Rolando Ravello

Rolando Ravello

Born: June 4, 1969
in Roma

Movies for Rolando Ravello...

Rossosperanza
Title: Rossosperanza
Released: August 24, 2023
Type: Movie
After a violent accident, Zena is sent by her parents to a clinic for problem children hailing from comfortable backgrounds. Here she meets other teens rebelling against the corrupt and privileged environment into which they were born champion.
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What a Life!
Title: What a Life!
Character: Fausto Perbellini
Released: January 19, 2023
Type: Movie
Biasutti and Perbellini have the same name, Fausto, and they both hate life in the big city. They meet by chance during a trip for amateur photographers, become friends and begin to cultivate together the dream of going to live in the countryside, keeping with the fruit of their efforts. When Biasutti inherits his grandmother’s old house in Valvana, in the hills of the north east, the dream can finally become reality: the welcome in the village, however, proves less warm than expected.
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Ego
Title: Ego
Character: Luca
Released: August 1, 2016
Type: Movie
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Ancora un'altra storia
Title: Ancora un'altra storia
Released: September 7, 2015
Type: Movie
The problem of parental alienation told through three stories of children involved in conflictual separations and divorces.
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La linea gialla - Bologna, 2 agosto
Title: La linea gialla - Bologna, 2 agosto
Character: Il custode
Released: July 27, 2015
Type: Movie
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La dolce arte di esistere
Title: La dolce arte di esistere
Character: Vincenzo
Released: April 2, 2015
Type: Movie
From the director of "L'estate di mio fratello", a movie about the incapability of relating with others. And the possibility of disappearing for real.
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The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
Title: The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
Character: Titolare concessionario
Released: February 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share.
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Ever Been to the Moon?
Title: Ever Been to the Moon?
Character: Don Carlo
Released: January 22, 2015
Type: Movie
Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth farmer Renzo will makes her realize she's missing the most important thing in life—true love.
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Un uccello molto serio
Title: Un uccello molto serio
Character: Matteo
Released: November 12, 2014
Type: Movie
For the first time ever, Matteo has cheated on his wife Mara, who is on vacation, and spent a night of wild, steamy sex with Angela, whom he recently met by chance. He awakens with a headache and a satisfied memory of the night. But a message from the wife tells him that she is coming back home because of a hitch and leave him prey to panic. He tries to hide every trace of the adultery but, plagued by guilt-feelings and fear of being caught, enters into a paranoiac spiral, and his clumsy attempts to fix things only manage to create more damage.
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All Against All
Title: All Against All
Character: Agostino
Released: February 28, 2013
Type: Movie
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Balancing Act
Title: Balancing Act
Character: Franco
Released: February 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Having cheated on his wife, Giulio, a municipal employee, moves out, but has to find a solution on how to still support his family, and himself.
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The Island of the Fallen Angel
Title: The Island of the Fallen Angel
Character: L'Inglese
Released: November 11, 2012
Type: Movie
In 1924, a young police commissioner is relocated to a small island near Sicily. Adaptation of Carlo Lucarelli's novel of the same name, directed by Lucarelli himself in his directorial debut, which went unreleased after its lukewarm premiere at the Rome Film Festival.
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Viva l'Italia
Title: Viva l'Italia
Character: Giansanti
Released: October 25, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…
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Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
Title: Diaz - Don't Clean Up This Blood
Character: Rodolfo Serpieri
Released: April 13, 2012
Type: Movie
On July 19–21, 2001, over 200,000 people took to the streets of Genoa to protest against the ongoing G8 summit. Anti-globalization activists clashed with the police, with 23-year-old protester Carlo Giuliani shot dead after confronting a police vehicle. In the aftermath, the police organized a night raid on the Diaz high school, where around a hundred people between unarmed protesters—mostly students—and independent reporters who documented the police brutality during the protests had took shelter. What happened next was called by Amnesty International "the most serious breach of civil liberties in a democratic Western country since World War II."
