Antonio Catania
Birthday: Born in 1952-02-22 in Acireale, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Antonio Catania (Acireale, 22 febbraio 1952) è un attore italiano.
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Benvenuti a tavola
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Two family owned restaurants of conflicting styles open up shop across the street from one another....
Il Candidato
Character: Claudio Sereni
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Boris
Character: Diego Lopez
Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered in 2022. The show brings to the stage the behind the scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many fictions airing on the Italian TV networks....
Crimini
Character: Veronesi
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)...
Crimini
Character: Giacomo Chimenti
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)...
Squadra Mobile
Character: Sandro Vitale
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Don Matteo
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Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help....
La linea verticale
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Heartfelt Italian comedy-drama about the patients and staff of a hospital oncology ward....
L'ultima Pallottola
Character: Maggiore Fornari
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The Bad Guy
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The story of Nino Scotellaro, a Sicilian public prosecutor who devoted his entire life to fighting against the mafia and is suddenly accused of being one of the very men he has always fought against. After being condemned, and with nothing left to lose, Nino decides to pull off a Machiavellian revenge plan....
Paolo VI - Il Papa nella tempesta
Character: Padre Giulio Bevilacqua
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Ho sposato uno sbirro
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Bread and Tulips
Character: Mimmo Barletta
An endearing light comedy about a woman who spontaneously becomes a resident of Venice after her family left her behind. While enjoying the wonderful people she meets she achieves a new life and the first time independent of her family....
Different from Whom?
Character: Corazza
Political strategists in a northern Italian city push gay-rights campaigner Piero into the mayoral race, pairing him with uptight conservative toughie Adele. Piero and his partner, Remo, are the stable ones, while buttoned-up divorcee Adele nurses her bitterness....
L'amore è eterno finché dura
Character: Guido
Gilberto, 50enne, si fa coinvolgere in una cosiddetta speed-date, una gara in cui i protagonisti devono trovare un partner in 3 minuti. Arrestato, deve confessare tutto in presenza della moglie che lo sbatte fuori di casa. Rifugiatosi da amici scopre che il suo migliore amico è amante della moglie e comincia a tentare di avviare nuove relazioni che falliscono tutte....
Atelier del cinema 2022
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Evelyne tra le nuvole
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In her early forties, Sofia lives in the mountains, isolated from the world, a place where even basic Internet technology seems to be an unknown entity. She runs an old farmhouse, located at the highest point outside the village, an age-old structure that she has converted into a holiday farm, whilst taking tending to her cows, her curative herbs and producing special milk used for the making top-quality Parmesan. One day, a foreigner from a well-known telecommunications company shows up. He co...
Night Bus
Character: Bergamini
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation....
La cura del gorilla
Character: Gio'
A bodyguard with split personality is hired to protect an elderly American actor sent to Italy to promote a western video game. They get on each other's nerves but eventually form a bond. He also meets a pretty social worker with problems....
Ma che colpa abbiamo noi
Character: Ernesto
Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session....
Sud
Character: Elia
During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed....
Mediterraneo
Character: Lt. Carmelo La Rosa
Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there....
In barca a vela contromano
Character: Luigi
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That's Life
Character: Catanìa
Fugitive convict Aldo seizes a car, taking policeman Giacomo and civilian Giovanni hostages. While chased by the police all over Italy, they will eventually become friends....
The Legend of Al, John and Jack
Character: Fred, the cook
Hapless Depression-era gangsters Al, John and Jack discover their boss wants to get rid of them and come up with a plan to sell him to the FBI, but Al's short-term memory loss could be a problem......
Puerto Escondido
Character: Di Gennaro
Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions....
Kamikazen (Ultima notte a Milano)
Character: Tony Pesci
A group of comedians are trying to be successful on stage. One night an important television network organises a public variety show to sort out some performers for their programs. Every one of them will try their hardest, but just a few will be chosen....
Other Fathers
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Giulio, a skilled salesman, father and caring husband, suddenly finds himself homeless, without money, and without a family, when his wife Annalisa asks for a divorce, forcibly removing him from his children with false accusations of violence and drugs....
