
Acting
Emanuele Barresi
Born 1958-12-23 · Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Acting credits
6.7Adriano is a middle-aged man living in a dilapidated villa in Tuscany, when a group of young idealistic students arrives to restore the villa's vineyards.
Five Seconds
2025
7.4Two mental patients with opposite personalities ditch their Tuscan hospital and embark on an unpredictable exploration of the real world.
Like Crazy
2016
6.1Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
Magical Nights
2018
6.1Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
Napoleon and Me
2006
7.2The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.
The First Beautiful Thing
2010
7.2From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
Ovosodo
1997
6.7A 40-year-old world-famous chef with anger management issues is assigned to run a cooking class at a centre for young people with autism.
As Needed
2018
5.4Four stories about football.
4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
2006
6.4A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.
Living It Up
1994
7.8At 19, David has his diploma (the first in his family), a job at a car wash, and little else. His family is broke and argues constantly. So, unannounced, David leaves Turin for his uncle's farm in Polesine. Here he learns many life lessons over the course of a summer while hanging out with Bosnian drug dealer Alem and Patrizia, an older woman who's an addict.
L'estate di Davide
1998
5.0The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart.
Bonus Malus
1993
6.3A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome him in their home, no less! Truth is they have mistaken him for the tax man they're waiting for, desperate to save their floundering ostrich-breeding business.
Kisses and Hugs
1999
6.9After finish his work Marchino finds the body of a teenager girl and goes to BarLume to call the police who don't believe him after his infamous past. Massimo goes to check and here starts a new story of BarLume.
I delitti del BarLume - La briscola in cinque
2015
