Giovanni Esposito

Acting

Giovanni Esposito

Born

1970-06-14 (56)

Place of birth

Naples, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

81 titles

Known for

Jay Kelly poster
6.1

Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager, Ron.

Jay Kelly

2025

The Octopus poster
7.8

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

The Octopus

1984

GialappaShow poster
7.8

Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci - supported in the studio by Mago Forest, a great cast of comedians and many surprise guests - comment with biting irony on the most popular TV programs, the main sporting events and the last web trends.

GialappaShow

2023

Book Club: The Next Chapter poster
6.3

Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.

Book Club: The Next Chapter

2023

The Tourist poster
6.2

American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

The Tourist

2010

To Rome with Love poster
5.8

Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.

To Rome with Love

2012

Film credits

2020s · 17 titles

Jay Kelly poster
6.1

Famous movie actor Jay Kelly embarks on a journey of self-discovery, confronting both his past and present, accompanied by his devoted manager, Ron.

Jay Kelly

2025

Book Club: The Next Chapter poster
6.3

Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.

Book Club: The Next Chapter

2023

Era poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Era

2026

Cena di classe poster
6.0

A group of former high school classmates reunite after seventeen years for the funeral of an old friend. Aided by alcohol and a forgotten video, they sneak into their old school one night to relive the magic of that time. But a simple reunion quickly turns into a criminal adventure.

Cena di classe

2026

Un weekend artificiale poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un weekend artificiale

2026

I fratelli De Filippo poster
7.2

The story of the De Filippo brothers, children of Eduardo Scarpetta.

I fratelli De Filippo

2021

Falla girare 2 - Offline poster
5.7

Sequel to "Falla Girare". An hacker attack has caused the disappearance of the internet and our heroes who brought marijuana back to the world are once again called upon to save it…

Falla girare 2 - Offline

2024

We Need to Talk poster
5.2

A woman in common, a daughter in half and a patrol car for two. Antonio and Pieraldo share many things: a less-than-brilliant career, a less-than-ideal partnership, a long-term but slightly bruised bond -- two lives apparently too quiet for two police officers that fate has cleverly wanted to intertwine. Danger was definitely not their profession... until, incredibly, they will have to face a real crime, a very intricate and risky case that, between challenges against time and twists, will change their lives forever.

We Need to Talk

2024

Zamora poster
7.1

Soccer is an alien world for Walter Vismara, an unfamiliar terrain he's always avoided. But when his job hangs in the balance, he's thrust into the role of goalkeeper by his soccer-obsessed boss. Forced into a relentless routine of practice sessions and taunts, Walter finds himself trapped in a nightmare. His troubles escalate when he discovers his beloved in the arms of his archenemy, adding a personal dimension to his challenges. Determined to prove his worth, Walter devises a plan: to play the fool outwardly while secretly honing his skills. As he navigates this comedic yet challenging journey on the soccer field, will Walter emerge victorious and finally earn the respect he deserves?

Zamora

2024

Falla girare - The Last Joint poster
5.8

A virus wipes out cannabis until an unlikely team of a social media influencer, journalist, cop and a drug dealer join against sinister forces working to keep the plant from being rediscovered.

Falla girare - The Last Joint

2022

The Divine Comedy poster
3.3

The Divine Comedy, in particular Hell, becomes a nativity scene and therefore life in the visions of the trans-avant-garde artist.

The Divine Comedy

2023

Benvenuti in casa Esposito poster
5.8

Tonino Esposito is the son of the fearsome Camorra boss of Rione Sanità, Naples. Unlike him, however, Tonino is clumsy and utterly innocuous—a decent person at heart—and so when his father dies he's passed over in matters of succession. His pride wounded, he doesn't resign himself and tries to be his own boss, only managing to make a fool of himself. When he finds out that his daughter is dating to the son of the judge prosecuting the new boss, Tonino sees the opportunity to prove himself in front of his family and all of Naples.

Benvenuti in casa Esposito

2021

Anime Borboniche poster
7.7

A married couple must reach the Royal Palace of Caserta for a historical reenactment. During the journey, however, the woman, tired of arguing, incredibly leaves her husband stranded in the middle of the road. The poor man, dressed as a Bourbon coachman without a wallet or phone, will have a series of surprising encounters. Will he ever see his wife again?

Anime Borboniche

2021

Piano Piano poster
5.8

Anna is 13, on the keyboard of the piano she should learn to play are her tricks stolen from her mother. Her meeting with Peppino and Mariuolo will make her to take the step that separates childhood from the future.

Piano Piano

2023

Diversi come due gocce d'acqua poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Diversi come due gocce d'acqua

2022

Good Manners poster
NR

Mimmo Savarese was the greatest sports commentator of his generation. Today that his career is in decline, he has the opportunity to make a comeback thanks to an unusual job offer, which conceals within itself the opportunity to masterfully avenge a dramatic wrong suffered as a child.

Good Manners

2021

Shakespea Re di Napoli poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shakespea Re di Napoli

2023

2010s · 29 titles

The Tourist poster
6.2

American tourist Frank meets mysterious British woman Elise on the train to Venice. Romance seems to bud, but there's more to her than meets the eye.

The Tourist

2010

To Rome with Love poster
5.8

Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.

To Rome with Love

2012

Loro poster
6.7

Internationally released Director's Cut of "Loro 1" and "Loro 2", which were released separately as two movies in Italy. The film talks about the group of businessmen and politicians – the Loro (Them) from the title – who live and act near to media tycoon and politician Silvio Berlusconi in the years between 2006 and 2009.

Loro

2018

The Most Beautiful Day in the World poster
6.0

Arturo Meraviglia is a struggling impresario who has to take care of Gioele and Rebecca, two children "inherited" by an old uncle. When he realizes that little Gioele has superpowers, his luck changes.

The Most Beautiful Day in the World

2019

Loro 1 poster
6.8

"Loro", in two parts, is a period movie that chronicles, as a fiction story, events likely happened in Italy (or even made up) between 2006 and 2010. "Loro" wants to suggest in portraits and glimps, through a composite constellation of characters, a moment in history, now definitively ended, which can be described in a very summary picture of the events as amoral, decadent but extraordinarily alive. Additionally, "Loro" wishes to tell the story of some Italians, fresh and ancient people at the same time: souls from a modern imaginary Purgatory who, moved by heterogeneous intents like ambition, admiration, affection, curiosity, personal interests, establish to try and orbit around the walking Paradise that is the man named Silvio Berlusconi.

Loro 1

2018

Put Grandma in the Freezer poster
6.1

Simone, a clumsy financier, falls in love with Claudia, who’s living on her grandma’s retirement checks. When the old lady dies Claudia hides the body in a freezer, and sets up a fraud with the help of some friends to avoid bankruptcy.

Put Grandma in the Freezer

2018

Tenderness poster
6.3

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 meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys and finds herself locked out. Cynical and grumpy, the retired lawyer who has been living estranged from the rest of the world, should normally leave her to her fate but he mellows under her spontaneous charm. He helps her, becomes friends not only with her but with her husband Fabio and their two children. For once, the self-declared misanthropist seems to be experiencing the long forgotten feeling of empathy.

Tenderness

2017

Anche se è amore non si vede poster
6.3

Salvo and Valentino are two Sicilian friends who have moved to Turin, and now run a small business together. They drive foreign tourists around in a double-decker bus, and Salvo always tries to approach the pretty girls.

Anche se è amore non si vede

2011

There's No Religion Anymore poster
5.4

Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newly elected Mayor Cecco (Claudio Bisio) wants to ask the local Tunisian community to “borrow” one of their children, but there’s conflict between the two communities. Cecco enlists the help of local Islam convert Bilal (Alessandro Gassman) to cross the cultural divide… but both communities are not sure what to make of a baby Jesus that may need his nationality, and even his religion changed!

There's No Religion Anymore

2016

Love and Bullets poster
6.6

A Mafia boss fakes his own death aiming at a fresh start, but a nurse happens to see him alive and well after the funeral. A hitman is promptly sent to get rid of her, only to find out she's his first and unforgotten love.

Love and Bullets

2017

Nauta poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nauta

2011

Storia di Nilde poster
6.8

The story of Nilde Lotti who fought with the partisan resistance during World War II and subsequently, as a member of Italy's Communist Party, became the first female president of the lower house of parliament in 1979.

Storia di Nilde

2019

The Santa Claus Gang poster
6.0

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...

The Santa Claus Gang

2010

Bob & Marys poster
5.2

A married couple must get their hands dirty when a bunch of mobsters start using their new home as a deposit for illegal material.

Bob & Marys

2018

Vieni a vivere a Napoli! poster
4.9

Three different stories pay homage to the city of Naples, seen as a capital of hospitality and multiethnic integration. In the first, a Sri Lankan waiter on his first day at work is tasked with delivering coffee to a well-known radio station, but encounters many unexpected challenges. In the second, a former Ukrainian TV presenter, wife of an imprisoned politician, is forced to come to Italy and adapt to the role of carer to a grumpy old man. In the third, a Neapolitan nanny, caring for a young Chinese boy, asks her brother to look after the child while she is away on a prize trip.

Vieni a vivere a Napoli!

2017

Il caso Enzo Tortora: Dove eravamo rimasti? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il caso Enzo Tortora: Dove eravamo rimasti?

2012

Il caso Enzo Tortora: Dove eravamo rimasti? poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Il caso Enzo Tortora: Dove eravamo rimasti?

2012

È nata una star? poster
4.9

Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose when a neighbor finds a porn video of him and leaves it in his parents' mailbox.

È nata una star?

2012

Tiramisu poster
5.3

Antonio, a representative of medical supplies with no success, finds a brilliant way to present himself to the customers and improve his sales: the special tiramisù made by his beautiful wife Aurora.

Tiramisu

2016

Flash poster
6.8

Caserta. Billy is a wedding photographer grappling with his last job before closing his shop. A few hours before the ceremony, Michele, a graduate student looking for an internship, pops into his studio. The photographer decides to take the young man with him on a day full of unexpected events.

Flash

2018

We Accept Miracles poster
5.8

Fired from his HR job in the big city, Fulvio returns home and sees a leaky pipe in his brother's church as the way to save the crumbling town.

We Accept Miracles

2015

A Small Southern Enterprise poster
5.6

Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn't got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her son, has disrobed. Afraid to be the talk of the village, relegates him to a distant lighthouse belonging to the family. But Costantino does not remain far from the madding crowd for long. It does not take long indeed before all the local (or even distant) outcasts flock together there: Magnolia, a retired escort girl; Arturo, Rosa Maria's estranged husband; Valbona, a lesbian; Rosa Maria herself; and, to crown it all, two eccentric workers accompanied by a little girl... After a period of chaos, this small world gradually discovers that unity makes strength.

A Small Southern Enterprise

2013

The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler poster
5.7

A wealthy broker, his loyal butler, and a poor street seller all see their social positions change in a twist of fate.

The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler

2014

Scappo a casa poster
5.0

Michele is a superficial man with nothing but contempt for other people and who lives only to show off his wealth on social media, until he finds himself mistaken for a North African immigrant in Eastern Europe and deported.

Scappo a casa

2019

Mozzarella Stories poster
6.0

Ciccio D.O.P., undisputed lord of the mozzarella kingdom, sees his dairy empire imperiled when enigmatic Chinese producers unleash a half-priced, top-quality mozzarella on Italian shelves, igniting a brutal market war. As he scrambles to defend his realm, his daughter Sofia, the crooner Angelo Tatangelo, former flame Autilia “Jazz-Mood,” and ex-water-polo champ Dudo are swept into a high-stakes struggle that tests loyalties, reignites old passions, and reveals the true cost of domination.

Mozzarella Stories

2011

The Hole poster
5.2

Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.

The Hole

2014

Natale col boss poster
5.2

Alex and Dino are two enstablished plastic surgeons used to change their patients' physical aspect with a few cuts of scalpel. Leo and Cosimo are two clumsy cops on the trails of a powerful and dangerous boss of which no one knows the face. All these five characters will stumble upon each other's life, in a comedy full of misunderstandings, twists and laughs, where, in the end, everyone will try to save his own "face".

Natale col boss

2015

Omamamia poster
4.4

Where shall we put grandma? Her permanently anxious and stressed daughter, Marie, knows exactly where: the neighbourhood’s idyllically situated retirement homem where she can find friends of “her own age”. But Granny has other ideas: She wants to see the Pope in Rome, and no one can stop her plan. She wants to finally confess a troubling sin to the highest possible power. She resolves to make the journey alone, and ends up one day on the doorstep of her granddaughter, Martina. What she doesn’t know is that Martina has a secret too, and that a private audience with the Pope is virtually impossible for mere mortals. Together with sly bon vivant, Lorenzo, the three set off on an adventure – but their attempt to receive a Papal blessing almost ends in disaster.

Omamamia

2012

Too Neapolitan poster
6.3

When Debora's ex-husband, a popular neomelodic singer, loses his life in a stage dive, she worries that her 11-year-old son Ciro may be showing symptoms of depression. Taken to a child psychologist, shy Tommaso, Ciro eventually confesses to him that it's not his father's death that has got him down, it's love for his classmate, the cute Ludovica. The two make a deal: Tommaso will help Ciro to win the affections of Ludovica, while Ciro will give Tommaso a hand at having a chance with his mother.

Too Neapolitan

2016

2000s · 10 titles

All the Invisible Children poster
7.0

Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.

All the Invisible Children

2006

The Legend of Al, John and Jack poster
7.1

Hapless Depression-era gangsters Al, John and Jack find out their boss wants to get rid of them and come up with a plan to sell him to the FBI, but Al's short-term memory loss could make it difficult.

The Legend of Al, John and Jack

2002

Al cuore si comanda poster
5.6

Lorenza is 30 years old and has not yet found the man of her life. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to take the penniless Riccardo as her husband "for rent".

Al cuore si comanda

2003

Johnny the Partisan poster
6.1

After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.

Johnny the Partisan

2000

Ribelli per caso poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Ribelli per caso

2000

Piacere Michele Imperatore poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Piacere Michele Imperatore

2008

L'uomo della fortuna poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

L'uomo della fortuna

2000

Bets & Wedding Dresses poster
6.0

Franco Campanella, a former postal worker earning under €1,000 monthly, is devoted to his family but addicted to gambling. On his daughter Luisa’s wedding eve, he promises to save for expenses but, after being denied a loan, gambles away tens of thousands, ending up in debt to loan sharks and Camorra members.

Bets & Wedding Dresses

2009

The Long Night poster
6.5

The long night of Manolo, hairdresser to the stars, on the Champs Élysées during his first experience with cocaine. He goes to discos and seances, sees widowed baronesses and pushers, and finally manages to set up his moment of intimacy with Ariel Bachini, famous film star, but…

The Long Night

2001

Bimba poster
4.4

Bimba, a superficial showgirl, full of herself and lacking in talent, discovers she is a clone. More angry about the template chosen for her than the experiment itself—an American actress who was famous for a few months and then forgotten—she decides to make her own way in the difficult world of show business, in a surreal world of intrigue and revelations.

Bimba

2002

1990s · 4 titles

Series credits

The Octopus poster
7.8

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

The Octopus

1984

GialappaShow poster
7.8

Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci - supported in the studio by Mago Forest, a great cast of comedians and many surprise guests - comment with biting irony on the most popular TV programs, the main sporting events and the last web trends.

GialappaShow

2023

LOL: Chi ride è fuori poster
7.0

Is a comedy show where ten professional comedians face off for six hours in a row to keep a straight face, while they try to make their opponents laugh. The first time someone laughs the contestant gets warned, the second time, they get eliminated from the game. Whoever manages to resist without laughing all the way through the six hours wins EUR100,000 to turn over to the charity of their choice.

LOL: Chi ride è fuori

2021

I bastardi di Pizzofalcone poster
7.2

Giuseppe Lojacono, suspected of collusion with the mafia, is unfairly thrown out of from Sicily and send to Pizzofalcone (close to Naples), together with other police officers. There, they bring justice back where it was forgotten.

I bastardi di Pizzofalcone

2017

Wonderboys: The Secret Treasure of Naples poster
5.0

Five inseparable friends, the Wonderboys, are forced to say goodbye because the Old Hag, the owner of their apartments, is about to sell their homes in exchange for a Maradona figurine. When the figurine is stolen by their idol Tonino Wonderboy, the new Munaciello of Naples, their adventure begins in the city's underground, in search of a mysterious treasure.

Wonderboys: The Secret Treasure of Naples

2024

Mai dire domenica poster
8.8

Show commented by Gialappa's

Mai dire domenica

2002

Grandi domani poster
7.5

Grandi domani is an Italian television series.

Grandi domani

2005

Stasera tutto è possibile poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stasera tutto è possibile

2015

I delitti del cuoco poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

I delitti del cuoco

2010

Pesci Piccoli: Un'agenzia, molte idee, poco budget poster
7.2

A small digital agency struggles against the odds while dreaming of something bigger. It finds itself in a tricky situation, between extravagant clients and the challenges of a modest provincial reality.

Pesci Piccoli: Un'agenzia, molte idee, poco budget

2023

Matrimoni e altre follie poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Matrimoni e altre follie

2016

Cops - Una banda di poliziotti poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Cops - Una banda di poliziotti

2020

Salvo D'Acquisto poster
6.0

During World War II, 22-year-old Carabinieri deputy brigadier Salvo D'Acquisto makes an heroic gesture of self-sacrifice by "confessing" an act of sabotage for which 22 civilians had been rounded up by the Germans, and is executed by firing squad in their place on September 23, 1943.

Salvo D'Acquisto

2003

L'isola dei segreti - Koré poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'isola dei segreti - Koré

2009

Anni '50 poster
6.8

Year 1955 in Capri

Anni '50

1998

Qualunque cosa succeda poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Qualunque cosa succeda

2014

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Comici

1998

Mia madre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mia madre

2010

Io e mamma poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Io e mamma

2007

Behind the camera