Sergio Castellitto

Sergio Castellitto

1953-08-18 Roma, Lazio, Italia 103 Credits

Biography

Sergio Castellitto (born August 18, 1953) is an Italian actor, film director, and screenwriter. Sergio Castellitto was born in Rome in 1953, to parents from Molise and Abruzzo, Southern Italy. After graduating from the Silvio D'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art in 1978, he began his theatrical career in Italian public theater with Shakespeare's Measure for Measure at the Teatro di Roma and with roles in other plays such as La Madre by Brecht, Merchant of Venice, and Candelaio by Giordano B...

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Conclave

Conclave

2024

as Tedesco

7.2
Acting

After the unexpected death of the Pope, Cardinal Lawrence is tasked with managing the covert and ancient ritual of electing a new one. Sequestered in ...

Romeo Is Juliet

Romeo Is Juliet

2024

as Federico Landi Porrini

6.5
Acting

After her audition as Juliet fails to impress, a young actress determined to act in the latest production of Shakespeare's play crossdresses and is un...

The Best Century of My Life

The Best Century of My Life

2023

as Gustavo Diotallevi

6.4
Acting

An absurd law prevents John, an unrecognized child at birth, from knowing the identity of his biological parents before his 100th birthday. To succeed...

Enea

Enea

2023

as Celeste

6.2
Acting

Enea chases after the myth he bears in his name; he does so to feel alive in a dead and decadent age. He does so together with Valentino, a newly bapt...

Dante

Dante

2022

as Giovanni Boccaccio

5.2
Acting

The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory...

Non ti pago

Non ti pago

2021

6.8
Acting
Sabato, domenica e lunedì

Sabato, domenica e lunedì

2021

5.4
Acting

A family fights.

Crazy for Football - Matti per il calcio

Crazy for Football - Matti per il calcio

2021

as Saverio Lulli

7.3
Acting

A psychiatrist tries to make his dream come true by organizing the first worldwide football cup for patients who suffer from mental illness. Based on ...

A Bookshop in Paris

A Bookshop in Paris

2021

as Vincenzo

5.5
Acting

Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter Albertine, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her...

A Bookshop in Paris

A Bookshop in Paris

2021

Director

5.5
Directing

Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter Albertine, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her...

Marx Can Wait

Marx Can Wait

2021

as Ernesto Picciafuoco (archive footage) (uncredited)

7.3
Acting

"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met before the former died at a young age in the heated day...

The Bad Poet

The Bad Poet

2021

as Gabriele D'Annunzio

6.1
Acting

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mission: to surveil aging national poet Gabriele D'An...

Natale in casa Cupiello

Natale in casa Cupiello

2020

as Luca Cupiello

6.7
Acting

Based on the tragicomedy written by Edoardo de Filippo in 1931, Christmas at the Cupiello's captures a life episode of a middle-class Italian family a...

The Talent of the Hornet

The Talent of the Hornet

2020

as Ascoltatore

6.4
Acting

Dj Steph is a young radio deejay on the rise, who gained a lot of popularity on social media and every evening hosts a radio show with a large followi...

Nour

Nour

2020

as Pietro Bartolo

5.9
Acting
Mafia Inc.

Mafia Inc.

2020

as Frank Paternò

6.7
Acting

The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of ...

Dreamfools

Dreamfools

2018

as Sergio

5.6
Acting

Two lovers are stuck in stale relationships due to lean finances. But when one is duped into thinking he's suddenly rich, he takes very drastic action...

Aldo Moro - il Professore

Aldo Moro - il Professore

2018

as Aldo Moro

6.8
Acting

The story of the last 55 days of Aldo Moro, seen from the point of view of his students.

The Handyman

The Handyman

2018

as Salvatore Toti Bellastella

6.2
Acting

We are all equal before the law, but some are just more equal than others. Antonio is a trainee lawyer who dreams of joining his mentor’s prestigious...

Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head

Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head

2018

as Rocco Chinnici

7.1
Acting

An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.