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Annalisa
Title: Annalisa
Character: Il padre di Veleno
Released: November 10, 2011
Type: Movie
The friendship between two Southern Italy kids is tested by their meeting with a young girl who's attempted suicide after failing to get married. Based on the novel "Il paese delle spose infelici" (literally, "Village of the Sad Brides", which is also the original title of this film) this elegantly photographed coming-of-age tale has sensitivity to spare but its stylish, yet understated, attitude doesn't easily win viewers over.
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Title: La Nuova Squadra
Character: Ispettore Superiore Sergio Vitale
Released: March 12, 2008
Type: TV
La nuova squadra is an Italian television series.
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Aspettando il sole
Title: Aspettando il sole
Character: Valerio Bonetti
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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Il pirata - Marco Pantani
Title: Il pirata - Marco Pantani
Character: Marco Pantani
Released: December 30, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of road racing cyclist Marco Pantani.
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Lessons in Chocolate
Title: Lessons in Chocolate
Character: Presentatore
Released: November 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Mattia, a building contractor on a promising career path, is about to close the biggest deal of his professional life, when his illegally-hired worker Kamal falls off some scaffolding, suffers a severe break and threatens to sue and press charges against Mattia unless... Unless Mattia takes his place in an advanced course for pastry makers! This is the reason Kamal came to Italy from his native Egypt and that will allow him to realize his dream of opening his own pastry shop... Mattia has no choice but to take Kamal’s place in the school and pretend to be him. Among laughs and mouth-watering recipes, Mattia will discover a way to bring his and Kamal's disparate cultures together.
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Title: Crimini
Character: Roberto
Released: December 6, 2006
Type: TV
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)
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Title: Crimini
Character: Angelo
Released: December 6, 2006
Type: TV
Anthology crime series penned by some of the foremost contemporary Italian noir writers (Camilleri, Faletti, De Cataldo, Carofiglio, Lucarelli, Fois...)
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Title: Political Target
Character: Maurizio
Released: May 22, 2006
Type: TV
After the shocking assassination of a labor lawyer, an Italian anti-terrorism unit races against time to stop the new incarnation of the Red Brigades from killing their next target — and strike fear at the heart of the State.
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Political Target
Title: Political Target
Character: Maurizio
Released: May 22, 2006
Type: Movie
The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Especially for the families of the victims killed: professors D'Antona and Biagi, and subsequently the police superintendent Petri.
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4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
Title: 4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo
Character: Alberto (segment "La donna del Mister")
Released: May 18, 2006
Type: Movie
Four stories about football.
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AD Project
Title: AD Project
Character: MIB 2
Released: May 5, 2006
Type: Movie
A girl gets involved in the affairs of a mysterious society that supervises the activities of the aliens on Earth.
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Fratella e sorello
Title: Fratella e sorello
Character: Giocondo
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser who has ruined him; and the Snake, a male strip-teaser who has traveled all over the world on cruising boats, a tough guy made tougher after a treachery by one of his friends. They meet in jail, where they are kept for different reasons and a strong, brotherly link is born between them.
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Il ritorno del Monnezza
Title: Il ritorno del Monnezza
Character: Vincenzo (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 2005
Type: Movie
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All in That Night
Title: All in That Night
Character: Enzo
Released: October 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Giorgio, married to Daniela, would like to take his beautiful lover Gloria somewhere to spend the night. So he asks his brother-in-law Marco, who is leaving for a week in New York with his wife Lucia, to lend him the house. Although Marco is a little hesitant, he eventually agrees. After a romantic dinner, Giorgio goes to Marco's house with Gloria to spend a night of sex. But the couple did not take into account Enzo, the boyfriend of Ilenia, the cleaning lady of that house, who, being up to his neck in debt to a loan shark, had entered the apartment shortly before with the intention of stealing something. Thus begins a long night during which all sorts of things will happen.
