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È Stato la mafia (2013)
Character: N/A
It was the Mafia (È Stato la mafia) is a book of 2014 written by Marco Travaglio and published by Chiarelettere . The publication of the book was preceded from the month of February 2013 an eponymous recitals staged by the same Travaglio who narrates in first person the story of negotiations between the state and the mafia, with interludes recited by actress Isabella Ferrari .
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Nessuno mi crede (1992)
Character: Susi
A writer believes a friend of hers has been kidnapped and begins to investigate.
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La Malheureuse (1993)
Character: N/A
In a puddle, splashes. November. The rain. Young, woman's hands wringing. The joints creak... In the puddle a last sparkle, a trace, an artificial nugget. The golden alliance.
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Oostende (1991)
Character: Lyota
Jim and Jeannot have not seen each other for ten years. They decide to celebrate their reunion with an impromptu weekend in Oostende, Belgium.
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Un homme à la mer (1993)
Character: Maria
Pierre has disappeared. His ex-wife Fanny, their daughter and Maria, "the other", go looking for him. There and at the Grand Hotel de Cabourg with a very young new conquest. Each in their own way will try to flush him out and allow him to come to terms with himself. In the midst of all these women, Pierre Flanche stiffens up, questions himself with his aggressive but aging charm. The finale in the mist of the beach is like the random movement of feelings.
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Provincia Segreta (1998)
Character: Raffaella Granelli
Two provincial stories, murky, mysterious and disturbing that shed a new light on apparent "small and sincere" paradises far from the metropolises and their devastating existences and instead so tangled and full of pitfalls.
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Nel Tepore Del Ballo (2026)
Character: Clara Bruson
A famous TV host, who grew up without parents and with a painful past, sees his brilliant career and power called into question during a train journey from Rome to Milan.
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Ken Folletts Eisfieber (2010)
Character: Antonia 'Toni' Gallo
A deadly virus is stolen from the high-security laboratory of a biotechnology company. Although the thief can be found, lifeless and bleeding from the nose and ears, the danger is not over yet: A gang of unscrupulous criminals is also on the hunt for the virus. Super-GAU at Oxenford Medical: A lab technician has stolen a rabbit infected with the deadly Madoba-2 virus from the high-security laboratory near Edinburgh. After the thief's gruesome death by infection, a frantic damage limitation operation begins. Toni Gallo, the head of security at Oxenford, realizes that the theft is only the prelude to an even greater catastrophe, because only a few days later criminals attack the laboratory and steal the virus. When a terrible snowstorm condemns the police to inactivity, Toni takes up the pursuit of the perpetrators alone...
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La grande bellezza (2013)
Character: Orietta
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
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In viaggio con Adele (2018)
Character: Carla Mariani
Adele, a twenty-five year old girl who suffers from mental disorder, has never met her father and has always lived under the protective wing of her mother Margherita. Everything changes when her very existence is overturned by the latter’s sudden and unexpected death.
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K (1997)
Character: Emma Güter
In this French crime film, set during the time of the Gulf War, an elderly German tourist is murdered in Paris by junk dealer Joseph Katz (Pinkas Braun), a friend of Paris detective Sam Bellamy (singer Patrick Bruel). Romantically involved with the victim's daughter Emma Guter (Isabella Ferrari), Bellamy covers up the crime he witnessed. Joseph then mysteriously vanishes, and Bellamy heads for Berlin where the victim's possessions are auctioned. After Bellamy finds the source of the well-hidden traffic in art stolen by Nazis from French Jews, he discovers a Nazi war criminal is blackmailing past associates. Incorporating background from journalist Hector Feliciano's Lost Museum, the film is adapted from Guy Konopnicki's novel, Pas de Kaddish pour Sylberstein (No Kaddish for Sylberstein).
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Appuntamento a Liverpool (1988)
Character: Caterina Dossena
Caterina's father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she's summoned by British police to look at some possible suspects. She recognizes her father's murderer, a Scouser cab driver, but doesn't say anything, choosing to track him down and exact revenge on her own.
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Cronaca di un amore violato (1995)
Character: Lorena
This Italian film takes a chilling, nonexploitative look into the mind of a nice young man who compulsively rapes beautiful women. The rapes are graphically presented and may be disturbing to some viewers. Outwardly Luca seems to be a normal, quiet 20-year old. His mother is frequently gone. Trouble begins when Luca becomes obsessed with Valeria, the beauty who works in the next building. He begins spying on her, and then secretly filming her with his camcorder. He tries to get to know her, but she ignores him. Unable to stand her constant refusal, the frustrated young man accosts her on dark street and rapes her. The first rape was almost accidental; he encountered her on the street and he hurt her. Unfortunately, he liked the violence and begins raping every attractive woman he sees. He is particularly violent with Lorena, a jewelry saleswoman whom he beats up in a park before violating her.
