Paola Tiziana Cruciani

Acting

Paola Tiziana Cruciani

Born

1958-01-20 (68)

Place of birth

Roma, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Paola Tiziana Cruciani (born 20 January 1958) is an Italian actress, comedian and playwright.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

There's Still Tomorrow poster
8.1

In postwar Rome, a working-class woman dreams of a better future for herself and her daughter while facing abuse at the hands of her domineering husband. When a mysterious letter arrives, she discovers the courage to change the circumstances of her life.

There's Still Tomorrow

2023

Genitori vs Influencer poster
5.7

A father and a daughter with the dream of becoming an influencer clash until they meet the famous webstar and idol of the girl.

Genitori vs Influencer

2021

Dry poster
6.4

In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.

Dry

2022

Din Don 4: Il paese dei balocchi poster
6.5

After six months spent meditating in the high mountains, Don Donato returns to Pellizzano to pack his bags and leave for Rome, where he will return to wearing civilian clothes. However, he finds the country much changed, full of arcades and women of easy virtue.

Din Don 4: Il paese dei balocchi

2022

Ma chi ti conosce? poster
6.8

Silvia is a novice violinist, and Alessio is a construction worker. At first glance, it's impossible to imagine two more incompatible people. But from their very first meeting, a mysterious force seems to draw them to each other, causing their life plans to crumble.

Ma chi ti conosce?

2024

Lust for Life poster
5.5

A couple in crisis after the birth of their first son rekindles their love during a trip to Norway.

Lust for Life

2023

Chiara poster
5.4

Assisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes forever. With charisma and conviction, she breaks free from her family's constraints and stands up to the Pope himself. She fights for herself, for the women who join her and for her dream of freedom. The story of a Saint. The story of a girl and her revolution.

Chiara

2022

Beata te poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Beata te

2022

Another Summer Holiday poster
6.0

Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global event attracting the media as well as mysterious emissaries from the new political regime. These two tribes of vacationers, two seemingly irreconcilable sides of Italy, are destined to come together during the Ferragosto holiday for an ultimate showdown.

Another Summer Holiday

2024

Unicorni poster
5.9

Lucio, the host of a popular radio show, is confident, charismatic, and holds progressive views. He is married to the beautiful Elena, who is insecure and emotionally dependent on her husband. Together, they form a harmonious blended family (which includes Lucio’s first wife and daughter) and have one child together: Blu, a 9-year-old who loves dressing in girls’ clothes and is allowed to do so—by both mom and dad—but only at home. When the school play comes around, however, Blu is determined to wear a Little Mermaid costume on stage. His parents, caught between their desire to support him and their instinct to protect him, find themselves confronting the limits of their open-mindedness. They embark on a journey of self-awareness and acceptance, joined by a diverse group of “Unicorn Parents” led by a compassionate psychologist.

Unicorni

2025

Permette? Alberto Sordi poster
6.0

Biopic about Italian actor Alberto Sordi, from his beginnings 1937 to celebrity in 1957.

Permette? Alberto Sordi

2020

2010s · 16 titles

Balancing Act poster
6.7

Giulio suddenly finds himself having to change his life when his wife, after discovering his betrayal, asks for a separation and, suddenly, the reality around him is no longer the same. Forty years old and father of two children, Giulio is forced by circumstances to say goodbye to family and economic well-being and to study new solutions in order to stay afloat and not drown in a new poverty made of double rents and double bills to pay, solitary lunches in fourth-rate restaurants, children's wishes not to be ignored and creditors to hide from.

Balancing Act

2012

Dreamfools poster
5.6

Two lovers are stuck in stale relationships due to lean finances. But when one is duped into thinking he's suddenly rich, he takes very drastic action.

Dreamfools

2018

Easy! poster
6.4

The life of a melancholy professor is turned upside down when he discovers that a rebellious teenager he is tutoring is actually his son.

Easy!

2011

Le leggi del desiderio poster
5.2

Giovanni is a famous life coach who claims he can make any desire come true. One day he announces a competition in which three people dissatisfied with their lives will win the chance to be followed by him for six months.

Le leggi del desiderio

2015

Ora non ricordo il nome poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ora non ricordo il nome

2017

Nine and a Half Moons poster
6.0

Two contrasting visions of life: on the one hand, the "rock" and adventurous of the brave Livia, cellist without maternal instinct; on the other hand, the reassuring routine of his sister Tina, shy urban vigilant with an ardent desire for maternity.

Nine and a Half Moons

2017

Il grande salto poster
5.1

Nello and Rufetto are two second-rate robbers, both in their forties and living in a suburban neighborhood of Rome. After serving four years in prison for a botched robbery, resuming their business, and more importantly, successfully completing it, is no easy feat.

Il grande salto

2019

Sun, Heart, Love poster
5.9

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.

