Date of birth: 1980-09-25
Place of birth: Rome, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Έλιο Τζερμάνο, 엘리오 게르마노

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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Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpo

2004-04-30
Two childhood friends from a tough Milanese suburb—one a low-level drug dealer, the other stuck in a

2008-12-12
An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town.

2006-10-13
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the

2007-03-28
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome

2009-12-05
Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.

2005-05-27
A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.

2005-03-19
A nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may have

2004-03-05
A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island follo

2005-11-18
The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who

2010-05-21
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife

2010-10-07
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his s

2005-01-01
Herod is a Neapolitan boss who runs The Last Emperor, an infamous local, and Herodias is his vicious

2003-09-19
The film follows Vince, a dissatisfied young man from a Roman mountain village, who moves to Pescara

2009-10-01
Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an

2008-10-31
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of

2001-02-23
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more a

2012-04-13
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing

2012-01-01

2012-03-16
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghost

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Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run.

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Clashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being old an

1993-09-03
Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back

2011-09-06
Blue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée. His

2008-11-25
Marco Baldini is a young man determined to become the voice of a major radio; he alternates between

2005-08-01
Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.

2012-10-04
Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work

2006-03-12
Schizophrenic Valerio—whose existence was the bane of her sister Laura—dies after escaping from a pr

2013-11-14
The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his fr
2001-01-01
A Donatello award nominated short drama feature.

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Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged

2014-10-16
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
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2005-11-18
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experienc

2024-04-24
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illic

2023-10-21
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him a

2020-05-01

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Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who

2015-08-05
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, mos

2005-05-13
During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them

2015-10-14
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the loc

2015-11-05
Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a resta

2015-11-19
Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to gr

2008-03-28
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of

2016-10-04
The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1

2017-04-24
Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstair

2017-03-09
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.

2016-12-07
Biopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting hi

2005-09-30
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi an

2004-11-08
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting u

2003-02-16
Story of Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs o

2018-04-12
To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless s

2018-11-22
During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman w

2018-09-26

2002-05-18
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic

2002-05-10
The Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have nothing

2017-05-11
“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and free

2020-02-27
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, l

2000-05-10
A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.

2003-11-14
2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for a

2020-12-09
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the

2019-10-21
A gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an international

2020-06-15
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmos

2021-03-22
A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi.

2022-01-13
Massimo Sisti is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving daught

2022-09-08
Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is
2011-10-26

2021-08-31
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.

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Follows a couple, Marta and Antonio, who split up after what seems like an trivial argument.

2019-08-31

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A couple faces the difficult path to adoption, determined to become parents despite their complex vu

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