Acting

Pino Ammendola

Born

1951-12-02 (74)

Place of birth

Napoli, Campania, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

Father Matteo poster
6.3

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.

Father Matteo

2000

Provaci ancora prof poster
6.7

Provaci ancora prof is an Italian television series. The show follows the story of Camilla Baudino, a high school teacher that often finds herself involved in some crimes. Camilla, a amateur detective, collaborates with policemen to resolve these cases and in the meantime she takes care of her husband and daughter.

Provaci ancora prof

2005

Big Man poster
5.5

The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective Jack Clementi, to defend itself against insurance fraud. Jack has saved the company enormous amounts of money throughout his successful investigations and his bosses are more than willing put up with his brusque manners, his disconcerting frankness, and his intolerance for any form of company bureaucracy. Yet he is a big guy with a huge heart.

Big Man

1988

Finalmente Soli poster
6.2

Finalmente soli is an Italian television series.

Finalmente Soli

1999

Toscana poster
5.9

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

Toscana

2022

Indian Summer poster
7.6

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.

Indian Summer

1972

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

Toscana poster
5.9

When a Danish chef travels to Tuscany to sell his father's business, he meets a local woman who inspires him to rethink his approach to life and love.

Toscana

2022

Averno Hotel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Averno Hotel

2026

My Fashion poster
4.0

A young man dreams of fashion glory in this coming of age tale. 16-year old Giovanni hopes to become a designer. Unfortunately, his small rural town is a long way from the bright lights. With his cheating father out of the picture, Giovanni must reckon with an angry mom. But two friends, a fashion teacher with connections, and a buddy who'll do anything for him, give Giovanni hope.

My Fashion

2020

The Great Salento War poster
3.8

After the Second World War, in 1948, a new one breaks out between Ruffano and Supersano, two villages located in the Salento region, in the province of Apulia, Italia, when the rivalry between the two local football teams goes too far.

The Great Salento War

2022

Un marziano di nome Ennio poster
NR

The story tells an interesting moment in the life of Ennio Flaiano, his meeting with Federico Fellini and his relationship with the famous producer of the "Dolce Vita" Peppino Amato, until he decides to write a dictionary of the 'verbal errors' committed by Peppino Amato.

Un marziano di nome Ennio

2022

Steno poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Steno

2022

Riverbero poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Riverbero

2024

Divine poster
5.8

While reporting on the election of the Pope in Rome, the completely atheistic journalist Gregory falls in love with Maria of all people, who is about to become a nun and is therefore actually promised to God. Gregory faces an accumulation of mysterious obstacles as he tries to get closer to Maria. He has to find out that he is dealing with a supernatural competitor. However, Gregory is determined to take up the fight against the big enemy.

Divine

2020

Little Richard The Shark? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Little Richard The Shark?

2025

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ti accorgi di me?

2020

2000s · 9 titles

Fade to Black poster
4.5

Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, filmmaker Orson Welles makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A beautiful actress proves a tempting distraction. But if they want to stay alive, Welles and his young Italian driver need to stay focused.

Fade to Black

2006

Who Pulled the Plug? 2 poster
3.8

Andersson's boatyard remains after 25 years, still chased by the same stringent, but misfortuned debt collector. TV producer Vonna Jigert wants Andersson to compete against an Italian company and their boat Fortuna in a race on Göta Kanal – live on TV. The race is broadcasted as a reality show. Same gangly canoer like 25 years ago also has a canoeing vacation on the canal when the race starts.

Who Pulled the Plug? 2

2006

Gioco perverso poster
NR

Alina, orphaned at a young age, discovers the murder of her sister Enrica, but the surprises aren't over because an Inspector reveals to her that her sister was a luxury call girl who got clients on the Internet. The hunt for the maniac begins.

Gioco perverso

2002

Due imbroglioni e... mezzo! poster
5.4

Gina and Lello are partners both in life and in crime until they find themselves babysitting a kid during a robbery.

Due imbroglioni e... mezzo!

2007

Stregati dalla luna poster
5.4

Dario and Carlo are the owners of a small restaurant organizing a wedding. Everything goes awry after Miria confesses a fling to her fiance.

Stregati dalla luna

2001

Libertas poster
6.2

Dubrovnik, February 1551. After a performance of his latest masterpiece Uncle Maroje recieves a strongly negative reaction from Dubrovnik's elite, playwright Marin Držić and his theatre troop find themselves at the mercy of a powerful censor.

