Roberto De Francesco films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 10 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for The King of Laughter, The American Backyard and Mussolini: Son of the Century.

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Starring Roberto De Francesco

Mussolini: Son of the Century
2025 · TV
8.1/10 · TMDB
The rise of Benito Mussolini and the birth of fascism in Italy, chronicling a country’s surrender to dictatorship and the relentless ascent of a man who rose from his ashes time and again.
Luna Nera
2020 · TV
7.7/10 · TMDB
In 17th-century Italy, a teenager learns about her destiny among a family of witches, just as her boyfriend's father hunts her down for witchcraft.
The Inner Cage
2021 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
The King of Laughter
2021 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Beloved Neapolitan actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo De Filippo, devoted his entire life to the theater, achieving success with timeless works such as "Miseria e nobiltà." However, everything he worked for seems...
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The Son's Room
2001 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
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We Have a Pope
2011 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be...
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Sicilian Letters
2024 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Loosely based on real events that took place during Matteo Messina Denaro's thirty years on the run. A disgraced politician is gifted a second chance when secret services involve him in an operation to root out an elusive Mafia boss. Using...
The Mayor of Rione Sanità
2019 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Mario Martone brings Eduardo De Filippo’s play Il Sindaco del Rione Sanità to the big screen, a story the director sets in the present day, using the text as an opportunity to continue to investigate reality. The protagonist, Antonio...
Hammamet
2020 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
The last years of Bettino Craxi, one of the most important and controversial italian leader of the 1980's.
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The American Backyard
2025 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A troubled young man falls for an American military auxiliary in postwar Italy. A year later, he relocates to the American Midwest to write his first novel, next to her elderly mother's house—separated by a grim garden.
The Eyes of Others
2026 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
In the untamed beauty of the island owned by an extraordinarily wealthy Marquis, Elena's arrival marks the beginning of a passionate love affair. Complicity and transgression, sex and power, in a film inspired by 1960s Italian true crime...
Volare
2024 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
One day, Annabì decides it’s enough. Her whole life has been affected by her fear of flying and so has her career. She is a successful actress but has turned down many roles abroad because flying is an insurmountable obstacle for her. Now...

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