Biography
Claudio Amendola (born 16 February 1963) is an Italian actor, director and television presenter. He starred in the 1993 film The Escort, which was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival. Born in Rome and the son of actors and voice dubbers Ferruccio Amendola and Rita Savagnone, Amendola started his movie career during the 1980s, playing comic roles in some Italian comedies directed by Carlo Vanzina. In 1987 he played his first dramatic role in Soldati - 365 all'alba, directed by Marco Risi,...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Fuori la verità
2025
New film by Davide Minnella.
Ari-Cassamortari
2024
Writer, Director
After the Arcangelo affair, the Pasti brothers, together with an eccentric half-sister they didn't know they had, have made a name for themselves as "...
I 400 giorni - Funamboli e maestri
2023
as Sé stesso
Steno
2022
I cassamortari
2022
Screenplay, Director
In Rome, the Cassamortari are people who work in the funeral business. The Pasti family's agency was founded by Giuseppe, who is willing to do anythin...
Like a Cat on a Highway 2
2021
as Sergio
Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
2020
as Self
Abbi fede
2020
as Adamo
A remake of the 2005 film "Adam's Aebler." The criminal Adamos, serving his prison sentence in a social rehabilitation community, encounters the blind...
Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
2019
as Self
Hotel Gagarin
2018
as Elio
An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.
Like a Cat on a Highway
2017
as Sergio
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
The Furlough
2017
as Luigi
The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with ...
The Furlough
2017
Director, Screenplay, Writer
The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with ...
Suburra
2015
as Samurai
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common ...
The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
2015
as Sergio
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join force...
The Move of the Penguin
2014
Director, Screenplay
Two temp workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and, convinced of their potential, plan to compete at the 2006 ...
Cha cha cha
2013
as Torre
An accident involving a 16-years old prompts private eye Corso to an investigation that will unearth a deep web of corruption in today's Rome.
Bar Sport
2011
as avventore
La fisica dell'acqua
2010
as Claudio
Riprendimi
2008
Producer
The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera.
Melissa P.
2005
Producer
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
Cefalonia
2005
as Mikis
Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in t...
Fratella e sorello
2005
as Serpente
The story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser w...
Il ritorno del Monnezza
2005
as Rocky Giraldi
Il ritorno del Monnezza
2005
Screenplay
La caccia
2005
as Pietro Sacco
Ho visto le stelle
2003
as Renato
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
Marcinelle
2003
as Antonino
Based on a true story. On August 8, 1956, hour by hour, the story of an accident in the Marcinelle mine in Belgium. More than 250 miners, many of Ital...
Caterina in the Big City
2003
as Manlio Germano
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...
Sottovento
2001
as Paolo
L'attentatuni
2001
as Cardine
The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.
Domenica
2001
as Inspector Sciarra
Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together ...
Johnny the Partisan
2000
as Nord
After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set...
Il grande botto
2000
as Antonio Nunziante
La carbonara
2000
as Lupone
Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young pat...
Jesus
1999
as Barrabas
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.
Open Sea
1998
as Edoardo
For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toul...
Altri uomini
1997
as Michele Croce
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 ...
Santo Stefano
1997
as Nicola
Un Paradiso di Bugie
1997
as Sergio
Strong Arms
1997
as Dario Campisi
This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He ...
An Eyewitness Account
1997
as Sandro Nardella
La mia generazione
1996
as Braccio
Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries t...
The Horseman on the Roof
1995
as Maggionari
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Who Killed Pasolini?
1995
as "Trepalle"
November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, ...
Poliziotti
1995
as Lorenzo Ferri / Lazzaro
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for d...
Bandits: Love and Liberty
1994
as Giovanni
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...
Queen Margot
1994
as Coconnas
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble ...
The Heroes
1994
as Fabio
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 ...
The Escort
1993
as Angelo Mandolesi
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...
Un'altra vita
1992
as Mauro
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a g...
Ultrà
1991
as Principe
The "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, ...
The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
1990
as Agostino il brigante
Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th centu...
Il colore della vittoria
1990
as Attilio Ferraris
Mary Forever
1989
as Pietro Giancona
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...
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
1988
as Luciano
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.
Soldati - 365 all'alba
1987
as Claudio
Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fil...
L'ombra nera del Vesuvio
1987
as Nini Sposito
Two families of the neapolitan camorra fight for the power.
The Venetian Woman
1986
as Bernardo
Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Ange...
Vacanze in America
1984
as Alessio Liberatore
A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Do...
Amarsi un po'...
1984
as Marco
In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a ge...
Christmas Holidays
1983
as Mario Marchetti
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girl...
Lontano da dove
1983
as Mario
Cassamortari 3
N/A
Director
The third and final installment in the Cassamortari/Funeral Family franchise, centred on the Pasti clan. Founded by Giuseppe Pasti, they're willing to...