Pierfrancesco Favino

Edmond Dantès becomes the target of a sinister plot and is arrested on his wedding day for a crime he did not commit. After 14 years in the island prison of Château d’If, he manages a daring escape. Now rich beyond his dreams, he assumes the identity of the Count of Monte-Cristo and exacts his revenge on the three men who betrayed him.

Dir. Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte · With Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier

In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.

Dir. Ron Howard · With Chris Hemsworth, Daniel Brühl, Olivia Wilde

Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

Dir. Marco Bellocchio · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Fabrizio Ferracane

A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter, Irena risks everything in her quest to uncover the truth about the family.

Dir. Giuseppe Tornatore · With Kseniya Rappoport, Michele Placido, Claudia Gerini

On the night before retirement, police lieutenant Amore is called to investigate the off-duty death of his longtime partner, who fell prey of an illegal scheme Amore himself was secretly part of.

Dir. Andrea Di Stefano · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Linda Caridi, Antonio Gerardi

A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.

Dir. Stefano Sollima · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Filippo Nigro, Marco Giallini

Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is recruited by the Vatican to investigate the apparent return of the Illuminati – a secret, underground organization – after four cardinals are kidnapped on the night of the papal conclave.

Dir. Ron Howard · With Tom Hanks, Ewan McGregor, Ayelet Zurer

A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.

Dir. Stefano Sollima · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Claudio Amendola, Alessandro Borghi

After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio the most powerful gangsters in Rome. Libano loves their new status, and seeks to spread their influence throughout the underworld, while the other two pursue more fleshly desires. For decades, their gang perpetrates extravagant crimes, until paranoia threatens to split the friends apart.

Dir. Michele Placido · With Kim Rossi Stuart, Anna Mouglalis, Stefano Accorsi

Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic.

Dir. Riccardo Milani · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Miriam Leone, Vanessa Scalera

On December 12, 1969, a bomb kills 17 people at the Piazza Fontana national bank in Milan, Italy, marking the beginning of the Years of Lead. Local anarchists are scapegoated for the massacre by police and the media, but a lone prosecutor uncovers a conspiracy of far-right groups, corrupt secret services, and other interests that seek to undermine democracy.

Dir. Marco Tullio Giordana · With Valerio Mastandrea, Pierfrancesco Favino, Michela Cescon

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.

Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Dea Lanzaro, Antonio Guerra

Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.

Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Micaela Ramazzotti, Kim Rossi Stuart

Married for ten years, in full crisis, thinking about divorce. But following a failed scientific experiment, they suddenly find one inside the body of the other.

Dir. Simone Godano · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Kasia Smutniak, Valerio Aprea

One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.

Dir. Edoardo De Angelis · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Massimiliano Rossi, Johan Heldenbergh

War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?

Dir. Enzo Monteleone · With Paolo Briguglia, Pierfrancesco Favino, Luciano Scarpa

Everyone in Marco's life seems constantly restless, from his brilliant but unhappily married parents to his own wife Marina, or even Luisa, the real love of his life, a girl he met during a fateful summer in the '70s and always stayed in touch with. Tragedy and fate seem to haunt him, yet he somehow manages never to get ensnared in the chaos—like his namesake, “the hummingbird”, he focuses all his energy at standing still.

Dir. Francesca Archibugi · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Kasia Smutniak, Bérénice Bejo

This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, married with children; Nerval and her policeman husband.

Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefano Accorsi, Margherita Buy

Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.

Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli

Tangled up with blackmail and crooked cops, the son of a former gangster seeks out his father's old friends, who risk everything to save him.

Dir. Stefano Sollima · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea

An Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his wife, who happens to be an old lover.

Dir. Lucio Pellegrini · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefano Accorsi, Vittoria Puccini

Two young boys, Valerio and Christian, form a powerful friendship over the summer.

Dir. Claudio Noce · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Barbara Ronchi, Francesco Gheghi

An extended family reunites on an idyllic island to celebrate their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. However, a storm causes them to get stuck in there longer than expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.

Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Stefano Accorsi, Carolina Crescentini, Elena Cucci

Working in the shadows of music stars, a gifted guitarist returns to his hometown and decides to stage a disappearing act in order to propel him to fame.

Dir. Alessandro Pondi · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Giuseppe Fiorello, Mariela Garriga

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.

Dir. Pablo Larraín · With Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher

Ulisse, Fulvio and Domenico decide to rent an apartment together in order to live with their modest work. However the three encounter any difficulties that have forced them to always be one step away from starvation. Ulisse has to maintain his wife and daughter selling recordings of important foreign singers, Fulvio has the task of reviewing silly scandals of celebrities instead of writing articles for major artists, while Domenico must keep his wife and children going to make love with old single pensioners.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Pierfrancesco Favino, Marco Giallini

In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last job: saving her son Louis and the whole kingdom.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea, Rocco Papaleo

A look at the lives of Carlo, Giulia, and their friends some 10 years after the events of L'Ultimo bacio.

Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Stefano Accorsi, Vittoria Puccini, Pierfrancesco Favino

Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.

Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea, Rocco Papaleo

Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.

Dir. Ben Lewin · With Paul Rudd, Mark Strong, Sienna Miller