Diego Abatantuono

Acting

Diego Abatantuono

Born

1955-05-20 (71)

Place of birth

Milano, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

91 titles

Abatantuono was born in Milan to a father of Apulian origin and a mother from Como. The latter worked as wardrober in a Milanese jazz and later cabaret club, Derby, whose owner was Abatantuono's uncle. He started to work at Derby first in lighting, then as artistic director and later as an actor.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

When Mom Is Away... With the Family poster
6.2

Carlo and Giulia are grappling with new problems regarding the division of their respective tasks within the family. Since Giulia has started working again, it is Carlo who takes care of the children and the household chores. However, he starts to find the role of “Mr. Mom” a bit tight-fitting. Just when he decides to get back into the game and look for a job, Giulia reveals to him that she is up for a promotion that would lead her to move to Sweden. As if that weren’t enough, she will have to take the interview on December 24 in Stockholm. Everything seems to threaten the family unity. What should they do? Carlo comes up with a "brilliant" idea… To recover the old camper and drag the family into an adventure that will lead them on a journey to the North to spend Christmas all together lovingly. Unexpected events along the way and a hilarious encounter/confrontation with a self-styled Santa Claus will make the trip unforgettable.

When Mom Is Away... With the Family

2020

Improvised Christmas poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Improvised Christmas

2022

Improvvisamente a Natale mi sposo poster
5.4

No synopsis available yet.

Improvvisamente a Natale mi sposo

2023

Mrs. Christmas poster
5.3

When Santa Claus, in the midst of an existential crisis, suddenly disappears during the holiday season, his wife Margaret must roll up her sleeves and save the most special day of the year.

Mrs. Christmas

2025

We Are Cinema poster
9.5

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

We Are Cinema

2021

Life Is Life poster
6.9

An elderly shepherd takes on big business when he becomes the only holdout against property developers building a luxury resort in his tiny Sardinian village.

Life Is Life

2025

Doctor on Call poster
6.1

65 year old doctor Pierfrancesco works as a night-shift medical guard. He’s a grumpy man, full of aches and pains and is very rough with his patients. One night, he’s involved in a road collision with 30 year old delivery man Mario. While uninjured, Mario's bicycle is destroyed, and Pierfrancesco's sciatica flares up, making it impossible for him to drive. With both of their jobs in jeopardy, the doctor has an idea that could help them both: “remotely guided” by Pierfrancesco via wireless headset, Mario will visit his patients, and they’ll also carry out Mario’s delivery in Pierfrancesco’s car. After a range of daring (mis)adventures, they will learn to support each other, and the night will end with their lives both changed for the better.

Doctor on Call

2021

Il malloppo poster
7.0

Diego Viani is a former robber, well-known in the 1980s for his "unarmed" heists. His best friend is Michele Ragusa, a shabby private investigator scraping by on cases of marital infidelity. Working alongside him is Alex, an unpaid intern—a clumsy "mama’s boy" who dreams of becoming a detective despite having no talent for it. Everything spirals out of control when Diego’s past resurfaces in the form of Salamandra, an old accomplice. Salamandra accuses him of stealing the loot from their final job: five billion lire in gold bullion that vanished into thin air. When Salamandra dies under mysterious circumstances, Diego becomes the prime suspect. Commissioner Castrone, fueled by a long-standing personal vendetta, is convinced of his guilt. The only person who believes in Diego’s innocence is Ragusa, who decides to investigate with the help of the unlikely Alex.

Il malloppo

2026

Un tranquillo funerale di famiglia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un tranquillo funerale di famiglia

2026

2010s · 10 titles

My Big Gay Italian Wedding poster
5.7

A father, who calls himself "open" and tolerant and fights against any form of discrimination, reveals himself as not so liberal when his son announces the engagement to his partner. Overwhelmed by the news, he regresses into the most fierce opponent of same-sex marriage, and tries to undermine his son's happiness with a series of embarrassing situations.

My Big Gay Italian Wedding

2018

Volare poster
6.6

The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and South America.

Volare

2019

Buona giornata poster
5.0

A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen.

