Biography
Ninni Bruschetta (born Antonino Bruschetta on 6 January 1962) is an Italian actor, film and stage director and screenwriter. Born in Messina, in 1983 Bruschetta co-founded with Maurizio Puglisi 'Nutrimenti terrestri', a stage company which primarily focused on subjects of social value, and was active both as an actor and a director. In 1987 he debuted as a screenwriter with the indie drama La gentilezza del tocco, and in 1989 he co-directed the indie film Private Screening. He is also very acti...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Prophecy
2025
as Tizio

The Price of Nonna's Inheritance
2024
as Nunzio Zampa
When a grandmother falls for a cheeky suitor with dubious intentions, her family devises a secret plan to protect her life — and their inheritance.

In fuga con Babbo Natale
2023
On Christmas Eve, a curious child embarks on a hilarious adventure with a man he believes to be Santa Claus — but is actually an undercover thief.

Il paese dei jeans in agosto
2023
as Faluccio Arato

My Brother and I
2023
Sofia is the black sheep of her family. She is a 28-year-old gay girl who can’t help but cheat on her partner and struggles to find a stable job. She ...

Quando
2023
as Prof. Cocco
A man wakes up from a coma that has lasted since 1984.

The Bone Breakers
2022
as Francesco
Inside a warehouse in Palermo, a group of people smashes a man’s arm to pieces with a wheelie bag packed with weights. This is the method used by an a...
Jazz Set
2022
as Sé stesso

The Best Years
2022
as Eugenio
Summer 1994. Berlusconi has come into power and 16-year-old Elena, listening to Nirvana and starting to develop a political consciousness, can't wait ...

Once Were Humans
2021
as Massimo
Leo is an Italian who lives in Slovenia. Vučko is a Bosnian who arrived to Slovenia as a child refugee. Leo continues to stay in Slovenia because of h...

Querido Fidel
2021
as Tommaso

Un eretico in corsia
2020
as Intervistatore

La concessione del telefono
2020
as Father Macaluso
Although Pippo Genuardi seems to have cleared his mind by marrying Taninè Schilirò, daughter of the richest man in Vigàta, he is in fact someone who i...

Tuttapposto
2019
as Giovanni Mancuso
Roberto is a student in a corrupt university where teachers sell exams and only hire friends and relatives.

Appena un minuto
2019
as Uomo poker

La stagione della caccia
2019
as Father Macaluso
Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guardi...

Non ho niente da perdere
2019

Tu mi nascondi qualcosa
2018
as Vittorio, padre di Valeria

Il vegetale
2018
as Bruno Rovazzi
Fabio struggles with a cumbersome father and a capricious and spoiled little sister who consider him a good for nothing, a “vegetable” in fact. The un...

A testa alta - Libero Grassi
2018
as Nino

Viola, Franca
2017
as Bernardo Viola
Sicily, 1965. Franca is being forced to marry her rapist to avoid becoming a pariah in her traditionalist community but she rebels against the establi...

Cani di razza
2017

It’s My Turn
2017
as Rino Germanà
The true story of the 1992 car-bombing murder of Paolo Borsellino, an anti-Mafia crusader and Palermo judge, is recounted in this documentary drama.

The Family Jumble
2017
as Direttore di banca
A kid tries splitting his boring parents to join the group of his schoolmates who are all children of divorced mums and dads

Omicidio all'italiana
2017
as Agente Viaggi
To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, ...

I siciliani
2016

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
2016
as Igor Alessi
More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and co...

Quel bravo ragazzo
2016
as Enrico Greco
On his deathbed, a powerful Mafia boss names his estranged son heir to his criminal empire: however, his men discover too late that the son at issue i...

C’è sempre un perché
2016

Where Am I Going?
2016
as Ministro Magno
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will chang...

Nomi e cognomi
2015
as Mario De Libertis

Basta poco
2015

Land of Saints
2015
as Domenico Mercuri
Ambitious magistrate Vittoria (Valeria Solarino) makes the dramatic decision to relocate from the north to the south of Italy with one mission in mind...

La trattativa
2014
as Prof. di Teologia / PM Processo Dell'Utri
What are we talking about when we talk about negotiations? About the state's concessions to the Mafia in exchange for ending the massacres? About who ...

