Maurizio Donadoni

Acting

Maurizio Donadoni

Born

1958-01-07 (68)

Place of birth

Bergamo, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

66 titles

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 11 titles

Caravaggio's Shadow poster
6.4

The Catholic Church secretly investigates Caravaggio as the Pope weighs whether to grant him clemency for killing a rival.

Caravaggio's Shadow

2022

Rosso Volante poster
6.7

The four decisive years in the life of Eugenio Monti, from the bronze medals in the bobsleigh at Innsbruck 1964 to the Grenoble Olympics in 1968. Amidst grueling training sessions, falls, and comebacks, this is the portrait of a champion who challenged his limits with talent, loyalty, and courage, supported by love and friendship. Inspired by the literary work of Stefano Rotta.

Rosso Volante

2026

Il mio nome è Carlo poster
6.0

The movie traces three key moments: the six-year-old boy, already driven by an extraordinary spiritual sensitivity; the eleven-year-old boy, curious and brilliant; and the fifteen-year-old in his first year of high school, self-aware and determined, capable of approaching everyday life with an extraordinary outlook.

Il mio nome è Carlo

2026

Flying poster
5.3

Annabì has a fear of flying, which holds back her life and acting career. When her daughter decides to study abroad, Annabì sets out to conquer her fear by taking a course designed specifically for those who are afraid of flying.

Flying

2024

Land of the Sons poster
6.1

Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment; only by doing this will he be able to decipher his father's journal, the most valuable artefact in his legacy. This singular contribution to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi genre tells of a humanity in crisis, while at the same time conveying the adventurous spirit of adolescence.

Land of the Sons

2021

The Temptation poster
5.4

Toni leads a normal life with his wife Paola but full of enthusiasm and passion. The chance meeting with the young and wealthy Chiara will rekindle in him the desire to redeem himself and to realize his secret dream: to become an artist. The paths of the three will intertwine in a dangerous love triangle that will change the course of their lives forever.

The Temptation

2022

Ennio Doris - C'è anche domani poster
6.5

The life of Italian businessman Ennio Doris, the founder of Banca Mediolanum.

Ennio Doris - C'è anche domani

2024

100 Sundays poster
6.7

Antonio, a former shipyard worker, leads a mild and peaceful life: he plays bowls with friends, takes care of his elderly mother, has an ex-wife with whom he is on excellent terms and Emilia, his only and beloved daughter When Emilia announces to him one day that she has decided to get married, Antonio is filled with joy, he can finally fulfill his dream by giving her the reception they have always dreamed of together being able to count on the savings of a lifetime.However, the bank of which he has always been a client seems to be hiding something, the employees are suddenly elusive and the director inexplicably changes constantly.The task of paying for his daughter's wedding will prove increasingly difficult and Antonio will discover, against his will, that those who keep our treasures don't always keep our dreams as well.

100 Sundays

2023

Carla poster
7.2

The extraordinary life of Carla Fracci, the greatest Italian ballerina of all time, told from her first steps at the Accademia del Teatro alla Scala in Milan to the stages of the most prestigious international theaters, passing through the controversial choices, difficult sacrifices, and important satisfactions that marked her rise. Freely inspired by the autobiography “Passo dopo passo – La mia storia” (Step by Step – My Story).

Carla

2021

Rita Levi-Montalcini poster
6.5

In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini receives the Nobel Prize, but something is missing. After meeting a young violinist, the scientist faces a difficult choice: take refuge in fame or get back in the game.

Rita Levi-Montalcini

2020

Amo la tempesta poster
4.0

A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kidnapping and smuggling their children out of Germany.

Amo la tempesta

2020

2010s · 6 titles

The Solitude of Prime Numbers poster
5.9

Prime numbers are divisible only by one and themselves. These numbers are solitary and incomprehensible to others. Alice and Mattia are both "prime", both haunted by the tragedies that have marked them in childhood: a skiing accident for Alice which has caused a defect in her leg, and the loss of his twin sister for Matthew.

The Solitude of Prime Numbers

2010

Martin Eden poster
7.0

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. In early 20th-century Italy, illiterate sailor Martin Eden seeks fame as a writer while torn between the love of a bourgeois girl and allegiance to his social class.

Martin Eden

2019

A Quiet Life poster
6.5

The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.

A Quiet Life

2010

And They Call It Summer poster
4.1

Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old boyfriends to ask about their sexual relations with her, and even begs them to take her back, as a way to end their relationship. Anna can’t find a way out herself; she can’t bring herself to end this one-of-a-kind, tormented love affair. In the end, Dino’s angst is what makes her feel loved, feel unique. No solution seems to be waiting in the wings.

