Elio Germano
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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.84 |
| Birthday | 1980-09-25 |
| Place of Birth | Rome, Italy |
| Also Known As | Έλιο Τζερμάνο, 엘리오 게르마노, |
2009
Nine
5.509/588
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. Wit...
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Nine
2004
Fame chimica
5.9/30
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Fame chimica
2008
As God Commands
6.484/94
An 11-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad struggle with being outcasts in their suburban town.
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As God Commands
2006
Napoleon and Me
6.1/106
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man...
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Napoleon and Me
2007
My Brother Is an Only Child
6.7/394
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, and loved by all, while younger Acc...
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My Brother Is an Only Child
2009
The Bee and the Wind
0/0
Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.
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The Bee and the Wind
2005
Quo Vadis, Baby?
5.676/51
A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
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Quo Vadis, Baby?
2005
Do You Like Hitchcock?
5.2/61
A nerdy film student and lifelong voyeur begins to believe that two lovely young strangers may have conspired to commit a brutal murder.
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Do You Like Hitchcock?
2004
Che ne sarà di noi
5.8/181
A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend.
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Che ne sarà di noi
2005
Mary
5.7/36
The filming of a movie about Jesus’ death deeply affects three people — an egotistical director who cast himself as Christ, the actress playing Mary M...
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Mary
2010
Our Life
6.558/129
Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dra...
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Our Life
2010
The End Is My Beginning
5.981/27
When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tu...
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The End Is My Beginning
2005
Call Me Salomè
0/0
Herod is a Neapolitan boss who runs The Last Emperor, an infamous local, and Herodias is his vicious partner. Salomè is a young, immature and beautifu...
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Call Me Salomè
2003
Break Free
6.2/17
Directed by Gian Tavarelli, Liberi (Break Free) centers on the freckle-faced Vince (Elio Germano), whose life in a Roman mountain village is unfulfill...
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Break Free
2009
Beautiful People
6.5/43
Alfredo and Susanna are two well-off fifty-year-olds who lead a stimulating cultural life. He is an architect and she is a psychologist; they live in...
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Beautiful People
2008
The Past Is a Foreign Land
6.2/35
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had...
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The Past Is a Foreign Land
2001
Unfair Competition
6.976/85
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses client...
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Unfair Competition
2012
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
7.2/421
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 w...
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Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
2012
Faccia d'angelo
7/61
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Faccia d'angelo
2012
A Magnificent Haunting
6.5/244
An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.
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A Magnificent Haunting
2024
Sicilian Letters
6.6/46
Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance...
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Sicilian Letters
1999
Il cielo in una stanza
5.9/15
Clashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being old and stifling. They time travel to the 1960s, where P...
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Il cielo in una stanza
1993
Ci hai rotto papà
6.1/93
Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pr...
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Ci hai rotto papà
2011
Scattered Cloud
5.7/7
Blue-collar worker Diego lives in the Roman suburbs and is about to marry his lifelong fiancée. His feelings are put to the test on the eve of the wed...
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Scattered Cloud
2008
The Early Bird Catches the Worm
5.8/35
Marco Baldini is a young man determined to become the voice of a major radio; he alternates between his job at Radio Deejay and his gambling addiction...
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The Early Bird Catches the Worm
2005
Sangue - La morte non esiste
6/13
Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.
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Sangue - La morte non esiste
2012
The Landlords
5.9/35
Two construction-workers, the brothers Cosimo and Elia are hired by a famous singer to do some work on his rural mansion, before he's due to make his...
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The Landlords
2006
Pavilion 22
5.5/4
Schizophrenic Valerio—whose existence was the bane of her sister Laura—dies after escaping from a private clinic, but his ghost keeps tormenting her g...
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Pavilion 22
2013
The Fifth Wheel
6.458/106
The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his friends and family.
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The Fifth Wheel
2001
La storia chiusa
0/0
A Donatello award nominated short drama feature.
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La storia chiusa
2024
Berlinguer. La grande ambizione
7.4/67
The story of Enrico Berlinguer's private and public life, between 1973 and 1978.
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Berlinguer. La grande ambizione
2014
Leopardi
6.8/651
In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.
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Leopardi
2010
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
0/0
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Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2005
Melissa P.
4.6/557
An adolescent girl, living with her mother and her grandmother, will have her first sexual experiences in a heavy and excessive way.
