
Acting
Novello Novelli
Born — Died
1930-03-02 — 2018-01-10
Place of birth
Poggibonsi, Tuscany, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
42 titles
Known for
6.3Don 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
7.2Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.
The Cesaronis
2006
4.27 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.
Miracolo italiano
1994
Questa casa non è un albergo is an Italian television series.
Questa casa non è un albergo
2000
6.4Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.
Casablanca, Casablanca
1985
5.21939: a Tuscan village awaits the arrival of Il Duce. A dog finds a decomposing fetus. Investigations begin immediately: given the exceptional circumstances, someone must be found responsible. And they find someone: a member of the only poor family in the area. A predictable social-political discourse, lacking in talent and inspiration. Chiti was a slightly better writer.
Hotel Rome
1996
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
2000s · 6 titles
4.9No synopsis available yet.
La mia vita a stelle e strisce
2003
5.3Dado likes the beautiful Francesca who likes Andrea, a girl that lives with her.
I Love Andrea
2000
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Un altr'anno e poi cresco
2001
6.8In a small convent immersed in the tranquility of the Tuscan countryside, four friars spend their days: Raniero, the gruff but friendly guardian, Gervasio, jovial but hypochondriac, the naive Bettino, and Vittorio, an elderly friar who tends the garden. Their daily routine is disrupted by the arrival of Antonio, who quickly wins the trust of the three friars, but not that of Raniero, who views him with great suspicion. The two engage in acts of espionage in an attempt to discover something about each other's past. While rummaging through Antonio's cell, Raniero makes a shocking discovery about an unspeakable secret...
Un posto tranquillo
2003
3.8No synopsis available yet.
Cenci in Cina
2009
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Via Varsavia
2006
1990s · 15 titles
4.27 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a woman cheats on her husband with her favorite soap opera star; a married man pretends to be ill to seduce his younger nurse; a family discovers that their son's beautiful fiancée is transgender; an unsatisfied single woman is duped by her celebrity crush for Kevin Costner; two best friends want to have fun; a couple on a tropical holiday is fascinated by their indigenous masseuse.
Miracolo italiano
1994
5.21939: a Tuscan village awaits the arrival of Il Duce. A dog finds a decomposing fetus. Investigations begin immediately: given the exceptional circumstances, someone must be found responsible. And they find someone: a member of the only poor family in the area. A predictable social-political discourse, lacking in talent and inspiration. Chiti was a slightly better writer.
Hotel Rome
1996
6.8In 1944 Tuscany, a group of boxers struggling through World War II stages rigged matches to earn money and travel, accompanied by a missing black American soldier and a girl resisting marriage, as they navigate the challenges of their war-torn world.
Dear Goddamned Friends
1994
6.1Matriarch 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
5.1In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about the fall of Communism, the lives of some dazed characters intertwine.
Zitti e mosca
1991
6.8The film is set in a house in a Tuscan landscape, has an ironic content and a Christmas frame. The film is divided into 5 episodes: The Family, The Lunch, Unexpected Pregnancy, The Videotape and Epilogue.
Benvenuti in casa Gori
1990
4.3Tullio Venturini, a retired widower, has a daughter, Anna, who is an actress. However, he is the only one not to know that she works in the porn industry.
Daddy, Don't Blush
1993
5.0The life of a rootless insurance agent starts falling apart.
Bonus Malus
1993
5.6Francesco 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
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Vincere per vincere
1990
5.4After the death of their industrialist father leaves them each with 49% of his company shares, two quarrelling brothers go to war for the remaining 2%.
Caino e Caino
1993
5.9No synopsis available yet.
Gli Inaffidabili
1997
4.3A man with cognitive problems lives and works in a hospice. One day an American banker discovers that the man is his son.
OcchioPinocchio
1994
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Allullo drom
1992
After being fired for suspecting illegal toxic waste trafficking at her company, a secretary falsely accuses her superior, Marc, of sexual harassment on the radio. This lie drives Marc's fiancée to suicide, while simultaneously, the company owner frames the unsuspecting Marc for the illegal trafficking to cover his own tracks as the police close in.
L'ombra della sera
1994
1980s · 15 titles
6.4Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.
Casablanca, Casablanca
1985
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Musica per vecchi animali
1989
6.3Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth.
Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
1989
6.7Psychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Even today, he can think of little else besides sex, sex, sex.
Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco)
1988
6.5A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him
Blame it on Paradise
1985
4.7Eddy is the detective of a general store. His girl is Barbara who works in the same store. Barbara receives a gift, a bottle of scent, and later she dies burned. Police detective Turoni begins to investigate and Eddy, wanting to revenge Barbara, does the same. Another girl, Porzia, is murdered in the same way and Eddy finds out that the motive of the crimes dates back some fifteen years.
Crimes and Perfumes
1988
6.9Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.
The Pool Hustlers
1983
5.7Mario, a tram-driver, and Silvio, a banker, make friends in the group of participants in a survival training course.
Us Real Men, We Hard Men
1987
6.5It is the first film of the comedy trio "I GianCattivi", formed by Athina Cenci, Francesco Nuti and Benvenuti, who won the Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director. The film is set in Florence, Tuscany, with some scenes shot in Prato.The title is an inside joke that refers to the Tuscan village of Paperino, which is a district of Prato; the film's surreal and grotesque undertones are also hinted by the title itself, since "Paperino" is also the Italian name for Donald Duck.
Ad ovest di Paperino
1982
5.8A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood, while experiencing his sexual awakening during a summer vacation of an island.
Maramao
1987
6.8A day of surreal adventures of the shy protagonist Francesco.
What a Ghostly Silence There Is Tonight
1982
6.2Francesco, a young comedian, is dumped by his girlfriend and falls into a creative crisis. After several years of anonymity, he finds success with a series of shows that draw on his private life.
Son contento
1983
No synopsis available yet.
Cuore in gola
1988
No synopsis available yet.
Cuore in gola
1988
6.3Lorenzo is the conductor of Radio Strega's night show, making up false court sentences for those who suffer from insomnia.
Stregati
1986
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
6.3Don 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
7.2Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.
The Cesaronis
2006
Questa casa non è un albergo is an Italian television series.
Questa casa non è un albergo
2000