The Tailor's Wife
2014
as assessore Cordaro

Diario di un maniaco perbene
2014
as Amico gallerista

L'assalto
2014
as Franco

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer
2013
as Fra Giacinto
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and s...

Aspirante vedovo
2013
as Perlasca
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...

Out of the Blue
2013
as Adriano
Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be j...

Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia
2013
Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Ro...

Viva l'Italia
2012
as Himself
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding ...

Tell No One
2012
as Rodolfo
Mattia is about to move to Madrid by his boyfriend Eduard. When the day before leaving for Spain, Eduard announces his arrival in Rome to know the "la...

To Rome with Love
2012
as Hotel Detective
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful in...

È nata una star?
2012
as Rasero
Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose whe...

Make a Fake
2011
as Ciccio Rizzuto

La donna della domenica
2011
as Vicecommissario De Palma
Based on a crime book by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. The story is set in the city of Turin, and deal...

Boris: The Film
2011
as Duccio Patané
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen.

Come Undone
2010
as Domenico's brother
Anna is an accountant for an important insurance firm and lives with her longterm lover Alessio - a man who longs for a stable longterm relationship w...

Lo scandalo della Banca Romana
2010
as Commissario Cavaterra

La casa sulle nuvole
2009
as Bellini

Aldo Moro - Il presidente
2008
as Oreste Leonardi
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, t...

Il coraggio di Angela
2008
as Ispettore Piccolo

Il generale Dalla Chiesa
2007
as Pio La Torre

L'uomo di vetro
2007
as Bruno Cantone

My Brother Is an Only Child
2007
as Secretary Bombacci
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...

Matchmaker
2006
as Mimmo Nunnari

Golden Door
2006
as Italian Emigrant (voice)
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all ...

Political Target
2006
as Spano
The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Espe...

A Judge of Honor
2004
as Antonio Cassarà (as Ninni Bruschetta)
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-...

The Life I Want
2004
as Luca
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...

To Sleep Next to Her
2004
as Sindacalista
A well-liked employee in a multinational firm, formerly working on peers' motivation and professional training, is given the task to fire 25 of his co...

The Vanity Serum
2004
as Vittorio Terracciano (as Ninni Bruschetta)
A detective with PTSD investigates the disappearance of several junk TV celebrities who have all been guests at the same controversial talk show.

E Io ti seguo
2003
as Comandante Starace
Giancarlo, a young Neapolitan animated by a great passion for journalism, is called as a correspondent in Torre Annunziata for the newspaper IL MATTIN...

I cinghiali di Portici
2003
as Ciro

Lost Love
2003
as Luigi
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later ...

One Man Up
2001
as Genny
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...

Lupo mannaro
2000
as Anatomopatologo
Police chief Romeo becomes convinced that affluent professional Velasco is a serial killer known for mauling his victims with his teeth, but nobody be...

One Hundred Steps
2000
as Anthony
Peppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps fr...

First Light of Dawn
2000
as Mirko Zappalà
Lucio Gaudino directs this family drama about a pair of brothers grudgingly reunited after their parents are killed by Mafia extortionists. After lear...

The Prince's Manuscript
2000
A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.

Before the Sunset
1999
as Domenico
A young Moroccan immigrant, living in southern Italy, escapes from his forthcoming wedding to the daughter of a local Mafia member to a hotel where he...
Fiabe metropolitane
1998
as Francesco
Five untitled episodes: a businessman visits prostitutes before returning to his wife; an extra falls asleep at the cinema; a farmhand faces an Easter...

Un'isola d'inverno
1998
as Stefano

Black Holes
1995
as cliente
The impossible love between one prostitute, managing a bunch of handicapped prostitutes, and the homosexual Adamo. In the horrible suburb of Napoli we...

Law of Courage
1994
as Sostituto procuratore Di Salvo
The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Repu...

Libera
1993
as Pistoletta
Three separate women endure trouble with the men in their lives.

Nessuno
1992
Writer
A young man gradually retreats from reality after his mother falls into a coma.

Ladri di futuro
1992
as Corrado
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...

Visioni private
1990
as Carlo

Visioni private
1990
Director, Screenplay
Italia '90: lavori in corso
1990
Director
Independent documentary about the hidden side of the 1990 FIFA World Cup.