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Roma elastica (2026)
Character: Claudia
1982. French actress Eddie is on the verge of collapse and travels to Rome accompanied by her loyal makeup artist, Valentina, to shoot a science-fiction film – a film that could be her last one.
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You, Me & Tuscany (2026)
Character: Gabriella
When a woman crashes at an empty Italian villa, posing as the owner's fiancée, she discovers an unexpected romance that could transform her life.
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Sotto il sole di Riccione (2020)
Character: Irene
While vacationing on the crowded beaches of Riccione, a group of teenagers becomes fast friends as they grapple with relationship issues and romance.
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Fracchia contro Dracula (1985)
Character: Luna
Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!
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L'Anniversaire (2005)
Character: Gabriella
Raphael has become a dazzlingly successful TV producer. He reads a manuscript that tells his life story that pulls no punches, written by a member of his old gang. He invites them all to celebrate his 40th birthday, and they will rediscover friendships.
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Il Seme Della Discordia (2008)
Character: Monica
Mario and Veronica, a married couple with no children, are both very committed to their careers, which are booming. He's a sales representative for a fertilizer company, while she inherited a boutique from her mother that she wants to renovate and transform. However, things take an unexpected turn when she discovers she's pregnant. What should be good news backfires, as he, almost at the same time, receives test results declaring him sterile.
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È per il tuo bene (2020)
Character: Isabella
Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.
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Amatemi (2005)
Character: Nina
Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly deserted by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers.
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Sotto il sole di Amalfi (2022)
Character: Irene
A year after their romance began in Riccione, Vincenzo and Camilla reunite for a vacation on the picturesque Amalfi Coast and put their love to the test.
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Doppio agguato (2003)
Character: Anna Milesi
Italy, 1989. After a prominent coffee industrialist is kidnapped by elusive Sardinian bandits, authorities turn to NOCS (Central Security Operative Unit) commander Valerio Attico, who hastily assembles a task force made of rookies. Based on the true story of the Dante Belardinelli kidnapping.
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La mia ombra è tua (2022)
Character: N/A
The story of a famous middle-aged writer and a college graduate who embark on a road trip that becomes a cross-generational counterpoint.
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Le Bon Roi Dagobert (1984)
Character: Chrodilde
King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to the Pope. After he arrives at the Vatican, he becomes involved in the battle between two contenders for the papacy and has to face the machinations of a ruthless Byzantine princess.
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Parthenope (2024)
Character: Flora Malva
Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.
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Sapore di mare (1983)
Character: Selvaggia
A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.
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Cortina Express (2024)
Character: Patrizia Giordano
During Christmas holidays in Cortina d'Ampezzo, confirmed bachelor Lucio tries to dissuade his nephew from marrying; fading rock sensation Dino seeks his daughter's affection; and record producer Patrizia struggles with bankruptcy and a lazy husband.
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Chewingum (1984)
Character: Isabella De Santi
Geared to a teen and pre-teen audience, this juvenile romance is set in the last year of high school and involves the attraction between Isabella, a beautiful newcomer to the school, and Massimo, an introverted, hard-working young student .
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Arrivederci amore, ciao (2006)
Character: Flora
Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—hiding out in Latin America since the 1970s—turns himself in as soon as the Berlin Wall falls. Wishing to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a dirty cop, getting his sentence reduced in return for ratting former comrades out. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming an upright citizen, but his old police aquaintance keeps dragging him down...
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Il venditore di medicine (2013)
Character: Giovanna, capo area
A farmaceutical salesman is involved in the spiral of corruption in the medical assistance of the welfare state system.
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Diva! (2017)
Character: N/A
The moving life and international career of actress Valentina Cortese is acted out by eight Italian actresses who interpret parts of her biography. A rich assortment of stock footage and film clips creates a vibrant portrait of our Diva.
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Cosa fai a Capodanno? (2018)
Character: Domitilla
A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy.
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Caos calmo (2008)
Character: Eleonora Simonicini
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
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Rapiniamo il Duce (2022)
Character: Nora Cavalieri
Near the end of WWII, a young bootlegger and his nightclub-singing girlfriend assemble a ragtag team for an dangerous heist: to steal Mussolini's treasure right from his headquarters.
