Roberto De Francesco

AKA:

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1964-03-02

Caserta, Italy

Biography

Crew Roles

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Screenplay

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Screenplay

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Director

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Script

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Story

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {72}

Man with bird

2018-12-13 6.363

Capri-Revolution

In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepher ...

Genre :Drama, History

1999-09-03 0

Appassionate

Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she was left stranded at the altar several years ago, ...

Genre :Comedy

Record Store Clerk

2001-03-09 7.092

The Son's Room

A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident. ...

Genre :Drama

1999-01-01 0

Pugni nell'aria

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Il peso esatto del vuoto

Genre :

Raffaele

2007-09-21 6.1

Piano, Solo

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores. ...

Genre :Drama, Music

Gigi Moscati

2001-08-31 7.1

One Man Up

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 player whose career is cut short by an injury. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Manolo

2001-10-08 0

The Long Night

The long night of Manolo, hairdresser to the stars, on the Champs Élysées during his first experience with cocaine. He goes to discos and seances, sees widowed baronesses and pushers, and finally mana ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Don Antonio

2013-02-18 7.1

Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno

A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer. ...

Genre :Drama, Music, History, TV Movie

Senatore

2024-10-10 6.245

Sicilian Letters

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 when secret services involve him in an operation t ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, History

Giovanni

2024-02-22 5.3

Flying

Annabì has a fear of flying, which holds back her life and acting career. When her daughter decides to study abroad, Annabì sets out to conquer her fear by taking a course designed specifically for th ...

Genre :Comedy

Enrico

1995-10-26 5.8

The Second Time

A convicted terrorist out on parole meets a man she nearly murdered 15 years before, without recognizing him. He does so, but he chooses to keep quiet and spend time with her—desperate to understand t ...

Genre :Drama

Diego

1998-04-29 7.2

Rehearsals for War

A group of actors meet with little money in a unofficial theatre in Naples' Spanish Boroughs. Director's plan is to travel to Sarajevo, still under siege, to stage a classic Eschilus' play about civil ...

Genre :Drama

Luigi

1990-09-13 1

Traces of an Amorous Life

What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer. ...

Genre :Drama

Self

2023-09-07 0

Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis

The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic coherence, was able to work much less than he deser ...

Genre :Documentary

1997-09-02 0

Cinque Giorni Di Tempesta

Giovanni, a young boy who left Sicily for Bolzano to perform his military service , arrives five days early and is forced to stay outside the barracks before the official day of the call-up. Between ...

Genre :Drama

Nico

1989-10-01 0

Nulla ci può fermare

Genre :Comedy, Mystery

Giulio

1990-03-24 6

Evelina e i suoi figli

Stefania Sandrelli is Evelina, a separated woman who lives with possessive teenage children. When you fall in love, problems arise. ...

Genre :Comedy

2014-12-11 4.2

Neve

Genre :Drama, Thriller

1986-09-10 0

Prologo a Ritorno ad Alphaville

Genre :Music, TV Movie

2022-11-07 7.4

Tutto per mio figlio

Genre :Drama

Simone

1990-11-29 0

Una fredda mattina di maggio

Genre :Drama

Andrea

1992-04-17 4.5

Ladri di futuro

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 dreams, a child all of their own, the hope of making ...

Genre :Comedy

Nico

1992-10-29 0

Nessuno

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

Genre :

Gustavo Bacelli

2011-04-15 4.7

Se sei così, ti dico sì

Piero Cicala is an adult singer who leads a modest life in the shadow of the only moment of glory lived in the eighties, thanks to a song that earned him a million records sold. Just when it seems tha ...

Genre :Comedy

Rocco Priore

2004-12-25 6.75

Saturday, Sunday & Monday

Although this sounds like a weekend like many others, in the Prior house the atmosphere is rather tense because of some nervousness on the part of individual members of the family, especially the fath ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Paride

2024-07-04 6.5

Holy Shoes

The film tells, through the stories of four characters whose lives, in different forms and manners, are either changed or endangered by shoes, an object symbolizing desire par excellence, what we are ...

Genre :Comedy

Dott. Foli

2013-11-15 6.6

The Medicine Seller

A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system. ...

Genre :Drama

2024-06-14 7

Glory Hole

An entrepreneur from Caserta becomes entangled with the underworld and ends up exposing himself because of his relationship with Alba, the youngest daughter of a gangster. The subsequent situation get ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

2016-12-31 5.9

Pawn Street

In Torino, a bittersweet crowd is bringing its own belongings to a pawn shop, waiting for a ransom or the final auction. Between the thousands of faces that tell the human inventory of the crisis, thr ...

Genre :Drama

Federico

2017-02-14 5.839

Mom or Dad?

A divorced couple fights for the custody of their three children: neither of them wants it. Mom wants to leave them to dad, and vice versa. ...

Genre :Comedy

Filippo

2013-05-01 6.6

Honey

Irene, nicknamed 'Miele', has devote herself to people looking for help, and tries to alleviate their suffering even when they make extreme decisions. One day she has to cope with Grimaldi and his inv ...

Genre :Drama

Ludovico

2010-11-12 6.6

We Believed

1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican g ...

Genre :History, Drama, Adventure

Superstore cab driver

2017-09-08 6.355

Emma

Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Psychiatrist

1998-04-17 5

Notes of Love

A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness. ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Fabrizio Sala

2018-04-24 6.8

Loro 1

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, ...

