Barbara Cupisti

Barbara Cupisti

Born: January 24, 1962
in Viareggio, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
Barbara Cupisti is an Italian award-winning documentary director with a long career as film actress.

As an actress, she is well known outside of her native country by horror fans, who will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi and Dario Argento.

As a director, she is considered one of the most talented female directors of documentaries in the world. Mostly focused on human rights, she said that her goal is to give voice to the people who don't have the opportunity to speak.

Movies for Barbara Cupisti...

Dream Time
Title: Dream Time
Character: Sé stessa
Released: April 17, 2024
Type: Movie
Spaghetti westerns, giallo, mondo... are the legacy of a golden age in Italian genre filmmaking, which began in the sixties and came to an end in the eighties, but not without leaving behind a few final masterpieces. This film explores, a few decades later, what became of those filmmakers and their films. A number of the most famous survivors of Italian horror movies will help to shed light on what happened.
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Il mistero della cattedrale
Title: Il mistero della cattedrale
Character: self
Released: October 2, 2017
Type: Movie
A retrospective look at the making of Michele Soavi's "The Church" including interviews with cast and crew.
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Title: Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 2008
Type: Movie
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
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Sotto gli occhi di tutti
Title: Sotto gli occhi di tutti
Character: Barbara
Released: November 10, 2002
Type: Movie
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Denti
Title: Denti
Character: Dr. Calandra's secretary
Released: October 13, 2000
Type: Movie
Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his extra-large smile.
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Title: Distretto di Polizia
Character: Irene
Released: September 26, 2000
Type: TV
Distretto di Polizia is an Italian television series.
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Gialloparma
Title: Gialloparma
Character: Cristina
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: Movie
In Parma, conversing with a CSM judge from Rome, the judge Bocchi tells what intrigues are hidden behind the beautiful and charming facade of the city, referring in detail to the latest and most 'chatted episode. It begins when Bocchi interrogates Giulio, a handsome and unassuming young man, for reasons of strangling, and invites him to collaborate with justice.
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Strong Arms
Title: Strong Arms
Character: Fidanzata di Ugo
Released: April 9, 1997
Type: Movie
This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The events he describes sound just like those of Brescia, and Claudia, who still grieves for her sister, begins to wonder if Tancredi is telling the truth. Her investigation proves that he is lying, but it leads her to wonder why he has chosen her as his psychoanalyst. After talking to her husband, Claudia visits her old mentor who suggests she continue working with Tancredi but warns her not to call in the police. After that the story frequently jumps to 1998. By then Claudia and her newborn baby have become part of the witness protection program and she is preparing to testify against those involved in covering up government-sponsored terrorist activity.
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L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci
Title: L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci
Character: Betty
Released: August 18, 1995
Type: Movie
This rollicking Italian black comedy follows the hellish, bizarre New Year's Eve night of two average guys who find themselves stumbling from one outlandish situation to the next. After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man tags along to the party his friend is attending, leading to a series of misadventures.
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Cemetery Man
Title: Cemetery Man
Character: Magda
Released: March 25, 1994
Type: Movie
Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.
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Only You
Title: Only You
Character: Anna
Released: March 4, 1994
Type: Movie
A childhood incident has convinced Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to settle down and marry a foot doctor, Faith impulsively flies to Venice when it seems that she may be able to finally encounter the man of her dreams. Instead, she meets the charming Peter Wright. But can they fall in love if she still believes that she is intended to be with someone else?
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Title: Bony
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: TV
Bony is an Australian television series made in 1992. The series of 13 episodes followed on from a telemovie made in 1990. The series was criticised for casting a white man (Cameron Daddo) as the title character Detective David John Bonaparte, under the tutelage of "Uncle Albert", an elderly Aborigine (Burnham Burnham). Bony was supposed to be a descendent of the Bony character created by Arthur Upfield in dozens of novels from the late 1920s until his death in 1964.
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The Flesh and the Devil
Title: The Flesh and the Devil
Character: Maria Cristina
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Colombia 1662: In the Spanish colonies there the Inquisition: apostates are tortured, burned witches. The indigenous people are demonized and in the middle are two friends into enemies. The doctor Alfonso should marry the eldest daughter of the wealthy Don Ramon, but her other two sisters hedges of deadly intrigue. Father Guzman plays a spy of the church is a dangerous game that will be fatal for him and the mysterious Esmeralda turned all men's head.
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Eyewitness
Title: Eyewitness
Character: Elisa
Released: May 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Elisa and Karl are in a department store at closing time planning to steal a shirt, but Karl has to run to retrieve the car. And in the dark, after closing, Elisa witnesses a murder. Only problem is, she's blind. And when a police officer who was protecting the witness is killed it becomes more difficult for the Commissioner. And even more complicated when his relationship with Elisa starts to become a love-hate relationship.
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Il volo di Teo
Title: Il volo di Teo
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Flight from Paradise
Title: Flight from Paradise
Character: Assessina
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom.
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Il bambino e il poliziotto
Title: Il bambino e il poliziotto
Character: Lucia
Released: December 20, 1989
Type: Movie
Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Seeing that Carlo is the person responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until his mother is freed. Carlo does everything possible to have Social Services or somebody look after the kid but is told by the Courts that he is the best candidate for his custody until a better one is found. Even though Giulio manages to turn Carlo's life inside out he ends up getting to like the kid and falling for the kid's mother, Rosanna, while she is in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out for dinner.
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Dark Bar
Title: Dark Bar
Character: Elisabetta
Released: December 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Anna, a young saxophone player, investigates her sister's disappearance with the help of a friend.
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The Church
Title: The Church
Character: Lisa
Released: March 10, 1989
Type: Movie
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence and demonic vengeance.
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The Hell's Gate
Title: The Hell's Gate
Character: Erna
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
As part of a science experiment, a man has spent a record-breaking length of time alone down a hole, but an hour before he's due to re-emerge, something goes wrong and his colleagues have to go in to rescue him.
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Opera
Title: Opera
Character: Signora Albertini
Released: December 19, 1987
Type: Movie
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
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Eleven Days, Eleven Nights
Title: Eleven Days, Eleven Nights
Character: Alicia
Released: March 27, 1987
Type: Movie
In eleven days time, Michael is due to wed his fiancée Helen. However, a chance meeting with Sarah, a total stranger, threatens to destroy all his plans as he is seduced on the spot and finds himself unable to resist her.
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StageFright
Title: StageFright
Character: Alicia
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: Movie
While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
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Title: Châteauvallon
Character: Alexandra Berg
Released: January 4, 1985
Type: TV
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Lisa Rolfe
Released: October 19, 1983
Type: Movie
Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...
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The New York Ripper
Title: The New York Ripper
Character: Heather
Released: March 4, 1982
Type: Movie
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.