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Due partite (2009)
Character: Beatrice
Every Thursday a group of ladies would gather to play cards and discuss their loves, lives and children while their daughters played in the next room. Thirty years later, the daughters meet at a funeral for one of the mothers. Like their mothers, they discuss their hopes, dreams and fears.
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Domani mi sposo (1984)
Character: Susy
Twenty-four hours before his wedding, two unexpected romances threaten Arturo's wedlock.
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Mare largo (1998)
Character: Clara
For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edoardo not to trust her husband, but Edoardo takes the job anyway. Sailing up the Adriatic, the crew threatens mutiny when they learn they must dock in a war zone. Once in port, little goes as Riffaud promised, and Edoardo must travel with a translator to the rebels' mountain stronghold to get payment for the crew. The war is all around them as Clara waits at home and the translator begs passage to Italy.
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Napoli velata (2017)
Character: Valeria
In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.
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Euforia (2018)
Character: Michela
Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.
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E la chiamano estate (2012)
Character: Anna
Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old boyfriends to ask about their sexual relations with her, and even begs them to take her back, as a way to end their relationship. Anna can’t find a way out herself; she can’t bring herself to end this one-of-a-kind, tormented love affair. In the end, Dino’s angst is what makes her feel loved, feel unique. No solution seems to be waiting in the wings.
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Nicholas' Gift (1998)
Character: Alessandra
Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to donate the boy's organs which ultimately led to saving the lives of seven seriously ill Italian patients.
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Confidenza (2024)
Character: Tilde
Pietro is a revered teacher, Teresa his brilliant and precocious student. Their affair is both illicit and tempestuous. After one fight, Teresa suggests that each tell the other a secret, one so shameful or shocking that were it to be made public, it would destroy that person’s life. Time passes, Pietro’s stature as a writer grows and his family settles into the comfort of a bourgeois life. But he is haunted by the possibility that Teresa may one day reappear and tear apart his world with the secret she knows.
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Un giorno perfetto (2008)
Character: Emma
Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the adolescent Valentina.
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To Rome with Love (2012)
Character: Isabella
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
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Il ragazzo del Pony Express (1986)
Character: Claudia
A youth who has recently graduated can't find a job. One day he unintentionally snatches a bag from a girl and buys a motorbike with the "proceeds" of the theft. Then he begins to work as a mail express courier. At first the girl denounces him then falls in love with him.
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Dolce far niente (1999)
Character: Josephine
This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wanderer, looking for a direction in his life, meeting famous Rossini and falling in love with young widow Giuseppina. A story of love, betrayal and an analysis of women and men's minds and souls.
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Willy Signori e vengo da lontano (1989)
Character: Lucia Ventura
Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth.
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La lingua del santo (2000)
Character: Patrizia
Two deadbeat friends see the opportunity of turning their fortune around after they come into possession of a precious stolen relic, the tongue of St. Anthony of Padua.
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Escoriandoli (1996)
Character: Tarcisia
Comprised of a series of bizarre and unrelated episodes, this absurd Italian comedy earned the inglorious honor of being the film with the most audience walkouts at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. In the first segment, a widow attends her husband's funeral and ends up having sex with her brother-in-law next to her husband's corpse.
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Gangsters (1992)
Character: N/A
Genoa, 1945. The war is over but not for 4 partisans who still try to capture the remaining fascists. They are not satisfied with the concept of justice that the new born Italian Republic tries to instigate.
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Le Premier Cri (2007)
Character: Narrator
Documentary about births around the different cultures and regions of the world.
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Saturno contro (2007)
Character: Laura
This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, married with children; Nerval and her policeman husband.
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Uno per tutti (2015)
Character: Eloisa
The relationship between three lifelong friends is put to the test by a long-ago secret and a present-day crime committed by one of their children.
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Romanzo di un giovane povero (1995)
Character: Andreina
Two neighbors, young Vincenzo and old Mr. Bartoloni, are utterly unhappy. On the one hand Vincenzo must lead a miserable and frustrating life as he cannot find any regular job, despite his Arts degree. On the other hand, Mr. Bartoloni is fed up with his despotic wife: the woman who used to be a beautiful artist is now a fat and shabby drunkard. The two men meet on a particularly sad night and, during an outburst Mr. Bartoloni asks Vincenzo to help him to get rid of his wife by simulating an accident with the promise of a considerable amount of money. At night Vincenzo can't sleep: Mr. Bartoloni wasn't joking and he is in a desperate need for money...
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La vita oscena (2014)
Character: Madre di Andrea
The tragic coming-of-age story of a boy who takes his experiences to the point of seeking death, only to be reborn. His favourite poet chose death, but he finds the strength to survive and tell about his “obscene life”.
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