Alessandro Gassmann

Acting

Alessandro Gassmann

Born

1965-02-24 (61)

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

90 titles

Alessandro Gassman (born February 24, 1965) is an Italian actor. Born in Rome, he is the son of actors Vittorio Gassman and Juliette Mayniel.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 10 titles

My Name Is Vendetta poster
6.6

After old enemies kill his family, a former mafia enforcer and his feisty daughter flee to Milan, where they hide out while plotting their revenge.

My Name Is Vendetta

2022

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

The Order of Time poster
5.3

A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting, endless night into a life-altering experience.

The Order of Time

2023

Bare Hands poster
6.5

Davide, a good kid with the eyes of a child and the body of a grown man, is kidnapped one night and locked inside the dark trailer of a truck. He becomes a prisoner of a mysterious organization that forces him to fight, bare-handed, in brutal underground matches that can end only one way: the death of one of the two fighters.

Bare Hands

2025

We Are Cinema poster
9.5

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

We Are Cinema

2021

Thou Shalt Not Hate poster
6.2

Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in a city in the north-east of Italy. A quiet life, an elegant apartment and no connection with his past. One day he finds himself assisting a man victim of a hit and run accident. But when he discovers a nazi tattoo on his chest, Simone abandons him to his destiny. Filled with guilt, he ends up tracing the man’s family: Marica, the eldest daughter; Marcello, a teenager plagued with racial hate; and little Paolo. The night will come when Marica knocks at Simone’s door and unknowingly asks for payback.

Thou Shalt Not Hate

2020

Ritorno al crimine poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Ritorno al crimine

2021

Luigi Proietti detto Gigi poster
7.4

Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020

Luigi Proietti detto Gigi

2022

Gospel According to Mary poster
5.9

The story of Mary is reinvented, no longer a spectator but a courageous architect of her own existence.

Gospel According to Mary

2023

The Great Silence poster
7.2

Villa Primic was once a luxurious home. Now in disrepair, the Primic family home is up for sale by the owner, Rose, and her two heirs, Massimiliano and Adele. The head of the family, Valerio, is vehemently opposed to this. The reunion is going to be complicated...

The Great Silence

2021

2010s · 22 titles

My Brother Chases Dinosaurs poster
7.0

As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his life.

My Brother Chases Dinosaurs

2019

The Dinner poster
6.3

Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?

The Dinner

2014

Ignorance Is Bliss poster
5.8

Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.

Ignorance Is Bliss

2017

Tutta colpa di Freud poster
6.7

Francesco is a psychoanalyst grappling with three hopeless causes: a bookseller in love with a book thief, a lesbian hell-bent on becoming straight after a heartbreak, and an 18-year-old in a relationship with a much older married man. Unfortunately, these patients are also his three beloved daughters!

Tutta colpa di Freud

2014

The Stolen Caravaggio poster
6.0

Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but really-happened theft of a famous Caravaggio’s painting.

The Stolen Caravaggio

2018

Basilicata Coast To Coast poster
6.3

A musical comedy, a journey filled with unexpected twists and unexpected encounters, leading a group of musicians to set out to the rhythm of their musical verses to participate in the Scanzano Jonico Song-Theatre Festival, walking across Basilicata, from the Tyrrhenian to the Ionian Sea, along the route that gives the project its name. The journey will have a therapeutic effect.

Basilicata Coast To Coast

2010

Baciato dalla fortuna poster
4.9

Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. In the midst of debts, unpaid alimony and other serious financial issues, Gaetano unexpectedly wins the lottery, turning the fortune around.

Baciato dalla fortuna

2011

All You Need is Crime poster
5.9

In the present day, three friends to make ends meet invent a "criminal tour" for the places which were scenes of the Banda della Magliana criminal acts, even with vintage clothes. Suddenly they are catapulted in the 1982, during the Spain World Cup, facing the real Banda della Magliana, which at that time had the control over illegal bets.

All You Need is Crime

2019

Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian poster
6.6

A portrait of the mythical Italian actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-96), a unique performer who was one of the kings of European cinema.

Marcello Mastroianni, the Ideal Italian

2015

An Italian Name poster
6.3

Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow reaching climactic proportions.

