Adriano CelentanoFilmography

Born:: January 6, 1938 in Milan, Italy
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: A true superstar of Italian pop music, Adriano Celentano essayed virtually every genre and style, from rock 'n' roll to rap, and was able to extend his success to films and television. His first public success was associated with his participation in the first Italian Rock 'n' Roll Festival in his...Read More

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Yuppi Du

Crew: Director

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Charlotte Rampling, Claudia Mori, Gino Santercole

Synopsis: Legendary Italian pop singer Adriano Celentano served as writer, director, songwriter and star for this one-of-a-kind fusion of musical melodrama and socio-political commentary. Celentano plays Felice, a humble boatman and amateur musician who lives with his wife Adalaide (Claudia Mori) in a tiny Read More

2008
Cybereden

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Kate Vernon, Christopher Lee, Carroll Baker

Synopsis: The very young computer whizzes in this big-big budget Italian movie are beginning to lose their focus on their assignment: to create a computer-generated Eden. In order to inspire them, an innocent gardener (rock-star and comedian Adriano Celentano) is brought in. For a while, this works, as they Read More

1993
Il Burbero

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Debra Feuer, Jean Sorel, Mattia Sbragia, Angela Finocchiaro

Synopsis: In this light comedy and mystery film, Mary is a waitress living in New York. She is also a newlywed, blonde, and none too bright into the bargain. One day, she gets a call from her husband, who instructs her to take the next plane to Florence because he's struck it rich. However, when she lands Read More

1987
Joan Lui: Ma Un Giorno Nel Paese Arrivo 10 Di Lunedi

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Claudia Mori, Marthe Keller, Al Yamanouchi, Federica Moro

Synopsis: Viewers should be warned off this failed attempt at farce by its title alone. The film makes just about as much sense. Scripted, directed, and edited by Adriano Celentano a total of $10,000,000 was spent to poke almost violent "fun" at Christ's Second Coming. Joan Lui (Christ, played by Read More

12/25/85
Lui è Peggio Di Me

2/21/85
Segni Particolari: Bellissimo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Federica Moro

Synopsis: The popular Italian comic Adriano Celentano stars in this light comedy as Mattia, a wealthy novelist besieged by female admirers who recruits the aid of his young neighbor to discourage any women from proposing marriage as a logical outcome of their affections. Federica Moro plays Michela Read More

12/22/83
Bingo Bongo

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Carole Bouquet

Synopsis: Like his more famous loin-clothed tree-swinging, yodeling counterpart, Bingo Bongo was raised in the jungle by apes. This Italian comedy follows his lively adventures after he is captured, caged and sent back to civilization. There he begins working with a pretty anthropologist who teaches him all Read More

12/23/82
Grand Hotel Excelsior

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono, Eleonora Giorgi

Synopsis: Four popular Italian comedians (Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, and Diego Abantantuono), at the time this film was shot, play characters who either work in or visit a large hotel. Each comedian reprises some of the roles or attitudes that made him famous in a series of Read More

10/7/82
Innamorato Pazzo

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Adolfo Celi

Synopsis: Cristina (Ornella Muti) is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble Read More

12/18/81
Asso

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Renato Salvatori, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local bar -- and wins a handy amount of money. As Ace heads home to his waiting bride Bocconcino (Edwige Fenech), he is killed by a hired gun. When he reappears to see his wife Read More

4/9/81
Il Bisbetico Domato

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters

Synopsis: This Taming of the Shrew in Italian is also a take off on the 1970 French film L'ours et la Poupee, and showcases the popular singer/comedian Adriano Celentano as an irascible country farmer named Elia, who locks horns with Lisa (Ornella Muti), a gorgeous society snob. Elia is a notoriously Read More

12/20/80
La Locandiera

Actors: Claudia Mori, Adriano Celentano, Paolo Villaggio, Gianni Cavina

10/2/80
Qua La Mano

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Renzo Montagnani, Enrico Montesano, Philippe Leroy

3/28/80
Mani Di Velluto

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi, John Sharp, Olga Karlatos

Synopsis: Guido (Italian pop-music superstar Adriano Celentano) is a millionaire who has made his fortune by inventing an unbreakable glass. He has everything he wants except for casual sex from a woman who knows nothing of his wealth. While riding the subway, his Rolex watch is lifted by the beautiful Read More

12/20/79
Sabato, Domenica E Venerdi

Actors: Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, Michele Placido, Milena Vukotic, Adriano Celentano, Lino Banfi

Synopsis: This Italian anthology uses the standard sex comedy format but lacks the subtle social commentary present in its predecessors. In the "Saturday" episode, a modest accountant is sent by his boss to entertain a visiting Japanese engineer who turns out to be a pretty woman (Edwige Fenech). In the Read More

10/20/79
L'Altra Meta Del Cielo

3/4/77
The Con Artists

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Adriano Celentano, Capucine, Corinne Clery

Synopsis: Sergio Corbucci directs the 1976 caper Il Grande Bluff, an Italian crime comedy inspired by he Sting, which has been released under several different titles. Bang (Anthony Quinn) gets out of prison and joins with young protege Félix (Adriano Celentano). The teacher and the student scam each other Read More

4/15/76
Lunatics and Lovers

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars as an eccentric aristocrat who befriends an organ grinder. Soon after, the street musician convinces a prostitute (Claudia Mori) to pose as the nobleman's imaginary wife. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Di Che Segno Sei?

10/23/75
Yuppi-du

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter, Songwriter

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Charlotte Rampling, Claudia Mori, Lino Toffolo, Gino Santercole

Synopsis: Composer, songwriter, director, producer, and star performer Adriano Celentano has put together this tale of a seedy aristocrat's two loves, drawing upon the inspiration of Elvis Presley and Jerry Lewis. Felice (Celentano) has two wives, and he loves them both. His first, Silvia (Charlotte Rampling Read More

3/6/75
Le Cinque Giornate

Actors: Adriano Celentano

Synopsis: This bloody and comical look at the 1848 Italian revolution was director Dario Argento's only foray outside the horror-thriller genres. Adriano Celentano wanders Milan with a goofy baker and witnesses the growing corruption and horror that turns a just cause into senseless violence, rape, and Read More

12/20/73
Rugantino

10/25/73
L'Emigrante

4/19/73
Bianco, Rosso e...

Actors: Antonio Alfonso, Bruno Biassibetti, Ezio Curti, Aldo Farina, Sergio Fasanelli, Pilar Gomez Ferrer, Carla Galletti, Francesca Modigliani

Synopsis: This comic Italian melodrama recounts the story of a friendship which develops out of a romantic obsession. The Italian communist party was largely independent of the Eastern Bloc, and has played a large political role in that country, particularly on the local level. This story tells of Annibale Read More

3/31/72
Er Piu: Storia d'Amore E Di Coltello

9/18/71
Serafino

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Ottavia Piccolo, Francesca Coluzzi, Benjamin Lev, Saro Urzi

Synopsis: Serafino (Adriano Celentano) is an illiterate shepherd who lives in the bucolic splendor of the Abruzis mountains. He takes frequent and amorous forays into the village below where he experiences all the pleasures his solitude cannot offer. He is quickly drafted into the military but is dismissed Read More

12/17/68
Superrapina a Milano

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this crime drama, two bank robbers foil their own plans to commit the perfect crime when they begin fighting over a woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

12/17/64
La Dolce Vita

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg, Alain Cuny, Lex Barker

Synopsis: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He Read More

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