Sabrina Ferilli

Acting

Sabrina Ferilli

Born

1964-06-28 (62)

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

88 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Sabrina Ferilli (born 28 June, height 5' 7" (1,7 m)) is an Italian theater and movie actress.

Known for

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

The Great Beauty poster
7.5

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

The Great Beauty

2013

Ciao Darwin poster
7.9

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

Ciao Darwin

1998

Tú Sí Que Vales poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Tú Sí Que Vales

2014

The Forbidden City poster
6.9

The son of an indebted restaurant owner joins a foreign girl in search of her sister. Together, they’ll have to fight side by side against the most ruthless members of the Roman criminal underworld.

The Forbidden City

2025

Peccato poster
NR

2049. Emanuela Fanelli is 63 years old and lives alone in a small isolated mountain village in Valle d'Aosta. She doesn't act anymore, she shied away from cameras and has been forgotten by the showbiz. Through a ironic and speculative tone, Peccato interrogates on the reasons of the actress' retreat, by a "what if" narrative that goes back through Fanelli's carreer and the mysterious scandal that caused her downfall.

Peccato

2026

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

The Forbidden City poster
6.9

The son of an indebted restaurant owner joins a foreign girl in search of her sister. Together, they’ll have to fight side by side against the most ruthless members of the Roman criminal underworld.

The Forbidden City

2025

Notte prima degli esami 3.0 poster
5.9

On the eve of their final exams, a group of Roman high school students find themselves experiencing their last great adventure together: secret loves, betrayals, tested friendships, and desperate plans to deceive the school's most feared teacher.

Notte prima degli esami 3.0

2026

The Usual Idiots 3: The Comeback poster
4.7

I Soliti Idioti return to the cinema ten years after the second film and many things have changed in the world. We will see the most beloved characters compete with the contemporary, with the same cynical and amused eye that distinguished the previous episodes. This new adventure focuses on a current and universal theme: the family.

The Usual Idiots 3: The Comeback

2024

We Are Cinema poster
9.5

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

We Are Cinema

2021

No artwork available
NR

A group of friends, and the power of memory.

For Better And For Worse

2026

My Name Is Francesco Totti poster
7.4

Francesco Totti retraces his entire life while watching it on the silver screen together with the audience. Images and emotions flow among key moments of his career, scenes from his personal life and memories he has never shared before.

My Name Is Francesco Totti

2020

The Sex of Angels poster
5.3

A street priest struggling to save his church learns his late uncle left him a small business that could turn his fortune around: he'll soon realize that said business is in fact... a brothel!

The Sex of Angels

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

Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ti vogliamo bene Francesco Nuti

2021

Sanremo 72. Il Festival da dove non l’avete mai visto poster
4.0

A documentary on the behind the scenes of the 2022 edition of the Sanremo Music Festival.

Sanremo 72. Il Festival da dove non l’avete mai visto

2022

2010s · 12 titles

The Great Beauty poster
7.5

Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

The Great Beauty

2013

The Place poster
7.1

The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them.

The Place

2017

Vacanze di Natale a Cortina poster
4.9

Roberto Covelli, a Roman lawyer, goes on a Christmas holiday to his chalet in Cortina with his wife Elena and their daughters.

Vacanze di Natale a Cortina

2011

Me, Myself and Her poster
6.0

Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with.

Me, Myself and Her

2015

Voi siete qui poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Voi siete qui

2011

Forever Young poster
5.5

Intertwined stories of 50somethings that won't give up on their glory days.

Forever Young

2016

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

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

2019

Motori Ruggenti poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Motori Ruggenti

2017

Né con te né senza di te poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Né con te né senza di te

2012

Caldo criminale poster
4.9

Anna, a woman hiding from her soon-to-be-released abusive husband, witnesses a murder from the front window of her apartment. However, the police finds no evidence of the crime. Anna investigates and finds out the place was rented to a socialite whose younger, devilishly handsome husband Valerio bares a striking resemblance to the man she saw dying...

Caldo criminale

2010

Omicidio all'italiana poster
6.3

To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, but soon the situation will spiral out of control.

Omicidio all'italiana

2017

2000s · 16 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

Christmas in Love poster
4.7

A middle-aged man’s relationship with a young model is questioned by his daughter, who’s dating an older man herself.

