Francesco Acquaroli

Francesco Acquaroli

Born: March 27, 1962
in Roma

Movies for Francesco Acquaroli...

Title: Unwanted
Character: Franco
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: TV
A cruise ship rescues 28 refugees from the Mediterranean. When the captain is ordered to head for Libya, the situation escalates.
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Title: Per Elisa: An Italian Crime Story
Character: Maurizio Restivo
Released: October 24, 2023
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Turn of the Tide
Character: Monti
Released: May 26, 2023
Type: TV
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.
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Title: There's No Place Like Home
Character: Pietro Ristuccia
Released: December 20, 2021
Type: TV
A loss and a secret from the past put in crisis an apparently perfect family.
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Three Floors
Title: Three Floors
Character: Le psychiatre
Released: September 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.
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Palla di pelo
Title: Palla di pelo
Character: Vincenzo
Released: September 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Vincenzo is a scoundrel, a petty thief, and he wants to turn a corner. Here’s his brilliant idea: kidnap the dogs of the rich, who those to get them back are willing to pay any amount of money. The abductee’s name is Palla di Pelo, a beautiful Welsh Corgi who lives as if he were the Ferragnez’s son in the mansion of designer Paki Furlan, a haughty homosexual who treats the dog as if it were his own son. Vincenzo, is together with the only accomplice he can afford: his son Alfredo, whom he treats like a dog instead. They prepare the ransom letter, as in the movies: letters taken from the newspaper, no sender. The designer, as per the request of the mysterious kidnappers, shows up at the appointment with the fifty thousand euros in cash. Happy ending for everyone? Not at all, because we know very well that the most beastly beings are precisely men.
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Title: Alfredino - Una storia italiana
Character: Elveno Pastorelli
Released: June 21, 2021
Type: TV
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Il giorno e la notte
Title: Il giorno e la notte
Character: Andrea
Released: June 17, 2021
Type: Movie
After a terrorist attack in Rome, the government urges the population not to leave their houses: several couples clash during isolation. Shot during the first COVID-19 lockdown.
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L'esilio dell'aquila
Title: L'esilio dell'aquila
Character: André Pons
Released: October 7, 2020
Type: Movie
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L'ultimo piano
Title: L'ultimo piano
Character: Aurelio
Released: May 11, 2020
Type: Movie
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The Best Years
Title: The Best Years
Character: Sergio Angelucci
Released: February 13, 2020
Type: Movie
Italy from the '80s to the present day, through the dreams, loves, successes and failures of four friends.
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Despite the Fog
Title: Despite the Fog
Character: Luciano
Released: October 19, 2019
Type: Movie
According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.
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Adults in the Room
Title: Adults in the Room
Character: Mario Draghi
Released: October 3, 2019
Type: Movie
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.
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Simple Women
Title: Simple Women
Released: September 6, 2019
Type: Movie
An epileptic director trying to make a film about the life of famed Romanian actor Elina Löwensohn discovers that her real-life subject bears little resemblance to the star she idolized.
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Welcome Home
Title: Welcome Home
Character: Eduardo
Released: November 16, 2018
Type: Movie
A couple try to repair their damaged union in an Italian vacation paradise. Then they discover the owner's intentions.
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Little Adventure In Rome
Title: Little Adventure In Rome
Character: the photographer
Released: October 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Rome, outdoors, at night. A photographer is frantically shooting a fashion feature, with the Colosseum in the backdrop, when the unexpected occurs: the camera jams and the lens has to be changed.
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Non è una bufala
Title: Non è una bufala
Released: June 1, 2018
Type: Movie
Renzo, 40, lives alone in an apartment that has turned into a kind of bunker. It's been a long time since he leaves home and the only source of livelihood are pizzas and supplì that come home. Convinced that jihadist terrorism is on the verge of attacking Italy, he decides to take justice on his own by sending a bombshell to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia, a nation guilty, in his opinion, of financing terrorists. Not everything will run smoothly as he had expected.
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Dogman
Title: Dogman
Character: Francesco, Video Lottery Owner
Released: May 17, 2018
Type: Movie
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.
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
Title: I Can Quit Whenever I Want 3: Ad Honorem
Character: Commissario Galatro
Released: November 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Has been an year since Pietro Zinni's gang got caught in the Sopox production laboratory and each of them locked up in different jails. From Regina Coeli jail, Pietro keep warning the authorities a fool syntetized nerve gas and he is ready to make a killing, but no one takes him seriously.
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Title: Suburra: Blood on Rome
Character: Samurai
Released: October 6, 2017
Type: TV
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.
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Title: I mille giorni di Mafia Capitale
Character: Narratore (voce)
Released: September 24, 2017
Type: TV
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The Legionnaire
Title: The Legionnaire
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Daniel is the son of African parents born in Rome. He is a police officer of the State Police Department. One day he finds out that his unit will have to clear a building where his mother and brother live. Torn between the love for his family and the loyalty to the police, Daniel will have to choose between the two and go with it until the end.