Sun, Heart, Love

2017

Scattered Cloud poster
5.7

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 wedding, when, while working on the renovation of a luxury home, he meets Viola, his boss's granddaughter, and becomes fascinated by a lifestyle light-years away from his.

Scattered Cloud

2011

Nonnas on the Run poster
NR

Angela and Franca decide to take the dream trip of their lives. They run away from their boring retirement home in Rome and make a daring getaway to fabulous Venice in this joyous, heart-warming on-the-road adventure where anything can – and does – happen.

Nonnas on the Run

2017

Out of the Blue poster
6.0

Andrea is a handsome and cocky 38-year old man with a successful business career. Shallow, womanizing and a confirmed bachelor, his life seems to be just perfect... until the day he comes home and finds there Layla, a teenage girl who claims to be his daughter. Alongside Layla is her grandfather Enzo, a former rockstar and the father of Andrea's first fleeting and forgotten conquest. And they've come to stay!

Out of the Blue

2013

Ti sposo ma non troppo poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Ti sposo ma non troppo

2014

Detective Per Caso poster
4.8

Giulia dreams to become a detective since she was little. When one night her cousin dissapears, Giulia starts searching for him with the help of her friends.

Detective Per Caso

2019

Natale a 4 zampe poster
5.6

In a well-known ski resort, a couple has the brilliant idea to open a "4-legged hotel" where people can stay during the Christmas holidays in the company of their beloved pets. Trouble begins when the place is invaded by dogs, cats, rabbits, ferrets and parrots (not to mention their owners!).

Natale a 4 zampe

2012

Uno, anzi due poster
5.1

A bartender finds himself crushed by debt after his father's death and decides to repay it by hiding everything from his wife and son, who in the meantime are busy planning his father's wedding.

Uno, anzi due

2015

Christine Cristina poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Christine Cristina

2010

2000s · 7 titles

A Whole Life Ahead poster
6.6

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.

A Whole Life Ahead

2008

L'estate del mio primo bacio poster
4.6

In the summer of 1987, the 13-year-old Camilla Randone falls in love with Adelmo Franci, the boy who cleans the pool of his villa at the Argentario sea.

L'estate del mio primo bacio

2006

Caterina in the Big City poster
6.5

When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.

Caterina in the Big City

2003

Commediasexi poster
4.2

Congressman Bonfili, a family man and promoter in the Italian Parliament of a family law, has a clandestine affair with a feisty starlet wannabe actress. In his murky scheming, he also involves his blameless private driver.

Commediasexi

2006

Le giraffe poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le giraffe

2000

What Will Become Of Us poster
5.8

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.

What Will Become Of Us

2004

Questa notte è ancora nostra poster
5.5

When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.

Questa notte è ancora nostra

2008

1990s · 9 titles

Series credits

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

A Patch by Lundini poster
8.4

A patch is something commonly used to cover a hole in a dress. Valerio Lundini is a Roman surrealist comedian, who is called every night to replace a programme that, for various reasons, cannot go on air -- he basically puts "a patch" in a TV schedule. But can he?

A Patch by Lundini

2020

I liceali poster
6.3

A teen comedy-drama set in an Italian public high school following an ensemble cast of students and teachers.

I liceali

2008

The Immature - The Series poster
6.1

The series, which follows the film, will see old classmates reunite at high school after the Ministry of Education has canceled their state exams. To prevent their degrees and subsequent qualifications from being revoked by the Ministry, they will have to retake the exam and attend school among much younger people. Needless to say, old memories will resurface, as will hidden passions and unresolved issues.

The Immature - The Series

2018

L'ultimo Papa Re poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'ultimo Papa Re

2013

Minimarket poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Minimarket

2025

La dottoressa Giò poster
3.0

La dottoressa Giò is an Italian television series.

La dottoressa Giò

1997

Attore, amore mio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Attore, amore mio

1982

Lampedusa - Dall'orizzonte in poi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Lampedusa - Dall'orizzonte in poi

2016

La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo poster
7.0

La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo is an Italian television miniseries based on the true story of Don Pietro Pappagallo, a Catholic priest and Italian anti-fascist who assisted victims of Nazism and Fascism in Rome during World War II and was arrested and executed in the Ardeatine Caves massacre on March 24, 1944. It was produced by 11 Marzo Cinematografica and Rai Fiction, directed by Gianfranco Albano, written by Stefano Gabrini and Furio Scarpelli, and stars Flavio Insinna as Don Pietro. It was first released in 2006 and is distributed by Radiotelevisione Italiana and RaiTrade.

La buona battaglia – Don Pietro Pappagallo

2006

No artwork available
9.0

A love story between a beautiful flower girl and a wealthy Roman noble. He has sacrificed any sense of professional success, while for her it is about the heart and ahead of the material issues.

Regina dei fiori

2005

Behind the camera