
Paolo Briguglia
Actor · b. 1974 · Palermo, Italy
Nasce a Palermo il 27 maggio del 1974, secondo di quattro figli. Dopo la maturità classica, si iscrive all'università per studiare Lettere Antiche, facoltà che abbandona dopo due anni per l'Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico di Roma, dove si diploma nel 1998 (frequenta inoltre diversi laboratori teatrali, in Italia e all'estero). Dopo aver debuttato in teatro, alterna il lavoro teatrale con quello televisivo e cinematografico. Nel 2000 appare sul grande schermo con i film Il manoscritto del principe di Roberto Andò, che parla della stesura de Il Gattopardo da parte di Tomasi di Lampedusa, e I cento passi di Marco Tullio Giordana, in cui interpreta il ruolo del fratello di Peppino Impastato, ucciso dalla mafia. Dello stesso anno è il cortometraggio L'affresco di Marco Bellocchio, a cui fanno seguito, tra l'altro, il film Paz! (2002) e vari lavori televisivi: Francesco (2002), Giulio Cesare (2002) e L'inganno (2003). Nel 2002 esce il film El Alamein, diretto da Enzo Monteleone, dove interpreta il ruolo di un soldato italiano che, nell'ottobre del 1942, è bloccato presso El Alamein insieme a suoi compagni (Pierfrancesco Favino, Emilio Solfrizzi, Silvio Orlando e Roberto Citran). Grazie alla sua interpretazione, nel 2003 vince il Globo d'Oro come migliore attore esordiente. Successivamente è nel cast di Buongiorno, notte (2003), ancora diretto da Marco Bellocchio, a cui fanno seguito i film Movimenti e Stai con me, entrambi del 2004, Ma quando arrivano le ragazze? (2005) di Pupi Avati, e La terra (2006), regia di Sergio Rubini, per cui ottiene la nomination come Migliore Attore Rivelazione. Tra gli altri suoi lavori, ricordiamo le fiction tv: Giovanni Falcone, l'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra di Andrea ed Antonio Frazzi (2006), Caravaggio, Il figlio della luna ed Era mio fratello, e i film: L'abbuffata e Non pensarci, tutti del 2007, ma quest'ultimo uscito nelle sale il 4 aprile 2008. Nel 2009 ritorna nelle sale cinematografiche con i film: La siciliana ribelle, regia di Marco Amenta, Baarìa, regia di Giuseppe Tornatore, Tris di donne & abiti nuziali, regia di Vincenzo Terracciano, La cosa giusta, regia di Marco Campogiani. A aprile 2010 esce nelle sale l'opera prima dell'attore/regista Rocco Papaleo, Basilicata coast to coast, che vede Briguglia tra i protagonisti insieme allo stesso Papaleo, Alessandro Gassman, Giovanna Mezzogiorno e, al suo debutto come attore, il cantante Max Gazzè. http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paolo_Briguglia
Movies23
Movie7.2DramaComedyIn 1920s Bagheria, Giuseppe 'Peppino' Torrenuova works as a shepherd to financially help his poor family. Over the next fifty years, Giuseppe's life, as well as the life of the village, is observed. Giuseppe grows up, joins the Communist Party, marries a local girl, has children, and forges a political career for himself.
Movie7.0DramaHistoryThe 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Movie6.3DramaItaly, 1989. After years of hard training, 13-year-old Felice, carrying his father's expectations on his shoulders, finally sets out to compete in the national tennis tournaments. While dreaming of a simple summer vacation, he's instead placed under the wing of ex tennis champion Raul, an unconventional coach hired by his father. Match after match, the two embark on a journey that will lead Felice to discover the taste of freedom, and Raul to glimpse the possibility of a fresh start. As they travel along the Italian coast, an unexpected, deep, and sincere bond between them develops.
Movie6.5ActionDramaWar seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
Movie6.3ComedyDramaA 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 · 399 votes
MovieComedyDavid Troll
2017
Movie6.1DramaIt follows Francesco Giuffrida, an honest Sicilian politician from childhood to his disappearance.
I racconti della domenica
2022 · 7 votes
Movie7.8DramaHistoryPeppino Impastato is a quick-witted lad growing up in 1970s Sicily. Despite hailing from a family with Mafia ties and living just one hundred steps from the house of local boss Tano Badalamenti, Peppino decides to expose the Mafia by using a pirate radio station to broadcast his political pronouncements in the form of ironic humour.
Movie6.2DramaInspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...
Movie8.2DramaA solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.
Movie4.9WarComedyA diplomatic incident threatens to break out a war inside Europe that only an unlikely couple of bickering lovers seems able to stop.