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Sun, Heart, Love
Title: Sun, Heart, Love
Character: Nicola
Released: May 4, 2017
Type: Movie
Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the same coin, but their mutual solidarity isn’t always enough to lighten the load of their difficult circumstances.
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
Title: I Can Quit Whenever I Want 2: Masterclass
Character: Commissario Galatro
Released: February 2, 2017
Type: Movie
Pietro Zinni is asked by the police to revive the old gang to create a task force that will stop the spread of smart drugs.
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Title: Rocco Schiavone
Character: Sebastiano Cecchetti
Released: November 9, 2016
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Solo
Character: Commissario Sasso
Released: November 9, 2016
Type: TV
Undercover cop Marco infiltrates the Corona crime family but finds he must blur legal and moral lines to maintain secrecy and complete the mission.
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Era d'estate
Title: Era d'estate
Character: Franco Massidda
Released: May 23, 2016
Type: Movie
Judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino would eventually fall at the hands of Italy’s Cosa Nostra in 1992. However, before that, in 1985, they were preparing for the ‘Mafia Maxi Trial’ when a tip-off of a planned attack against their families sees them taken to an island in Sardinia to wait out the threat. This situation, somewhere between a forced vacation and witness protection, sees the men delve further into their work, the retreat allowing them to hone their case. Fate, however, is not to be escaped, and all too soon danger returns.
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Finché c'è vita c'è speranza
Title: Finché c'è vita c'è speranza
Character: padre di Antonio
Released: December 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Sometimes you need to try unusual ways to start a family.
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The Last Will Be the Last
Title: The Last Will Be the Last
Character: Saltutti
Released: November 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood lasts only a few months. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, asking for the justice she deserves.
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Short Skin
Title: Short Skin
Character: Dottore
Released: June 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-years-old Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with irritation to the pressures of the outside world, which do nothing but exacerbate his insecurity. Forced against his will to emerge from the shadows in which he has hidden for years, Edoardo will initially try to solve his problem by clumsy stratagems before finding, at last, the courage to face his own fears.
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Hope Lost
Title: Hope Lost
Character: Professor
Released: February 1, 2015
Type: Movie
A Romanian girl dreams of living the glamorous life she sees in Italian soap operas.
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Pasolini
Title: Pasolini
Character: Aldo Pommidoro
Released: September 25, 2014
Type: Movie
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.
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Arance & martello
Title: Arance & martello
Character: Armando
Released: September 4, 2014
Type: Movie
A 'period' piece set in the hot summer of 2011, in the midst of the Berlusconi era. The life of a quiet corner market is shaken when the mayor decides to close it down. The only political organization people can turn to is the local section of the Democratic Party, which is separated from the market by a concrete wall, built to allow the construction of the subway.
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Title: Fargo
Character: Ebal Violante
Released: April 15, 2014
Type: TV
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Title: I Can Quit Whenever I Want
Character: Commissario Galatro
Released: February 6, 2014
Type: Movie
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.
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Like the Wind
Title: Like the Wind
Character: Comandante di Pianosa
Released: November 10, 2013
Type: Movie
The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide
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Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
Title: Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
Character: Vinicio Meconi
Released: April 13, 2012
Type: Movie
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."
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Scusate il disturbo
Title: Scusate il disturbo
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Olindo Zanni
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Alex Fascetti
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: TV
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.
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The Red and the Black
Title: The Red and the Black
Character: Comte Altamira
Released: December 22, 1997
Type: Movie
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 notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.
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Title: The Red and the Black
Character: Comte Altamira
Released: December 22, 1997
Type: TV
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 notable who had hired him as tutor to his children.
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Il tempo del ritorno
Title: Il tempo del ritorno
Character: 1° inseguitore
Released: December 6, 1994
Type: Movie
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Circle of Fear
Title: Circle of Fear
Character: Mancini's Henchman 1
Released: August 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a mysterious stranger. His boss thinks it's a Mafia vendetta, but Tony follows the clues to an empty house which his wife had been photographing on the day of her murder. There, he finds a burned corpse and several clues leading to the Full Moon Killer, who has been decapitating prostitutes around the city. The owner of the house is an insane countess, whose escape from an asylum leads to yet another murder. Before long, Tony and his partner, Lisa, with whom he is engaged in a passionate affair, find themselves targeted for murder unless they can solve the case.
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L'allaccio
Title: L'allaccio
Character: Roberto Rossellini
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie