Adriano Aprà (18 November 1940 – 15 April 2024) was an Italian film critic, film historian, screenwriter, director, festival curator, academic and occasional actor.

Born in Rome, Aprà graduated in law at Sapienza University, and made his debut as a film critic in 1960, collaborating with Edoardo Bruno's journal Filmcritica.

[1][3] He also collaborated with the Venice Film Festival, curating the 1981 retrospective dedicated to Howard Hawks.

[1][2] He wrote the screenplay of Fiorella Infascelli's The Mask,[2] and was actor in films directed by Bernardo Bertolucci, Marco Ferreri, Mario Schifano, Francesca Archibugi, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.

[4] Between 2002 and 2008 he was professor of history and critic of cinema at the University of Rome Tor Vergata.