Nunzia Schiano

Acting

Nunzia Schiano

Born

1959-05-16 (67)

Place of birth

Napoli, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 14 titles

La Dolce Villa poster
6.3

When his daughter decides to buy a crumbling Tuscan villa, Eric rushes to Italy to talk her out of it — and instead finds beauty, romance and new purpose.

La Dolce Villa

2025

The Children's Train poster
7.4

In late 1940s Italy, a mother makes the difficult decision to send her son to the north, where he catches glimpses of a new life away from poverty.

The Children's Train

2024

I Don't Understand You poster
5.4

Stranded in rural Italy without transportation or language skills, an American couple on the verge of adopting tries to reconnect during a disastrous vacation, as their fears and relationship problems threaten to boil over.

I Don't Understand You

2024

Filumena Marturano poster
7.7

Filumena has lived for years with a wealthy pastry chef. She forces him to marry her, but he soon asks to annul the marriage. She then reveals that one of her children is his, making him obsessed to know which one.

Filumena Marturano

2022

Shangai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shangai

2025

Napoli milionaria! poster
6.4

Naples, 1942. To feed her family and respond to her husband Gennaro's inertia, Amalia is forced to enter the black market. To save his wife from prison, the man fakes his own death.

Napoli milionaria!

2023

La bambina che non voleva cantare poster
6.3

Film inspired by the career of the Italian singer Nada.

La bambina che non voleva cantare

2021

Make a Wish poster
6.3

A remake of the French film "Maison de retraite": a hapless young man with a fear of old people must accept social relevant work in a retirement home

Make a Wish

2025

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

Quasi orfano poster
6.1

Valentino Tarocco invents a new life as a famous Milanese designer. He has removed all connection with the past, but an accident will bring him back to his twenties, causing him to recover his Apulian dialect and love for his origins.

Quasi orfano

2022

My Kingdom for a Butterfly poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

My Kingdom for a Butterfly

2024

Il paese dei jeans in agosto poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il paese dei jeans in agosto

2023

L'Alone poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Alone

2026

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bentornati al Sud

2026

2010s · 20 titles

Dogman poster
7.5

Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood. In an effort to reaffirm his dignity, Marcello will submit to an unexpected act of vengeance.

Dogman

2018

Welcome to the South poster
6.7

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

Welcome to the South

2010

Reality poster
7.1

A dark comedy centering on the lives of a Neapolitan based family whose father, a fish merchant, is so infatuated with the reality TV show "Grande Fratello" (the Italian version of "Big Brother") he starts living his life as if he were on it.

Reality

2012

Welcome to the North poster
5.8

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!

Welcome to the North

2012

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

Kryptonite! poster
6.4

Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.

Kryptonite!

2011

If They're Roses... poster
5.9

Leonardo is still single and immature as ever at 50. Tired to see him like that, his daughter texts all his exes "I'm a changed man: let's try again", setting in motion an unexpected trip down memory lane.

If They're Roses...

2018

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

Beware the Gorilla poster
5.3

Lorenzo is a lawyer who files a lawsuit against the zoo of his town but after winning it he has to take home a gorilla.

Beware the Gorilla

2019

Fausto & Furio poster
4.3

Fausto and Furio are two Romans with a precarious lifestyle. Fausto squanders his winnings while Furio lives thanks to small jobs. The death of their parents will make them meet because they inherit a repair shop. After some hesitation, the two, helped by an engineer with a mysterious past, will take the business over, but they will have to face a mafia boss who wants 200,000 euros, a debt matured by their fathers. The two will try to find a solution through clandestine races, drug trafficking, truck hijackings and the shared love for a fascinating bartender.

Fausto & Furio

2017

Finally Married poster
6.9

Enzo and Monica, after a brief moment of popularity for having participated in a reality show, decide to marry. Monica dreams a perfect marriage: everything has to be special. But special things are often the most expensive ones.

Finally Married

2018

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

A Napoli non piove mai poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

A Napoli non piove mai

2015

La valigia sul letto poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

La valigia sul letto

2010

The Love Europe Project poster
4.5

The Love Europe Project is a collection of 9 short films by various directors from different European countries.

The Love Europe Project

2019

The Story of a Mother poster
3.0

One night, Death swoops in and takes the life of a child. His mother will do anything to recover him, even lose all she has.

The Story of a Mother

2010

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

Napoletans poster
3.5

In a small town in southern Italy lives the Di Gennaro family. Gennaro, the householder, is a noted dentist, married to Anna, a housewife, a few years away from converting to Buddhism. They have two sons: Roberto, last year medical student and guitarist in a small band, and Mattia who attended the first year of high school. The Di Gennaros appear to be a perfect family, but each character hides flaws and excesses.

Napoletans

2011

Lebe lieber italienisch! poster
5.1

Paolo Sanseviero is a professor at a German university and more married to his profession than to his wife. Martina decides to leave her husband. But it happens differently.

Lebe lieber italienisch!

2014

Sul mare poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Sul mare

2010

2000s · 4 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

My Brilliant Friend poster
8.1

When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.

My Brilliant Friend

2018

Gomorrah poster
8.0

Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of the clan's godfather, Pietro Savastano.

Gomorrah

2014

Hotel Costiera poster
7.2

Shortly after Daniel, or DD as everybody knows him, starts working at the hotel, one of the owner’s daughters disappears. He must do whatever it takes to find her and bring her home while still solving the ever-changing problems of the exclusive hotel guests.

Hotel Costiera

2025

Inspector Ricciardi poster
8.1

Naples, 1932. Detective Luigi Alfredo Ricciardi leaves no crime unsolved, being able to see the ghosts of people who have died violently and listen to their last thought. But this extraordinary gift is both a blessing and a curse!

Inspector Ricciardi

2021

Lolita Lobosco poster
7.0

Deputy Chief Lolita Lobosco returns to her hometown, Bari, to direct a team of men only. In a world stubbornly ruled by males, she chooses to remain herself against all odds, and uses her skills and devotion to fight prejudices.

Lolita Lobosco

2021

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

Romolo + Giuly: La guerra mondiale italiana poster
6.0

The city of Rome is divided in two by a wall. The aristocratic Giuly Copulati from North Rome and the coarse Romolo Montacchi from South Rome fall in love. They have to face the impediment of their family and in the meanwhile save Italy from the greedy grasp of the city of Milan and the Reign of Neaples

Romolo + Giuly: La guerra mondiale italiana

2018

Anni '50 poster
6.8

Year 1955 in Capri

Anni '50

1998

Fragili poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fragili

2024

Rimbocchiamoci le maniche poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rimbocchiamoci le maniche

2016