Biography
Elio Germano (born September 25, 1980) is an Italian actor. He made his film debut in 1993 as a child actor, before gaining prominence with a string of roles in youth-oriented movies in the early 2000s. He achieved stardom following his lead role in Daniele Luchetti's My Brother Is an Only Child (2007), for which he won his first David di Donatello for Best Actor. He won the award for Best Actor at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival for Luchetti's La Nostra Vita (tied with Javier Bardem for Biutiful...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Tre ciotole
2025
as Antonio
Follows a couple, Marta and Antonio, who split up after what seems like an trivial argument.

N-Ego
2024

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

Sicilian Letters
2024
as Matteo
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 ...

Trust
2024
as Pietro
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa sugges...

Palazzina LAF
2023
as Giancarlo Basile
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get ri...

Lord of the Ants
2022
as Ennio Scribani
Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he...

America Latina
2022
as Massimo Sisti
Massimo Sisti is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving daughters, whose life is turned upside down when one day...

All Star - Ritorno al cinema
2021
as Uomo delle pulizie
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

Così è (o mi pare)
2021

Così è (o mi pare)
2021
Director, Producer

The Italian Baba
2021
as Baba Cesare

The Italian Baba
2021
Director, Writer, Producer

Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
2021
as Self
A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi.

Rose Island
2020
as Giorgio Rosa
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the t...

Bad Tales
2020
as Bruno Placido
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families...

Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto
2020
as Self

Hidden Away
2020
as Antonio Ligabue
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar tre...

The Man Without Gravity
2019
as Oscar
A gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an international celebrity -- who longs for human connection.

Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR
2019
as Sé stesso

Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR
2019
Director, Producer, Writer

Lucia's Grace
2018
as Arturo
During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be the Virgin Mary.

Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa
2018
as Narrator (voice)

Io sono Tempesta
2018
as Bruno
To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.

Binxet - Under the border
2017
as Narrator
“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the 911 km of the turkis...

Tenderness
2017
as Fabio
Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he mee...

It's All About Karma
2017
as Mario Pitagora
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.

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

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

L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères
2016
as Francesco
The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.

No Borders
2016
as Sé stesso

No Borders
2016
Writer, Producer

Lost and Beautiful
2015
as Sarchiapone (voice)
Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who sp...

Alaska
2015
as Fausto
Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-sta...

Street Opera
2015
as Sé stesso

Street Opera
2015
Music

Suburra
2015
as Sebastiano
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 Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
2015
as Stefano
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. Th...

Leopardi
2014
as Giacomo Leopardi
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

The Fifth Wheel
2013
as Ernesto
The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his friends and family.

The Landlords
2012
as Elia
Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his ...

Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
2012
as Luca Gualtieri
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed w...

A Magnificent Haunting
2012
as Pietro
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

Faccia d'angelo
2012
as Il Toso
Noi c'eravamo
2011
as Self

Scattered Cloud
2011
as Venditore
Blue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée. His feelings are put to the test on the eve of the wed...

The End Is My Beginning
2010
as Folco Terzani
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tu...

Our Life
2010
as Claudio
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dra...
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010

The Bee and the Wind
2009
as Matteo
Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.

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

Beautiful People
2009
as Giulio
Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in ...

As God Commands
2008
as Quattro Formaggi
An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town.

The Early Bird Catches the Worm
2008
as Marco Baldini
Marco Baldini is a young man determined to become the voice of a major radio; he alternates between his job at Radio Deejay and his gambling addiction...

The Past Is a Foreign Land
2008
as Giorgio
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had...

Fallen Heroes
2008
as Luca
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to re...

A Whole Life Ahead
2008
as Lucio 2
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for singl...

My Brother Is an Only Child
2007
as Accio Benassi
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...

Napoleon and Me
2006
as Martino Papucci
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man...

Pavilion 22
2006
as Uomo Bambino
Schizophrenic Valerio—whose existence was the bane of her sister Laura—dies after escaping from a private clinic, but his ghost keeps tormenting her g...

Mary
2005
as Matteo
The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary M...

Melissa P.
2005
as Arnaldo
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.

Romanzo Criminale
2005
as Sorcio
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the...

Sangue - La morte non esiste
2005
as Iuri
Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.

Sangue - La morte non esiste
2005
Screenplay
Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.

Quo Vadis, Baby?
2005
as Lucio
A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.

3.87
2005
as Andrea
During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.

Do You Like Hitchcock?
2005
as Giulio
A nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may have conspired to commit a brutal murder.

Call Me Salomè
2005
as Profeta
Herod is a Neapolitan boss who runs The Last Emperor, an infamous local, and Herodias is his vicious partner. Salomè is a young, immature and beautifu...

A Judge of Honor
2004
as Manfredi Borsellino
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-...

Fame chimica
2004
as Ragazzo in discoteca
Two childhood friends from a tough Milanese suburb—one a low-level drug dealer, the other stuck in a back-breaking, underpaid job—find their bond test...

What Will Become of Us
2004
as Manuel
A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.

Now or Never
2003
as Doveri
2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for activist Viola in the months preceding the fateful ...

Break Free
2003
as Vince
Directed by Gian Tavarelli, Liberi (Break Free) centers on the freckle-faced Vince (Elio Germano), whose life in a Roman mountain village is unfulfill...

Ferrari
2003
as Enzo Ferrari at 18 years
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...

Respiro
2002
as Pier Luigi
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterran...

Ultimo stadio
2002
as Billo
The Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have nothing in common with each other. The stadium becomes a ...

Unfair Competition
2001
as Paolo
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses client...
La storia chiusa
2001
as Amico
A Donatello award nominated short drama feature.

Honey Horn
2000
as Ernesto
A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.

Il cielo in una stanza
1999
as Paolo da giovane
Clashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being old and stifling. They time travel to the 1960s, where P...

Ci hai rotto papà
1993
as Andrea 'Cotoletta' Cecconi
Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pr...