Buona giornata

2012

I babysitter poster
5.8

On Andrea's birthday, his boss asks him to babysit his son while he's away for work: while Andrea is babysitting, his friends arrive and throw a big party.

I babysitter

2016

The Worst Christmas of My Life poster
5.9

Paolo needs to reach the castle of Alberto Caccia, where he was invited to spend Christmas with his family and Margherita, the ninth month of pregnancy. With them there will also be blessed, daughter of Alberto and childhood friend of Margherita, who was also pregnant. Among various mishaps and blunders, Paolo will combine another of his, coming to make everyone believe, because of a misunderstanding, that Alberto's died for his fault.

The Worst Christmas of My Life

2012

Indovina chi viene a Natale? poster
5.6

A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a panettone factory.

Indovina chi viene a Natale?

2013

My Beloved Enemy poster
5.4

A professor saves the life of a wounded hitman who, in exchange, promises to find and kill his enemy. Even though the professor says he has no enemies, the killer goes on a mission and transforms the professor's life.

My Beloved Enemy

2018

Well-Off People poster
4.8

Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his life.

Well-Off People

2014

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

2019

Soap Opera poster
5.5

When the kooky tenants of an apartment block experience a sudden and shocking situation, they let their private lives, past secrets and crazy passions intervene as the confessions and absurd twists come thick and fast. Previous lovers, wild accusations, a possible murder and more boil to the surface days before New Year’s Eve, but can they even make it until then?

Soap Opera

2014

2000s · 10 titles

I'm Not Scared poster
7.1

In a tiny community enclosed by wheat fields, the adults shelter indoors, while six children venture out on their bikes across the scorched, deserted countryside. Exploring a dilapidated and uninhabited farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele discovers a secret so momentous, so terrible, that he dares not tell anyone about it...

I'm Not Scared

2003

Momo poster
7.1

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

Momo

2001

Amnèsia poster
5.7

On the Spanish island of Ibiza, porn filmmaker Sandro and Angelino, the manager of a beachside watering hole, find their very different lives overlapping. Meanwhile, the island police chief, who is currently at odds with his rebellious son Jorge, is investigating the death of a drug dealer (which was accidentally brought on by Angelino). Jorge's plans to move to America have so far been thwarted by his father, but when he finds out about the affair his dad had been having with a male nightclub dancer, he uses it as blackmail fodder.

Amnèsia

2002

Our Tropical Island poster
5.9

A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to hide from the outside world.

Our Tropical Island

2001

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me poster
4.7

The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s cult.

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me

2006

The New Monsters Today poster
4.6

Talks about the fears, vices and weaknesses that bedevil the contemporary Italian society. Highlights the degeneration that is plaguing certain quarters of the Italian society today.

The New Monsters Today

2009

A Dinner for Them to Meet poster
5.9

Actor Sandro Lanza is experiencing the most painful moment of his existence. After a suicide attempt, his three daughters, scattered throughout Europe, each with a different mother, come to his side. The sisters meet to decide what to do with their father, establishing a genuine tie for the very first time.

A Dinner for Them to Meet

2007

2061 - Un anno eccezionale poster
4.1

In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.

2061 - Un anno eccezionale

2007

L'abbuffata poster
5.2

A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.

L'abbuffata

2007

Unfair Competition poster
7.0

Two textile traders, with the shop close to one another, fight for the supremacy of their own business during the racial laws in 1938 Italy.

Unfair Competition

2001

1990s · 12 titles

Mediterraneo poster
7.6

Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.

Mediterraneo

1991

Nirvana poster
6.5

Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.

Nirvana

1997

Paparazzi poster
5.1

A montley group of free-lance photographers are desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity.

Paparazzi

1998

Christmas Vacation '90 poster
5.2

Several characters coincide during the Christmas holidays in the winter season of Saint Moritz.

Christmas Vacation '90

1990

Turné poster
6.9

Two stage actors leave on a tournée, but there's a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girlfriend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.

