Elio Germano
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) and at the 2020 Berlin Film Festival for Volevo Nascondermi, portraying painter Antonio Ligabue. Subsequent starring roles include Tutta La Vita Davanti (2008), Diaz: Don't Clean Up This Blood (2012), Il Giovane Favoloso (2014), Suburra (2015), The Man Without Gravity (2019), Bad Tales (2020) and Rose Island (2020). Outside of Italy he appeared in the Abel Ferrara's Mary (2005), and Nine (2009), opposite Daniel Day-Lewis.
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as ArnaldoAn adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual...
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My Brother Is an Only Child
as Accio BenassiAccio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is...
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Suburra
as SebastianoA gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the...
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Romanzo Criminale
as SorcioAfter serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and...
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
as StefanoShe’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate,...
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Nine
as PierpaoloArrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning,...
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Rose Island
as Giorgio RosaIn 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off...
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It's All About Karma
as Mario PitagoraGiacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
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Che ne sarà di noi
as ManuelA coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island...
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Ferrari
as Enzo Ferrari at 18 yearsStory of Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous...
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Respiro
as Pier LuigiGrazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the...
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Napoleon and Me
as Martino PapucciElba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with...
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Lord of the Ants
as Ennio ScribaniBased on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti...
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The Man Without Gravity
as OscarA gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an...
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Leopardi
as Giacomo LeopardiIn 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
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Tenderness
as FabioBack from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way...
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Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
as Luca GualtieriOn July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the...
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Our Life
as ClaudioClaudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his...
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Alaska
as FaustoNadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a...
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A Whole Life Ahead
as Lucio 225-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete...
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Trust
as PietroPietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both...
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Bad Tales
as Bruno PlacidoIn a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling...
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A Magnificent Haunting
as PietroAn aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly...
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Hidden Away
as Antonio LigabueThe film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw...
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Io sono Tempesta
as BrunoTo avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a...
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Lucia's Grace
as ArturoDuring the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a...
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As God Commands
as Quattro FormaggiAn 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town.
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The Great Ambition
as Enrico BerlinguerSecretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer...
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A Judge of Honor
as Manfredi BorsellinoIn 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of...
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America Latina
as Massimo SistiMassimo Sisti is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving...
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Ci hai rotto papà
as Andrea 'Cotoletta' CecconiKids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get...
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Palazzina LAF
as Giancarlo BasileCaterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use...
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Unfair Competition
as PaoloTwo linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for...
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Sicilian Letters
as MatteoLoosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the...
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Beautiful People
as GiulioAlfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is...
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Mary
as MatteoThe filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director...
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The Fifth Wheel
as ErnestoThe life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with...
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Do You Like Hitchcock?
as GiulioA nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may...
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The Past Is a Foreign Land
as GiorgioA promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward...
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In arte Nino
as Nino ManfrediBiopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959,...
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Lost and Beautiful
as Sarchiapone (voice)Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania...
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Quo Vadis, Baby?
as LucioA private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
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The Early Bird Catches the Worm
as Marco BaldiniMarco Baldini is a young man determined to become the voice of a major radio; he alternates...
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Break Free
as VinceDirected by Gian Tavarelli, Liberi (Break Free) centers on the freckle-faced Vince (Elio...
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Il cielo in una stanza
as Paolo da giovaneClashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being...
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The Landlords
as EliaTwo construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some...
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Sangue - La morte non esiste
as IuriIuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.
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The End Is My Beginning
as Folco TerzaniWhen an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call...
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L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères
as FrancescoThe movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209...
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All Star - Ritorno al cinema
as Uomo delle pulizieA short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.
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Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa
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Ultimo stadio
as BilloThe Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have...
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3.87
as AndreaDuring 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of...
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Now or Never
as Doveri2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling...
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Binxet - Under the border
as Narrator“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and...
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Scattered Cloud
as VenditoreBlue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée....
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Fallen Heroes
as LucaForty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man...
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Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
as SelfA documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi.
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The Bee and the Wind
as MatteoMatteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.
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Cornetti al miele
as ErnestoA stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.
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Pavilion 22
as Uomo BambinoSchizophrenic Valerio—whose existence was the bane of her sister Laura—dies after escaping from...
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Call Me Salomè
as ProfetaHerod is a Neapolitan boss who runs The Last Emperor, an infamous local, and Herodias is his...
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La Storia
as Giuseppe 'Eppetondo' CucchiarelliIda, a single mother of two sons, hides her Jewish heritage and fights against poverty and...
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Ulisse. Il piacere della scoperta
as SelfAlberto Angela leads the dissemination program dedicated to history, art and culture. A...
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Padre Pio: Miracle Man
as Padre Pio ragazzoThe amazing details and events in Padre Pio's life as a boy and throughout his 50 years as a...
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Il sequestro Soffiantini
as Paolo SoffiantiniIn 1997, a group of bandits kidnaps businessman Giuseppe Soffiantini, keeping him imprisoned for...
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