And They Call It Summer

2012

Things from Another World poster
5.3

Maroso Golfetto, a firm manager from Veneto, is known for his frequent yelling at his employees, who are either immigrants or Southern Italians. He regularly appears on the local TV channel to denounce the evils of immigration, and his popularity extends to children. His speeches resonate more deeply with people than those of Lucia, their anti-racist schoolmistress. One morning, a miracle occurs: by invoking the help of God to rid Veneto of its immigrants, all the immigrants disappear. However, is this truly a blessing?

Things from Another World

2011

The Complexity of Happiness poster
6.0

Enrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailing companies. His latest assignment proves more difficult than anticipated—since his target are two young siblings whose parents just died in a car accident.

The Complexity of Happiness

2015

2000s · 11 titles

Bear's Kiss poster
5.0

A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.

Bear's Kiss

2002

Signora poster
1.8

Rome, 1933. Sara, a beautiful, aristocratic American girl, wife of a rich entrepreneur, falls in love with Guido, a young engineer. They start a passionate love affair. Suddenly, one day, Guido disappears, without leaving a trace.

Signora

2004

Nero poster
6.0

As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in Rome, Nero, now being raised by emperor Claudius after Caligula's death, Agrippina returns. She poisons Claudius' food and Nero becomes emperor. At first, Nero cuts taxes and introduces successful programs and invades Brittania. Soon he meets a beautiful slave named Claudia Acte, and marries her, throwing off his engagement with Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, telling her she can marry someone she will be happy with. Heartbroken, she arrives at an island and kills herself. Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome.

Nero

2004

Pinocchio poster
6.1

The enchanted story of Pinocchio.

Pinocchio

2009

My Mother's Smile poster
7.2

A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint.

My Mother's Smile

2002

In Love and War poster
7.2

After being released from an Italian prison, British officer Eric Newby must find his way out of Italy before the Germans come. However, he is injured on the way and is left behind from his fellow soldiers. He is helped out by the local Italians, and he meets Wanda, a beautiful local girl who helps him learn Italian so he can escape. Slowly, their small friendship turns into a romance, but with the Germans looking for Eric, they are kept apart, not knowing what will happen.

In Love and War

2001

Caravaggio poster
5.6

The tumultuous and adventurous life of Michelangelo Merisi, controversial artist, called by Fate to become the immortal Caravaggio. A violent genius that will dare to defy the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance painters. A provoker that scandalized patrons and institutions, raising the altars the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.

Caravaggio

2007

Wild Blood poster
5.3

The bad romance between Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, two of the foremost movie stars in Fascist Italy, who were supporters of the regime to the bitter end, and shared its brutal downfall.

Wild Blood

2008

The Dark Sea poster
4.0

While investigating the murder of a woman that occurred in the sado-masochistic club scene, Inspector Luca Moccia discovers fantasies that threaten his relationship. Will he overcome them?

The Dark Sea

2006

The Wedding Director poster
6.0

Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?

The Wedding Director

2006

Fire at My Heart poster
6.0

The story of Eugenio, young soldier of the Napoleonic army, in the Napoli of 1815 after the era of Gioacchino Murat.

Fire at My Heart

2006

1990s · 11 titles

Cellini: A Violent Life poster
5.4

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.

Cellini: A Violent Life

1990

Bits & Pieces poster
5.0

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.

Bits & Pieces

1996

An Eyewitness Account poster
7.5

When Milanese salesman Piero witnesses the mob killing of a prominent magistrate, he testifies in court. The government puts him into the witness protection program, but the traumatic experiences he suffers leaves him wondering if he should have remained silent.

An Eyewitness Account

1997

18.000 giorni fa poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

18.000 giorni fa

1994

Reflections in a Dark Sky poster
4.7

In a sordid account of mutual charity, an alcoholic doctor tries to make a captive heroin addict kick her self-destructive behavior — and vice-versa.

Reflections in a Dark Sky

1991

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

Scandalous Crimes poster
4.0

In Parma, conversing with a CSM judge from Rome, the judge Bocchi tells what intrigues are hidden behind the beautiful and charming facade of the city, referring in detail to the latest and most 'chatted episode. It begins when Bocchi interrogates Giulio, a handsome and unassuming young man, for reasons of strangling, and invites him to collaborate with justice.

Scandalous Crimes

1999

Evelina e i suoi figli poster
7.0

Stefania Sandrelli is Evelina, a separated woman who lives with possessive teenage children. When you fall in love, problems arise.

Evelina e i suoi figli

1990

Requiem per voce e pianoforte poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Requiem per voce e pianoforte

1993

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Portagli i miei saluti - Avanzi di galera

1993

No artwork available
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tentazioni metropolitane

1993

1980s · 17 titles

The Story of Piera poster
5.9

Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums. A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.