Christmas in Love

2004

Natale a Beverly Hills poster
4.8

Carlo descends on his former lover's unsuspecting family and the scheming Rocco tries to break up his old rival Marcello's wedding.

Natale a Beverly Hills

2009

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me poster
4.7

The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s cult.

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me

2006

The New Monsters Today poster
4.6

Talks about the fears, vices and weaknesses that bedevil the contemporary Italian society. Highlights the degeneration that is plaguing certain quarters of the Italian society today.

The New Monsters Today

2009

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future poster
6.8

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

2007

Le ali della vita poster
7.4

The end of the 1950s: Rosanna returns as a music teacher to the claustrophobic confines of the convent boarding school from which she escaped as a young girl. Her happy, understanding ways, unconventional teaching methods and deep love of music soon win her the hearts of her girl pupils. Vithold, a nice young doctor, is also fascinated by Rosanna and gradually manages to convince her of his deep feelings for her. Rosanna encounters rejection and hatred from Alberta, the Mother Superior, who has a deep belief in strict discipline and order, as well as from her close associate Sister Federica, who is severe to the point of inhumanity.

Le ali della vita

2000

Lucia poster
7.0

Italian made-for-TV drama.

Lucia

2005

Natale a New York poster
5.0

Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on her, under penalty of divorce and not even a penny of alimony. But one day he meets Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli) and it's immediately irresistible passion... Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) is a young surgeon who, to make a career, is forced to suffer the harassment of his head, Professor Benci (Claudio Bisio). Filippo is about to go to New York to get married and Benci does not miss an opportunity to further harass him by asking him to bring a gift to his son, a "model" student at Riverside College.

Natale a New York

2006

3 Women poster
8.0

It is the story of three women in three different places: Turin, Paris and Luxembourg City. Stefania, whose husband has left her for a younger woman, lives alone and types fiction teleplays for a living... until the day she decides to open a new chapter of her life. Elena tries to commit suicide by jumping into the River Seine. She is saved by Bernard, a tramp who, after attempting to reanimate her, takes her to the emergency ward. Later on, they meet again. Stella tries to wake up her drunk companion so that he can become again Diabolique, the fire-eater of a small circus. She more or less manages to but her man is wounded while performing his act and finishes the night in a hospital room.

3 Women

2003

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

Beyond Borders poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Beyond Borders

2004

Cuore di donna poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

Cuore di donna

2002

No artwork available
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Le ali della vita 2

2001

Le giraffe poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le giraffe

2000

A ruota libera poster
5.5

Pericle Caruso lives in Naples, and is in a wheelchair because of a bad surgery in hospital. Pericle intends to sue the rich owner of the clinic: a stingy and cruel baron, and so he falls on purpose of his wife ...

A ruota libera

2000

1990s · 15 titles

Diary of a Maniac poster
5.6

In this stylish and offbeat black comedy, Benito ( Jerry Calà) keeps a diary of his sexual fantasies and cravings. As a result of his on-again, off-again relationship with the beautiful and insatiable Luigia (Sabrina Ferilli), his thoughts along these lines have grown increasingly bizarre. For his own part, he is driven to pick up and bed women at almost every opportunity. As the fantasies recorded in his diary consume more and more of his life, and grow darker and darker, his ordinary waking life becomes flatter and duller, until he disappears altogether.

Diary of a Maniac

1993

Strangled Lives poster
5.3

Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. Francesco wins the deal, but soon he discovers that Claudio is not what he says.

Strangled Lives

1996

Americano rosso poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Americano rosso

1991

I fobici poster
5.7

Four stories about phobias, manias and other complexes.

I fobici

1999

Ritorno a casa Gori poster
6.1

Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.

Ritorno a casa Gori

1996

August Vacation poster
6.8

Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.

August Vacation

1996

The More I See You poster
NR

Paul, on receiving a phone call from his girlfriend, tears himself away from his workaholic life and sets off for Italy. On the road he settles down at the wheel, listens to the hum of the tires on the asphalt and enjoys the journey. But he is held up by a breakdown. By the time he arrives, his girlfriend has already left. Longing to see her he lingers on, and while he passes the time he experiences moments of unexpected delight. His waiting turns into a voyage of indulgence. His longing grows and tantalizes.

