.

Dormant Beauty
2012
as Maria
A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a ...

Bliss
2012
as Irina
Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

Tormenti - Film disegnato
2011
as Eleonora "Lolli" Giancarelli (voice)

Missione di pace
2011
as Maria Pettariello

Sorelle Mai
2011
as Professoressa Vitaliani
The film, a nostalgic fantasy documentary, depicts in six episodes a family story in Bobbio between 1999 and 2008. We discover the 5 years-old Elena b...

In carne e ossa
2010
as Viola

The Solitude of Prime Numbers
2010
as Alice Della Rocca
Prime numbers are divisible only by one and themselves. These numbers are solitary and incomprehensible to others. Alice and Mattia are both "prime", ...
Diarchy
2010
Giano and Luc are traveling through the woods when a storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in Luc's villa. Gradually and insidiously, a competiti...

Come Undone
2010
as Anna
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship w...

I Am Love
2010
as Elisabetta Recchi
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels ...

The Man Who Will Come
2009
as Beniamina
A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impendi...

The Ladies Get Their Say
2009
as Giulia
Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room....

Moments on the Set of I Am Love
2009
as Self
A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.

Giovanna's Father
2008
as Giovanna Casali
Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sen...

Riprendimi
2008
as Lucia
The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera.

Quiet Chaos
2008
as Annalisa
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns...

Non c'è più niente da fare
2008
as Letizia

Nelle Tue Mani
2007
as Carla

Days and Clouds
2007
as Alice
Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced t...

Piano, Solo
2007
as Marta
A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini
2007
as Anna
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Ita...

Voce del verbo amore
2007
as Eleonora
Ugo and Francesca have been married for ten years, but mutually decide to break up in a graceful way. They start singles' life again, having to deal w...

My Brother Is an Only Child
2007
as Violetta Benassi
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Acc...

Part Deux
2007
A modern-day paean to the good times, inspired by a Wolfgang Tillmans picture.

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
2006
as Laura (segment "La donna del Mister")
Four stories about football.

Melissa P.
2005
as Cielia
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Kiss Me Lorena
2005
as Liz Bitume
Eight characters around a table and a breath-taking script: Kiss Me Lorena. But despite the script, jealousies, old loves and unbelievable twists in t...

Fare bene Mikles
2005
It’s a story of a brother and a sister, Sergio and Maria, told backward in time, from adulthood to childhood. Through the years the two siblings inven...

An Italian Romance
2004
as Collega di Maria
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Roma elastica
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The story revolves around an actress who is going to shoot her latest film in Rome in the 1980s.
L'Âge d'or
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Une autre histoire
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as Simona
Simona, in her forties, has been a teacher in Annecy for several years, where she lives with her husband and daughter. As the summer holidays approach...
Un bon petit soldat
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