Libertas

2006

The Taming of the Shrew poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Taming of the Shrew

2004

Con le unghie e con i denti poster
NR

An italian comedy

Con le unghie e con i denti

2004

Exodus poster
4.8

In 1945 Ada Sereni left her three children in Palestine - where she had lived for eighteen years - and returned to Italy in serach of her husband who went missing durin the war. She immediately become involved in an underground movement Aliah Bet, which secretly organized the expatriation to the promised land of Jews who had esacped Nazi concentration camps. This is the story of how a third of Europe's surviving Jews left Italy for their new home.

Exodus

2007

1990s · 12 titles

In camera mia poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

In camera mia

1992

Un uomo perbene poster
5.8

In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.

Un uomo perbene

1999

Olimpo Lupo - Cronista di Nera poster
9.0

Five friends who form the "inseparables" group spend an evening having a gargantuan dinner. Returning home, one of them has a heart attack and dies. Soon, however, other friends of the group are also found dead under mysterious circumstances. The journalist Olimpo Lupo of "Resto del Carlino", tasked with following the case, soon becomes passionate about it and turns into a detective.

Olimpo Lupo - Cronista di Nera

1995

Ladri si diventa poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ladri si diventa

1998

Pretty Princess poster
5.6

A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful swimming teacher.

Pretty Princess

1993

Uomini sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi poster
6.5

"Men on the edge of a nervous breakdown" - Vincenzo, Gianni, Nicola and Pino are four friends who for years have been seeing every Monday to play poker. But this time Nicola is in crisis with his wife. The evening is ruined, but Pino has an idea. Why not invite a "ring"?

Uomini sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi

1994

Americano rosso poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Americano rosso

1991

L'amico di Wang poster
7.0

Paolo invites his American friend Sam to Rome with the promise of a film to direct, but it takes a lot of money to make it, and they plan to steal a Modigliani painting from a wealthy producer.

L'amico di Wang

1997

Piedipiatti poster
6.2

The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old friend who, to celebrate his freedom, invites him to eat fish at Fiumicino.

Piedipiatti

1991

How the Toys Saved Christmas poster
7.2

When Santa's helper La Befana falls ill and must take off a Christmas Eve, she recruits Scarafoni to help deliver all the toys. No one but the toys knows is that Scarafoni plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, which means the toys won't make it to the children who have been good all year and deserve them. The toys decide to deliver themselves, and the story follows them as they struggle to avoid the heartless Scarafoni and to find their true homes.

How the Toys Saved Christmas

1996

Caramelle poster
6.0

A woman is longing to make love to her husband once again, but he is always working or tired. At her wit's end she consults a medium, who has a couple of solutions for her problem. The first two solutions fail, but maybe the sweets will help?

Caramelle

1995

Panama Sugar poster
6.0

On an idyllic Caribbean island, Panama Sugar and his friends, engage a battle with Fox Perry, the wealthy American boss who would like to purchase the island to make a Las Vegas exotic.

Panama Sugar

1990

1980s · 6 titles

Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) poster
6.0

After Annunziata opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio, she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the gangster is suddenly killed. The killer escapes before Annunziata is able to see who it was. Following this murder are several others, and always with the same “signature” — a syringe in one of the testicles of the victims. As the gangsters continue to be killed off, the identity of the killer – or killers – slowly becomes obvious.

Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)

1986

At the Sports Bar poster
6.3

Lino lives in Turin with the family of his sister. He doesn't have a good job and never enough money. But in a day his life changes: he wins 1 billion dollars in a lottery and... everyone becomes a friend, the girl who he liked becomes his girlfriend and his sister begins to love him. He leaves Turin with his friend Parola and, in a casino, he loses all money! But luck returns...

At the Sports Bar

1983

What if Gargiulo Finds Out? poster
6.0

Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?

What if Gargiulo Finds Out?

1988

Scugnizzi poster
6.0

Everything revolves around a musical theater production staged by a modest Sicilian director who has to direct young inmates at the juvenile detention center in Nisida. However, the rehearsals, the performance at the San Carlo Theater in Naples, and the real and touching events of the city alternate without any consistency.

Scugnizzi

1989

Metropolitan Animals poster
5.5

In the year 2030 mankind has regressed to ape form. In order to explain this, a scientist shows a 20th century film about a Roman couple in a society gone mad slightly more than usual to his audience.

Metropolitan Animals

1988

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gioco di morte

1980

Series credits

Behind the camera