Vittorio Amandola

Acting

Vittorio Amandola

Born — Died

1952-11-04 — 2010-07-22

Place of birth

Perugia, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Agatha Christie's Poirot poster
8.2

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

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

The Marshal Rocca poster
8.1

The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).

The Marshal Rocca

1996

I delitti del cuoco poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

I delitti del cuoco

2010

The Monster poster
6.9

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.

The Monster

1994

Farhat: The Prince of the Desert poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Farhat: The Prince of the Desert

2005

Film credits

2000s · 13 titles

The Last Kiss poster
6.4

Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.

The Last Kiss

2001

Mary Magdalene poster
5.7

Employed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene is overwhelmed by John's powerful message of the coming of the Messiah. Gazing into John's eyes before he dies, Mary is left with the certainty that her place is at the side of this great man, Jesus Christ.

Mary Magdalene

2000

La rivincita poster
8.0

Tells the story of the unbridled love of cards of a group of players.

La rivincita

2002

Ciao America poster
8.5

Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Boston to travel to his family's ancestral homeland in Italy -- as was requested by his late grandfather. Upon arriving, Lorenzo is offered a short-term position as coach for an American-style football team by the team's manager, Giulio Fellini (Maurizio Nichetti). As the young American immerses himself in his new duties, he makes the acquaintance of Paola Angelini (Violante Placido) and the two begin a friendship that quickly blossoms into something more. In between spending time with Paola and working with the team, Lorenzo also begins investigating his own family's history and learns the reason for his grandfather's departure from Italy, as well as why his grandfather never returned to visit. As Lorenzo begins to forge an identity for himself in Italy -- not to mention strong romantic attachments to Paola -- he must eventually decide whether or not to return to the States.

Ciao America

2002

Gioco perverso poster
NR

Alina, orphaned at a young age, discovers the murder of her sister Enrica, but the surprises aren't over because an Inspector reveals to her that her sister was a luxury call girl who got clients on the Internet. The hunt for the maniac begins.

Gioco perverso

2002

Napoleon and Me poster
6.1

Elba 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

Bartali: The Iron Man poster
6.9

TV Miniseries (2 episodes) about life and rivalry of italian bikers Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi.

Bartali: The Iron Man

2006

Streghe verso nord poster
5.3

Gallio and Teo are two witch defusers. Their task is to track them down and fight them by any means. The second is secretly in love with his sister-in-law Lucilla without knowing that she is a supreme witch. Teo will have to resort to Gallio's teachings (a headbutt, seven steps north and a flash of light to forget everything) to try to render her harmless.

Streghe verso nord

2001

Baciami piccina poster
5.8

7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.

Baciami piccina

2006

Welcome Back Pinocchio poster
4.8

In its first part, the film does not follow a specific fable; follows rather a patchwork of stories of various characters. In fact, the film starts after the transformation of Pinocchio child. Geppetto in his workshop, remembers when Pinocchio was still wood

Welcome Back Pinocchio

2007

Tartarughe sul dorso poster
8.0

In a prison visiting room, He and She are playing a game of Scrabble through which they reconstruct a series of events from their past made up of missed encounters, interrupted sentences, and kisses never given, despite the fact that for a moment they were so close to finally realizing their love...

Tartarughe sul dorso

2005

Mostri & Pirati poster
7.5

Monsters and Pirates is an Italian animated series, about a pirate named Flinn and his crew, where piracy is taught at a school.

Mostri & Pirati

2008

Pane e libertà poster
6.9

About comunist politician and labor union leader Giuseppe Di Vittorio.

Pane e libertà

2009

1990s · 9 titles

The Monster poster
6.9

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.

The Monster

1994

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

Who Wants to Kill Sara? poster
5.5

A beautiful lawyer about to be married is stalked by a mysterious man who knows her too well.

Who Wants to Kill Sara?

1992

A Season of Giants poster
7.7

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious persecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America.

A Season of Giants

1990

The Pack poster
5.8

In the Roman province a group of boys accepted Sola's proposal: to rape two German tourists on holiday in Italy held captive in a shack by a junkyard. The only one who pulls back from the group is Raniero, the others willingly accept to follow him. Slowly the news of the two imprisoned tourists spread like wildfire and attracts all the men of the area.

The Pack

1994

Panama Sugar poster
6.0

On an idyllic Caribbean island, Panama Sugar and his friends, engage a battle with Fox Perry, the wealthy American boss who would like to purchase the island to make a Las Vegas exotic.

Panama Sugar

1990

How the Toys Saved Christmas poster
7.2

When Santa's helper La Befana falls ill and must take off a Christmas Eve, she recruits Scarafoni to help deliver all the toys. No one but the toys knows is that Scarafoni plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, which means the toys won't make it to the children who have been good all year and deserve them. The toys decide to deliver themselves, and the story follows them as they struggle to avoid the heartless Scarafoni and to find their true homes.

How the Toys Saved Christmas

1996

Requiem per voce e pianoforte poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Requiem per voce e pianoforte

1993

Dio c'è poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Dio c'è

1998

1980s · 5 titles

Time to Kill poster
4.8

During the invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier ends up stranded in the desert after a truck wreck. He makes his way to the nearest army hospital, losing his sanity in the process.

Time to Kill

1989

Queen of Hearts poster
6.5

Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.

Queen of Hearts

1989

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

Appuntamento a Liverpool poster
6.2

Caterina's father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she's summoned by British police to look at some possible suspects. She recognizes her father's murderer, a Scouser cab driver, but doesn't say anything, choosing to track him down and exact revenge on her own.

Appuntamento a Liverpool

1988

The Truth poster
8.8

The film tells of old Antonio, 81, who refuses to stay in a mental home and walks away. He hits the streets to give a message to people: be yourselves, tell what you think, make love and stop with violence against the weaker members of society. When he realizes nobody will listen, he tries to take his life by holding his breath, but he doesn't succeed.

The Truth

1982

Series credits

Agatha Christie's Poirot poster
8.2

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Agatha Christie's Poirot

1989

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

The Marshal Rocca poster
8.1

The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).

The Marshal Rocca

1996

I delitti del cuoco poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

I delitti del cuoco

2010

Farhat: The Prince of the Desert poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Farhat: The Prince of the Desert

2005

Bartali: The Iron Man poster
7.8

No synopsis available yet.

Bartali: The Iron Man

2006

Meucci - L'italiano che inventò il telefono poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Meucci - L'italiano che inventò il telefono

2005

A Season of Giants poster
NR

At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo Da Vinci create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious prosecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America.

A Season of Giants

1990

No artwork available
6.5

What is the English language plot outline for Married to a Cop (2007)?

Married to a Cop

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ama il tuo nemico

1999

No artwork available
9.0

Obie and Bingie are a crocodile and a bird. They have fun, educational adventures in the world of nature. Bingie is a musician and Obie is an artist. Whatever Obie draws with his magic pencil comes to life, taking the two friends on fantastic journeys where they meet other animals.

Obie & Bingie

2001