Gerardo Amato

Acting

Gerardo Amato

Born 1952-08-12 · Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy

Acting credits

Passion of Love poster
6.7

In 1860s Italy, Giorgio is a young soldier is sent to a remote post, far from his lover, Clara. Lodged with the colonel, he befriends the colonel and the local doctor. Among the inhabitants are a strange young woman, both unattractive and mad; however, she's got a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.

Passion of Love

1981

Manual of Love 2 poster
5.4

Paralyzed from a crash, Nicola falls for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela seek fertility treatment in Barcelona. Filippo and Fosco, a gay couple, plan their wedding. Ernesto, a waiter, has an affair with Spanish cook Cecilia.

Manual of Love 2

2007

Manual of Love 2 poster
5.4

Paralyzed from a crash, Nicola falls for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela seek fertility treatment in Barcelona. Filippo and Fosco, a gay couple, plan their wedding. Ernesto, a waiter, has an affair with Spanish cook Cecilia.

Manual of Love 2

2007

7 Minutes poster
7.0

Women in a failing silk factory, fight to find a way to keep their jobs.

7 Minutes

2016

Angel of Evil poster
6.8

Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his gang wrested control of the Milan underworld with a string of high profile robberies, kidnappings and murders. In the process, he captivated the public and earned the nickname ‘il bel Renè’ – for his devilish charm and handsome face. Arrested multiple times, his daring escapes from prison enraged the government, angered his rivals and fed his legend.

Angel of Evil

2010

Blue Nude poster
4.3

Rocco Spinone, a young Italian living in America, takes on any job to make ends meet, including acting in porn films, a job his friend Lilly does with whom he soon falls in love. Persecuted by a police officer, an anti-immigrant, who accuses him of having sex with an underage girl, the young man is forced to pay a large sum to him and the girl's father. Meanwhile, his friend dies on set during a scene that was too violent.

Blue Nude

1978

Break Up poster
4.5

Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason.

Break Up

1978

Prisoners of a Nightmare poster
4.3

A group of teenagers in a coastal house are terrorised by a hooded killer.

Prisoners of a Nightmare

2001

I, Gilda poster
3.5

A New York mafia boss who owns a nightclub blackmails the women. Among the nightclub girls is Lulu who discovers her friend Gina is being blackmailed. Gina aka Gilda another nightclub girl lives out a fantasy as her Idol Rita Hayworth and romances her limo driver and risks being discovered by her boyfriend.

I, Gilda

1989

Soft Air poster
3.3

A group of young men from the upper-middle class in modern-day Italy, bored from the activities of everyday life, participate to a simulated-war "Wargame" match played with Soft-Air gun replicas, only to find out that the opposing team is a group of foreign mercenaries on the loose that takes such occasions for training and gratuitously killing innocents.

Soft Air

1997

Sweets from a Stranger poster
5.1

In Rome, a sadistic serial killer begins stalking and murdering sex workers, leaving the community terrified and the authorities struggling to stop the violence. After several attacks, four women—Lena, Angela, Nadine, and Stella—decide they can’t wait to be the next victims, and band together to protect each other and take a more active role in the search. As police pressure mounts and the women start digging for clues on their own, the hunt turns the city into a tense web of fear, rumors, and suspicion.

Sweets from a Stranger

1987

No artwork available
NR

"The phlegmatic inspector Adam Quill must investigate at Vladimir Stroganoff’s dance company after a murder committed under mysterious circumstances.

Delitto sulle punte

1977

Kill for Love poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kill for Love

2009

Portami la luna poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Portami la luna

1987

The Red Monks poster
4.4

A young woman weds a seemingly charming young man, and moves into his ancient mansion. She quickly learns to hate the old mansion and its inhabitants, while she gets frustrated with her husband's secrecy on his late night activities and the contents of the dungeon below. As heads begin to roll she discovers about her husband's past and his connection to some cult called the Red Monks. However, wait till he finds about HER past.

The Red Monks

1989

Zappatore poster
7.7

Francesco Esposito and his wife Maddalena are two farmers who raised Mario, their only son, with loving devotion. To help him study, they also incurred debts to the city's loan shark. The boy has since become a brilliant lawyer and in Naples, where he moved for work, he met Nancy, the daughter of an Italian-American industrialist, and fell in love with her; it would seem like a story with a happy ending, if it weren't for the fact that Mario is ashamed of his parents' humble origins.

Zappatore

1980

Twilight of Love poster
4.2

Richard Butler is the director of a Montreal advertising agency. When he meets Dyanne, a young beautiful model, he falls in love.

Twilight of Love

1977

Doppia Indagine poster
8.0

Franco Riva, a geologist who works in Ivory Coast, suddenly returns to Italy, to Genoa, to see his girlfriend, Claudia Fiori, of whom he has not heard for some time. Riva gathers various information about his fate. The concierge of her apartment, which she left two months ago, claims that Claudia has rented a house on the Riviera and got married. Instead, Claudia's sister, Laura, excludes that she might have gotten married without telling her anything and shows the man a postcard that Claudia sent her from Stockholm, where she told her that she was moving for the company where she worked. But the owner of the company, Piero Ricci, denies even the existence of a branch in Stockholm. So Franco turns to the police...

Doppia Indagine

1978

The Early Bird Catches the Worm poster
5.9

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, that slowly consumes his life, his relationship with his girlfriend and his work skills.

The Early Bird Catches the Worm

2008

Tra due donne poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tra due donne

2001

Notti e nebbie poster
8.3

Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist resistance.

Notti e nebbie

1984

Nightmare in Venice poster
4.0

A brilliant surgeon and millionaire, married to a beautiful woman, and highly regarded in the society of Venice, wants more from life and searches for new sensations. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.

Nightmare in Venice

1989

Io ti assolvo poster
6.7

A quiet provincial town is shaken by the murder of its parish priest. The young Father Francesco (Gabriel Garko), who is called to replace him, after an initial moment of calm, finds himself faced with the confession of a stranger, who admits to having killed his predecessor, threatening him not to say anything if he does not want to lose his life as well. The priest, therefore, follows the investigations of Commissioner Lariano (Lorenzo Flaherty) and, while revealing nothing, tries to prevent an innocent person from being accused of a crime they did not commit and begins to uncover the secrets of various important figures in the province. Complicating matters is the arrival of a young prostitute who resembles Father Francesco's great love before he took his vows. This is how the present and the past intertwine, amid crimes and murky discoveries.

Io ti assolvo

2008

Screams in the Night poster
5.0

When a member of a group of occultists is violently slain, the rest repair to the woods, where they are haunted by an apparently supernatural force.

Screams in the Night

1981