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Pif

Actor, director and writer · Born June 4, 1972 (54) · Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Pierfrancesco Diliberto, nicknamed Pif (born 1972), is an Italian television host, film director, actor and writer. Pif was born in Palermo, Italy on 4 June 1972. He is the son of the Italian director Maurizio Diliberto and has had a passion for cinema since his youth. In 1998 he worked as assistant director to Marco Tullio Giordana for I cento passi (The Hundred Steps), a famous film against the mafia. In the same year he started working as a television author at Mediaset. In 2001 he started participating in Le Iene (The Hyenas), an Italian TV show with journalistic reporting characterized by a sharp satirical style. In 2007 he started his own TV show, Il Testimone (The Witness), on MTV. In the show, he uses an Autovox to create amateur-like reports in Italy and abroad. In the same year he published his book Piffettopoli. Le fatiche di un quasi vip. In 2012 he published the short story Sarà stata una fuga di gas (It Must Have Been a Gas Leak) in the book Dove eravamo. Vent'anni dopo Capaci e Via D'Amelio (Where We Were. Twenty Years After Capaci and Via D'Amelio), a miscellaneous volume commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the death of Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, two famous Sicilian judges who fought against the mafia and, after being assassinated, became symbols of the fight against the mafia in Italy. In 2013 he started his film career by writing and directing The Mafia Kills Only in the Summer, in which he also plays the leading role, and from which he created the homonym TV series, directed by Luca Ribuoli. In 2016 at the Rome Film Festival his second film as director: In guerra per amore. Source: Article "Pif (television host)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Biography from TMDB.

Born
June 4, 1972 (54)
From
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Works as
Actor, director and writer
Titles
5 on MovieCove · 17 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Official site (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 39 days to Oct 28Up 5% in 30 days

What are Pif's films like?

Across their 5 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Bonds.

Themes

share of theme weight
Self
35%
Bonds
28%
Survival
19%
Society
12%
Morality
7%
Coming of age2 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love2 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 5 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Light: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their light movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 4 · Serious 1 · Dark 0

Grounded: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their grounded movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 4 · Stylized 1 · Heightened 0

Gentle: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their gentle movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 3 · Charged 2 · Intense 0

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

A split, not a type: Steady 3 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 1

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 1 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 1

Slow burn: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their slow burn movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 0 · Relentless 0

Casual: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their casual movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 4 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 5 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Roles they play

4 analyzed roles

Usually the Hero: 3 of 4 analyzed roles.

Hero
3 of 4
Trickster
1 of 4

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Warm
4
Contemplative
3
Hopeful
2
Melancholic
2
Bittersweet
1
Other
2

How their films linger

Hopeful4 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteThought-provoking2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end

  • Bittersweet4
  • Cyclical1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Pif's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 5 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Subscription and free streaming for Pif's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

17 credits, 5 with a MovieCove page; 2 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • God Forgives Everyone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Director · Novel · Screenplay · as Arturo

  • Momenti di trascurabile (in)felicità (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2026)

    Actor

  • GialappaShow (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2023)

    Show 1 episode · Actor

  • Caro Battiato (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2022)

    Director · as Narrator

  • E noi come stronzi rimanemmo a guardare(2021)

    Director · Screenplay · Story · as Raffaello

    Midcredits score: 58th percentile of all films

  • Ordinary Happiness(2019)

    as Paolo

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • Il candidato va alle elezioni (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2018)

    Show 4 episodes · Creator · Actor

  • Caro Marziano (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2017)

    Show 123 episodes · Director · Camera Operator · Creator · Actor

  • March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step(2017)

    as Narrator

    Midcredits score: 67th percentile of all films

  • Mafia Only Kills in Summer (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Show 24 episodes · Creator · Head of Story · Original Story · as Narratore (voice)

  • At War with Love(2016)

    Director · Screenplay · Story · as Arturo

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films

  • Roberto Saviano: Writing Under Police Protection (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2016)

    Director · Camera Operator · Writer · as Self - Interviewer / Narrator (voice)

  • The Mafia Kills Only in Summer(2013)

    Director · Screenplay · Story · as Arturo Giammaresi

    Midcredits score: 87th percentile of all films

  • Crazy Me (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2013)

    as Ludovico

  • Il Testimone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2007)

    Show 87 episodes · Camera Operator · Creator · as Self - Host

  • Le Iene (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1997)

    Show 15 episodes · Actor

  • Il ministero dell’amore (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    as Aldo

Career shape

Star power in the 96th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 16 titles, 15 of them dated from 1997 to 2026; peak year 2013.

Biggest box office

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)

$6.8M worldwide

Highest rated

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)

Midcredits 87th

Most popular right now

March of the Penguins 2: The Next Step (2017)

Film career

MilestoneBreakout
19972026

Peak 2013 · steadily prominent in film for years. Top draw in 1 MovieCove title. Film roles by billing, audience size and rating; 25+ votes. A show carries a single first-air date, so shows are not on the curve.

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting14 of 16: 6 only acting, 8 with another roleDirecting7 of 16: 0 only directing, 7 with another roleWriting6 of 16: 0 only writing, 6 with another roleOther crew5 of 16: 1 only other crew, 4 with another role

16 titles, 9 with more than one role — acting and directing overlap on 6 of them.

By decade

1990s1 · acting2000s1 · crew2010s8 · 7 acting · 6 crew2020s5 · 5 acting · 3 crew

Billing

usually 1st · top billed in 67% of 6 roles

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. Billing is TMDB cast order for roles with 25+ votes, billed in the top 30.

How do Pif's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 67th percentile, the median of all 5; across their 5 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 69th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

69thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 5

Approval · how many liked their films

63rdpercentile
Typical film, the median of 5

Reach · how many have seen their films

74thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 5

Midcredits score across 5 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up2
  • 50th to 74th2
  • 25th to 49th1

Shape of the crowd

None of their 5 titles divides audiences: 4 are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Crowd Pleaser4
  • Mixed1

Most loved · actor, director, writer

The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)

Midcredits 87th · 78% liked

Reviewers score the acting 66/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 74, detractors 45. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Pif work with?

People who share at least 2 of Pif's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Michele Astori shares the most, 3.

Writers

Actors

Composers and cinematographers

Producers