Elio Germano
Birthday: 1980-09-25
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Biography: 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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Nine
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpo...
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Fame chimica
Two childhood friends from a tough Milanese suburb—one a low-level drug dealer, the other stuck in a...
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As God Commands
An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town....
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Napoleon and Me
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the...
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My Brother Is an Only Child
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
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The Bee and the Wind
Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave....
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Quo Vadis, Baby?
A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier....
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Do You Like Hitchcock?
A nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may have ...
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What Will Become of Us
A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island follo...
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Mary
The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who ...
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Our Life
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife ...
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The End Is My Beginning
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his s...
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Call Me Salomè
Herod is a Neapolitan boss who runs The Last Emperor, an infamous local, and Herodias is his vicious...
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Break Free
The film follows Vince, a dissatisfied young man from a Roman mountain village, who moves to Pescara...
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Beautiful People
Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an ...
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The Past Is a Foreign Land
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of...
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Unfair Competition
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more a...
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Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing...
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A Magnificent Haunting
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghost...
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Sicilian Letters
Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run....
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Il cielo in una stanza
Clashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being old an...
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Ci hai rotto papà
Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back ...
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Scattered Cloud
Blue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée. His ...
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The Early Bird Catches the Worm
Marco Baldini is a young man determined to become the voice of a major radio; he alternates between ...
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Sangue - La morte non esiste
Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship....
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The Landlords
Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work ...
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Pavilion 22
Schizophrenic Valerio—whose existence was the bane of her sister Laura—dies after escaping from a pr...
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The Fifth Wheel
The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his fr...
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The Great Ambition
Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged...
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Leopardi
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry....
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Melissa P.
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experienc...
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Trust
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illic...
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Palazzina LAF
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him a...
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Fallen Heroes
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who ...
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, mos...
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3.87
During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them...
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Suburra
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the loc...
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Alaska
Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a resta...
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Lost and Beautiful
Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to gr...
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A Whole Life Ahead
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of...
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L'ami
The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1...
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Tenderness
Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstair...
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It's All About Karma
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father....
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In arte Nino
Biopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting hi...
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Romanzo Criminale
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi an...
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A Judge of Honor
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting u...
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Ferrari
Story of Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs o...
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Io sono Tempesta
To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless s...
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Lucia's Grace
During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman w...
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Respiro
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic ...
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Ultimo stadio
The Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have nothing...
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Binxet - Under the border
“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and free...
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Hidden Away
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, l...
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Honey Horn
A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications....
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Now or Never
2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for a...
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Rose Island
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the ...
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The Man Without Gravity
A gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an international ...
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Bad Tales
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmos...
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America Latina
Massimo Sisti is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving daught...
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Lord of the Ants
Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is ...
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All Star - Ritorno al cinema
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns....
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Three Goodbyes
Follows a couple, Marta and Antonio, who split up after what seems like an trivial argument....
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