Movie5.6ComedyWorkers - Pronti a tutto
2012 · 42 votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaIn 1994, Gianca and Nick, two twenty-year-olds from Bologna, met in Perugia during a workshop for young musicians at Umbria Jazz. Both dreamed of making it big in the entertainment world. Nine years later, the two would meet again at Nick's big concert at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, which Gianca, a confused member of the audience, watched, shocked and moved.
Ma quando arrivano le ragazze?
2005 · 24 votes
Movie6.0ComedyDramaEnrico is a corporate man whose job is to manipulate inexperienced scions into selling their flailing companies. His latest assignment proves more difficult than anticipated—since his target are two young siblings whose parents just died in a car accident.
Movie8.5DocumentaryAn exhibit of Da Vinci's works traces the pathways of the great artist's mind.
Movie5.7DramaRomanceA holiday in Sicily tests the relationship between Germana and Elisabetta, two friends in the grip of a sentimental crisis.
Movie6.5ComedyStill an unsuccessful punk rock musician at 36, Stefano returns to his hometown in the countryside to help with his family's business.
Movie7.0DramaFamilyAlma (20), who has ADHD, works as a beekeeper but dreams of a life in the city. The day before her university exam, Pietro, her father, expresses his concerns about his daughter’s future. During the test, Alma struggles against the distractions caused by her condition but is interrupted by a tender memory: a bee buzzing around her. This event takes her back in time, to her first encounter with the beehives. What at first seems chaotic reveals itself to her as the most intelligent of natural structures.
MovieDocumentaryDV-shot documentary following a group of up-and-coming young Italian actors .
Movie5.3CrimeDramaAn Italian movie crew goes to London to make a documentary about a murder case that took place a few years before.
The Protagonists
1999 · 38 votes
Movie5.4DramaHistoryAssisi, 1211. Chiara is eighteen years old and one night she runs away from home to join her friend Francesco: from that moment on her life changes forever. With charisma and conviction, she breaks free from her family's constraints and stands up to the Pope himself. She fights for herself, for the women who join her and for her dream of freedom. The story of a Saint. The story of a girl and her revolution.
Chiara
2022 · 41 votes
MovieDocumentaryDrama100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.
Scossa
2012
Movie5.2ComedyA pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
L'abbuffata
2007 · 3 votes
Series13
TV7.4DramaCrimeIn late 19th-century Turin, young Lidia Poët fights against everything and everyone to get what is rightfully hers: to be enrolled in the official register of lawyers; a profession, at the time, reserved exclusively for men. Nevertheless, nothing could stop her dream of becoming the first female lawyer in Italy.
TV7.3DramaCrimeThe story of Saverio Barone, a young prosecutor who in the early nineties became the protagonist of the “caccia alla Mafia” (Mafia-hunt) immediately following the Capaci and Via D'Amelio bombings. Inspired by the true story of the anti-Mafia magistrate Alfonso Sabella.
TV7.0CrimeMysteryAnthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)
TV6.2DramaFollow brothers Paolo and Ignazio, two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourishing business that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire.
TV6.1DramaWar & PoliticsTwenty year-old Julius Caesar flees Rome for his life during the reign of Sulla but through skill and ambition rises four decades later to become Rome's supreme dictator.
Julius Caesar
2002 · 18 votes
TV8.5DramaTV-Movie on the life and accomplishments of Giovanni Falcone, the legendary Sicilian judge who boldly opposed the Mafia.
TV7.0ComedyNon pensarci – La serie is an Italian television series.
Non pensarci – La serie
2009 · 1 votes
TV7.0DramaLe libere donne
2026 · 10 votes
TV6.5DramaIl Giudice Meschino
2014 · 4 votes
TV7.8DramaCrimeL'invisibile - La Cattura di Matteo Messina Denaro
2026 · 6 votes
TV7.1Drama1944, Piedmont Alps. Four teenagers dream of the end of the war and the moment when they will be reunited with their parents and older siblings. When they discover, by chance, that their age allows them to avoid suspicion and searches, they decide to secretly help the partisans, without being discovered. Marta, Davide, Sara and Marco thus become "Sandokan", the mysterious rebel who puts the Nazis and fascists of the valley in difficulty. Between steep climbs and breathtaking descents, between enormous dangers and great tests of courage, the four children will contribute to the final victory of the Resistance and the liberation of Italy from enemy occupation. A great partisan adventure and a story of love and friendship, told from the point of view of thirteen-year-old Marta.
TV6.7DramaOltre la soglia
2019 · 5 votes
TV7.3DramaCrimeI Fratelli Corsaro
2024 · 3 votes