The Story of Piera

1983

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

I Love You poster
6.2

Michel is a bored, lonely, cheap-thrills-seeker. Everything changes when he finds an unusual bobble head doll in the shape of a pretty woman that can say "I love you" and falls in love with it to the point of obsession.

I Love You

1986

The Future Is Woman poster
5.5

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least.

The Future Is Woman

1984

The Moro Affair poster
6.6

On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.

The Moro Affair

1986

The Malady of Love poster
6.0

15th-century physician Robert Briand runs a leper colony that accepts new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche is brought to the grim, prison-like facility, Briand finds she displays no apparent signs of disease. He risks everything when he falls in love with the woman and makes plans to run away with her.

The Malady of Love

1986

Notti e nebbie poster
8.3

Milan, the last months of WWII. While everything starts to crumble down, RSI police chief Bruno Spada tries to crush the local anti-fascist resistance.

Notti e nebbie

1984

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

High Frequency poster
6.7

A boy who operates a ham radio and a man who works at a satellite relay station witness the same murder thousands of miles apart and have to figure out how to warn the next potential victim.

High Frequency

1988

Nulla ci può fermare poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Nulla ci può fermare

1989

A Child Called Jesus poster
6.8

The film attempts to fill in the "missing years" of Jesus, from ages 3 through 12. When King Herod fearing that the Messiah has indeed been born, orders that all Hebrew male children under the age of three be slain, Joseph moves his family near Egypt. Here, Jesus, sensing His divinity, expresses a desire to return to Nazareth. Travelling homeward with His mother Mary, Jesus flashes forward to events that will unfold in his adult life.

A Child Called Jesus

1987

Shaven Heads poster
9.5

The film is based on the novel of the same name by Nikos Kasdaglis and deals with the experiences of a group of soldiers during their military service in 1953, four years after the civil war.

Shaven Heads

1986

Assicurazione sulla morte poster
5.6

A scrupulous insurance agent comes into contact with a woman. Together they plan her husband's murder with scam to the company's damages. But something goes wrong.

Assicurazione sulla morte

1987

Chewingum poster
5.5

Geared to a teen and pre-teen audience, this juvenile romance is set in the last year of high school and involves the attraction between Isabella, a beautiful newcomer to the school, and Massimo, an introverted, hard-working young student .

Chewingum

1984

Anche lei fumava il sigaro... poster
10.0

Milan. Job, an enterprising young man, meets Brambilla, a girl who runs a seedy club with the blind and evil Bongo. Wanting to give her a gift, Job robs a store but kills four police officers. Sergeant Madeddu pursues him.

Anche lei fumava il sigaro...

1985

Buio nella Valle poster
9.0

The two-episode television drama tells the story of a family willing to do anything to maintain possession of their assets, even two brutal murders that will have to wait more than ten years to reach a solution.

Buio nella Valle

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Delitti esemplari

1988

Series credits

The Octopus poster
7.8

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

The Octopus

1984

Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire poster
6.4

A seemingly happy marriage begins to dissolve when the husband's faithfulness is called into question, and both spouses become tempted by other desires.

Devotion, a Story of Love and Desire

2022

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

La Sposa poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

La Sposa

2022

Cesare Mori poster
6.0

The story of Cesare Mori, who served as prefect of Palermo, Italy, in the early 20th century.

Cesare Mori

2012

Imperium: Nero poster
6.2

As a young boy, future emperor Nero witnesses the mad Emperor Caligula kill his father and exile his mother. While in exile in the pontine islands, Agrippina, his mother, sees a vision telling her that her son can become emperor, but she will have to die first. She accepts the proposal. Back in Rome, Nero, now being raised by emperor Claudius after Caligula's death, Agrippina returns. She poisons Claudius' food and Nero becomes emperor. At first, Nero cuts taxes and introduces successful programs and invades Brittania. Soon he meets a beautiful slave named Claudia Acte, and marries her, throwing off his engagement with Claudius' daughter, Claudia Octavia, telling her she can marry someone she will be happy with. Heartbroken, she arrives at an island and kills herself. Nero enjoys being married to Claudia Acte, but soon he gradually goes mad with power and sets fire to Rome.

Imperium: Nero

2004

Estranei poster
7.2

No synopsis available yet.

Estranei

2026

Pinocchio poster
NR

The enchanted story of Pinocchio.

Pinocchio

2009

La lunga notte - La caduta del Duce poster
7.9

No synopsis available yet.

La lunga notte - La caduta del Duce

2024

Le onde del passato poster
9.2

No synopsis available yet.

Le onde del passato

2025