Alessandro Gassmann
Birthday: Born in 1965-02-24 in Rome, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Alessandro Gassman (born February 24, 1965) is an Italian actor. Born in Rome, he is the son of actors Vittorio Gassman and Juliette Mayniel.
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Buona la prima!
Character: Ospite
Buona la prima! is an Italian television series....
Un Professore
Character: Dante Balestra
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Le Iene
Character: Self
Comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues. Recurring features of the show, besides the reportage, are the double interviews in which two famous people are asked the same questions, and are edited together on a split screen, side by side so that they answer one after the other....
I bastardi di Pizzofalcone
Character: Giuseppe Lojacono
Giuseppe Lojacono, suspected of collusion with the mafia, is unfairly thrown out of from Sicily and send to Pizzofalcone (close to Naples), together with other police officers. There, they bring justice back where it was forgotten....
Le stagioni del cuore
Character: Sergio Valenti
Le stagioni del cuore is an Italian television series....
I Cesaroni
Character: Oreste Gervasoni
I Cesaroni is an Italian television series produced since 2006 by Publispei and Mediaset RTI. The series is transmitted not only in Italy but also in Portugal, in the Czech Republic, Greece and Turkey. It is inspired by the Spanish series "Los Serrano". In Italy, the series is now in its fifth season and has been renewed for a sixth season....
Pinocchio
Character: Carlo Collodi
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Festival di Sanremo
Character: Self - Special Guest
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest....
Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Io ti cercherò
Character: Valerio Frediani
In a nocturnal and hostile Rome, Valerio must investigate the death of his son, an apparently suicide. An investigation that's also a last chance to restore a bond with that son he hadn't seen in years, facing the ghosts of the past....
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My Name Is Vendetta
Character: Santo
After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge....
Quiet Chaos
Character: Carlo
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day....
Il pataffio
Character: Frate Cappuccio
An unlikely group of soldiers and courtiers led by Marcount Berlocchio and his new bride Bernarda take possession of a distant fief. But their castle is a decrepit dump and their villagers aren't willing to be ruled....
The Seed of Discord
Character: Mario
On the day she learns of her pregnancy, a woman also finds out that her husband is sterile....
Transporter 2
Character: Gianni Chellini
Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers....
Steam: The Turkish Bath
Character: Francesco
Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Instanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Instanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy....
Basilicata Coast to Coast
Character: Rocco Santamaria
A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival....
Ex
Character: Davide
Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other....
The Father and the Foreigner
Character: Diego
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The Crusaders
Character: Peter
Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three young friends Richard, Peter and Andrew set off to join the crusading army....
David's Birthday
Character: Diego
Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?...
Golden Balls
Character: Miguel, el amigo de Melilla
A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project....
Billy
Character: Zippo
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 in love with a girl, only visits children aged between 8 and 12 and does not know what to do with his life....
Stubborn Fate
Character: Marcello Rambaldi
Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half....
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Character: Francesco Pazienza
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982....
Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
Character: Self
Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020...
Woman of My Life
Character: Giorgio
Longtime Italian cinema star Stefania Sandrelli (The First Beautiful Thing) is Alba, the mother of two very different adult sons. While Giorgio is a playboy who constantly cheats on his wife, Leonardo (Luca Argentero, Eat Pray Love) is always unlucky in love. When Leonardo finally meets the woman of his dreams, Sara, he brings her home to meet the family, but it appears this is not the first time that Sara has met Giorgio. Directed by Luca Lucini and stars Luca Argentero, Alessandro Gassman and ...
Baciato dalla fortuna
Character: Grandoni
Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. In the midst of debts, unpaid alimony and other serious financial issues, Gaetano unexpectedly wins the lottery, turning the fortune around....
Ex 2: Still Friends
Character: Massimo
Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken for psychiatrist by a beautiful girl Valentina with whom he falls in love. A divorce lawyer Sandra is romantically attracted to her client's husband Massimo....
Four Single Fathers
Character: Jacopo
A comedy/drama about four Italian single fathers trying to cope with American ex-wives, children, family, and new relationships, set in New York and Rome....
Sue Me
Character: Alessandro Bellacanzone
Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems....
