Francesco Foti
Known For & Full Filmography28 Titles
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Tenente Ferrara
A grifter in 1960s New York is hired to convince a wealthy man's son to return home from Italy and begins a life of deceit, fraud and murder.
Drama Series - 2009, 16 episodes • as avvocato Monreale
Fighting a modern, fragmented and brutal Mafia, the Sicilian Anti-Mafia Squad seeks to crush the criminal network that holds a death grip on the region. Sophisticated surveillance helps, unless the enemy lies within.
Drama Series - 2018, 16 episodes • as Carlo Mazza
The 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.
Drama Series - 2007, 16 episodes • as Stefano Bontate
The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.
Drama Series - 2006, 16 episodes • as Luca
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)
Drama Series - 2019, 16 episodes • as Luigi Lombardi
Imma Tataranni is a rather abrasive deputy prosecutor of the Matera Public Prosecutor's Office. She has the fashion sense of a rodeo clown, is gifted with a prodigious memory and used to solving cases with rather unorthodox methods.
Movie - 2009, 2h 15m • as Direttore regionale PCI
In 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.
Movie - 2026, 2h 15m • as Saro
To escape a deadly virus, a father drives his family to a remote part of the countryside where they are given refuge by a farmer. But after the brutal slaughter of a cow and an encounter with a crazy old women in the forest, they soon discover that the farm is no safe haven.
Drama Series - 2021, 16 episodes • as Nicola Briguglio
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2017, 2h 15m • as Gendarme
Lucy, a small-town girl from Ohio, discovers the delightfully bizarre films of legendary filmmaker Federico Fellini and sets off on a journey across Italy to find him.
Movie - 2018, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Daniele is a policeman with a strong moral code and for him the end justifies the means. Giovanni works as an entertainer at children's parties and is on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Antonio is an old man who steals the coins that tourists throw into the fountains. The lives of these three men meet on the birthday of little Elisa, Daniele's daughter.
Drama Series - 2003, 16 episodes • as Luciano
During World War II, 22-year-old Carabinieri deputy brigadier Salvo D'Acquisto makes an heroic gesture of self-sacrifice by "confessing" an act of sabotage for which 22 civilians had been rounded up by the Germans, and is executed by firing squad in their place on September 23, 1943.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
It follows Francesco Giuffrida, an honest Sicilian politician from childhood to his disappearance.
Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Vicequestore Fisichella
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2021, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Two previously unknown families see their lives turned upside down when a seemingly insignificant mistake leads them to a shocking discovery about their children's identities. The film is based on a true story.
Drama Series - 2013, 16 episodes • as Rocco Santopirro
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Vittorio De Sica
Biopic about Italian actor Alberto Sordi, from his beginnings 1937 to celebrity in 1957.
Movie - 2014, 2h 15m • as Giulio
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as Preside
Matteo, a nine years old kid, builds a mask identical to the one of his hero: a wrestler of a roman suburb called The Tiger. Once the mask is on, Matteo never wants to take it off. What simply appears as a tantrum is in reality a call for help that nobody seems to hear.
Movie - 2005, 2h 15m • as Filippo
In 1990s Palermo, Pino Puglisi is a priest from the neglected Brancaccio neighborhood dedicated in helping kids to get off the streets and creating an embracing place of hope and solidarity in his church, which means trouble for the local Mafia. He continues his solitary fight until the bitter end.
Movie - 2012, 2h 15m • as The Baron
Bloody revenge of a young tailor during the peasant revolt of Bronte, Sicily. Salvo, the land keeper, is at the vanguard of the revolt who wants to possess everything of the former baron, even something he can not have: his elegance, his style. Salvo decides not to kill Tailor in return for a beautiful tailor made cut to fit jacket. During Tailor's sewing work some tragic memories come to surface, memories of a man tortured by unknowns. That is when Tailor finally react and challenge the unrestrained anger of the campier. In an amazing duel between the two, in the bloody and wild sun of Sicily, the Tailor pieces together the most tragic events of his life, starting up his old vengeance plan.
Movie - 2008, 2h 15m • as Aldo
An experimental drama entirely composed by monologues. A personal journey through male homosexuality - from darkness to light, from total denial to complete acceptance - as told in monologues performed by actors and adapted from interviews with ordinary Italian gay men. A multicolored kaleidoscopic journey through a varied and multi-faceted aspect of the human experience that is rarely represented on the big screen
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • as Valentino
Shortly before the premiere of the play, quarantine is announced and four actors: Chiara, Giorgio, Antonio and Valentino find themselves in isolation. In moments of despair, when they return to the mistakes of the past and test the strength of relationships, they may feel that madness is the only way out.
Movie - 2002, 2h 15m • as presentatore
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2020, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In 2059, in a broken-down world, silicon has become the most precious material on the planet. A man and a girl barter transistors and microchips for a few larvae and some water. Their routine will be broken by the discovery of a forgotten heirloom, something that the man will not want to part with.
Movie - 2024, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
To escape a deadly virus, a father drives his family to a remote part of the countryside where they are given refuge by a farmer. But after the brutal slaughter of a cow and an encounter with a crazy old women in the forest, they soon discover that the farm is no safe haven.
Movie - 2022, 2h 15m • as Padre
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.