Love, Money and Philosophy
Character: Piero
Stefano, a philosophy grad student without a future, tries to commit suicide after his girlfriend leaves him. He is saved by Giulio, a wisecracking plumber who takes him home and teaches him the tricks of the trade. When Lucia, a woman disappointed in both men and conventional jobs who has started to work as a prostitute, calls them to repair a sink, for Stefano it's love at first sight....
Phobia
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Chiara returns to the family farmhouse after many years, together with her friend Michela. An obscure incident had pushed her to leave, but now the old grudges finally seem to have been overcome. During the night Michela disappears. Chiara asks her family for help: "Who is Michela?", they reply. The girl had dinner with them, yet everyone says they have never seen her, Chiara is the only one who remembers her....
Prova a volare
Character: Tonino
A young boy and a young girl finds each other....
4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
Character: De Nardis (segment "Balondòr")
Four stories about football....
Naples to New York
Character: Carmine
In the immediate post-war period, amidst the rubble of a poverty-ridden Naples, two kids, Carmine and Celestina, try to survive as best they can by helping each other out. One night, they secretly board a ship bound for New York to reach Celestina’s sister, who emigrated to America several years earlier. The two children join the many Italian emigrants seeking a new life in America and arrive in an unknown metropolis, which, after several misadventures, they will learn to call home....
Beautiful People
Character: Alfredo
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 Rome but spend their weekends at their country home in Umbria, where they love to spend their days walking in the forests or relaxing poolside with a good book. One day, as she goes into town, Susanna sees a girl prostituting herself in the bushes on the side of the road and decides to save her from her unhappy existence, despite the enormous diffe...
Il consiglio d'Egitto
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Bar Sport
Character: Muzzi
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Boris: The Film
Character: Diego Lopez
A director and his crew attempt to make the transition from the small to the big screen....
The Undesirables
Character: Gian Carlo Fusco
USA, 1951. When a group of Italian immigrants suspected to have connections with the Mafia are sent back to Italy with the brand of "undesirable", a journalist decide to inquire about the story....
It Happens in the Best of Families
Character: Angelo Cederna
After their father passes away, three siblings reconnect at their mother's remarriage....
The Worst Week of My Life
Character: Giorgio
Seven days before his wedding, a man must contend with a series of never-ending disasters....
Bimba
Character: Macaluso
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Mille bolle blu
Character: Caligiuri
The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends....
The Worst Christmas of My Life
Character: Giorgio
Paolo needs to reach the castle of Alberto Caccia, where he was invited to spend Christmas with his family and Margherita, the ninth month of pregnancy. With them there will also be blessed, daughter of Alberto and childhood friend of Margherita, who was also pregnant. Among various mishaps and blunders, Paolo will combine another of his, coming to make everyone believe, because of a misunderstanding, that Alberto's died for his fault....
Qui non è il paradiso
Character: Commissar Lucidi
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The Wait
Character: Lo sbrigafaccende
A mafia killer accepts to take the identity of his last victim in order to redeem his past. Two games of chess - one with his victim, the other with his boss - will stress the turning points of this change. The killer meet his victim on a ship that carries back together in Sicily 40 years after their departure. Only one will arrive in Sicily, but he'll chose to change his life and complete the destiny of the other one....
Camerieri
Character: Germano
Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate one another but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities....
Ribelli per caso
Character: Adriano
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Il segreto del successo
Character: Antonio Zoccoletti
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Asini
Character: Viaggiatore treno
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Paul VI: The Pope in the Tempest
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The service of Pope Paul VI presents tremendous challenges for humanity not only in the political, cultural and economic aspects of the world but also in the spiritual life of The Church. Pope Paul VI is the first Pope to be a Missionary Pope, to meet people where they are. To trust in God as he was asking The Church to do and he is given the opportunity to love that trust in its fullness....
Improvvisamente Natale
Character: Mario
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Cornetti al miele
Character: Giorgio
A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications....
Casanova's Return
Character: Alberto
Leo Bernardi is a successful and acclaimed Italian director. He’s approaching the end of his career but he cannot accept his slow decline. He has just finished shooting his last movie and he’s deeply sad. The movie is inspired by the novel about Casanova written by Arthur Schnitzler, a character so similar to the director, even more than he could imagine. Schnitzler’s Casanova is aged, glory days are over: he lost his charm and his attraction to women, he’s broke and no more eager to travel thro...