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The Consequences of Love
Title: The Consequences of Love
Character: Bow-tie Man
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Lugano, Switzerland. Titta Di Girolamo is a discreet and sullen man who has been living for almost a decade in a modest hotel room, a prisoner of an atrocious routine, apparently without purpose. His past is a mystery, nobody knows what he does for a living, he answers indiscreet questions evasively. What secrets does this enigmatic man hide?
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Dentro la città
Title: Dentro la città
Character: De Paolis
Released: May 14, 2004
Type: Movie
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A Children's Story
Title: A Children's Story
Character: Sciancalepore
Released: May 14, 2004
Type: Movie
Rosario is 11 years old, he lives in the suburbs with his grandmother, a sick woman who spends time watching TV. He is the leader of a small group who spends his days between games rooms, small crimes and dangerous challenges.
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Ogni volta che te ne vai
Title: Ogni volta che te ne vai
Character: Scintilla
Released: April 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Orpheus was a child with a dream: to become a singer of smooth. Twenty years later, his dream becomes more complicated: to become a smooth singer with Pamela. And while she, free and elusive, continues to come and go in her life, music and dreams mark the rhythm of this bizarre love story.
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The Vanity Serum
Title: The Vanity Serum
Character: Poliziotto
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: Movie
A PTSD-stricken detective investigates the disappearance of several junk TV celebrities who have all been guests at the same controversial talk show.
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Title: Marcinelle
Character: Pino Calabrò
Released: November 23, 2003
Type: TV
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People of Rome
Title: People of Rome
Character: Uomo al Funerale
Released: October 31, 2003
Type: Movie
Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration...... the owner of a bar is racist person... a survivor woman of Holocaust remembers the Ghetto deportation... deportation that is filmed by a director... Stefania Sandrelli plays with her grand daughter in a park a man tries to seduce the bus driver...gay night life... sunrise at Piazza Navona, a noble man and a tramp are sitting together. - - - Gente di Roma is a 2003 Italian comedy mockumentary film directed by Ettore Scola. It is close to Federico Fellini's Roma. The film is dedicated to Alberto Sordi, who Scola wanted to close the film, as a noble man, but he could not film him because he died. Scola's daughters helped to co-write the script. (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
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The Good Pope
Title: The Good Pope
Character: Cannava
Released: January 28, 2003
Type: Movie
Angelo Roncalli, born in Sotto Il Monte in 1881, is known for his profound spirituality as well as his extraordinary goodness from the young years of his life. When he feels a need to serve God, Angelo goes to study theology in Bergamo, and in Apollinare School (Rome) and becomes a priest. During his studies, he gets to know his two dearest friends, Mattia and Nicola. Very soon, most people see marvelous talents in him, including his wide knowledge and a constant readiness for sacrifice. The Holy See makes him go further to bishop and cardinal, and the Holy Father sends him to various places as a representative of the Church. When Pius XII dies on October, the 9th, 1958, 77 year-old Angelo goes to Rome, to conclave to choose a new pope. However, this time, it is him who hears gentle words of Jesus "Tu es Petrus!" ("You are Peter!") and from October, the 28th leads the church as pope John XXIII
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Operazione rosmarino
Title: Operazione rosmarino
Character: Baldin
Released: July 5, 2002
Type: Movie
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Operazione rosmarino
Title: Operazione rosmarino
Released: July 5, 2002
Type: Movie
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Ultimo stadio
Title: Ultimo stadio
Character: Pietro
Released: May 10, 2002
Type: Movie
The Champions League Final, on 31st May 2001, in Rome. A football match unites men that have nothing in common with each other. The stadium becomes a modern Greek theatre, where five dramas touch one another, only to fade away in a few minutes. The main characters are, Simone, Alice, Gabriele, Pietro and Achille, all different types of people, of different ages, all looking for a place to find some peace and quiet, a taste of happiness and love, as well as someone to trust in. At the last stage people laugh, but there is always a bitter note to their laughter. And their laughter is louder and more satisfying the greater their adversity. Indeed, in the end, there is always a reason to go on, a final stage from which to rise.
