Lina Sastri

Lina Sastri

Born: November 17, 1953
in Napoli, Italy

Movies for Lina Sastri...

A Brighter Tomorrow
Title: A Brighter Tomorrow
Character: Self
Released: April 20, 2023
Type: Movie
An old film director unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
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Title: Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso
Character: Assunta
Released: October 20, 2022
Type: TV
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Sophia!
Title: Sophia!
Character: Sé stessa
Released: September 20, 2022
Type: Movie
A documentary crossing all aspects of Sophia Loren's life: cinema, entertainment, private life, triumphs, challenges, suffering. How was the star born? How was a cinematographic archetype built? Childhood during the war in Naples, a beloved family, her mother Romilda, her beginnings at Cinecittà, her triumphs of Hollywood and her great love with Carlo Ponti.
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La ballata dei gusci infranti
Title: La ballata dei gusci infranti
Released: March 31, 2022
Type: Movie
Four stories set in the Sibillini mountains, in the heart of Italy
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Title: Christian
Character: Italia
Released: January 28, 2022
Type: TV
Christian lives in a "city-palace" where he earns his living doing dirty work for LINO, the criminal boss of neighborhood. When stigmata appear on his hands, Christian finds physically impossible to carry out his work, but also discovers he has gained mysterious healing powers to fight against Lino. But MATTEO, a mysterious Vatican postulator in search of signs and confirmations, is tracking him down bringing too close to a truth that could upset his life and that of the whole world.
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Yaya & Lennie - The Walking Liberty
Title: Yaya & Lennie - The Walking Liberty
Character: Zia Claire (voce)
Released: November 4, 2021
Type: Movie
Immersed in the jungle, among relics of a "forgotten future", two kids, Yaya and Lennie, meander. The two live freely in their Eden until armed men, who carry with them an "ancient" concept of civilization, force them to leave their territory. It is the beginning of a journey in search of their place in a world that no longer belongs to man.
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Title: The Promised Life
Released: September 16, 2018
Type: TV
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Prigioniero della mia libertà
Title: Prigioniero della mia libertà
Character: G.I.P
Released: May 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Alejandro Torres, a young architect, lives a quiet life with his family until the day he is unjustly arrested. Traumatized by the miscarriage of justice and desperate for the truth, he will carry out his "revenge" on those who have turned his life upside down.
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Naples in Veils
Title: Naples in Veils
Character: Ludovica
Released: December 28, 2017
Type: Movie
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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Laura's Wedding
Title: Laura's Wedding
Character: Maria
Released: December 8, 2015
Type: Movie
When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family’s disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart.
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Sun in My Eyes
Title: Sun in My Eyes
Character: Miriam
Released: February 2, 2015
Type: Movie
After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life.
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Discovery at Dawn
Title: Discovery at Dawn
Character: Marianna Dall'Acqua
Released: January 9, 2013
Type: Movie
Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to communicate with her past self and tries to prevent the tragedy that marred the life of her family, but she learns that not everything was as she thought.
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To Rome with Love
Title: To Rome with Love
Character: Friend at Cinema
Released: April 20, 2012
Type: Movie
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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Poker Generation
Title: Poker Generation
Character: Lucia
Released: April 13, 2012
Type: Movie
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Passione
Title: Passione
Released: September 4, 2010
Type: Movie
John Turturro tells, shooting alleys and testimonies of real neapolitan people, the history and musical culture of Napoli, attending every event and tale with a song.
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Baaria
Title: Baaria
Character: Tana
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
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Ballerina
Title: Ballerina
Character: Maria
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of an aspiring dancer who from Eastern Europe is reached in Italy with the mirage of realizing the dream of her life which instead turns into a nightmare. Against her will she will be forced into prostitution.
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Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
Title: Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
Character: Vincenza Ciaramella
Released: November 30, 2007
Type: Movie
A talented guitarist tries to make a living out of his music, ending up to collaborate with an unreliable manager and a famous pianist.
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Title: Maternity Ward
Character: Alberta Statera
Released: December 21, 2006
Type: TV
A chief-commander gynaecologist and a young and lovely team of professionals: obstetricians, neonatal doctors, paediatricians, nurses: they all have different histories, they cross their lives in this small, forgotten hospital. Together they will succeed in making it a jewel of efficiency and humanity.
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Title: Crimini
Character: Teresa
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: L'onore e il rispetto
Character: Maria Pia Giordano
Released: September 5, 2006
Type: TV
L'onore e il rispetto is an Italian television series. There are three seasons, each with six episodes: first season aired in 2006, second in 2009 and third in 2012. First season was directed by Salvatore Samperi, second by Samperi and Luigi Parisi, third by Parisi and Alessio Inturri. On October 2, 2012 Gabriel Garko announced through an interview with Tgcom 24 [1], which will soon turn a fourth season of the TV series.
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Title: St. Peter
Character: Maria
Released: October 24, 2005
Type: TV
The life of Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own.
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St. Peter
Title: St. Peter
Character: Maria
Released: October 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles' dispersal. In the second half, an aged Peter goes to Rome to join Paul, arriving on the day of Paul's arrest. Paul's death brings a crisis to Rome's Christians and to Peter; lessons from Jesus's teachings guide his decision to stay. Events within the fictive household of Persius, a Roman aristocrat, capture the upheaval that Christian teachings bring to the Eternal City.
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Saint Rita
Title: Saint Rita
Released: September 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Cascia, 14th century, Rita Liotti falls in love, gets married and has two children. Her dream of love is soon hindered by a masculine and violent society, that Rita faces with peace and forgiveness. When she loses her husband and her children, she understands she has a mission: pursuing her path of peace, that will lead her to take the vows, and then to become Saint. Rita is a Saint of these days, who lived in a very violent age and was so brave to break free from the vengeance chain, through a deep, sincere and christian forgiveness. She is a particular Saint, talking to everybody’s hearts, as she was everything. She was a daugher, a wife, a mother and a nun, she experienced every sort of life, and in all her different lives she was a living model of christian life.