An Italian Name

2015

There's No Religion Anymore poster
5.4

Set on the small island of Porto Buio, the traditional live Christmas Nativity scene might not go ahead because the baby who’s always played Jesus has grown up and no new babies have been born on the island in years! With this fundamental tradition on the line, newly elected Mayor Cecco (Claudio Bisio) wants to ask the local Tunisian community to “borrow” one of their children, but there’s conflict between the two communities. Cecco enlists the help of local Islam convert Bilal (Alessandro Gassman) to cross the cultural divide… but both communities are not sure what to make of a baby Jesus that may need his nationality, and even his religion changed!

There's No Religion Anymore

2016

Un Natale per due poster
5.6

An Italian style remake of "Due Date".

Un Natale per due

2011

God Willing poster
6.5

The son of an atheist, authoritarian father, believed to be liberal, wants to become a priest.

God Willing

2015

Ex 2: Still Friends poster
5.5

Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken for psychiatrist by a beautiful girl Valentina with whom he falls in love. A divorce lawyer Sandra is romantically attracted to her client's husband Massimo.

Ex 2: Still Friends

2011

Viva l'Italia poster
6.3

The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…

Viva l'Italia

2012

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia poster
8.2

This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic screen persona cannily reflected and critiqued mid-20th-century Italian society, while shedding light on the complex inner life of the man himself.

Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia

2018

Un Natale con i fiocchi poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Un Natale con i fiocchi

2012

Il premio poster
6.0

After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.

Il premio

2017

Woman of My Life poster
5.5

Longtime Italian cinema star Stefania Sandrelli (The First Beautiful Thing) is Alba, the mother of two very different adult sons. While Giorgio is a playboy who constantly cheats on his wife, Leonardo (Luca Argentero, Eat Pray Love) is always unlucky in love. When Leonardo finally meets the woman of his dreams, Sara, he brings her home to meet the family, but it appears this is not the first time that Sara has met Giorgio. Directed by Luca Lucini and stars Luca Argentero, Alessandro Gassman and Stefania Sandrelli.

Woman of My Life

2010

The Last Will Be the Last poster
6.6

Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood lasts only a few months. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, asking for the justice she deserves.

The Last Will Be the Last

2015

Cinderella the Cat poster
7.0

Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.

Cinderella the Cat

2017

The Father and the Foreigner poster
6.0

Diego, Italian, and Waid, Syrian, live in Rome and are both fathers of disabled children. They become friends, but Waid mysteriously disappears and Diego is targeted by the Secret Service.

The Father and the Foreigner

2011

2000s · 13 titles

Transporter 2 poster
6.3

Professional driver, and former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policy director and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank immediately becomes involved in protecting the child and exposing the kidnappers.

Transporter 2

2005

Ex poster
5.7

Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.

Ex

2009

Quiet Chaos poster
6.5

Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.

Quiet Chaos

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'uomo dalla bocca storta

2009

Lourdes poster
7.2

The young, sickly girl Bernadette comes from a poverty-stricken family. When the Virgin Mary appears to her in a cavern near Lourdes, no one takes the girl seriously, even when she digs up a wellspring at the Virgin's instructions The local authorities even try to hush up the entire incident. In vain, however, because when Empress Eugénie requests water from the spring for her sickly son, they are forced to acquiesce. And even the local priest is finally convinced. While taking his tuberculosis-stricken fiancé Claire to a sanatorium, the young doctor Henri Guillaumet meets Bernadette. The water from Lourdes' spring heals Claire's disease overnight, but the scientist in Henri doubts the miracle and wants to expose Bernadette as a liar. It is not until Henri again meets Bernadette, who has in the meantime become a nun and works as a nurse, that he finds a way to balance belief and modern science. And his love for Claire is strengthened as well.

Lourdes

2000

David's Birthday poster
5.6

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end badly?

David's Birthday

2009

Natale a Beverly Hills poster
4.8

Carlo descends on his former lover's unsuspecting family and the scheming Rocco tries to break up his old rival Marcello's wedding.

Natale a Beverly Hills

2009

Pinocchio poster
6.1

The enchanted story of Pinocchio.

Pinocchio

2009

The Seed of Discord poster
4.9

Mario and Veronica, a married couple with no children, are both very committed to their careers, which are booming. He's a sales representative for a fertilizer company, while she inherited a boutique from her mother that she wants to renovate and transform. However, things take an unexpected turn when she discovers she's pregnant. What should be good news backfires, as he, almost at the same time, receives test results declaring him sterile.