Un Natale per due
Character: Claudio
An Italian style remake of "Due Date"....
Non prendere impegni stasera
Character: Giorgio
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Viva l'Italia
Character: Valerio Spagnolo
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…...
La bomba
Character: Nino
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Un Natale con i fiocchi
Character: Alex Morelli
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La guerra è finita
Character: Claudio
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Stella's Favor
Character: Rodolfo
Stella works in a restaurant in Rome. She feels frustrated about her life. In spite she has turned 40, she dreams of a film career....
Uomini senza donne
Character: Alex
Alex and Max are two "bachelors" who share the same house: Alex, advertising copywriter, is boxing, is an impenitent dongiovanni and does not hesitate to betray his colleague and girlfriend Paola; Max, saxophonist, neglects his ulcer and is attracted, yes, but also scared, by women....
Teste di cocco
Character: Pietro Tiraboschi
Tommaso and Pietro are two brothers who, shortly after their father's funeral, discover that the coffin is actually empty. To find out more they leave for Malaysia, where the man died, but a series of misunderstandings and false clues will take them around the world to discover other empty coffins and a father yet to be found and perhaps to know....
Piccolo Mondo Antico
Character: Franco Maironi
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Dalida
Character: Luigi Tenco
The life story of famous singer and actress of Egiptian and Italian ancestry Iolanda Gigliotti known by her stage name Dalida....
The Mongrel
Character: Roman
The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells drugs and lives in criminal contexts. His dream is to see his child, Nicu, whom he raised without a mother, live a different and better life....
I miei più cari amici
Character: Rossano
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Lovest
Character: Johnny
Angelo arrives in New York along with his friend Jimbo, convinced that he will find work. Not wanting to return to Italy after being rejected, they decide to drive to California....
Lourdes
Character: Bernard / Henri Guillaumet
The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-...
Pinocchio
Character: Carlo Collodi
The enchanted story of Pinocchio....
Snow White
Character: Buffone/Principe Andreas
A queen is so vain she needs the magical mirror the Black Knight forged to tell her daily she's the belle of the realm. When it adds Snowwhite, the king's heiress, has grown even more beautiful, the queen orders him and the shivering jester Andreas, who secretly loves the girl, to murder her step-daughter. However the knight fakes her death and seven dwarfs take her in at their magical mine. The dwarfs tell her various secrets, including true identities, and plot to save her, the disguised queen...
Facciamo fiesta
Character: Sandro
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A Season of Giants
Character: Francesco Granacci
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious persecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America....
The Dinner
Character: Massimo
Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?...
Quando eravamo repressi
Character: Federico
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Gospel According to Mary
Character: Giuseppe
The story of Mary is reinvented, no longer a spectator but a courageous architect of her own existence....
A Child Called Jesus
Character: Jesus
The film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King Herod fearing that the Messiah has indeed been born, orders that all Hebrew male children under the age of three be slain, Joseph moves his family near Egypt. Here, Jesus, sensing His divinity, expresses a desire to return to Nazareth. Travelling homeward with His mother Mary, Jesus flashes forward to events that will unfold in his adult life....
The Order of Time
Character: Pietro
A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting, endless night into a life-altering experience....
An Italian Name
Character: Paolo Pontecorvo
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow re...
L'altro enigma
Character: Il figlio
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God Willing
Character: Don Pietro
The son of an atheist, authoritarian father, believed to be liberal, wants to become a priest....
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Character: Self (voice)
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Lucca Mortis
Character:
A writer, realising his last big adventure will very likely be death, takes a sabbatical and leaves his home in New York City’s Little Italy to travel with his family to Lucca, Italy in order to trace his ancestral roots and clean up the loose ends in his life....
Mostruosamente Villaggio
Character: Sé stesso
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We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....
The Last Will Be the Last
Character: Stefano
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood las...
Mani nude
Character:
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Tutta colpa di Freud
Character: Alessandro
Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!...
Onda su onda
Character: Ruggero
Two under-appreciated artists meet while traveling to Montevideo, where one will give a concert. They initially dislike each other but eventually build a relationship as a means of finding a way out of their existential loneliness....
