Roberto De Francesco

Roberto De Francesco

1964-03-02 Caserta, Italy 64 Credits

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Il Complottista

Il Complottista

2025

as Molinari

6.8
Acting

In a working-class neighborhood in Rome, a barber bothers his customers and neighbors with conspiracy theories he reads online. At home and in his sma...

The American Backyard

The American Backyard

2025

as Emilio Zagatto

7.3
Acting

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first ...

Nero

Nero

2024

7.0
Acting
Sicilian Letters

Sicilian Letters

2024

as Senatore

6.2
Acting

Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance ...

Holy Shoes

Holy Shoes

2024

as Paride

6.3
Acting

The film tells, through the stories of four characters whose lives, in different forms and manners, are either changed or endangered by shoes, an obje...

Glory Hole

Glory Hole

2024

6.0
Acting

An entrepreneur from Caserta becomes entangled with the underworld and ends up exposing himself because of his relationship with Alba, the youngest da...

Flying

Flying

2024

as Giovanni

5.3
Acting

Annabì has a fear of flying, which holds back her life and acting career. When her daughter decides to study abroad, Annabì sets out to conquer her fe...

Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis

Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis

2023

as Self

Acting

The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic c...

Tutto per mio figlio

Tutto per mio figlio

2022

7.4
Acting
The Inner Cage

The Inner Cage

2021

as Buonocore

7.1
Acting

A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the para...

The King of Laughter

The King of Laughter

2021

as Salvatore Di Giacomo

7.5
Acting

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that co...

Hammamet

Hammamet

2020

as Il medico della clinica psichiatrica

5.9
Acting

The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.

The Mayor of Rione Sanità

The Mayor of Rione Sanità

2019

as Fabio Della Ragione

6.1
Acting

Antonio Barracano is a respected man among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond th...

Capri-Revolution

Capri-Revolution

2018

as Man with bird

6.4
Acting

In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the at...

Loro

Loro

2018

as Fabrizio Sala

6.7
Acting

Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the grou...

Loro 2

Loro 2

2018

as Fabrizio Sala

7.1
Acting

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. ...

Loro 1

Loro 1

2018

as Fabrizio Sala

6.8
Acting

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. ...

Emma

Emma

2017

as Superstore cab driver

6.4
Acting

Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions...

Mom or Dad?

Mom or Dad?

2017

as Federico

5.8
Acting

A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa.

Pawn Street

Pawn Street

2016

5.9
Acting

In Torino, a bittersweet crowd is bringing its own belongings to a pawn shop, waiting for a ransom or the final auction. Between the thousands of face...

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams

2016

as padre Baloo

6.6
Acting

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal...

Neve

Neve

2014

5.0
Acting
La vita oscena

La vita oscena

2014

as Padre di Andrea

4.3
Acting

The tragic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, bu...

The Medicine Seller

The Medicine Seller

2013

as Dott. Foli

6.6
Acting

A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system.

Honey

Honey

2013

as Filippo

6.7
Acting

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions....

Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno

Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno

2013

as Don Antonio

7.1
Acting

A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.

Se sei così, ti dico sì

Se sei così, ti dico sì

2011

as Gustavo Bacelli

4.8
Acting

Piero Cicala is an adult singer who leads a modest life in the shadow of the only moment of glory lived in the eighties, thanks to a song that earned ...

We Have a Pope

We Have a Pope

2011

as attore

6.8
Acting

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince...

We Believed

We Believed

2010

as Ludovico

6.6
Acting

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, s...

Piano, Solo

Piano, Solo

2007

as Raffaele

6.3
Acting

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Basta un niente

Basta un niente

2006

as Carlo

Acting
Saturday, Sunday & Monday

Saturday, Sunday & Monday

2004

as Rocco Priore

7.3
Acting

Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of ind...

E Io ti seguo

E Io ti seguo

2003

as Tore

4.0
Acting

Giancarlo, a young Neapolitan animated by a great passion for journalism, is called as a correspondent in Torre Annunziata for the newspaper IL MATTIN...

Nemmeno in un sogno

Nemmeno in un sogno

2002

as Eraclio

6.0
Acting

A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidental...

The Long Night

The Long Night

2001

as Manolo

Acting

The long night of Manolo, hairdresser to the stars, on the Champs Élysées during his first experience with cocaine. He goes to discos and seances, see...

One Man Up

One Man Up

2001

as Gigi Moscati

7.1
Acting

Two men, both named Antonio Pisapia, see their lives go downhill in 1980s Naples. One is a crooner embroiled in a sex scandal; the other is a football...

The Son's Room

The Son's Room

2001

as Record Store Clerk

7.1
Acting

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.

Appassionate

Appassionate

1999

Acting

Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she ...

Pugni nell'aria

1999

Acting

Pugni nell'aria

1999

Director, Script, Screenplay

Directing Writing
Rehearsals for War

Rehearsals for War

1998

as Diego

7.2
Acting

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under si...

Notes of Love

Notes of Love

1998

as Psychiatrist

5.0
Acting

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confus...

Cinque Giorni Di Tempesta

Cinque Giorni Di Tempesta

1997

Acting

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...

Hotel Paura

Hotel Paura

1996

as Pasquale

Acting
Bits & Pieces

Bits & Pieces

1996

4.9
Acting

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy'...

The Second Time

The Second Time

1995

as Enrico

5.8
Acting

A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and ...

Man Who Check the Meter

Man Who Check the Meter

1995

as Beniamino

Acting

The portly meter reader Crecenzio is first seen blowing up a building. The reasons for this drastic, desperate act provide the basis for the story, wh...

L'estate di Bobby Charlton

L'estate di Bobby Charlton

1995

as Enrico

Acting
Little Horrors

Little Horrors

1994

Acting

A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Napl...

Il tuffo

Il tuffo

1993

Screenplay, Story

Writing

Physical laws and human relations. In Terni (in the center of Italy), during a hot summer, Matteo, 30-years old with a degree in physics but unemploye...

Lettera da Parigi

Lettera da Parigi

1993

as Sergio

Acting
Nessuno

Nessuno

1992

as Nico

Acting

A young man gradually retreats from reality after his mother falls into a coma.

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

1992

as Leonardo

6.8
Acting

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital...

Ladri di futuro

Ladri di futuro

1992

as Andrea

4.5
Acting

Everyday people, everyday stories. Normal, therefore special. They crave for a tomorrow what they haven't got today: the man or the woman of their dre...

The Yes Man

The Yes Man

1991

as Zollo

7.1
Acting

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.

Il mistero di Rosa

Il mistero di Rosa

1991

as Il presidente

Acting

Viterbo, 1250. Rosa is a young girl who, after a night vision, begins to preach the words of St. Francis in the streets. One day she is sent into exil...

Una fredda mattina di maggio

Una fredda mattina di maggio

1990

as Simone

Acting
Traces of an Amorous Life

Traces of an Amorous Life

1990

as Luigi

1.0
Acting

What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.

Evelina e i suoi figli

Evelina e i suoi figli

1990

as Giulio

6.0
Acting

Stefania Sandrelli is Evelina, a separated woman who lives with possessive teenage children. When you fall in love, problems arise.

Nulla ci può fermare

Nulla ci può fermare

1989

as Nico

Acting
Bankomatt

Bankomatt

1989

as Vincenzo

Acting

With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn h...

Il grande Blek

Il grande Blek

1988

as Yuri

6.5
Acting

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his involv...

Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville

Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville

1986

Acting

Il peso esatto del vuoto

N/A

Acting