Appuntamento a ora insolita
Character: Alfonso
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La tenda nera
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The new captain of the Carabinieri, Fabio Leopardi, arrives in a quiet provincial town, called to investigate the possible existence of a satanic sect which has led to the death of three people: the parish priest of the town, who died in an alleged accident, the captain of the carabinieri, apparently dead by suicide, who was investigating the death of the priest, and a young student, found dead in a ditch, who behind her 'good girl' appearance hid the use of narcotic substances and the practice ...
Mirafiori Lunapark
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Zamora
Character: Commendator Galbiati
Soccer is an alien world for Walter Vismara, an unfamiliar terrain he's always avoided. But when his job hangs in the balance, he's thrust into the role of goalkeeper by his soccer-obsessed boss. Forced into a relentless routine of practice sessions and taunts, Walter finds himself trapped in a nightmare. His troubles escalate when he discovers his beloved in the arms of his archenemy, adding a personal dimension to his challenges. Determined to prove his worth, Walter devises a plan: to play th...
Belli di papà
Character: Giovanni
The wealthy businessman Vincenzo realizes that he is a father too absent, but also that his two sons and 1aughter are spoiled and unable to support themselves economically. So Vincenzo stages their fraudulent bankruptcy and runs with their children in Taranto, in his old house. The boys are struggling to settle, but Vincenzo is confident about them and hope that they will soon find a job in the city. Meanwhile, an impostor blackmailer, who wants to marry the daughter of Vincenzo, arrives in Pugl...
C'era una volta il Derby Club
Character: Himself
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Attesa e cambiamenti
Character: Padre di Tina
John and Beatrice are a Fresh young wedding couple: he aims a brilliant career in the hotel A dove Works Company, she leads with ease of Success A radio transmission. Their Dream of Having a baby is realized very soon, but it carries with it considerable troubles: mood swings, hormonal upheavals, inevitable intrufolamenti Parenti, worries about the future. Everything is Changing. The Physical and psychological changes of torque, the power supply, Fears, EXPENSES, sex, continuous visits, clothing...
Them Who?
Character: Redattore
David loses his white collar job, his fiancée and his house after one night with con man Marcello. He tracks him down to exact revenge, but ends up becoming his disciple in order to win back everything....
30 anni (di meno)
Character: Marco
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I babysitter
Character: commissario
On Andrea's birthday, his boss asks him to babysit his son while he's away for work: while Andrea is babysitting, his friends arrive and throw a big party....
La Sindrome di Antonio
Character: Vassilis
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Classe Z
Character: Commissario Luciani
First day of last year for the students of a high school science, but at school there is something new: some guys have been moved from their respective classes in a section created especially for them, the section H. Students of the H section are not were chosen at random, are in fact notoriously problematic elements, too exuberant and listless. Among them is Ricky who is awake and never misses a chance to make jokes irritating that it shares on its Youtube channel, Star whose only interest is i...
Agata e Ulisse
Character: Ulisse
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Vesna Goes Fast
Character: il proprietario della tavola calda
Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation....
It’s the Law
Character: vigile urbano
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems....
L'amore rubato
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The stories of five women very different from each other, yet linked by morbid and violent love experiences, are intertwined in a drama inspired by the collection of short stories by Dacia Maraini published in 2012 by the same title of the film, "Love Stolen "....
The Dinner
Character: Mago Adam
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealou...
Tiro libero
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Outlaw!
Character: Assistant district attorney
The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as “the gentleman bandit” because he robbed banks without violence, with only a toy gun. After many convictions and jailbreaks, in the summer of 1973 he's being held in Fossano, Piedmont when he tries to escape again. This time things get messy and he has to use a real gun and take two prison guards as hostages....
La classe non è acqua
Character: Prof. Claudio Tersilli
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Ask Me If I'm Happy
Character: Antonio
Aspiring actors Aldo, Giovanni, and Giacomo work dead-end jobs while nurturing a passion project, staging their performance of 'Cyrano de Bergerac'. However, love for the same woman will end their friendship. Three years later, Giovanni and Giacomo reunite after hearing that Aldo is dying....
