Sergio RubiniFilmography

Cosmonauta

Actors: Miriana Raschillà, Claudia Pandolfi, Sergio Rubini

Synopsis: A teenage girl growing up in early Sixties finds an unusual way to impress a boy and show up her big brother in this coming-of-age story from Italy. Luciana (Miriana Raschilla) was just a baby when her father died, leaving her mother (Claudia Pandolfi) to look after the family. But Luciana has Read More

No Problem

Actors: Vincenzo Salemme, Giorgio Panariello, Sergio Rubini, Aylin Prandi, Iaia Forte, Cecilia Capriotti, Anna Proclemer

Synopsis: This light and gentle domestic comedy from Italian director Vincenzo Salemme concerns Arturo Cremisi (Salemme), a television actor in his mid-forties whose most prominent role involves portraying a husband and father separated from his wife on a popular series. His life changes drastically when Read More

Colpo d'Occhio

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A rivalry between two men in love with the same woman turns into a battle of wills in this psychological thriller from Italy. Pietro Lulli (Sergio Rubini) is a former sculptor and art instructor who has gained a degree of power and fame as an art critic. As Pietro attends the opening of a group Read More

La Terra

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Paolo Briguglia, Massimo Venturiello, Emilio Solfrizzi, Claudia Gerini

Synopsis: When the efforts of a Philosophy teacher from the Italian Region of Puglia and his two brothers to sell an old family farm are stalled by their boorish and aggressive step-brother, the family's dark past is soon dragged into the harsh light of the presence in director Sergio Rubini's simmering Read More

Manual of Love

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Silvio Muccino, Luciana Littizzetto, Sergio Rubini

Synopsis: Director Giovanni Veronesi interweaves four tales of family tragedy, ill-fated love affairs, eternal passion, and fleeting relationships in a humorous, romantic, and moving look at the lasting effect of love and the human condition. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Passion of The Christ

Actors: James Caviezel, Monica Bellucci, Claudia Gerini, Maia Morgenstern, Sergio Rubini, Rosalinda Celentano, Hristo Jivkov, Luca Lionello, Mattia Sbragia, Hristo Shopov

Synopsis: Mel Gibson's well-publicized production The Passion of the Christ concerns the last 12 hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. The dialogue is spoken in the ancient Aramaic language, along with Latin and Hebrew. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus (James Caviezel) is Read More

L'amore Ritorna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy

Mio Cognato

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Luigi Lo Cascio, Mariangela Arcieri, Alessandra Sarno, Gigi Angelillo

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Alessandro Piva reunites much of his cast and crew from his 2000 film LaCapaGira for the crime comedy My Brother-in-Law. The film follows an odd couple of brothers-in-law wandering through the coastal city of Bari, Italy, and getting into trouble. While in town from the suburbs Read More

Amnesia

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini, Martina Stella, Juanjo Puigcorbe, Ruben Ochandano

Synopsis: Directed by Gabriele Salvatores, Amnesia takes place in the Spanish island of Ibiza, where an odd mix of commercialism, ex-hippies, fisherman, and artists co-exist. Town locals Sandro (Diego Abatantunono), a pornographic film director, and Angelino (Sergio Rubini), the manager of a beachside Read More

Soul Mate

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Valentina Cervi, Violante Placido, Michele Venitucci, Sergio Rubini, Dino Abbrescia

Synopsis: True love, jealousy, and betrayal bring about a good old-fashioned case of body swapping in Italian director Sergio Rubini's 2002 fantastical dark comedy Soul Mate. Rich and unbelievably spoiled, Teresa (Valentina Cervi) is accustomed to getting what she wants. In her most recent conquest, she Read More

The Power of the Past

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Bruno Ganz, Sandra Ceccarelli, Mariangela D'Abbraccio, Valeria Moriconi

