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Complete Filmography

The Last One for the Road
2025
as Cavalier Fadiga
Two blustery 50-somethings, have an obsession: going for their last drink. One night, they run into Giulio, a shy architecture student, whose way of s...

The Valley of Smiles
2025
Sergio Rossetti, a physical education teacher, is transferred to Remis, a small mountain village in which an unbreakable serenity reigns. He discovers...

Come fratelli
2025

The Great Ambition
2024
as Aldo Moro
Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the...

Conclave
2024
as Lombardi
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 ...

Carlo Mazzacurati - A Certain Idea of Cinema
2024
as Self
Explore the life and work of acclaimed Italian filmmaker Carlo Mazzacurati, who passed away in 2014. It delves into his distinctive poetic style, blen...

Samad
2024

Billy
2023
as Nonno
Billy was a child prodigy who had invented and hosted a successful music podcast at nine. He is now 19, lives with his eccentric mother, is secretly i...

The Great Day
2022
as Cardinale Pineider
In a large villa on Lake Como, everything is ready to celebrate Elio and Caterina's wedding. It will be the most beautiful day of their lives and also...

Diabolik
2021
as Hotel manager
1960s, the city of Clerville. The forthcoming visit of heiress Eva Kant, who'll be bringing a famous pink diamond with her, catches the attention of D...

Trafficante di virus
2021
as Ferrari

Welcome Venice
2021
as Toni
Two brothers are in conflict over the way the Venetian lagoon has been transformed, and the identity of the city and its residents has drastically cha...

Chiara Lubich - L'Amore vince tutto
2021

The Big Step
2020
as Piovesan
At the age of six, Dario watched the first moon flight on television. Since then, his dream has been to fly to the moon. For the past three decades, t...

Bed Number 6
2020
as Padre Severo
Doctor Bianca Valentino is hired to cover the night shift in the ward of a pediatric hospital. She finds herself immersed in an environment that, behi...

In Your Shoes
2020

I Hate Summer
2020
as Rudi Contrada
Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.

Magical Nights
2018
as Vincenzo, the screenwriter
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is fou...

Mon Clochard
2018
as Davide

1991
2018
as Réceptionniste
Do you remember your first trip? Not the one you made at 5 years old with your parents to the East Coast of the United States. I mean the first time y...

Così in Terra
2018
as Don Mauro

The Last Prosecco
2017
as Sergio Leonardi
The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.

The Order of Things
2017
as Grigoletto
An immigration agent is torn between the job and his humanity.

Unsung Heroes
2017
At the beginning of the First World War, many Italian emigrants, especially in South America, felt that Italy was in the throes of falling into the ha...

In arte Nino
2016
as Prof. Stampellone
Biopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting his difficult beginnings, his passion for acting and...

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
as Amedeo Ferrari (Emma's father)
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and co...

The Nature of Things
2016
An emotional and philosophical plunge into that invaluable period of life, which is life's own end. Through a year of encounters and conversations, be...

Una nobile causa
2016
as Giulio

The Ploy
2016
In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate pl...

Patria
2014
as Giorgio

La sedia della felicità
2014
as Fishmonger
Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that be...

Non è mai troppo tardi
2014
as Commissario scolastico
Alberto Manzi is twenty years old and wants to be a teacher. He gets the job at a juvenile correctional facility, to then get transfered to a proper s...

Fuori Mira
2014
as Alcide
The sun rises over a quiet residential neighborhood. Three gunshots shatter the peace and quiet of the residents. Who fired the shots? And why was an ...

Zoran: My Nephew the Idiot
2013
as Alfio
Paolo, 40 years old, lives in a small Friulian town close to the north-eastern border. Unreliable and with a passion for good wine, he spends his days...

Aspirante vedovo
2013
as Fenoglio
A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve j...

Mary of Nazareth
2012
as Joachim
The film begins with the Annunciation: Mary, a young Galilean, virginal conceived the Messiah, the Son of God. Her husband Joseph, a humble carpenter,...

One Day More
2011
as Ricardi
Giacomo is a 40-year-old man who works for a big company in Milan. To avoid working on weekends, he lies about having a girlfriend whose character he ...

Shun Li and the Poet
2011
as Lawyer
A study of the friendship between a Chinese woman and a fisherman who came to Italy from Yugoslavia many years ago, who live in a small city-island in...

Passannante
2011
as Avvocato Tarantini

Some Say No
2011
as Edmondo Giannotti
Some Say No is a new Italian comedy with a very serious subject: the way the country's society is corroded by favoritism that pushes inferior people t...

Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven
2010
as Cardinal Capurso
One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to ...

Clash of civilization over an elevator in Piazza Vittorio
2010
as Professor Marini

Nine
2009
as Doctor Rondi
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. Wit...

The Red Shadows
2009
as L'Editore Bergonzi
An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change.