Nuda proprietà vendesi
Character: Riccardo Martelli
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There's No Religion Anymore
Character: Marietto/Bilal
Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newly elected Mayor Cecco (Claudio Bisio) wants to ask the local Tunisian community to “borrow” one of their children, but there’s conflict between the two communities. Cecco enlists the help of local Islam convert Bilal (Alessandro Gass...
A Month by the Lake
Character: Vittorio Balsari
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzer...
Ignorance Is Bliss
Character: Filippo
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened...
The Devils of Monza
Character: Giampaolo Osio
The young noble Don Monza is caught and thrown out by the nun Virginia de Leva when she catches him flirting with one of her nun sisters across the stone wall between their gardens. He hears the rumor that she'd have an affair with her trustee - so he kills him in a set-up duel and aims to take his place. Against her initial resistance, Monza manages to win her heart - and to get into her bed. This doesn't stay a secret for long, but Monza, now in love, does everything to keep it going....
Il premio
Character: Oreste Passamonte
After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly....
Natale a Beverly Hills
Character: Marcello
Carlo descends on his former lover's unsuspecting family and the scheming Rocco tries to break up his old rival Marcello's wedding....
Cinderella the Cat
Character: Primo Gemito (voice)
Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples....
The Stolen Caravaggio
Character: Alessandro Pes
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting....
All You Need is Crime
Character: Sebastiano
In the present day, three friends to make ends meet invent a "criminal tour" for the places which were scenes of the Banda della Magliana criminal acts, even with vintage clothes. Suddenly they are catapulted in the 1982, during the Spain World Cup, facing the real Banda della Magliana, which at that time had the control over illegal bets....
The Holy Family
Character: Joseph
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Di padre in figlio
Character: Self
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Guardiani delle nuvole
Character: Batino
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Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Character: Trafficante
Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality?...
An Almost Ordinary Summer
Character: Carlo
Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love....
Ritorno al crimine
Character: Sebastiano
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Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Character: Self
This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic scre...
Thou Shalt Not Hate
Character: Simone Segre
Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in a city in the north-east of Italy. A quiet life, an elegant apartment and no connection with his past. One day he finds himself assisting a man victim of a hit and run accident. But when he discovers a nazi tattoo on his chest, Simone abandons him to his destiny. Filled with guilt, he ends up tracing the man’s family: Marica, the eldest daughter; Marcello, a teenager plagued with racial hate; and little Paolo. The night will come when ...
My Brother Chases Dinosaurs
Character: Davide Mazzariol
As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his life....
Toni
Character: Toni
Toni is a mob movie combined with an urban love story and reflections about one's roots. The protagonist, Toni, is a young man from a small village in the south of Italy who arrives at the station Gare de Lyon in Paris. He never questions the education he receives from his mob family or the rules to which he is always chained. He contacts a man called "The Old Man," a strange character discarded by the family who is of help from time to time. This man is supposed to communicate to Toni all neces...
Comprarsi la vita
Character: Fabrizio
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Samson and Delilah
Character: Amrok
Biblical strongman Samson falls prey to the voluptuous Philistine temptress Delilah....
A Prince Called Toto
Character: Self
Totò, the mythical comedian of Italian stage and screen, was the illegitimate child of a noble man in one of Naples's poorest neighborhoods. As a child, he enlisted in the army simply to eat three square meals a day. Later, his dizzying success in show business brought him riches he had never dreamed of, plus stories of love and jealousy, the most important being with 16 year old Diana who eventually became his wife, only to leave him and inspire the Italian classic torch song Malafemmina, meani...
Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani
Character:
A romantic comedy about teen surfers....
Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian
Character: Self
A portrait of the mythical Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-96), a unique performer who was one of the kings of European cinema....
Oltre il tempo, l'amore
Character:
The encounter between physics and cinema and the terribly topical subject of the end of the world turned the set of Liliana Cavani's The order of time into a kind of Noah's Ark, where cast and crew isolated themselves for five weeks. Flooded by the climate emergency, wars, and the dystopian future, while Cavani holds the helm of the ship and Carlo Rovelli explains the end of time, the film's meteorite becomes in the documentary a metaphor for what happens in the protagonists' real lives....