Synopsis: Days after the death and funeral of his high-powered army father, children's book author Gianni Orzan (Sergio Rubini) meets the suspicious Gianni Bogliasco (Bruno Ganz), who proceeds to recite an uncomfortable amount of accurate knowledge about the author's life. Gianni ends up running into Read More

Momo Alla Conquista Del Tempo

Actors: Erica Necci, Giancarlo Giannini, Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Rubini

Mirka

Actors: Barbora Bobulova, Gérard Depardieu, Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave

Synopsis: Algerian-born filmmaker Rachid Benhadj directs this bleak drama about the aftermath of wartime rape. Set in an unidentified Balkan nation, the film focuses on ruff, world-weary Kalsan (Vanessa Redgrave), who heads an isolated mountain farm with her 24-year-old soon-to-be-married granddaughter Read More

Tutto l'amore che c'è

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Margherita Buy, Gérard Depardieu

Synopsis: Italian actor and director Sergio Rubini spins this affable ensemble coming-of-age flick set in a small village in the southern region of Rubini. Teenaged Carlo (Damiano Russo) and his buddy are agog at the arrival of three northern beauties when their father is transferred in to run the local Read More

Denti

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Anouk Grinberg, Tom Novembre, Anita Caprioli, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Synopsis: In this bizarre and darkly comic fantasy, Antonio (Sergio Rubini) is a man who was born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth make him an outcast from his peers as a child, and he attempts more than once to break off the offending choppers. The emotionally fragile Antonio was Read More

The Talented Mr. Ripley

Actors: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman

Synopsis: After the Oscar-winning The English Patient, writer/director Anthony Minghella attempted another tricky literary adaptation with The Talented Mr. Ripley, which features heartthrob Matt Damon cast against type as a psychopathic bisexual murderer. Tom Ripley (Damon) is a bright and charismatic Read More

Die letzte Station

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Marion Kracht, Dorel Visan

Synopsis: Italian comedy star Sergio Rubini is top-billed in this story about a country bumpkin making his way in the big city, Central European style. Nelu is a intellectually challenged man from a small village in Romania. He heads to the big city of Bucharest to seek his fortune when his grandfather Read More

Del Perduto Amore

Actors: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Rocco Papaleo, Enrico Lo Verso, Rino Cassano

Synopsis: Actor-turned-director Michele Placido directed this Italian political drama inspired by Liliana Rossi, a crusading woman from Puglia, Placido's hometown. Priest Don Gerardo (Placido), at age 50, reflects on his life, looking back to 1958, his childhood, and the discipline of his father (Fabrizio Bentivoglio Read More

Ecco Fatto

Actors: Giorgio Pasotti, Barbora Bobulova, Claudio Santamaria, Ginevra Colonna, Enrico Silvestrin

Synopsis: Darker undertones infiltrate this lightweight Italian romantic comedy, as a troubled young man's fancy turns to obsession and jealousy. While most of his friends are eagerly preparing to graduate from high school, Matteo realizes that his poor grades are going to hold him back unless he can devise Read More

L'Albero Delle Pere

Actors: Valeria Golino, Sergio Rubini, Stefano Dionisi, Niccolo Senni, Francesca di Giovanni

Synopsis: Francesca Archibugi directed this Italian drama set in Rome where 14-year-old Siddhartha (Niccolo Senni) is forced to deal with his heroin-addicted mother Silvia (Valeria Golina). He occasionally gets a visit from his filmmaker father Massimo (Sergio Rubini), who left them years earlier. Silvia is Read More

Children of Hannibal

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Silvio Orlando, Valentina Cervi, Flavio Insinna, Ugo Conti

Synopsis: This Italian road comedy gets a jump-start when unemployed Dominico (Silvio Orlando) robs a bank, taking businessman Tommaso (Diego Abatantuono) hostage. Since debt-plagued Tommaso has a dead-end marriage, he takes advantage of the situation, leaking news of his abduction in a diversion tactic Read More