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Melissa P.
2024
Trust
6.6/99
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa sugges...
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Trust
2023
Palazzina LAF
6.836/113
Caterino is a worker at the Ilva factory in Taranto. When the company executives decide to use him as a spy to identify the workers they should get ri...
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Palazzina LAF
2020
Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto
0/0
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Liberi e pensanti - Uno maggio Taranto
2008
Fallen Heroes
4.6/9
Forty year-old Bruno Ledeux, seen sitting across from the doctor, gives the impression of a man who is no longer young but not yet old.Condemned to re...
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Fallen Heroes
2015
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
5.1/128
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. Th...
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
2005
3.87
7.1/4
During 2004 alone, 1400 people in Italy died at their workplace, 3.87 per day. Andrea is one of them.
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3.87
2015
Suburra
7.3/1246
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...
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Suburra
2015
Alaska
6.8/304
Nadine is a French young woman. Fausto is an Italian young man trying to make it in Paris as a restaurant waiter. They accidentally meet at a five-sta...
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Alaska
2015
Lost and Beautiful
7.1/47
Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who sp...
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Lost and Beautiful
2008
A Whole Life Ahead
6.6/305
25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for singl...
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A Whole Life Ahead
2016
L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères
5.5/18
The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1226.
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L'ami, François d'Assise et ses frères
2017
Tenderness
6.3/209
Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he mee...
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Tenderness
2017
It's All About Karma
5.8/277
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
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It's All About Karma
2016
In arte Nino
7.1/66
Biopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting his difficult beginnings, his passion for acting and...
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In arte Nino
2005
Romanzo Criminale
7.187/646
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...
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Romanzo Criminale
2004
A Judge of Honor
6.9/68
In 1980 Paolo Borsellino was appointed with the preliminary investigations and the task of setting up a team which would later become the famous anti-...
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A Judge of Honor
2003
Ferrari
7/47
Story of Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs of all time. Being interviewed by a fictitious, int...
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Ferrari
2018
Io sono Tempesta
5.804/276
To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.
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Io sono Tempesta
2018
Lucia's Grace
5.9/114
During the evaluation of a plot of land, surveyor and distressed single mother Lucia meets a woman who claims to be the Virgin Mary.
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Lucia's Grace
2018
Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa
8/1
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Archiviato - L'obbligatorietà dell'azione penale in Valsusa
2002
Respiro
6.6/101
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterran...
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Respiro
2002
Ultimo stadio
0/0
The Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have nothing in common with each other. The stadium becomes a...
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Ultimo stadio
2017
Binxet - Under the border
7/2
“Binxet – Under the border” is a journey between life and death, dignity and pain, struggle and freedom. It takes place along the 911 km of the turkis...
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Binxet - Under the border
2020
Hidden Away
7.548/231
The film tackles the life journey of Toni Ligabue, visionary naïf painter who used to draw tigers, lions and jaguars while living among the poplar tre...
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Hidden Away
2000
Cornetti al miele
5/1
A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.
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Cornetti al miele
2003
Now or Never
5.5/8
2001. Soon-to-be-graduate David gets involved in the anti-globalization movement after falling for activist Viola in the months preceding the fateful...
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Now or Never
2020
Rose Island
7.042/1293
In 1968, engineer Giorgio Rosa established the independent state called "The Isle of Roses" off the coast of Rimini, built on a platform outside the t...
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Rose Island
2019
The Man Without Gravity
7.1/251
A gravity-defying boy raised in seclusion matures into an extraordinary man -- and an international celebrity -- who longs for human connection.
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The Man Without Gravity
2020
Bad Tales
6.739/568
In a small suburb on the outskirts of Rome, the cheerful heat of summer camouflages a stifling atmosphere of alienation. From a distance, the families...
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Bad Tales
2021
Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
7/2
A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi.
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Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
2022
America Latina
6.074/203
Massimo Sisti is a reputable professional with a nice house, a happy marriage, and two loving daughters, whose life is turned upside down when one day...
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America Latina
2022
Lord of the Ants
7.253/194
Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he...
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Lord of the Ants
2011
Noi c'eravamo
10/1
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Noi c'eravamo
2021
All Star - Ritorno al cinema
7.6/7
A short movie about coming back to the cinema after lockdowns.
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