Lucky

Lucky

2017

as Infermiere/Carabieniere

6.4
Acting

The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort ...

Lucky

Lucky

2017

Director, Screenplay

6.4
Directing Writing

The story of a young mother with a failed marriage behind her, who fights daily for her dream to open a hair salon, challenging her fate in an effort ...

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

2017

as Self

7.5
Acting

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his stu...

Piccoli crimini coniugali

Piccoli crimini coniugali

2017

as Elia

5.5
Acting

Gilles is suffering from amnesia as the result of a mysterious accident.

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

Viaggio nel cinema in 3D: Una storia vintage

2016

as Narrator

Acting
The Major Fisherman

The Major Fisherman

2016

as Angelo Vassallo

7.1
Acting

In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.

The Major Fisherman

The Major Fisherman

2016

Co-Writer, Screenplay

7.1
Writing

In this fact-based drama, an ecology-minded fisherman is elected mayor of his corrupt seaside town and begins crusading against drugs and crime.

Nessuno siamo perfetti

Nessuno siamo perfetti

2015

as Self

7.0
Acting

A loving portrait of reclusive comic-book writer Tiziano Sclavi, creator of Dylan Dog

You Can't Save Yourself Alone

You Can't Save Yourself Alone

2015

Director

6.5
Directing

Gaetano and Delia, a separated couple, try to pick up the pieces of their broken love, recalling all the faults and the mistakes which led them to whe...

The Hole

The Hole

2014

as Oscar

5.2
Acting

Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.

Una famiglia perfetta

Una famiglia perfetta

2012

as Leone

6.5
Acting

Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and m...

Twice Born

Twice Born

2012

as Giuliano

7.3
Acting

Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, w...

Twice Born

Twice Born

2012

Director, Writer, Producer

7.3
Directing Writing Producing

Full-throttle melodrama about an ill-starred romance set against the backdrop of the siege of Sarajevo. A mother brings her teenage son to Sarajevo, w...

Love & Slaps

Love & Slaps

2010

as Marcello

6.1
Acting

A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. D...

Love & Slaps

Love & Slaps

2010

Director, Producer

6.1
Directing Producing

A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. D...

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

2010

as Self

6.2
Acting
Raise Your Head

Raise Your Head

2009

as Mero

6.6
Acting

Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. T...

Bets & Wedding Dresses

Bets & Wedding Dresses

2009

as Franco Campanella

6.2
Acting
Around a Small Mountain

Around a Small Mountain

2009

as Vittorio

5.8
Acting

Vittorio stops to help Kate when her car breaks down on a mountain road. When they meet again, Vittorio discovers that Kate has rejoined a circus aft...

Italians

Italians

2009

as Fortunato

5.7
Acting

Two stories of Italians abroad: in Dubai, a truck driver who smuggles Ferraris for a living teaches the tricks of the trade to his young disciple; in ...

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada

Effedia - Sulla mia cattiva strada

2008

as Self

6.0
Acting
'O professore

'O professore

2008

10.0
Acting

The story of Pietro Filodomini, professor of Italian in a middle school in the Sanità district of Naples, who tries to offer with books an alternative...

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

2008

as King Miraz

6.6
Acting

One year after their incredible adventures in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Peter, Edmund, Lucy and Susan Pevensie return to Narnia to aid a y...

Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore

Fuga per la libertà - L'aviatore

2008

as Massimo Teglio

6.0
Acting
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

2007

as Self (archive footage)

6.8
Acting

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often con...

The Missing Star

The Missing Star

2006

as Vincenzo Buonavolontà

6.7
Acting

Vincenzo, former head of maintenance of a steel plant that's been outsourced, travels from Italy to China to warn about a defective blast furnace.

Paris Je T'aime

Paris Je T'aime

2006

as Le mari (Bastille)

6.8
Acting

Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Marcello, una vita dolce

Marcello, una vita dolce

2006

as Narrator (voice)

5.2
Acting

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his ne...

The Wedding Director

The Wedding Director

2006

as Franco Elica

6.0
Acting

Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man ...

L'ombra cinese

L'ombra cinese

2004

as Jules Maigret

6.0
Acting

Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.

L'ombra cinese

L'ombra cinese

2004

Teleplay, Story

6.0
Writing

Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.

La trappola di Maigret

La trappola di Maigret

2004

as Jules Maigret

8.5
Acting

A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in order to catch him.

La trappola di Maigret

La trappola di Maigret

2004

Teleplay, Story

8.5
Writing

A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in order to catch him.

Ne quittez pas !

Ne quittez pas !

2004

as Félix Mandel

6.5
Acting

Félix Mandel, an internationally renowned astrophysicist, is married with a four-year-old son and often has his head in the clouds.

Don't Move

Don't Move

2004

as Timoteo

7.0
Acting

While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and pa...

Don't Move

Don't Move

2004

Director, Writer

7.0
Directing Writing

While waiting for the brain surgery of his daughter Angela, victim of a motorcycle accident, the surgeon Timoteo recalls his torrid affair with and pa...

Caterina in the Big City

Caterina in the Big City

2003

as Giancarlo Iacovoni

6.5
Acting

When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself...

Ferrari

Ferrari

2003

as Enzo Ferrari

7.1
Acting

Story of Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs of all time. Being interviewed by a fictitious, int...

My Mother's Smile

My Mother's Smile

2002

as Ernesto Picciafuoco

7.1
Acting

A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.

Va Savoir (Who Knows?)

Va Savoir (Who Knows?)

2001

as Ugo

6.4
Acting

After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting h...

Mostly Martha

Mostly Martha

2001

as Mario

6.7
Acting

Martha is a single woman who lives for one passion: cooking. The head chef at a chic restaurant, Martha has no time for anything - or anyone - else. B...

Hotel Laguna

Hotel Laguna

2001

as Joe Sollazzo

5.1
Acting

Raised by an uncle in New York after his parents died in an attack orchestrated by the mafia, Thomas, now an adult, is sent to live in Italy. There, w...

Unfair Competition

Unfair Competition

2001

as Leone

7.0
Acting

Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses client...

The Last Kiss

The Last Kiss

2001

as Prof. Eugenio Bonetti

6.4
Acting

Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at ...

Padre Pio

Padre Pio

2000

as Padre Pio

Acting
Libero Burro

Libero Burro

1999

as Libero Burro

4.1
Acting

Libero Burro, a former lout from Italy's center-south, dreams of getting rich and takes over a downtown gambling joint in need of a complete overhaul.

Libero Burro

Libero Burro

1999

Director, Screenplay

4.1
Directing Writing

Libero Burro, a former lout from Italy's center-south, dreams of getting rich and takes over a downtown gambling joint in need of a complete overhaul.

For Sale

For Sale

1998

as Luigi Primo

5.0
Acting

A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her lif...

Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana

Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana

1997

as Don Lorenzo Milani

6.1
Acting
Pronto

Pronto

1997

as Tommy "The Zip" Bucks

5.3
Acting

Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts ...

Quadrille

Quadrille

1997

as Carl Herickson

5.5
Acting

Carl Herickson, a big American film star, unwillingly upsets a Parisian trio: a newspaper editor, his theater actress wife, and their fiery journalist...

Hotel Paura

Hotel Paura

1996

as Carlo Ruggeri

Acting
Shadow Play

Shadow Play

1996

as Guido

7.4
Acting

Ada and Lise are both costume designers, the first is around 20, the other around 30. Both are working hard on their break through. There are also job...

Le Cri de la soie

Le Cri de la soie

1996

as Gabriel de Villemer

4.9
Acting

An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case ...

Silenzio... si nasce

Silenzio... si nasce

1996

as Il Forte

4.5
Acting

Two dizygotic twins in the womb become aware of their existence in a series of surrealistic situations.

Il Grande Fausto

Il Grande Fausto

1995

as Fausto Coppi

6.1
Acting
The Star Maker

The Star Maker

1995

as Joe Morelli (Giuseppe Romolo)

7.1
Acting

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...

