Manuela Ventura

Manuela Ventura

Born: July 24, 1973
in Catania, Sicily, Italy

Movies for Manuela Ventura...

Title: La lunga notte - La caduta del Duce
Character: Laura Niccolai
Released: January 29, 2024
Type: TV
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The Braid
Title: The Braid
Character: Madre Giulia
Released: November 29, 2023
Type: Movie
India. Smita is an untouchable. She dreams of seeing her daughter escape her miserable condition and enter school. Italy. Giulia works in her father’s workshop. When he has an accident, she discovers that the family business is ruined. Canada. Sarah, a successful lawyer, is about to be promoted to the head of her firm when she learns that she is ill. Three lives, three women, three continents. Three battles to fight. Although they don’t know each other, Smita, Giulia and Sarah are unknowingly linked by their most intimate and singular bond.
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The Girl From Tomorrow
Title: The Girl From Tomorrow
Character: Sara Crimi
Released: March 8, 2023
Type: Movie
It’s 1965 and Lia, a spirited young woman living in a small Sicilian town, is initially attracted to Lorenzo, the son of the most prominent (and possibly Mafia-tied) local family. His possessiveness eventually repels her. But soon after, he appears with his cronies to kidnap, rape and force her into a shotgun marriage, all with the collusion of the town’s authorities. Lia and her family refuse to accept this barbaric ‘tradition’ and, despite the constant intimidation and violence, they take their fight for Lia’s rights to court.
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A Breath of Fresh Air
Title: A Breath of Fresh Air
Released: July 7, 2022
Type: Movie
Two proud and estranged brothers, a disputed inheritance and a past that comes back. When he hears about the passing of his father - whom he has not seen in many years - Salvo returns to his native Sicily. He intends to convince his brother Lillo to sell the family farm and save his pizzeria, which is about to go bankrupt - a secret that he has kept even from his wife and children. But things will not be easy and Salvo will have to come to terms with his choices. A bittersweet comedy about family relations and how one never stops growing up, not even at fifty.
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Title: Lea
Character: Favilla Mancuso
Released: February 8, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Generation 56k
Character: Marina
Released: July 1, 2021
Type: TV
A chance encounter leads two 30-somethings to remember 1998, the year their teenage hormones kicked in — and the internet changed their lives forever.
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Caught by a Wave
Title: Caught by a Wave
Character: Tuccia
Released: March 25, 2021
Type: Movie
A summer fling born under the Sicilian sun quickly develops into a heartbreaking love story that forces a boy and girl to grow up too quickly.
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Cetto c'è, senzadubbiamente
Title: Cetto c'è, senzadubbiamente
Character: Marchesa Claire de Fusigni
Released: November 21, 2019
Type: Movie
Cetto la Qualunque, having set aside all political ambition, is now nothing more than an entrepreneur. But the news of the worsening condition of his aunt leads him to return to Italy, where something from his past will be revealed and, “doubtlessly,” all of our lives will be forever changed.
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Before the Night
Title: Before the Night
Character: Cettina
Released: May 23, 2018
Type: Movie
The life and times of Pippo Fava, a Sicilian journalist who fought the Mafia through his local newspaper in the '70s and early '80s, meeting an untimely end.
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Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head
Title: Rocco Chinnici: May Your Kiss Lie Lightly On My Head
Character: Tina Chinnici
Released: January 23, 2018
Type: Movie
An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.
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Ninna nanna
Title: Ninna nanna
Character: Stefania
Released: June 29, 2017
Type: Movie
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Where Am I Going?
Title: Where Am I Going?
Character: Signora Calabrese
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: Movie
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...
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Title: Questo e' il mio paese
Character: Assunta Malorni
Released: November 30, 2015
Type: TV
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Black Souls
Title: Black Souls
Character: Giorgia
Released: September 18, 2014
Type: Movie
A former narcotics smuggler, now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills, is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son.
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Title: Questo Nostro Amore
Character: Teresa Strano
Released: October 28, 2012
Type: TV
"questo nostro amore" narrates about the chronicles of the Costa and Strano families, living in Turin, from the '60s to the '80s, going thorugh all the social changes of those years.
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Title: Il segreto dell'acqua
Character: Antonella Lo Jacona
Released: September 11, 2011
Type: TV
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Life Is a Wonderful Thing
Title: Life Is a Wonderful Thing
Character: Angela
Released: April 2, 2010
Type: Movie
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely complicated and troubled lives ... Even if, after all, life is a wonderful thing ...
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Title: Corleone
Character: Arcangela Riina
Released: October 25, 2007
Type: TV
The story of Salvatore Riina, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily.
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L'uomo risacca
Title: L'uomo risacca
Released: June 1, 2000
Type: Movie
From a poem of Gabriele Frasca
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I Wanted Pants
Title: I Wanted Pants
Released: March 20, 1990
Type: Movie
Annetta, of Sicilian origins, is annoyed by the different treatments and freedoms reserved for men and women. Because of her rebellious attitude, the girl is locked up in the house of her relatives where she suffers an attempt of violence by her uncle. After returning to her parents, she finally gets married to her beloved Nicola.