The Seed of Discord

2008

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair poster
6.3

A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

2002

Guardians of the Clouds poster
4.3

In a small town in the province of Naples, in 1962, Batino, the eldest son of a goat farmer, challenges Dr. La Rocca, a corrupt politician and wheeler-dealer, who had promised him a job in exchange for a bribe and then disappeared without keeping his word.

Guardians of the Clouds

2004

A Prince Called Toto poster
5.0

Totò, the mythical comedian of Italian stage and screen, was the illegitimate child of a noble man in one of Naples's poorest neighborhoods. As a child, he enlisted in the army simply to eat three square meals a day. Later, his dizzying success in show business brought him riches he had never dreamed of, plus stories of love and jealousy, the most important being with 16 year old Diana who eventually became his wife, only to leave him and inspire the Italian classic torch song Malafemmina, meaning bad woman.

A Prince Called Toto

2007

The Crusaders poster
4.3

Towards the end of the eleventh century, Pope Urban II announces a crusade against the Saracens, who have occupied the holy city of Jerusalem. Three young friends Richard, Peter and Andrew set off to join the crusading army.

The Crusaders

2001

1990s · 9 titles

Golden Balls poster
5.5

A libidinous construction worker uses his charm and bravado in an attempt to attain enough finances to build his dream project.

Golden Balls

1993

A Month by the Lake poster
5.7

For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.

A Month by the Lake

1995

Steam: The Turkish Bath poster
6.6

Francesco and Marta run a husband-and-wife design company in Rome. When Francesco's aunt dies in Istanbul he travels there to sort out the hamam Turkish steam bath that she left him. He finds a love and warmth in his relatives' Istanbul home that is missing from his life in Italy.

Steam: The Turkish Bath

1997

Toni poster
7.2

Toni is a mob movie combined with an urban love story and reflections about one's roots. The protagonist, Toni, is a young man from a small village in the south of Italy who arrives at the station Gare de Lyon in Paris. He never questions the education he receives from his mob family or the rules to which he is always chained. He contacts a man called "The Old Man," a strange character discarded by the family who is of help from time to time. This man is supposed to communicate to Toni all necessary information for him to accomplish his mission. Toni plans to execute it in perfect calm. But things do not go according to plan. He meets Marie, a vulnerable journalist whose best friend has just committed suicide. Two doomed characters enter a mysterious relationship.

Toni

1999

Stubborn Fate poster
5.1

Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.

Stubborn Fate

1992

La bomba poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

La bomba

1999

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

I miei più cari amici poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

I miei più cari amici

1998

Stella's Favor poster
7.0

Stella works in a restaurant in Rome. She feels frustrated about her life. In spite she has turned 40, she dreams of a film career.

Stella's Favor

1996

1980s · 5 titles

Series credits

Champs-Elysées poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Champs-Elysées

1982

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

Le Iene poster
6.8

Comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues. Recurring features of the show, besides the reportage, are the double interviews in which two famous people are asked the same questions, and are edited together on a split screen, side by side so that they answer one after the other.

Le Iene

1997

I bastardi di Pizzofalcone poster
7.2

Giuseppe Lojacono, suspected of collusion with the mafia, is unfairly thrown out of from Sicily and send to Pizzofalcone (close to Naples), together with other police officers. There, they bring justice back where it was forgotten.

I bastardi di Pizzofalcone

2017

A Professor poster
7.7

Based on the Catalan format Merlí by Hector Lozano, produced by Veranda for TV3 Lagardère Studios Distribution. Dante Balestra is a philosophy teacher who, after many years away, returns to Rome to care for his son Simone. Charming and unconventional, the teacher takes a class at the Leonardo Da Vinci High School, where he applies his unconventional teaching methods and develops a very special relationship with his students, including Simone. But his approach quickly leads to his personal and professional lives becoming confused, and the return from the past of Anita, a former flame of his and now the mother of Manuel, the class "black sheep," makes things even more complicated.

A Professor

2021

Buona la prima! poster
7.8

Buona la prima! is an Italian television series.

Buona la prima!

2007

Redemption poster
6.4

In a nocturnal and hostile Rome, Valerio must investigate the death of his son, an apparently suicide. An investigation that's also a last chance to restore a bond with that son he hadn't seen in years, facing the ghosts of the past.

Redemption

2020

Guerrieri - La regola dell’equilibrio poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Guerrieri - La regola dell’equilibrio

2026

Pinocchio poster
NR

The enchanted story of Pinocchio.