With Closed Eyes

With Closed Eyes

1994

as Signor Alberto

6.7
Acting

In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl wi...

Toxic Affair

Toxic Affair

1993

as Mister Ray-Ban

4.4
Acting

In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast ar...

The Great Pumpkin

The Great Pumpkin

1993

as Arturo

6.7
Acting

An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of...

Nessuno

Nessuno

1992

as Tropia

Acting

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

Nero

Nero

1992

as Federico Zardo

5.1
Acting

Right after she moves in with him, Frederico's new girlfriend Francesca sends him back to her former boyfriend's apartment to fetch her something she ...

Rossini! Rossini!

Rossini! Rossini!

1991

as Gioacchino Rossini, giovane

6.0
Acting

An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed ...

The Flesh

The Flesh

1991

as Paolo

5.7
Acting

A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some stran...

Seul face au crime

1991

as Dario De Santis

Acting
Tonight at Alice's

Tonight at Alice's

1990

as Filippo

5.8
Acting

Saverio and Filippo are two friends and religious leaders of a travel agency in Rome. However, Filippo has trouble with his wife, because she finds ou...

Una fredda mattina di maggio

Una fredda mattina di maggio

1990

as Ruggero Manni

Acting
Alberto Express

Alberto Express

1990

as Alberto Capuano

Acting

A young Italian, living in Paris with his French wife, is about to become a father. Before the baby is born, Alberto must repay his father for every e...

Tre colonne in cronaca

Tre colonne in cronaca

1990

as Quinto Cecconi - il giornalista

5.9
Acting

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 ...

Piccoli equivoci

Piccoli equivoci

1989

as Paolo

1.5
Acting

A unique set: a Roman apartment with a small garden, six characters on stage, but never all together, four men and two women, theater actors. The obvi...

The Big Blue

The Big Blue

1988

as Novelli

7.5
Acting

Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, ...

Love and Fear

Love and Fear

1988

as Roberto

5.0
Acting

Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von Trotta’s f...

He Looks Dead... But He's Only Fainted

He Looks Dead... But He's Only Fainted

1987

as Romano Duranti

Acting

Directed by Felice Farina.

He Looks Dead... But He's Only Fainted

He Looks Dead... But He's Only Fainted

1987

Screenplay, Story

Writing

Directed by Felice Farina.

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Parete della Stanza Accanto

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: La Parete della Stanza Accanto

1987

as Roberto Valente

Acting

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Mil...

Dolce assenza

Dolce assenza

1987

as Vittorio

4.0
Acting

When her housemate Sara disappears, leaving behind herself a trail of videotaped diaries, Gloria investigates to find out what happened to her with th...

The Family

The Family

1987

as Carletto as a young man

7.5
Acting

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the...

Carefree Giovanni

Carefree Giovanni

1986

as Giovanni

5.0
Acting

In this entertaining drama, "Carefree Giovanni" (Sergio Castellitto) is the beleaguered last heir to a dukedom closely associated with the great artis...

Magic Moments

Magic Moments

1984

as Roberto 'Bo'

1.0
Acting

Three young friends – aspiring film director Roberto, aspiring producer Ben and aspiring comedian Cico – move to Rome looking for a career in a film i...

The General of the Dead Army

The General of the Dead Army

1983

as The Expert

5.5
Acting

In the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general, accompanied by a priest who is also an Italian army colonel,...

Inmate

Inmate

1981

as Scapricciatiello

6.0
Acting

Francesco Improta is an honest fruit and vegetable peddler who lives with his elderly mother Assunta and daughter Fiorella. His wife Lucia left home t...

Violette

N/A

Acting

Violette Toussaint, a beloved cemetery caretaker, lives a peaceful life filled by conversations with quirky workers and the many visitors who share wi...

Sequestered - Inside Conclave

Sequestered - Inside Conclave

N/A

as Self (archival footage)

Acting

The making of the 2025 thriller movie Conclave about the papal election, starring Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci and Isabella Rossellini.