Francesco Acquaroli

Actor

March 27, 1962 (64 years)

Rome, Italy

Biography

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Filmography

8.3

Fargo

Ebal Violante

A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.

6.3

Father Matteo

Alex Fascetti

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.

4.0

Hope Lost

Professor

A Romanian girl dreams of living the glamorous life she sees in Italian soap operas.

7.4

Suburra: Blood on Rome

Samurai

In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.

7.2

Anti-Mafia Squad

Giuseppe Barca

Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

7.0

Turn of the Tide

Monti

When a boat loaded with cocaine sinks off his home island, Eduardo sees a risky but exciting opportunity to make money and fulfill impossible dreams.

6.7

The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

Giuliano Mignini

Amanda Knox arrives in Italy for her study abroad only to be wrongfully imprisoned for murder weeks later. Follow Knox's relentless fight to prove her innocence and reclaim her freedom and examines why authorities and the world stood so firmly in judgment.

7.9

Rocco Schiavone

Sebastiano Cecchetti

Weed smoking, foulmouthed Rocco Schiavone is an offbeat Deputy Commissioner of the State Police. For disciplinary reasons he is transferred to the Alpine town of Aosta, far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated but cranky Roman despises the mountains, the cold, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes.

7.5

Rise of the Raven

Visconti

The story of János Hunyadi is the epic tale of a hero born into modest circumstances, who, in 1456, with relentless determination and against all odds, vanquished the much larger Ottoman army, halting its drive to conquer the Vatican and overrun Western Europe. In so doing, Hunyadi not only shaped the history of Hungary, but that of all Europe.

5.3

Welcome Home

Eduardo

A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions.

7.3

Agon

Maestro

Three elite athletes train for the Summer Games, Ludoj, 2024. Facing press attention, injury, and exhaustion, they practice their respective disciplines of rifle shooting, fencing, and judo. The women work with coaches to optimize their performance before competing under acute pressure at the Games.

N/A

The Red and the Black

Comte Altamira

Handsome and ambitious, Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble peasant origins and make something of his life-by adopting the code of hypocrisy by which his society operates. Julien ultimately commits a crime-out of passion, principle, or insanity-that will bring about his downfall. The Red and the Black is a lively, satirical picture of French Restoration society after Waterloo, riddled with corruption, greed, and ennui.

6.1

Unwanted

Franco

A cruise ship rescues 28 refugees from the Mediterranean. When the captain is ordered to head for Libya, the situation escalates.

6.7

No Place Like Home

Pietro Ristuccia

A loss and a secret from the past put in crisis an apparently perfect family.

7.5

Dogman

Francesco, Video Lottery Owner

Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.

7.7

Per Elisa: An Italian Crime Story

Maurizio Restivo

Reconstruction of one of the most shocking crime news events in recent decades: the murders of Elisa Claps and Heather Barnett by Danilo Restivo. The story begins on 12 September 1993 and takes place over a period of about twenty years between Potenza and the English coast of Bournemouth.

5.7

The Red and the Black

Comte Altamira

In 1827, Berthet, the son of a craftsman and a young seminarian, was tried and sentenced to death for murdering his former mistress, the wife of a noble who had hired him as tutor to his children.

6.3

Three Floors

Le psychiatre

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

6.5

Adults in the Room

Mario Draghi

A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.

6.1

Solo

Commissario Sasso

Undercover cop Marco infiltrates the Corona crime family but finds he must blur legal and moral lines to maintain secrecy and complete the mission.