Nirvana

Actors: Christopher Lambert, Diego Abatantuono, Emmanuelle Seigner

Synopsis: A computer virus endows Solo (Diego Abatantuono), the hero of a virtual reality game, with human consciousness, thereby creating all kinds of headaches for his creator Jimi (Christopher Lambert). The trouble begins in the futuristic metropolis of Northern Agglomerate three days before Christmas. Read More

Il Viaggio Della Sposa

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Umberto Orsini, Carlo Mucari, Franco Javarone

Synopsis: Porzia, a beautiful and feisty aristocrat leaves her convent school when her wealthy, blue-blooded fiancé sends a small military regiment to bring her home for their wedding. Handsome Captain Palagano has been particularly charged with keeping the virginal lass safe and intact. The journey across Read More

Storia D'Amore Con I Crampi

Synopsis: Unceremoniously dumped by her lover Roberto, bitter Marcella is determined to win him back at any cost. Such is the basis of this frothy Italian comedy. Roberto has since gone on a Tunisian vacation with his voluptuous new love Alessia. Meanwhile Marcella enacts an elaborate scheme to get him Read More

Il Cielo e Sempre Piu Blu

Synopsis: The English title of this complex Italian film is apt. Featuring 65 main characters and 130 speaking parts (famous faces abound and many of the actors appeared gratis), and ranging in tone from tartly humorous to darkly tragic, it presents 30 interwoven slices from the lives of modern day Romans Read More

Prestazione Straordinaria

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Margherita Buy, Sergio Rubini, Alessandro Haber, Simona Izzo, Gianrico Tedeschi

Synopsis: Reverse sexual harassment is the focus of this Italian film. Copy editor Aldo finds himself the object of Clara, an important publisher with a taste for seducing and devouring handsome young executives. Though Aldo is not terribly handsome, Clara is attracted by his sweetness and she seeks to Read More

The Blonde

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Sergio Rubini, Ennio Fantastichini, Luca Barbareschi, Veronica Lazar

Synopsis: Nastassja Kinski headlines this Italian romantic-tragedy which tells the story of a lonely man and a mysterious blonde amnesiac. The film is set in Milan. Tommaso has a slight physical disability and is very shy. One night upon returning home, he accidently hits a beautiful blonde woman who falls Read More

A Pure Formality

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Roman Polanski, Sergio Rubini, Nicola di Pinto, Paolo Lombardi

Synopsis: The sweet sentimental gauze of director Giuseppe Tornatore's international hit Cinema Paradiso (1988) is nowhere to be found in this dark, Kafkaesque crime thriller that takes place, stage play-style, mostly in the confines of one room. Gerard Depardieu stars as Onoff, a famed author who has Read More

Al Lupo Al Lupo

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Francesca Neri, Sergio Rubini, Barry Morse

Synopsis: Their father (Barry Morse) is a wealthy, world-renowned painter, and he brought the three siblings (two sons and a daughter) up in lavish style. The three children have had a falling out over the years, as much due to their differing lifestyles as anything else. Gregorio (Carlo Verdone) is a radio Read More

Condannato a Nozze

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy, Asia Argento, Patrizia Piccinini

Synopsis: In this fantasy comedy/drama, Roberto (Sergio Rubini) is a divorce lawyer who is very conflicted about what he does for a living. In fact, he has a great deal of difficulty sleeping at night. Most people simply toss and turn; Roberto literally splits in two. One Roberto is a fanatic advocate of Read More

Chiedi la Luna

Actors: Margherita Buy, Giulio Scarpati, Roberto Citran, Sergio Rubini

Synopsis: Marco is a stuffy young man, but he loves his ne'er-do-well brother. When he doesn't hear from him for some time, he begins to search for him and finds that he has disappeared from sight. He looks up his brother's equally unconventional girlfriend and enlists her aid in the search. Along the way Read More