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Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Title: Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Character: Margherita Bosco
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Piedmont (Italy), nineteenth century. In Turin, the priest Don Bosco, a man from a humble farming family, he gave himself totally and passionately to the task of collecting from the streets to marginalized children and care for them. Not only out of poverty, ignorance and social distress, but it got for the first time, to feel loved. He fought with extraordinary faith and tenacity to overcome obstacles and snares that both the civilian and ecclesiastical authorities, they put in their path to prevent him from completing his goal: the founding of the Congregation of the Salesians, which would guarantee the future of their children .
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Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen
Title: Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen
Character: Self
Released: February 2, 2002
Type: Movie
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Excellent Cadavers
Title: Excellent Cadavers
Character: Agnese Borsellino
Released: October 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
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Li chiamarono... briganti!
Title: Li chiamarono... briganti!
Character: Corifea
Released: May 28, 1999
Type: Movie
The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification.
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David
Title: David
Character: Abigail
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: Movie
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
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Strangled Lives
Title: Strangled Lives
Character: Sauro
Released: February 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. Francesco wins the deal, but soon he discovers that Claudio is not what he says.
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Celluloide
Title: Celluloide
Character: Anna Magnani
Released: January 26, 1996
Type: Movie
June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
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Women in Arms
Title: Women in Arms
Character: Nadia Cossa
Released: January 9, 1991
Type: Movie
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Brown Bread Sandwiches
Title: Brown Bread Sandwiches
Character: Giulia Buonanotte
Released: September 9, 1989
Type: Movie
A 1957 period piece about Italian immigrants in Toronto.
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Piccoli equivoci
Title: Piccoli equivoci
Character: Francesca
Released: May 19, 1989
Type: Movie
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Strana la vita
Title: Strana la vita
Character: Nora
Released: March 11, 1988
Type: Movie
A psychologist acquires wife and lover of a friend of him. But he has two more relationships yet. What will he do with four women following him?
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La posta in gioco
Title: La posta in gioco
Character: Renata Fonte
Released: March 8, 1988
Type: Movie
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Le lunghe ombre
Title: Le lunghe ombre
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
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The Inquiry
Title: The Inquiry
Character: Maria di Magdala
Released: October 26, 1986
Type: Movie
A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
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Woman of Wonders
Title: Woman of Wonders
Character: Luisa
Released: September 6, 1985
Type: Movie
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, an anonymous "dream woman" has been calling him for some seductive phone exchanges. As he searches out the identity of the mystery caller he is also distracted by Luisa who starts to insinuate herself back into his affections. Sooner or later, Alberto will just have to decide how to handle his love life, which in the end may only be mesmerizing to himself alone.
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Secrets Secrets
Title: Secrets Secrets
Character: Laura
Released: March 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating.
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La bella Otero
Title: La bella Otero
Character: Carmen Otero
Released: February 5, 1984
Type: Movie
The story tells the life, the successes, the loves and the decadence of Augustine Caroline Otéro Iglesias, called "La Bella Otéro". The history of a Spanish actor, who - despite being born poor - became a symbol of the Belle Époque and one of the first dives of silent cinema.
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Where's Picone?
Title: Where's Picone?
Character: Luciella Picone
Released: January 12, 1984
Type: Movie
During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
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Hearts and Armour
Title: Hearts and Armour
Character: La Maga
Released: September 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Love during wartime blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a female knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. A sorceress predicts to Bradamante that her beloved will die in battle at the hand of a fellow Christian paladin, Rolando, whom in turn is in love with Isabella, Ruggero's sister.
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Ecce Bombo
Title: Ecce Bombo
Character: Olga
Released: March 8, 1978
Type: Movie
Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four friends don't know what to do, though young and with so many possibilities to find a job in life. Intellectuals marginalized and misunderstood, the four friends find themselves when they can in a restaurant to discuss their outlandish theories. A girl named Olga disrupts their life, but Michele is her favorite, although he does not know what to do with the girl.
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Natale in casa Cupiello
Title: Natale in casa Cupiello
Character: Ninuccia
Released: December 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.
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I Am the Law
Title: I Am the Law
Character: Woman from Gangi
Released: September 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.
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Lu Curaggio De Nu Pumpiero Napulitano
Title: Lu Curaggio De Nu Pumpiero Napulitano
Released: July 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Thanks to the legacy of an English lord, the cobbler Andrea has become a baron and now has delusions of nobility: he wants a high-ranking marriage for his stepdaughter Virginia and does not recognize the brothers of his wife, Rosina and Michele, even after the latter has saved the his house from a fire. Virginia does not like her promised Marchese Alberto, but Felice Sciosciammocca, a shy and poor master of calligraphy, who reciprocates her. But when Felice learns that the girl will soon marry another, out of spite he accepts the court of the late Marquise Zoccola, Alberto's mother.
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'Na Santarella
Title: 'Na Santarella
Released: April 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Happy Sciosciammocca has a double life: he plays sacred music in the convent of Rondinelle and teaches music to the educators, at night he goes to Naples where he is known as the actor.
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'o Tuono 'e Marzo
Title: 'o Tuono 'e Marzo
Released: March 3, 1975
Type: Movie
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Li nepute de lu sinneco
Title: Li nepute de lu sinneco
Character: Nannina
Released: January 31, 1975
Type: Movie
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LA CASA DI NINETTA
Title: LA CASA DI NINETTA
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie