Lunetta Savino

Acting

Lunetta Savino

Born

1957-11-02 (68)

Place of birth

Bari, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Lunetta Savino (born 2 November 1957 in Bari, Italy) is an Italian theatre, film, and television actress. She trained at the Scuola di Teatro Alessandra Galante Garrone in Bologna and made her stage debut in 1981 before transitioning to screen roles. Savino gained widespread recognition for her portrayal of Concetta “Cettina” Gargiulo in the long-running TV series Un medico in famiglia (1998–2009) and has since appeared in notable television dramas including È arrivata la felicità, Le indagini di Lolita Lobosco and Libera (2024). Her film work includes roles in Free the Fish (2000), Saturn in Opposition (2007), Loose Cannons (2010), and Diamanti (2024). Savino has received major recognition…

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

Diamonds poster
7.1

In 1970s Rome, a filmmaker gathers actresses for a new project, which triggers memories of his past working in a Roman costume shop, run by Alberta and Gabriella, navigating personal and professional challenges while creating costumes for a major film.

Diamonds

2024

Lino D’Italia - Storia di un itALIENO poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Lino D’Italia - Storia di un itALIENO

2026

My Brother and I poster
6.1

Sofia is the black sheep of her family. She is a 28-year-old gay girl who can’t help but cheat on her partner and struggles to find a stable job. She has left a little town in Calabria, her homeland in Southern Italy, to move to Milan, where she lives with her roommate Alessandro. Mauro is Sofia's brother. Reliable and loving, unlike Sofia with whom he has a troubled relationship, Mauro has never left Calabria and runs the family winery. Despite their opposite attitudes, Sofia and Mauro has one thing in common. Michela is Sofia's first and only love, but she is Mauro’s bride-to-be. When Sofia realizes that she is about to lose the woman of her life, she decides to go back home to Calabria and win back her true love. This unexpected return will break the delicate balance of Mauro and Sofia’s family and will force the two siblings to a showdown, when they will choose who they really want to be when they grow up. A story of rekindled loves, friendship, growth, and family.

My Brother and I

2023

My Soul Summer poster
5.4

A shy 17-year-old girl playing classical piano discovers soul music through a strange friendship with an old rocker in a summer that will change her life.

My Soul Summer

2022

2010s · 12 titles

Loose Cannons poster
7.3

Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.

Loose Cannons

2010

Do You See Me? poster
6.4

Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can live and work there. She will soon find out that her native country is not as open minded and she will struggle to find a job that she truly loves and is passionate about. Along the way she will meet Francesco a gay man who will help and support her throughout her journey.

Do You See Me?

2014

Everything Everything Nothing Nothing poster
5.2

Cetto and its city council were arrested, but in prison the conspiratorial former mayor makes no earning name as the gratitude of the powerful secretary. These decide to replace some MPs mysteriously killed precisely with Cetto and two other characters: Rodolfo Favaretto and Frengo Stop

Everything Everything Nothing Nothing

2012

Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud poster
6.9

Shortly before the 200-meter race that would crown him Olympic champion at the 1980 Moscow Games, Pietro Mennea reflects on his career up to that point: his beginnings with AVIS Barletta, his first national competitions, the tough training sessions in Formia, the triumphs and defeats, the 200-meter world record, and his love for Manuela.

Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud

2015

Bar Sport poster
5.0

Inside Bar Sport, a bar on the outskirts of Bologna managed by the histrionic Onassis, the adventures of regulars and casual patrons unfold. Searching for a pinball machine or a payphone, they encounter the omnipresent "technician," so called for his passion for soccer and always ready to chat or moderate other people's discussions. Thus, the ordeals of the handyman Bovinelli as he deals with the disasters at Muzzi's house, the diary of a provincial playboy's conquests, the sex life of the fiery prostitute Elvira, the search for a good restaurant during a dazed motorcycle trip with Cocosecco, or a trip to see Bologna play with the lawyer Della Lana become epic tales of tragicomic exploits.

Bar Sport

2011

Fiabeschi torna a casa poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Fiabeschi torna a casa

2013

Rosa poster
6.2

Rosa and Igor live under the same roof, without trespassing on each other's territory even thou they have been living together for years. Things that happened divided them - things that came about brought them back together.

