Fausto Maria Sciarappa

Acting

Fausto Maria Sciarappa

Born

1966-11-18 (59)

Place of birth

Verona, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Known for

The Da Vinci Code poster
6.7

A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.

The Da Vinci Code

2006

The Name of the Rose poster
7.0

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.

The Name of the Rose

2019

Romanzo Criminale: The Series poster
8.3

Love, business, anxieties, friendships, feuds, and resentments paint the picture of the main story, that of a group of criminals who for nearly fifteen years, from 1977 to 1992, cherished an illusion: that of conquering Rome. The Lebanese, Freddo, Dandi, Patrizia, and Commissioner Scialoja are some of the characters inspired by the true story of the Magliana gang. As stated by Aldo Grasso, the first season of the series gives more space to the crime scene, that is, the criminal exploits of the Magliana gang, while the second season delves deeper into the "behind the scenes" of the crime: thus, the gang's repositioning after a key plot event, and the effects and questions this has provoked in the protagonists' consciences.

Romanzo Criminale: The Series

2008

Inferno poster
6.1

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

Inferno

2016

Anti-Mafia Squad poster
7.2

Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

Anti-Mafia Squad

2009

The Red Door poster
7.4

Leonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wife, Anna, who's in danger.

The Red Door

2017

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Jumping from High Places poster
5.7

To honor her best friend's last wish, a young woman with severe anxiety confronts her greatest fears to try and reclaim her life — and perhaps find love.

Jumping from High Places

2022

Il Marciatore - La vera storia di Abdon Pamich poster
7.5

The life of Abdon Pamich: from his exodus from Fiume, a border town overwhelmed by post-war events, to his rise in athletics crowned with Olympic gold. The tough training and sacrifices of a man who, even before learning to walk, had to learn to resist.

Il Marciatore - La vera storia di Abdon Pamich

2026

Angel Seekers poster
NR

Bianca, a rebellious 17-year-old, joins her uncle Fausto in Bolzano.

Angel Seekers

2026

La rosa dell'Istria poster
7.1

The film recounts the tragedy of Istrian and Dalmatian exiles following the post-war armistice. Maddalena is eighteen years old and lives in Canfanaro, Istria, dreaming of becoming a painter. First the fury of war and then Tito's partisans destroy her family and her dreams.

La rosa dell'Istria

2024

Dreams Live in Trees poster
7.5

Inspired by true events which took place in 1978 when Italy became the first country in the world to abolish mental asylums. Upon a closure of an asylum in Florence Anja returns home into the care of her brother Ettore and his wife Lisa. With the help and a great sensitivity from her newly appointed psychiatrist Anja slowly starts to adapt to her new life beyond the asylum. She meets Libero, a local man who delivers vegetables to people in the village. Libero, just like Anja, suffers from mental disorder and learning disabilities. Anja and Libero fall in love. They conduct their relationship under the protection of a secret shack in the middle of the forest. An unexpected event brings morality into question.

Dreams Live in Trees

2023

40 & Climbing poster
NR

When three estranged friends are entrusted to scatter their friend's ashes in the mountains they met 30 years earlier; they must rediscover a past they've turned their back on, and remember what true female solidarity is all about.

40 & Climbing

2021

That's Fine poster
4.8

In Faenza, Italy, a dysfunctional family gathers for occasional dinners, and as untold truths are revealed, things gradually become rocky.

That's Fine

2021

2010s · 17 titles

Inferno poster
6.1

After waking up in a hospital with amnesia, professor Robert Langdon and a doctor must race against time to foil a deadly global plot.

Inferno

2016

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy poster
6.0

Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Marcia Gay Harden (Academy Award winner for Pollock) star in the Lifetime Original Movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy based on the international headline-grabbing story of the now infamous American exchange student accused by Italian authorities of brutally killing her roommate. Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy poses the question of whether Knox (Panettiere), the Seattle honors student accused of murdering her college roommate Meredith Kercher (Amanda Fernando Stevens) in 2007 with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito (Paolo Romio) and acquaintance Rudy Guede (Djirbi Kebe), actually committed the crime or was herself a victim.

Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy

2011

Slam poster
5.8

Samuele is 16 and has a passion for skateboarding. He has big dreams: going to university, move to California, and travel, but things change when he meets Alice, who could be the girl of his life.

