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 | 0.8407 |
| Birthday | 1980-09-25 |
| Place of Birth | Rome, Italy |
| Also Known As | Έλιο Τζερμάνο, 엘리오 게르마노, |
2009
Nine
5.508/650
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
6.134/41
Two childhood friends from a tough Milanese suburb—one a low-level drug dealer, the other stuck in a back-breaking, underpaid job—find their bond test...
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Fame Chimica
2008
As God Commands
6.416/101
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
6.076/118
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
6.725/416
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?
5.638/58
A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
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Quo Vadis, Baby?
2005
Do You Like Hitchcock?
5.211/71
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
What Will Become Of Us
5.8/189
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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What Will Become Of Us
2005
Mary
5.784/44
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
6.535/144
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
6.1/30
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
0/1
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
6.45/20
The film follows Vince, a dissatisfied young man from a Roman mountain village, who moves to Pescara to work as a cook. He falls for Genny, a waitress...
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Break Free
2009
Beautiful People
6.23/50
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
6.262/42
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
7/95
Two textile traders, with the shop close to one another, fight for the supremacy of their own business during the racial laws in 1938 Italy.
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Unfair Competition
2012
Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
7.2/440
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
6.9/62
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Faccia d'angelo
2012
A Magnificent Haunting
6.4/258
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
6.136/132
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
6.063/16
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
6.135/104
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
5.7/9
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
5.889/36
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
5.9/14
Iuri and Stella are two brothers with a strange relationship.
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Sangue - La morte non esiste
2012
The Landlords
5.9/40
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
6.4/5
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
6.491/110
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
The Great Ambition
7.168/187
Secretary of the most influential Communist Party in the Western world, Enrico Berlinguer challenged the international balance by seeking to bring the...
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The Great Ambition
2014
Leopardi
6.806/673
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.
4.683/615
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
6.413/149
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
6.9/180
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
4.375/12
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
5.127/146
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
6.9/5
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
7.291/1318
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
6.771/317
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
7.038/52
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
6.565/324
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
5.6/22
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
2017
Tenderness
6.3/223
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
5.8/286
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
7.145/700
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
6.937/71
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
7.1/50
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
5.813/288
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
5.9/122
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
6.6/120
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
9/1
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
7/3
“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
7.534/253
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
Honey Horn
7/2
A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.
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Honey Horn
2003
Now or Never
5.455/11
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
7.039/1410
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
7/263
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
6.7/618
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
6.067/230
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
7.203/219
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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All Star - Ritorno al cinema
2025
Three Goodbyes
7.1/107
After what seemed like an insignificant argument, Marta and Antonio separate. He, a promising chef, takes refuge in his kitchen; she, in her silence,...
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Three Goodbyes
2019
Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR
0/0
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Segnale d'Allarme | La mia battaglia VR
2015
Street Opera
0/0
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Street Opera
2016
No Borders
0/0
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No Borders
2021
The Italian Baba
0/0
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The Italian Baba
2021
Così è (o mi pare)
0/0
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Così è (o mi pare)
2024
N-Ego
7/1
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N-Ego
Noi un po' meglio
0/0
A couple faces the difficult path to adoption, determined to become parents despite their complex vulnerabilities.
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Noi un po' meglio
2025
Noi e la grande ambizione
0/0
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Noi e la grande ambizione
2025
Anatomia di un grande sogno
0/0
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Anatomia di un grande sogno
2025
Libero sempre comunque mai
8/2
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The Man Who Could Have Changed the World
0/0
Based upon the true story of Ranuccio Bandinelli, an antifascist Archaeology and History of Art teacher who sought to steer clear of politics but who...
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The Man Who Could Have Changed the World
2026
Ritorno al tratturo
0/0
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