Generazione 1000 euro
2009
as tassista
In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired...

Night Bus
2007
as Diolaiti
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously nam...

Lezioni di volo
2007
as Curry's father
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by clai...

Mi fido di te
2007
as Aleotti
Two different men living in Milan lose their job at the same time. They will become a funny couple of thieves thanks to the poorest of them that was a...

Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
2006
as Luigi Tiezzi

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
2006
as Tricella (segment "Meglio di Maradona")
Four stories about football.
The Torn Children
2006
The true story of a mother in search of her children deported to Germany by the Nazis.
Sette Ottavi
2006
as Alberto Molaien

Hotel Rwanda
2004
as Priest
Inspired by true events, this film takes place in Rwanda in the 1990s when more than a million Tutsis were killed in a genocide that went mostly unnot...

L'ombra cinese
2004
as Lionel Martin
Maigret investigates the murder of a philandering businessman found dead in an apartment building full of colorful tenants.

The Life I Want
2004
as Giordani
A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano m...

An Italian Romance
2004
as Alvaro
Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
2004
as Raoul Wallenberg
The third of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World W...

Don Gnocchi - L'angelo dei bimbi
2004
True story of Don Carlo Gnocchi, a priest who manages in postwar Italy, upon his return from the Russian front where he participated as military chapl...

Il fuggiasco
2003
as Massimo's Father

The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003
The first of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper in three distinct episodes: as a child during the first World War, as an explorer in Mormon Utah, and ...

The Good Pope
2003
as Monsignor Loris Capovilla
Angelo Roncalli, born in Sotto Il Monte in 1881, is known for his profound spirituality as well as his extraordinary goodness from the young years of ...

El Alamein
2002
as The Colonel
War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division ...

A cavallo della tigre
2002
as Police chief
Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace. A year later, just a few days befor...
Two Friends
2002
Two Sicilian friends, Nunzio and Pino, share the same apartment in Turin. Nunzio works in a factory but is laid off because of his illness. Pino, on t...

Paz!
2002
as Professore
Inspired by the work of Italian underground comic book prodigy Andrea Pazienza, "Paz!" is a 24-hour slice of life of a group of university students sh...

Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
as General Gandini
When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during World War II, his fiancée falls in love with the local Italian commander.

Tobia al caffè
2000
as Giuseppe
The film is set in the elegant café "Il Quattro Palme" traditionally frequented by intellectuals, lovers of lyric music and poetry.

Nora
2000
as Roberto Prezioso
In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibite...

Don Milani - Il priore di Barbiana
1997
as Adriano Milani

Le acrobate
1997
as Paolo
A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by the death of an elderly woman.

La classe non è acqua
1997
as Prof. Guido Marinelli

The Truce
1997
as Unverdorben
After the liberation of Auschwitz, an Italian prisoner of War begins a torturous voyage home to Turin, through a Europe caught between war and peace.

La terza luna
1997
as Luca Fabiani/Daniele Orefice
A young architect, Luca Fabiani, arrives in Venice to restore an ancient building in the Jewish ghetto. Here he discovers that on the top floor there ...

Fried Crumbed Brains
1996
as Valerio
After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste. Val...

Vesna Goes Fast
1996
as il cameriere
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help cha...

Marching in Darkness
1996
as Capitano Marsili
A young recruit to the Italian army discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before...

Italiani
1996
as Leonardo
1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with t...

Bits & Pieces
1996
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy'...

Caramelle
1995
as Filippo
A woman is longing to make love to her husband once again, but he is always working or tired. At her wit's end she consults a medium, who has a couple...

Poliziotti
1995
as Guido
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...

Il toro
1994
as Loris
After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to...

Love Burns
1994
as il marito tradito

Ambrogio
1992
as Leo
A woman wants to graduate to the Italian Naval Academy in the 60s. She has to fight her family, her friends and a world not ready to accept her.
Per non dimenticare
1992

Quattro figli unici
1992
as Giorgio

Ask for the Moon
1991
as Francesco
No-nonsense workaholic Marco runs the family business along with his older brother. When the latter suddenly disappears, Marco has to put aside his jo...

Condominio
1991
as Roberto Sgorlon

The Amusements of Private Life
1990
as Belzé
Italian-French costume dramedy that takes place in France in the end of 18th Century during the French Revolution. It is "The Marriage of Figaro" meet...

Io, Peter Pan
1990
as Fabio

Il prete bello
1989
as Father Gastone
In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.

Corsa di primavera
1989
as Il padre di Isacco
Isaac has separated parents, attends third grade, and soon befriends two classmates, Fiorello and Gabriel. All three want to leave with the circus, bu...

Piccoli equivoci
1989
as Giuliano
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...

Il mistero del panino assassino
1987

Notte italiana
1987
as Gábor
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to m...