Slam

2016

Cavalli poster
4.0

At the end of the 19th century, in a small village in the Apennines, in a house lost in the middle of a valley, live Alessandro and Pietro, two very different but very close brothers. The two children, aged eleven and thirteen, carefree and full of energy, live like two wild animals, always getting into trouble and spending their days racing carts, diving into the river, and stealing from the cellar. When their mother dies, their father sells his last possessions to buy his sons two beautiful, untamed foals, Baio and Sauro. As adults, while Alessandro feels a growing desire to cross the mountains and go far away, Pietro wants to become a breeder and live with Veronica, the girl he loves.

Cavalli

2011

The Legend of the Christmas Witch poster
5.3

When six elementary school students suspect their missing teacher is Befana, a Christmas witch who delivers presents to good children, they set off on a magical journey to save her.

The Legend of the Christmas Witch

2018

Sotto una buona stella poster
5.8

A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.

Sotto una buona stella

2014

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

Made in Italy poster
6.1

Riko is an honest and hardworking man who can count on a group of real friends and a loving wife. Things change after he loses his job and experiences a midlife crisis.

Made in Italy

2018

The Jewel poster
6.6

Amanzio Rastelli appointed several of his relations to managerial positions in his firm. They decided to think internationally and now business is heavily in debt. Luckily for the Rastellis, Bolta the accountant uses all the tricks of his art to cook the books, but catastrophe awaits.

The Jewel

2011

Unlikely Revolutionaries poster
5.7

Five ordinary people disillusioned with politics—a perennial temp, a docker, a university professor, a TV reporter, and a convict—decide to kidnap a politician, to dispense justice and use the ransom money to compensate the family of a blue-collar worker who died in workplace accident.

Unlikely Revolutionaries

2010

È nata una star? poster
4.9

Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose when a neighbor finds a porn video of him and leaves it in his parents' mailbox.

È nata una star?

2012

Sulla strada di casa poster
7.1

No synopsis available yet.

Sulla strada di casa

2011

A Five Star Life poster
5.7

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea, who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.

A Five Star Life

2013

Learning the Ropes poster
NR

A border town in the south of Switzerland is the backdrop for the most important summer in 15-year old Samuel’s young life. He is introverted, a loner and communicates through the world of comic drawings. Determined to overcome the doubts and memories that have long plagued him, he hires a former private detective. With him, he embarks on a daring adventure that will lead him to discover a painful family truth.

Learning the Ropes

2019

Pupone poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pupone

2019

Oro verde poster
NR

Mario is an unemployed engineer, a victim of the economic crisis. Discouraged by job advertisements that do not reflect his capabilities and demoralized by numerous financial deadlines, he decides to organize the heist of the century. The police has just stored in a military facility the largest quantity of cannabis ever seized in Switzerland, and it will be burned shortly. Mario plans to substitute it with common hay without anybody noticing: if the evidence simply disappears, so does the crime... Searching for trustworthy members of his gang, Mario brings together Ivan, Augusto, Leo, Monica and 'The Professor', each of them more desperate than the other and convinced to have found the 'green gold' that will change their lives.

Oro verde

2014

No artwork available
NR

This scene begins as a playful challenge between two actors, at first trading just words. But it soon transforms into a war of emotion, as they try to conquer each other in proposition. The weakest will fall in love. What happens is unplanned—the consequences of their game—as their real emotions become involved and they both fall in love. Both are losers, or winners, but neither is giving up. It is as if they had gone through an entire relationship in the time it took to read the audition—and now they must separate, as scripted, and end it. Like a break up, it is hard.

The Audition

2013

2000s · 11 titles

The Da Vinci Code poster
6.7

A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous paintings lead to the discovery of a religious mystery. For 2,000 years a secret society closely guards information that — should it come to light — could rock the very foundations of Christianity.

The Da Vinci Code

2006

The Best of Youth poster
8.0

After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.

The Best of Youth

2003

Sorry if I Love You poster
6.0

Alex Belli is a 37 year old advertising executive whose fiancée Elena has just left him, and who is having difficulty at work trying to think of a good advertising campaign for a new Japanese product. Niki is a bubbly 17 year old student. She has three best friends with whom she shares all her problems, and an annoying ex-boyfriend Fabio who is set on getting her back, but Niki's not interested. One day on his way to work, Alex collides with Niki on a city street. They soon begin a romance, despite their 20-year age gap.