La Stazione

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy, Ennio Fantastichini

Synopsis: Station is about a peaceful, down-to-earth railroad clerk whose life is thrown into turmoil when a rich woman on the run from the fiancee she has just left arrives at his station. The two take off together, avoiding her fiancee, and eventually falling in love. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Read More

Una Notte, Un Sogno

Treno Di Panna

Actors: Sergio Rubini, Carol Alt, Christina Marsillach, Rosalinda, Irene Grazioli

Synopsis: Giovanni (Sergio Rubini) is an Italian who travels to New York City in this uneven situation comedy. He is mugged as soon as he arrives and his electric guitar is stolen. After working as a waiter in an Italian restaurant, Giovanni lands a job teaching Italian in spite of his questionable command Read More

Intervista

Actors: Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sergio Rubini, Maurizio Mein

Synopsis: Intervista has been termed a semi-documentary: This is in fact the filmed autobiography of Italian director Federico Fellini, framed in the form of an interview conducted by a Japanese film crew. As the interview progresses Fellini's mind wanders to his earliest days (the reenacted events conflict Read More

Il Caso Moro

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Margarita Lozano, Mattia Sbragia, Bruno Zanin, Consuelo Ferrara

Synopsis: In 1978, Italian politics were thrown into turmoil when the Christian Democratic president Aldo Moro was executed. This gripping political drama is based on American journalist Robert Katz's non-fiction book Days of Wrath and documents the convoluted chain of events that lead to Moro's death. Moro Read More

Desiderando Giulia

Actors: Serena Grandi, Johan Leysen, Sergio Rubini

Synopsis: Full frontal nudity and a wealth of softcore sex scenes combine with a serious and sometimes sensitively rendered story about Emilio (John Leysen), the scion of a wealthy family. Emilio and his clan have seen better times, and when he becomes obsessed with Giulia (Serena Grandi), a robust Read More

Figlio Mio Infinitamente Caro

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Sergio Rubini, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Temperini, Wanda Pasquini

Synopsis: In a routine drama about teen drug addiction, Antonio Morelli (Ben Gazzara) is a lawyer with good community standing who is overwhelmed when he discovers that his son has a heroin habit. Antonio lets his law practice slide, and he does everything he can to get his son off drugs -- but nothing Read More

Dawn of the Mummy

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Brenda King, Barry Sattels, George Peck, John Salvo, Joan Levy

Synopsis: This film's title clearly reflects the two films that most inspired it: The Mummy and Dawn of the Dead. The plot involves a group of jet-setting fashion models and photographers who choose the tomb of an evil and sadistic pharaoh named "Seferaman" as the setting for their Egyptian-themed magazine Read More

Rag, Arturo De Fanti, Bancario-Precario

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Catherine Spaak, Anna Maria Rizzoli

Synopsis: A good idea is taken to the well one too many times in this routine comedy by Luciano Salce. Paolo Villaggio is Arturo, the bank teller of the title, and Catherine Spaak is his put-upon wife Elena. Arturo's problem is that he does not have enough money to keep his head above water and so that is Read More

A Man Called Magnum

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Luc Merenda, Enzo Cannavale, Claudio Gori, Adolfo Lastretti, Ferdinando Murolo

Synopsis: This late-period entry into the cycle of Italian crime films is a prototypical example of the form. Italian action star Luc Merenda stars as Dario Mauri, a Milanese cop who is transferred to Naples. He immediately sets his sights on bringing down crime boss Laurenzi (Claudio Gora), with begrudging Read More

Emergency Squad

Crew: Cinematographer

Actors: Tomas Milian, Gastone Moschin, Raymond Lovelock, Stefania Casini

Synopsis: This entry in the Italian crime film cycle of the '70s presents an interesting take on the format. Emergency Squad seems unusually postmodern for its time because it places an equal amount of dramatic focus on its hero and its villain. The hero part is fulfilled by Ravelli (Tomas Milian), a cop Read More