Genre :Drama

Leonardo

1992-09-08 6.7

Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician

Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned ...

Genre :Drama, History

attore

2011-04-15 6.788

We Have a Pope

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a re ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Padre di Andrea

2014-04-28 3.875

La vita oscena

The tragic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, but he finds the strength to survive and tell about ...

Genre :Drama

Fabrizio Sala

2018-05-10 7.1

Loro 2

Genre :Drama

Yuri

1988-04-01 6.5

Il grande Blek

Waiting for the train that will take him away, a man goes back over moments of his small-town upbringing: the relationship with his family, his involvement in the protests of 1968 and a childhood frie ...

Genre :Drama

Zollo

1991-04-05 7

The Yes Man

Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

padre Baloo

2016-11-10 6.5

Sweet Dreams

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heave ...

Genre :Drama

1996-02-02 4.9

Bits & Pieces

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this st ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Fabio Della Ragione

2019-09-30 6.1

The Mayor of Rione Sanità

Antonio Barracano is a respected figure among the Neapolitan underworld, keeping order and administering justice according to his own criteria, beyond the law. One day he's faced with a dilemma after ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Il medico della clinica psichiatrica

2020-01-09 5.9

Hammamet

The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Carlo

2006-03-31 0

Basta un niente

Genre :Comedy

Fabrizio Sala

2018-09-13 6.688

Loro

Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) ...

Genre :Drama

Il presidente

1991-01-07 0

Il mistero di Rosa

Viterbo, 1250. Rosa is a young girl who, after a night vision, begins to preach the words of St. Francis in the streets. One day she is sent into exile. Short in a medieval setting, between ancient v ...

Genre :Drama

1994-05-13 0

Little Horrors

A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths arou ...

Genre :Drama

Enrico

1995-03-09 0

L'estate di Bobby Charlton

Genre :Drama

Pasquale

1996-10-04 0

Hotel Paura

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Eraclio

2002-09-20 6

Nemmeno in un sogno

A shepherd from the mountains of a remote Asian region travels to Southern Italy, in love with what he saw on Italian television. There, he accidentally ends up in a holiday resort, where he's treated ...

Genre :Comedy

Salvatore Di Giacomo

2021-09-09 7.48

The King of Laughter

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the e ...

Genre :Drama, History

Buonocore

2021-10-14 7.075

The Inner Cage

A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Emilio Zagatto

2025-03-06 6.744

The American Backyard

A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first novel, next to her elderly mother's house—separate ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery

Beniamino

1995-09-01 0

Man Who Check the Meter

The portly meter reader Crecenzio is first seen blowing up a building. The reasons for this drastic, desperate act provide the basis for the story, which is told in flashback. ...

Genre :Drama

Molinari

2025-04-02 6.8

Il Complottista

In a working-class neighborhood in Rome, a barber bothers his customers and neighbors with conspiracy theories he reads online. At home and in his small community nobody takes him seriously, especiall ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

2024-11-28 6.75

Nero

Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Tore

2003-09-03 4

E Io ti seguo

Giancarlo, a young Neapolitan animated by a great passion for journalism, is called as a correspondent in Torre Annunziata for the newspaper IL MATTINO. He begins to investigate the underworld and des ...

Genre :Drama

Sergio

1993-01-01 0

Lettera da Parigi

Genre :Drama

Vincenzo

1989-02-13 0

Bankomatt

With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself in to the police, since they don't know abo ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

2025-10-18 5

Gli occhi degli altri

In the untamed beauty of the island owned by an extraordinarily wealthy Marquis, Elena's arrival marks the beginning of a passionate love affair. Complicity and transgression, sex and power, in a film ...

Genre :Drama

2025-11-06 4.667

Anna

On March 21, 1956, Anna Magnani won the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Rose Tattoo. She spends the night waiting for the news to arrive wandering the alleys and squares of Ro ...

Genre :Drama

Autore

2007-11-30 6.3

Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!

1976. Faustino, an aspiring guitarist wasting his teenage years in a sleepy town, gets what could be his big break after joining the summer tour of a washed-up maestro from the big city. ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

Maggiore Antonio Navarra

2016-05-16 0

Romanzo Siciliano

Genre :Crime

Francesco Corrao

2022-05-22 6.9

Solo per passione - Letizia Battaglia fotografa

Genre :Drama

Sua Eminenza

2020-01-31 7.6

Luna Nera

In 17th-century Italy, a teenager learns about her destiny among a family of witches, just as her boyfriend's father hunts her down for witchcraft. ...

Genre :Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama

2018-05-08 7.2

The Miracle

In Rome, a Virgin Mary statue is found crying blood. Pondering on the implications of the existence of miracles, and eventually, the existence of God, the people involved in the enigma start losing th ...

Genre :Drama, Mystery

Enrico Riziero Galvaligi

2023-01-09 6.2

The General's Men

The efforts of a special paramilitary anti-terrorism unit set up in the 1970s by a high-ranking police official, Gen. Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, War & Politics

Achille Occhetto

2019-10-04 7.1

1994

After the breakdown of the old government, and with it the First Republic, Italy changed for good in 1994. Spinster Leo is all too aware of this. He pushed hard to see Berlusconi get elected Prime Min ...

Genre :Drama

Prefetto di Milano

2025-01-10 8.1

Mussolini: Son of the Century

The rise of Benito Mussolini and the birth of fascism in Italy, chronicling a country’s surrender to dictatorship and the relentless ascent of a man who rose from his ashes time and again. ...