Sorry if I Love You

2008

The Girl by the Lake poster
6.4

A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.

The Girl by the Lake

2007

The Days of Abandonment poster
5.8

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

The Days of Abandonment

2005

The Man Who Loves poster
5.8

A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved.

The Man Who Loves

2008

Una talpa al bioparco poster
10.0

David works at the zoo, where he meets Giorgia, a girl as beautiful as she's wild. He unsuccessfully asks his brother Libero for advice, then he decides to learn more about her...

Una talpa al bioparco

2004

Va Savoir (Who Knows?) poster
6.2

After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he’s meeting with the intriguing Dominique while on his quest for an unpublished manuscript.

Va Savoir (Who Knows?)

2001

A Perfect Day poster
6.4

Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the adolescent Valentina.

A Perfect Day

2008

Too Beautiful poster
2.4

Costantino and Daniele are two friends which have very success with girls. Their wish is to work in the show business and they can achieve their goal when meet Valeria, top model and actress, who offers both guys the chance they are looking for: meet Mr. Giampalmi, an important producer. But the producer is Valeria's father who wants the guys to be cheated...

Too Beautiful

2005

Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L. poster
5.9

1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti disappears after hypothesizing a possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy.

Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L.

2005

Series credits

The Name of the Rose poster
7.0

Northern Italy, 1327. The Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young apprentice Adso of Melk reach an isolated Benedictine abbey on the Alps to aid in a dispute between the Franciscan Order and the Avignon papacy. Upon arrival at the abbey, the two find themselves involved in a chain of mysterious deaths.

The Name of the Rose

2019

Romanzo Criminale: The Series poster
8.3

Love, business, anxieties, friendships, feuds, and resentments paint the picture of the main story, that of a group of criminals who for nearly fifteen years, from 1977 to 1992, cherished an illusion: that of conquering Rome. The Lebanese, Freddo, Dandi, Patrizia, and Commissioner Scialoja are some of the characters inspired by the true story of the Magliana gang. As stated by Aldo Grasso, the first season of the series gives more space to the crime scene, that is, the criminal exploits of the Magliana gang, while the second season delves deeper into the "behind the scenes" of the crime: thus, the gang's repositioning after a key plot event, and the effects and questions this has provoked in the protagonists' consciences.

Romanzo Criminale: The Series

2008

Anti-Mafia Squad poster
7.2

Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.

Anti-Mafia Squad

2009

The Red Door poster
7.4

Leonardo Cagliostro, a policeman, dies and decides to stay on Earth in order to find out more about the circumstances of his death and to save his wife, Anna, who's in danger.

The Red Door

2017

An Astrological Guide for Broken Hearts poster
6.5

Alice is heartbroken and hopelessly single. But after befriending a charismatic astrology guru, she looks to the stars to find her perfect match.

An Astrological Guide for Broken Hearts

2021

Survivors poster
5.6

No synopsis available yet.

Survivors

2022

The Clandestine poster
6.8

Inspired by a profound encounter, a troubled former chief investigator becomes a private eye for those who won´t - or can´t - turn to the law.

The Clandestine

2024

Fuoriclasse poster
6.9

Fuoriclasse is an Italian television series, directed by Riccardo Donna, filmed in 2011, starring Luciana Littizzetto, based on the books by Domenico Starnone. The synopsis of the miniseries is similar to the story of the film La scuola, scripted always by Starnone.

Fuoriclasse

2011

L'alligatore poster
7.6

Marco Buratti, known as the Alligator, is a former blues singer. Unjustly sentenced to seven years in prison, he lost his voice behind bars, but acquired the right knowledge to become an investigator.

L'alligatore

2020

Il Sistema poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il Sistema

2016

Il silenzio dell'acqua poster
6.5

The disappearance of a teenager is the starting point of an investigation that will bring to light the dark side of a small village by the sea. False tracks, hidden truths and secret relationships - nothing is quite what it seems.

Il silenzio dell'acqua

2019

Before Us poster
7.8

The story of the Sartori family, told through events spanning three generations, from 1917 to 1978, from rural Friuli to industrial Turin, set against the backdrop of two world wars, the economic boom, and the Years of Lead.

Before Us

2026

Questo è il mio paese poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Questo è il mio paese

2015

Behind the camera