Pinocchio

2009

The Crusaders poster
NR

Towards the end of the 11th century, three friends - bell founder Peter, baron's son Richard and shepherd Andrew - set off to join The Crusades, after watching soldiers returning from Jerusalem.

The Crusaders

2001

La famiglia Ricordi poster
9.0

Casa Ricordi was founded in 1808, and over the course of its history, it acquired the copyrights to the works of all the great composers of the era, from Rossini to Bellini, from Donizetti to Verdi, and finally to Puccini.

La famiglia Ricordi

1995

La pelle del mondo poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La pelle del mondo

2026

Tides of Change poster
7.0

The nobleman Franco Maironi is sailing over Lake Lugano together with his beloved Luisa. Luisa is from a bourgeois family and therefore marrying her would mean going outside his social class. But this is be no problem for the courageous young Italian patriot.

Tides of Change

2001

La guerra è finita poster
NR

During the WW2, two friends fall in love with the same woman. Ideologically divided by the conflict that engulfs Italy and their lives, the three young people will eventually reunite after a dramatic confrontation.

La guerra è finita

2002

Le stagioni del cuore poster
7.5

Le stagioni del cuore is an Italian television series.

Le stagioni del cuore

2004

Dalida poster
7.0

The life story of famous singer and actress of Egyptian and Italian ancestry Iolanda Gigliotti known by her stage name Dalida.

Dalida

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

Behind the camera

Questi fantasmi! poster
7.1

Pasquale Lojacono moves into a large flat with his wife Maria following a special agreement with the owner: in exchange for free accommodation, Pasquale must dispel rumours that the house is haunted by ghosts. The protagonist begins to receive regular sums of money from spirits who, according to him, are particularly generous and supportive towards him. As time goes by, however, it turns out that the source of his fortune is a ghost who, having become Maria's lover, wants to silence him and plan an escape with her. Added to this unusual love triangle are the doorman, his sister and the lover's family, each of whom, in their own way, exploits the rumours of ghosts for their own gain under the gaze of Professor Santanna, who observes and comments on the inexplicable events with Pasquale from the window of the flat opposite.

Questi fantasmi!

2024

Carnera: The Walking Mountain poster
5.9

The life of Primo Carnera a.k.a. "Ambling Alp", Italian professional boxer and the World Heavyweight Champion from June 1933 to June 1934, but also accused by some of having ties to the mob.

Carnera: The Walking Mountain

2008

Il premio poster
6.0

After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.

Il premio

2017

Il premio poster
6.0

After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.

Il premio

2017

The Great Silence poster
7.2

Villa Primic was once a luxurious home. Now in disrepair, the Primic family home is up for sale by the owner, Rose, and her two heirs, Massimiliano and Adele. The head of the family, Valerio, is vehemently opposed to this. The reunion is going to be complicated...

The Great Silence

2021

The Great Silence poster
7.2

Villa Primic was once a luxurious home. Now in disrepair, the Primic family home is up for sale by the owner, Rose, and her two heirs, Massimiliano and Adele. The head of the family, Valerio, is vehemently opposed to this. The reunion is going to be complicated...

The Great Silence

2021

The Great Silence poster
7.2

Villa Primic was once a luxurious home. Now in disrepair, the Primic family home is up for sale by the owner, Rose, and her two heirs, Massimiliano and Adele. The head of the family, Valerio, is vehemently opposed to this. The reunion is going to be complicated...

The Great Silence

2021

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore poster
6.2

No synopsis available yet.

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

2010

Oscura immensità poster
NR

Based on Massimo Carlotto’s novel *The Dark Immensity of Death*, this play, directed by Alessandro Gassmann, recounts a tragic real-life incident that took place in a province in north-eastern Italy, bringing victim and perpetrator face to face.

Oscura immensità

2014

Di padre in figlio poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Di padre in figlio

1982

Di padre in figlio poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Di padre in figlio

1982

The Mongrel poster
6.1

The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells drugs and lives in criminal contexts. His dream is to see his child, Nicu, whom he raised without a mother, live a different and better life.

The Mongrel

2013

The Mongrel poster
6.1

The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells drugs and lives in criminal contexts. His dream is to see his child, Nicu, whom he raised without a mother, live a different and better life.

The Mongrel

2013