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All the Knowledge in the World
Title: All the Knowledge in the World
Character: Venditore di libri
Released: August 31, 2001
Type: Movie
The “meaning of life” told by Eros Puglielli in his peculiar directing style: weird characters, odd mishaps, fates that meet, skim and loose each other. A student in love with her philosophy lecturer, a disabled man seeking for his legs recovery, a young pop star desperate for a spiritual leader to meet. And above everybody stands an overhanging odd luminous man, maybe true, maybe not.
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Unfair Competition
Title: Unfair Competition
Character: Ignazietto
Released: February 23, 2001
Type: Movie
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
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500!
Title: 500!
Character: Il kamikaze
Released: February 9, 2001
Type: Movie
While world religious leaders gather for a top secret meeting in La Spezia, the Reverend Jones, a famous television preacher and the creator of Reverend Jones's Sauce, is set on replacing them all and imposing his credo on the unsuspecting world.
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Almost Blue
Title: Almost Blue
Character: Alessio Crotti
Released: November 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A police inspector suspects a serial killer is afoot in the university city of Bologna, luring in his victims through online video chats before murdering them and assuming their identity.
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Stefano Di Giacomo
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: TV
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
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A Magic Mirror
Title: A Magic Mirror
Character: Walter
Released: January 2, 1999
Type: Movie
A jerk husband Sandro and his young wife Giulia have moved into a new apartment. She is unpacking, and he his lounging in the bath. When his brother Walter comes over to deliver a new wall mirror. The brother makes a pass at the young wife, as he has secretly wanted to do for years.
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Toilette
Title: Toilette
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
The guests of a birthday party divulge their intimate side. The bathroom mirror affords us with a view of the personal catastrophes of the party guests.
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Title: Ultimo
Character: Luciano
Released: November 17, 1998
Type: TV
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Erotic Short Circuits Vol.2
Title: Erotic Short Circuits Vol.2
Released: October 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Rapporti Impropri: After the death of her mother, Silvia, a sexually jaunty 16-year-old girl, is welcomed for a certain period by her uncle Carlo where as a child she spent the summer holidays and of which she is always secretly in love. Silvia's goal is to be accepted and ready to do anything, even to seduce the whole family. Benedetta Transgressione: A young separated couple meets by chance on the terrace of a Roman park. The husband hardly recognizes in the woman's uninhibited and provocative behavior his ex-wife, who, realizing the exciting effect it has on her ex-spouse, even offers him a threesome. Specchio, Specchio Delle Mie Brame: Giulia, Sandro's wife, helping Walter, her husband's brother, to mount a mirror, takes advantage of the situation to betray her narcissistic spouse, too arrogant and taken to notice the affair that takes place practically under his eyes...
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Viol@
Title: Viol@
Character: Manager
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: Movie
Marta works for a poll company, listening all day to other people's dreams while leading a cold and solitary life. Having just cut off a long relationship, she tries an online sex chat under an alias, meeting a man who begins to advance more and more audacious requests, until they decide to discover their respective identities.
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The Dinner
Title: The Dinner
Character: cliente seduto da solo
Released: September 3, 1998
Type: Movie
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.
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Vacation in Hell
Title: Vacation in Hell
Character: Piero
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Italian man unknowingly becomes a drug mule and gets arrested in Thailand. He is sent to tough prison where he plans escape with the help of another prisoner who also has a score to settle with the drug dealer who set the Italian up.
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The Book Junkie
Title: The Book Junkie
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A Donatello Award nominated short drama that illustrates a man's addiction to reading - and of the steps taken by some in society to limit this "habit".
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Romanzo di un giovane povero
Title: Romanzo di un giovane povero
Character: Vincenzo Persico
Released: September 29, 1995
Type: Movie
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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Suntanned
Title: Suntanned
Character: Bather
Released: December 19, 1991
Type: Movie
On the Adriatic Riviera the destinies of a variety of characters cross. A piano player is the lover of a rich woman who wants him to become a killer, a call girl is looking for her true love, two workers want to marry two old billionaires.