Alba Rohrwacher

Alba Rohrwacher

1979-02-27 Florence, Tuscany, Italy 77 Credits

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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Jay Kelly

Jay Kelly

2025

Acting

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

Acting

Follows a couple, Marta and Antonio, who split up after what seems like an trivial argument.

Maria

Maria

2024

as Bruna

6.5
Acting

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

Out of Season

2024

as Alice

6.3
Acting

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

Finally Dawn

2024

as Alida Valli

5.9
Acting

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

I Told You So

2024

as Caterina

4.6
Acting

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

In the Mirror

2023

as Monica

6.1
Acting

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

La Chimera

2023

as Spartaco

7.3
Acting

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

A Brighter Tomorrow

2023

as Self

7.0
Acting

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

The March on Rome

2022

as Anna

6.2
Acting

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

The Peacock’s Paradise

2022

as Adelina

5.7
Acting

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!

Marcel!

2022

as Mother

4.7
Acting

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

Le Pupille

2022

as Mother Superior Fioralba

7.0
Acting

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

The Lost Daughter

2021

as Female Hiker

6.5
Acting

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

Three Floors

2021

as Monica

6.4
Acting

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Skies of Lebanon

Skies of Lebanon

2021

as Alice Kamar

6.9
Acting

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

Last Words

2020

as Anna

4.3
Acting

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

The Ties

2020

as Vanda prima

6.7
Acting

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

Being My Mom

2020

as madre

6.5
Acting

Autobiographically based short about the relationship between a mother and her daughter in a deserted, sun drenched Rome.

If Only

If Only

2020

as Benedetta

6.3
Acting

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

The Staggering Girl

2019

as Vera

5.6
Acting

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

Angelo

2019

as Countess

3.6
Acting

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

Hellhole

2019

as Alba

4.0
Acting

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

Lucia's Grace

2018

as Lucia

5.9
Acting

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

Happy as Lazzaro

2018

as Antonia

7.4
Acting

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

Daughter of Mine

2018

as Angelica

6.2
Acting

A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who instinctively claims her back.

The Place

The Place

2017

as Chiara

7.1
Acting

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

Ismael's Ghosts

2017

as Arielle / Faunia

5.6
Acting

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

Scribe

2016

as Sara

5.9
Acting

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

L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères

2016

as Chiara

5.6
Acting

The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.

Perfect Strangers

Perfect Strangers

2016

as Bianca

7.9
Acting

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

Taj Mahal

2015

as Giovanna

5.1
Acting

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

Blood of My Blood

2015

as Maria Perletti

5.7
Acting

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

Long Live the Bride

2015

as Sofia

4.7
Acting

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

De Djess

2015

as Divina

5.9
Acting

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

Tale of Tales

2015

as Mother Circus Performer

6.4
Acting

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

Sworn Virgin

2015

as Hana / Mark

5.6
Acting

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

Hungry Hearts

2015

as Mina

6.6
Acting

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

Crossing the Bardo

2014

10.0
Acting

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

The Wonders

2014

as Angelica

6.8
Acting

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

Acting
A Street in Palermo

A Street in Palermo

2013

as Clara

6.5
Acting

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

Con il fiato sospeso

2013

7.5
Acting
Garibaldi's Lovers

Garibaldi's Lovers

2012

as Diana

6.6
Acting

A widowed working-class father falls in love with a struggling, poor artist.

Dormant Beauty

Dormant Beauty

2012

as Maria

6.4
Acting

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

Bliss

2012

as Irina

5.6
Acting

Two young people in Berlin, a refugee and a homeless punk, form a relationship.

Tormenti - Film disegnato

Tormenti - Film disegnato

2011

as Eleonora "Lolli" Giancarelli (voice)

1.5
Acting
Missione di pace

Missione di pace

2011

as Maria Pettariello

4.0
Acting
Sorelle Mai

Sorelle Mai

2011

as Professoressa Vitaliani

6.0
Acting

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

In carne e ossa

2010

as Viola

Acting
The Solitude of Prime Numbers

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

2010

as Alice Della Rocca

5.9
Acting

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

5.7
Acting

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

Come Undone

2010

as Anna

5.9
Acting

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

I Am Love

2010

as Elisabetta Recchi

6.8
Acting

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

The Man Who Will Come

2009

as Beniamina

7.4
Acting

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

The Ladies Get Their Say

2009

as Giulia

7.3
Acting

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

Moments on the Set of I Am Love

2009

as Self

Acting

A documentary behind the scenes of Luca Guadagnino's 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘓𝘰𝘷𝘦.

Giovanna's Father

Giovanna's Father

2008

as Giovanna Casali

6.9
Acting

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

Riprendimi

2008

as Lucia

6.7
Acting

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

Quiet Chaos

Quiet Chaos

2008

as Annalisa

6.5
Acting

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

Non c'è più niente da fare

2008

as Letizia

5.8
Acting
Nelle Tue Mani

Nelle Tue Mani

2007

as Carla

5.6
Acting
Days and Clouds

Days and Clouds

2007

as Alice

6.8
Acting

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

Piano, Solo

2007

as Marta

6.3
Acting

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini

Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini

2007

as Anna

6.9
Acting

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

Voce del verbo amore

2007

as Eleonora

4.7
Acting

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

My Brother Is an Only Child

2007

as Violetta Benassi

6.7
Acting

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

Part Deux

2007

2.0
Acting

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

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo

2006

as Laura (segment "La donna del Mister")

5.4
Acting

Four stories about football.

Melissa P.

Melissa P.

2005

as Cielia

4.6
Acting

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

Kiss Me Lorena

2005

as Liz Bitume

6.5
Acting

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

Fare bene Mikles

2005

Acting

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

An Italian Romance

2004

as Collega di Maria

5.3
Acting

Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.

Roma elastica

N/A

Acting

The story revolves around an actress who is going to shoot her latest film in Rome in the 1980s.

L'Âge d'or

N/A

Acting

Une autre histoire

N/A

as Simona

Acting

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

N/A

Acting