Rosa

2019

Amici Come Prima poster
5.4

Cesare Proietti is the esteemed manager of the Relais Colombo, a luxury hotel in Milan. When a group of new Chinese business partners want to revolutionize everything, the hotel owner's daughter, Luciana, decides to fire Cesare. When Cesare discovers Luciana is looking for a caregiver who can look after her father, he decides to dress up as a charming woman to apply for the role.

Amici Come Prima

2018

A Woman of Courage poster
7.1

Felicia Impastato, mother of the brave Peppino Impastato, tries to keep the memory of his son alive after his murder.

A Woman of Courage

2016

Io, Arlecchino poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Io, Arlecchino

2015

An Almost Ordinary Summer poster
6.2

Two families meet for a marriage that neither want, and things take a turn when the respective patriarchs fall in love.

An Almost Ordinary Summer

2019

Il fulgore di Dony poster
7.4

Dony and Marco, two high school students from Bologna, live an intense love story until he starts suffering serious neurological damage after a ski accident.

Il fulgore di Dony

2018

2000s · 10 titles

Saturn in Opposition poster
6.9

This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, married with children; Nerval and her policeman husband.

Saturn in Opposition

2007

Amore con la S maiuscola poster
10.0

A man and a woman try to win back their respective partners.

Amore con la S maiuscola

2002

Il figlio della luna poster
7.7

Based on the real story of Fulvio Frisone, born with spastic quadriplegia dystonia severe enough to prevent him from even speaking. Thanks largely to the enormous efforts of the mother Lucia, Fulvio, apparently condemned to a life without opportunities, manage to study with great profit, and today is an accomplished scientist in the field of Physics.

Il figlio della luna

2007

L'isola degli smemorati poster
8.3

On an island in the middle of the ocean, inhabited by nine elderly people, including the ancient wizard Lucanòr, no one remembers what children are. One day, however, a boat carrying a group of helpless shipwrecked children arrives on this piece of land surrounded by the sea. Will the children manage to gain respect? Who will help them?

L'isola degli smemorati

2005

Due mamme di troppo poster
NR

Gabry and Lellè are two mothers who are temperamentally opposites. The first is a woman of the aristocracy, refined and in the latest fashion, while the second is a woman originally from the south who, after losing her husband, moved to Turin to work as a professional masseuse, finding Lellè among her clients. . The situation takes an unexpected turn when Rita, Lellè's daughter, falls madly in love with Alessandro, a career manager and Gabry's son. A bond between the two that is hindered by the maternal figures, ready for anything as long as that marriage doesn't hap

Due mamme di troppo

2009

Never Again as Before poster
6.1

Six schoolmates, after their final exams, decide to go together on holiday in the Dolomites, in what will probably be their last summer together before taking different ways. In that time they will learn to know themselves and others better, facing and trying to overcome their fears.

Never Again as Before

2005

Il coraggio di Angela poster
6.0

Angela Latella is a Neapolitan entrepreneur who runs a paint shop with her children. When a Camorra boss decides to target her business with increasingly high protection money demands, she refuses to give in and, against everyone's advice, finds the courage to report her extortionists. Based on the true story of Silvana Fucito.

Il coraggio di Angela

2008

Liberate i pesci! poster
6.9

Mafioso Michele Verrio has both a wife and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta.

Liberate i pesci!

2000

If I Were You poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

If I Were You

2001

Just Married poster
5.7

Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.

Just Married

2009

1990s · 2 titles

1980s · 3 titles

Where's Picone? poster
6.8

During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.

Where's Picone?

1984

Grog poster
9.0

Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.

Grog

1982

Chi mi aiuta? poster
NR

Paolo and Carlo are good friends. The first introverted, disillusioned and intellectual, while the other is happy if shallow. Despite their differences they share accommodation. Paolo runs an “alternative” kind of library; Carlo plays the violin in a little band. Their lives go on peacefully, when suddenly Paolo falls in love with one of his a customers - Lili, an amateur actress - whom he decides to take home. Carlo doesn’t react well to the fact he’s got to share with a third person, so he comes up with a weird idea - he flirts with the new girl and manages to seduce her. Paolo thinks his best friend is now guilty of a real betrayal, while Lili is undecided: she’s attracted by both the culture of Paolo and the physical attraction of Carlo. This love triangle ends when Paolo tries to commit suicide, Carlo feels guilty and Lili leaves them both, returning to her previous life and still hoping to find her one true love.

Chi mi aiuta?

1984

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