Turné

1990

Marriages poster
5.5

Matrimony is a drama about the complexity of relationships. On Christmas Eve, perfect housewife Giulia Francesca Neri is worried about a family heirloom which has cracked and rushes to the junk shop to get it repaired -- little anticipating her perfect marriage is about to fall to pieces as well. While everyone in Bologna is making last minute preparations, Giulia runs into her childhood sweetheart, Fausto Paolo Sassanelli. The meeting rekindles old feelings and Giulia realizes that to create the perfect marriage which everyone adores, she has sacrificed her own personality. While waiting to meet her parents at the station, she climbs into a departing train and disappears. The family slowly disintegrates, as if she were the binding element.

Marriages

1998

Children of Hannibal poster
4.9

Unemployed Domenico robs a bank, but is forced to take a hostage when things go wrong. The hostage, Tommaso, is a man who hates his wife and job, and who was already planning to run away with his gay cop lover anyway, so this seems to him like a good opportunity to disappear and start over again: the kidnapped becomes the kidnapper, and things get even more complicated when the two are joined by Rita, Tommaso's beautiful daughter.

Children of Hannibal

1998

Il barbiere di Rio poster
5.6

Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister's invitation to Brazil.

Il barbiere di Rio

1996

Puerto Escondido poster
6.7

Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions.

Puerto Escondido

1992

Per amore, solo per amore poster
5.8

In 1st century BC Palestine, Joseph is a carpenter who wants to travel and see the world, but destiny makes him meet young Mary. The two fall in love and marry. One day, Mary becomes pregnant and tells Joseph an unbelievable truth... He decides to stay on her side, but things won't be easy.

Per amore, solo per amore

1993

Tifosi poster
5.6

Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter.

Tifosi

1999

Camere da letto poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Camere da letto

1997

1980s · 18 titles

In the Pope's Eye poster
6.6

The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel.

In the Pope's Eye

1980

Attila Scourge of God poster
6.0

The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano

Attila Scourge of God

1982

Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan poster
5.9

A group of comedians are trying to be successful on stage. One night an important television network organises a public variety show to sort out some performers for their programs. Every one of them will try their hardest, but just a few will be chosen.

Kamikazen: Last Night in Milan

1987

Grand Hotel Excelsior poster
6.1

Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.

Grand Hotel Excelsior

1982

An Ideal Adventure poster
5.0

Patricia, a journalist, is fed up with all the stupid chores and being ridiculed by her colleagues. To show her talent, she challenges her director Eugenio to test her. She will write a good article, but if she fails she will sleep with him.

An Ideal Adventure

1982

I Carabbinieri poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

I Carabbinieri

1981

Prickly Pears poster
5.3

Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survives but, forced to total rest, remains at the mayor's house. The result is an endless series of gags and misunderstandings, due to the stratagems devised by Lorenzo to avoid that the situation becomes the subject of gossip by fellow citizens ...

Prickly Pears

1980

Lend Me Your Wife poster
3.6

Alex Fortini, a transplant to Milan, lives behind his lover who owns an advertising agency. When his wife, who had left five years ago, reappears, fearing that she will want to ask him for a divorce and alimony, he unwittingly gets into a lot of trouble.

Lend Me Your Wife

1980

Eccezzziunale... veramente poster
6.2

Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.

Eccezzziunale... veramente

1982

Unfaithfully Yours poster
5.8

An omnibus of two different stories: In the first a divorced couple (actress wife and director husband) refresh their old passions via their common flat. In the second a well-to-do dentist-wife is attacked by her petty bourgeois family when she writes a sex novel.

Unfaithfully Yours

1982

Una vacanza bestiale poster
5.0

A group of friends decide to go on vacation and they use an agency, the Via Col Vento tours, to organize it. The latter promises them a holiday of dreams and absolute fun.

Una vacanza bestiale

1980

The Boss of the District poster
5.2

In Milan, a father lost his daughter and hires Domingo, the neighborhood Ras, to find her.

The Boss of the District

1983

A Boy from Calabria poster
6.6

Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who understands his ambitions.

A Boy from Calabria

1987

Viuuulentemente mia poster
5.7

Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to prison.

Viuuulentemente mia

1982

Marrakech Express poster
7.3

After learning that an old friend of theirs has been arrested in Morocco on drug charges, four former college buddies set out for Marrakech to bail him out.