The More I See You

1992

Law of Courage poster
6.9

The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.

Law of Courage

1994

Living It Up poster
6.4

A recently laid off steel mill worker in a little seaside town starts losing his wife to a local TV anchor.

Living It Up

1994

Rugantino poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rugantino

1998

Mr. Fifteen Balls poster
5.6

Francesco is a Tuscan who is very good at playing American pool, so much so that he is nicknamed "Mr. Quindicipalle", for the time he performed the unlikely feat of pocketing fifteen (quindici) balls (palle) in one shot, using the wooden handle of a broom as his cue stick. Francesco is also an experienced womanizer, like his recently deceased father. Indeed, Francesco meets the woman of his dreams at his father's funeral – a prostitute who calls herself Sissi. The two fall in love, and so Francesco thinks she might be a lucky charm for him, in his training for a big pool tournament. But Sissi frequently infuriates Francesco, compromising his skill and his training for the tournament.

Mr. Fifteen Balls

1998

Leo e Beo poster
9.5

A man named Leo has the ability to speak to his dog, Beo. He falls in love with a single mother named Sabrina.

Leo e Beo

1998

You Laugh poster
5.5

Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.

You Laugh

1998

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima

1994

Oranges Amères poster
8.0

Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial Algeria. Angele, an Algerian colonist with impeccably French origins, has fallen in love with Said, the assistant in her brother-in-law's bakery shop. Said is conscious of his Arab origins and traditions, and Angele has her work cut out for her if she wants to persuade him to marry her. Once she does, all hell breaks loose, as neither her European-origin peers nor Said's conservative Arab family approve of the union. When word of the proposed marriage gets out, strikes, violence and murder quickly follow, ruining not only Angele's life, but the lives of those around her. Her brother-in-law Paco, meanwhile, has been doggedly trying to get along and raise his family in an increasingly chaotic and difficult situation.

Oranges Amères

1997

1980s · 7 titles

I picari poster
5.5

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.

I picari

1987

Sweets from a Stranger poster
5.1

In Rome, a sadistic serial killer begins stalking and murdering sex workers, leaving the community terrified and the authorities struggling to stop the violence. After several attacks, four women—Lena, Angela, Nadine, and Stella—decide they can’t wait to be the next victims, and band together to protect each other and take a more active role in the search. As police pressure mounts and the women start digging for clues on their own, the hunt turns the city into a tense web of fear, rumors, and suspicion.

Sweets from a Stranger

1987

The Ogre poster
5.4

An American horror writer, haunted by childhood nightmares, moves to an old mansion in Italy with her husband and young son only to discover the nightmares were real.

The Ogre

1988

Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later poster
3.8

Four episodes set on the beaches of Rimini: a womanizer pretends to be homosexual in order to gain the favors of a beautiful woman who ignores him. A mature beachgoer suffers from indigestion. A businessman unknowingly finances his wife's infidelities. Two wives from the south are forced to exchange partners.

Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later

1988

The Big Fox poster
7.1

Ugo Maria Volpone is a very rich shipowner. He dissimulates to be close to die in order to have the attention of three of his friends: Corvino, Voltore and Corbaccio. The three accepts every kind of humiliation and money loss in order to inherit all Volpone's fortune. Volpone hires a new servant, Mosca. Together the two start to realize new jokes and extortions to the three greedy fake friends. Who will win the inheritance?

The Big Fox

1988

NightClub poster
4.3

The nightlife of young carefree friends in a wonderful 60s Rome.

NightClub

1989

Portami la luna poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Portami la luna

1987

Series credits

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

Ciao Darwin poster
7.9

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

Ciao Darwin

1998

Tú Sí Que Vales poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Tú Sí Que Vales

2014

Tú Sí Que Vales poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Tú Sí Que Vales

2014

Peccato poster
NR

2049. Emanuela Fanelli is 63 years old and lives alone in a small isolated mountain village in Valle d'Aosta. She doesn't act anymore, she shied away from cameras and has been forgotten by the showbiz. Through a ironic and speculative tone, Peccato interrogates on the reasons of the actress' retreat, by a "what if" narrative that goes back through Fanelli's carreer and the mysterious scandal that caused her downfall.

