Diego Abatantuono

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.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna

After learning that an old friend of theirs has been arrested in Morocco on drug charges, four former college buddies set out for Marrakech to bail him out.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Cristina Marsillach

In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dares not tell anyone about it...

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Giuseppe Cristiano, Dino Abbrescia, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón

On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite to rip off a wealthy businessman in a game of poker, but old grudges get in the way.

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Carlo Delle Piane, Diego Abatantuono, Gianni Cavina

An elderly shepherd takes on big business when he becomes the only holdout against property developers building a luxury resort in his tiny Sardinian village.

Dir. Riccardo Milani · With Giuseppe Ignazio Loi, Virginia Raffaele, Aldo Baglio

15 years after that fateful card game on Christmas Eve, Franco gets his onetime friends back at the poker table for the rematch and a long-awaited payback.

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Diego Abatantuono, Alessandro Haber, Gianni Cavina

The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.

Dir. Neri Parenti, Paolo Villaggio · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Gigi Reder

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.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini

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.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Golino, Claudio Bisio

A blocked screenwriter, Ezio, is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters welcome, as they’ve got some ideas of their own for bigger and better roles.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Fabio De Luigi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Margherita Buy

Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.

Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Diego Abatantuono, Massimo Boldi, Teo Teocoli

The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and South America.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Claudio Santamaria, Valeria Golino, Diego Abatantuono

65 year old doctor Pierfrancesco works as a night-shift medical guard. He’s a grumpy man, full of aches and pains and is very rough with his patients. One night, he’s involved in a road collision with 30 year old delivery man Mario. While uninjured, Mario's bicycle is destroyed, and Pierfrancesco's sciatica flares up, making it impossible for him to drive. With both of their jobs in jeopardy, the doctor has an idea that could help them both: “remotely guided” by Pierfrancesco via wireless headset, Mario will visit his patients, and they’ll also carry out Mario’s delivery in Pierfrancesco’s car. After a range of daring (mis)adventures, they will learn to support each other, and the night will end with their lives both changed for the better.

Dir. Guido Chiesa · With Diego Abatantuono, Frank Matano, Francesco Russo

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.

Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Adriano Celentano, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono

Carlo and Giulia are grappling with new problems regarding the division of their respective tasks within the family. Since Giulia has started working again, it is Carlo who takes care of the children and the household chores. However, he starts to find the role of “Mr. Mom” a bit tight-fitting. Just when he decides to get back into the game and look for a job, Giulia reveals to him that she is up for a promotion that would lead her to move to Sweden. As if that weren’t enough, she will have to take the interview on December 24 in Stockholm. Everything seems to threaten the family unity. What should they do? Carlo comes up with a "brilliant" idea… To recover the old camper and drag the family into an adventure that will lead them on a journey to the North to spend Christmas all together lovingly. Unexpected events along the way and a hilarious encounter/confrontation with a self-styled Santa Claus will make the trip unforgettable.

Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Fabio De Luigi, Valentina Lodovini, Diego Abatantuono

The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano

Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Diego Abatantuono, Angelo Infanti, Mauro Di Francesco

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 Puglia, to expose the scam.

Dir. Guido Chiesa · With Diego Abatantuono, Andrea Pisani, Matilde Gioli

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.

Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Fabio De Luigi, Cristiana Capotondi, Antonio Catania

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.

Dir. Giovanni Bognetti · With Francesco Mandelli, Paolo Ruffini, Andrea Pisani

A slacker switches up his cleaning job by pretending to be a mental coach's assistant and consults an injured ice skater who has lost her confidence.

Dir. Alessandro Siani · With Alessandro Siani, Diego Abatantuono, Carla Signoris

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.

Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Diego Abatantuono, Monica Guerritore, Salvatore Esposito

A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a panettone factory.

Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bisio, Raoul Bova

Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter.

Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Diego Abatantuono

When the kooky tenants of an apartment block experience a sudden and shocking situation, they let their private lives, past secrets and crazy passions intervene as the confessions and absurd twists come thick and fast. Previous lovers, wild accusations, a possible murder and more boil to the surface days before New Year’s Eve, but can they even make it until then?

Dir. Alessandro Genovesi · With Fabio De Luigi, Ricky Memphis, Cristiana Capotondi

Several characters coincide during the Christmas holidays in the winter season of Saint Moritz.

Dir. Enrico Oldoini · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Ezio Greggio

Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.

Dir. Pupi Avati · With Diego Abatantuono, Pierpaolo Zizzi, Neri Marcorè

A young fashion blogger and an aspiring songwriter seem to have not that much in common, but when Cupid’s arrow hits them, every difference fades away and overnight they decide to get married. Even their fathers do not have anything in common: Gaetano is a strict mayor from Southern Italy, while Diego is a rich entrepreneur from the North. Between the two forthcoming in-laws, instead, is hate at first sight. They seem to agree on one single common goal: prevent this marriage at any cost! After fighting by any means in a struggle that will also involve their two bizarre families, will they manage to say no to the wedding?

Dir. Francesco Miccichè · With Vincenzo Salemme, Diego Abatantuono, Dino Abbrescia

A montley group of free-lance photographers are desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity.

Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Diego Abatantuono

A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen.

Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Diego Abatantuono, Lino Banfi, Vincenzo Salemme

Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his life.

Dir. Francesco Patierno · With Claudio Bisio, Margherita Buy, Diego Abatantuono