Marrakech Express

1989

The Last Minute poster
6.1

Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.

The Last Minute

1987

Christmas Present poster
7.3

On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite to rip off a wealthy businessman in a game of poker, but old grudges get in the way.

Christmas Present

1986

I Fichissimi poster
5.7

Romeo and Felice lead two rival bands who constantly make fun of each other. One day, Romeo meets and falls in love with Giulietta, without knowing that she is Felice's sister.

I Fichissimi

1981

Series credits

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

GialappaShow poster
7.8

Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci - supported in the studio by Mago Forest, a great cast of comedians and many surprise guests - comment with biting irony on the most popular TV programs, the main sporting events and the last web trends.

GialappaShow

2023

Eurocops poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Eurocops

1988

LOL: Chi ride è fuori poster
7.0

Is a comedy show where ten professional comedians face off for six hours in a row to keep a straight face, while they try to make their opponents laugh. The first time someone laughs the contestant gets warned, the second time, they get eliminated from the game. Whoever manages to resist without laughing all the way through the six hours wins EUR100,000 to turn over to the charity of their choice.

LOL: Chi ride è fuori

2021

Scherzi a parte poster
7.6

No synopsis available yet.

Scherzi a parte

1992

Dinner Club poster
7.2

Michelin-starred chef Carlo Cracco undertakes six trips across Italy to rediscover its most authentic cuisine with famous actors for each destination.

Dinner Club

2021

Sensualità a corte poster
9.0

Sensualità a corte is an Italian television series.

Sensualità a corte

2005

Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan? poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?

1999

The Secret of the Sahara poster
6.6

In 1925, Desmond Jordan, an American archaeologist, tries to find the mysterious Speaking Mountain that is supposed to be in the middle of the Sahara desert, where he meets a bunch of deserters from the French Foreign Legion, who are pursued by the ruthless Lieutenant Ryker.

The Secret of the Sahara

1988

Buona la prima! poster
7.8

Buona la prima! is an Italian television series.

Buona la prima!

2007

Colorado poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Colorado

2003

Colorado poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Colorado

2003

Ridatemi mia moglie poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ridatemi mia moglie

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Comici

1998

Che fai... ridi? poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Che fai... ridi?

1982

Il giudice Mastrangelo poster
9.0

Il giudice Mastrangelo is an Italian television series.

Il giudice Mastrangelo

2005

Telepatria international ovvero niente paura siamo italiani poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Telepatria international ovvero niente paura siamo italiani

1981

Il commissario Corso poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Il commissario Corso

1991

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Poco a poco

—

Amazing - Fabio de Luigi poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amazing - Fabio de Luigi

2023

Behind the camera

Eccezzziunale... veramente poster
6.2

Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.

Eccezzziunale... veramente

1982

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me poster
4.7

The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s cult.

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me

2006

My Beloved Enemy poster
5.4

A professor saves the life of a wounded hitman who, in exchange, promises to find and kill his enemy. Even though the professor says he has no enemies, the killer goes on a mission and transforms the professor's life.

My Beloved Enemy

2018

The Boss of the District poster
5.2

In Milan, a father lost his daughter and hires Domingo, the neighborhood Ras, to find her.

The Boss of the District

1983

2061 - Un anno eccezionale poster
4.1

In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.

2061 - Un anno eccezionale

2007

Children of Hannibal poster
4.9

Unemployed Domenico robs a bank, but is forced to take a hostage when things go wrong. The hostage, Tommaso, is a man who hates his wife and job, and who was already planning to run away with his gay cop lover anyway, so this seems to him like a good opportunity to disappear and start over again: the kidnapped becomes the kidnapper, and things get even more complicated when the two are joined by Rita, Tommaso's beautiful daughter.

Children of Hannibal

1998

Puerto Escondido poster
6.7

Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions.

Puerto Escondido

1992

In barca a vela contromano poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

In barca a vela contromano

1997

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

Area paradiso poster
5.9

No synopsis available yet.

Area paradiso

2012

Area paradiso poster
5.9

No synopsis available yet.

Area paradiso

2012