Ultima Pallottola
Character: Maggiore Fornari
Based on the case of the serial killer Donato Bilancia, who murdered 17 people between 1998 and 2000 in Genova....
Cuba libre - Velocipedi ai tropici
Character: Paolo
A group of Italian people go to Cuba, for various different reasons. One of them would like to remake Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thief. But it won't be easy....
Ogni lasciato è perso
Character: Diego
Piero C, a successful Turin television host, is dumped by his girlfriend, Beatrice; the abandonment left him in a state of deep depression. to the point he considers to end it all and leave his job. But his friends will try to make him recover through a series of bizarre experiences....
Nirvana
Character: Paranoia dealer
Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released....
Dreamfools
Character: Pallavicini
Two lovers are stuck in stale relationships due to lean finances. But when one is duped into thinking he's suddenly rich, he takes very drastic action....
My Beloved Enemy
Character: Claudio Petrazzi
A professor saves the life of a wounded hitman who, in exchange, promises to find and kill his enemy. Even though the professor says he has no enemies, the killer goes on a mission and transforms the professor's life....
Dolce Fine Giornata
Character: Antonio Linde
In Tuscany, Maria's stable family life begins to erode as her relationship with a young immigrant develops against a backdrop of terrorism and eroding democracy....
Bits & Pieces
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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 star-studded omnibus tale about life and love....
Un coccodrillo per amico
Character: Giovanni
Lorenzo and Sandro are friends and partners of Agostino, director of a real estate agency, a great lover of Africa. During a lunch they accidentally meet Giovanni, known in Kenya. The man, having become familiar, proposes a real estate deal in the dark continent. This is a project for the construction in Malindi of a resort with villas and swimming pools, designed for the western market. Lorenzo is disinterested and skeptical, while Sandro is enthusiastic. However, they discover that the place w...
When Mom Is Away
Character: Direttore family market
A tired and stressed-out mom takes off on a solo vacation, sending her family into chaos as the father tries to take over the household duties....
My Big Gay Italian Wedding
Character: Frate Francesco
A father, who calls himself "open" and tolerant and fights against any form of discrimination, reveals himself as not so liberal when his son announces the engagement to his partner. Overwhelmed by the news, he regresses into the most fierce opponent of same-sex marriage, and tries to undermine his son's happiness with a series of embarrassing situations....
The Stolen Caravaggio
Character: Massimo Vitelli
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....
Guarda il cielo: Stella, Sonia, Silvia
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Three situations about women's lives in three different periods....
Bitter Years
Character: Walter Mieli
A drama film based on the life of Mario Mieli, a leading figure in the Italian gay movement of the 1970s....
Odissea nell'ospizio
Character: Luca Martirio
Four sixty-something disgraced comedians - who used to work together - find themselves in a retirement home. They'll join forces again, this time to save the place from bankruptcy....
Love Burns
Character: il poliziotto
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The Great Wave
Character:
The entrepreneurial turning point of one of the most heinous and powerful criminal organizations on the planet: the 'Ndrangheta, told through the life and death of an ordinary man....
Free - Liberi
Character: Dragomir
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All for Uma
Character: Nonno Attila
After taking a job at a family’s previously thriving vineyard, a young woman looks to save its dysfunctional owners from debt and themselves....
A Woman of Courage
Character: Rocco Chinnici
Felicia Impastato, mother of the brave Peppino Impastato, tries to keep the memory of his son alive after his murder....
Non è mai un errore
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After a story of love and passion, lived on holiday in Brazil, Leonardo will have to face the hard separation with the help of his family and closest friends, to rediscover the happiness and joy of life...
The Caiman
Character: dirigente Rai
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it...
Doppio Segreto
Character: Antoine Dary
Caterina and Maria Manara are two monozygotic twins, therefore identical in appearance. What profoundly differentiates them are their character and the choices that life has led them to make. Their story intersects with crimes and attempted murders, threats and attacks, misfortunes and apparitions, premonitions and nightmares....
Dove osano le cicogne
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The film tells the story of a couple who, desperately looking for a child, go to Spain to place themselves in the hands of a clinic specializing in assisted reproduction. Their plans will be turned upside down by meeting a seemingly perfect young girl who will offer to carry on the pregnancy for them....