Peccato

2026

Dinner Club poster
7.2

Michelin-starred chef Carlo Cracco undertakes six trips across Italy to rediscover its most authentic cuisine with famous actors for each destination.

Dinner Club

2021

Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan? poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?

1999

The Boys of 3rd C poster
5.9

Rome, late 1980s, Leopardi Classical High School. This is where the various protagonists of the series meet and experience the epic, hilarious exploits of their classmates in 3C, the most outgoing high school students of the entire school year. Bruno Sacchi, a shy, rather plump boy, often awkward but with a big heart. Chicco Lazzaretti, the classic, tireless repeater, obsessed with school and his classmates, always ready to answer teachers in funny ways to distract his classmates. Of course, Daniele and Rossella, typical sweethearts who have grown up together since childhood, are also present, along with the beautiful, blonde Sharon Zampetti, desired by everyone.

The Boys of 3rd C

1987

Valentina poster
5.0

The stories revolve around the investigations of Valentina Rosselli, and the intrigues in which she gets involved because of her curiosity and her wonderful physical appearance. In the Shareholders She is often assisted by the antiquarian Philip Rembrandt, with whom she shares an ambiguous relationship.

Valentina

1989

Shopgirls poster
6.5

Six very different people - Marta, Roberta, Fiorenza, Paola, Lucia and Romeo - work together in an elegant fashion boutique in the centre of Rome. They are all in thrall to the demands of their overbearing manager, Francesca. Each character knows that between the dramas of their own lives, the journeys to and from work, the children to care for, husbands, lovers, and parents, they will find solidarity with their fellow shop workers.

Shopgirls

1999

Anna e i cinque poster
NR

Anna e i cinque is an Italian comedy television series starring Sabrina Ferilli about a woman who is a nanny for a wealthy family by day and stripper by night.

Anna e i cinque

2008

Baciamo le mani: Palermo-New York 1958 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Baciamo le mani: Palermo-New York 1958

2013

Fading Gigolo poster
6.5

When his father Giacomo comes back into his life after a heart attack, Alfonso has to cope with a life-changing truth: his father is a gigolo. After a series of unfortunate events, Alfonso is forced to follow in his father's footsteps.

Fading Gigolo

2023

Lives of the Saints poster
5.6

Vittorio Innocente, a young man, estranged from the tragedies of his Italian immigrant family, has spent his adult life denying his past. When his estranged father starts to stalk Vittorio's sister, Rita, with murderous intent, Vittorio is moved to return to his family and uncover the decades-old secrets that have torn his family apart.

Lives of the Saints

2004

C'è posta per te poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

C'è posta per te

2000

La provinciale poster
NR

In 1950s Italy, a young woman from a poor background strives for a better life.

La provinciale

2006

Due imbroglioni e... mezzo! 2 poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Due imbroglioni e... mezzo! 2

2010

Rivoglio i miei figli poster
9.0

The struggle of a woman against her ex-husband to have custody of their children. The first attempt to incapacitate ex husband to his wife and, when the ploy did not produce the desired effect, with the complicity of his children's nanny, kidnaps and takes them to Moldova. But the protagonist is not will give up and hire a detective for help in the search.

Rivoglio i miei figli

2004

Dalida poster
7.0

The life story of famous singer and actress of Egyptian and Italian ancestry Iolanda Gigliotti known by her stage name Dalida.

Dalida

2005

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Una storia italiana

1993

A testa alta - Il coraggio di una donna poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

A testa alta - Il coraggio di una donna

2026

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Die Inka Connection

1995

Gloria poster
7.0

A one-time great actor prepares for a triumphant return to the big screen. But neither her comeback nor her personal life go according to plan.

Gloria

2024

Rimbocchiamoci le maniche poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rimbocchiamoci le maniche

2016

Al di là delle frontiere poster
NR

During World War II (1939-1945), Angela Ghignino, an Italian anti-fascist, falls madly in love with a German army officer. She even abandons her family, defies society, and risks her life to follow him to the front lines. Despite this, she manages to lead a resistance group in launching a major offensive in Venice toward the end of the war.

Al di là delle frontiere

2004

Né con te né senza di te poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Né con te né senza di te

2012