Donatella Finocchiaro

Donatella Finocchiaro

Born: November 16, 1972
in Catania, Italy
Donatella Finocchiaro (born 16 November 1970) is an Italian actress.

Movies for Donatella Finocchiaro...

Title: The Lions of Sicily
Released: October 25, 2023
Type: TV
Follow brothers Paolo and Ignazio, two small spice merchants who have escaped from a Calabria stuck in the past in search of social redemption. In Sicily they invent a future, turning a small, run-down shop into a flourishing business that young Vincenzo, with his revolutionary ideas, will transform into an economic empire.
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Devoti tutti
Title: Devoti tutti
Character: Agatha
Released: June 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Through magical realist animations in the style of baroque chiaroscuro, Devoti Tutti returns to the martyred Saint Agatha of Catania a voice she never had. Alongside a chorus of the citizens of Catania and the stories of real abuse survivors, Devoti Tutti shows how a community’s reverence for its saint masks misogynist realities. In her cell Agatha is kept company by her breasts, which her tormenters severed from her body—a reminder of the violence she suffered, but also of her refusal to submit to a man’s desire. Together with the flying breasts, Agatha escapes from the chamber where she has been held prisoner for two millennia and flies out over the ocean and into her own self-creation.
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Upside Down
Title: Upside Down
Released: May 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Paolo, 19, a boy with Down syndrome, befriends a tough and lonely boxing trainer.
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Strangeness
Title: Strangeness
Character: La balia
Released: October 27, 2022
Type: Movie
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello takes an interest in the odd couple, having been suffering from writer's block while working on his eventual masterpiece, Six Characters in Search of an Author.
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La notte è un posto sicuro
Title: La notte è un posto sicuro
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Hamid, a 25-year-old boy, survived the escape from Eritrea, with the intention of arriving in Switzerland by his brother Yemane, but Natale, a Sicilian fisherman, advises him not to continue the journey as an illegal immigrant and with his wife, they decide to host him at their restaurant, in exchange for help in the kitchen. After Hamid's long journey through Italy and numerous adversities, he manages to reach Basel ...
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L'altro buio in sala
Title: L'altro buio in sala
Character: Sé stessa
Released: March 25, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Monterossi - La serie
Released: January 17, 2022
Type: TV
Detective by chance, out of anger and human curiosity, always poised between ironic indolence and blues yearning, in his search for the truth Carlo Monterossi will have to confront a couple of cultured and professional killers, two gypsies looking for revenge, collectors and smugglers of Nazi-fascist souvenirs, incredible personal exchanges, a woman who seems to have lived several times and a cruel past that returns and leaves indecipherable clues behind. A comedic twist based on Alessandro Robecchi's successful crime novels.
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Bentornato papà
Title: Bentornato papà
Character: Anna
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
We are in a beautiful southern family, united by a deep relationship, despite some misunderstandings: Franco, a father who has dedicated his life to his loved ones and to work.
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Sisters Forever
Title: Sisters Forever
Released: September 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Two previously unknown families see their lives turned upside down when a seemingly insignificant mistake leads them to a shocking discovery about their children's identities. The film is based on a true story.
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Caught by a Wave
Title: Caught by a Wave
Character: Susanna
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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Io, una giudice popolare al Maxiprocesso
Title: Io, una giudice popolare al Maxiprocesso
Character: Caterina Parisi
Released: December 3, 2020
Type: Movie
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A New Perspective
Title: A New Perspective
Character: Girl's mother
Released: November 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objects of value. There is a lot of fog. The boy goes off by himself to another part of the wood and stands admiring an antique object he has found at the foot of a tree. His happy expression turns to one of curiosity as he is distracted by some high pitched cries which come and go intermittently.
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The Macaluso Sisters
Title: The Macaluso Sisters
Character: Adult Pinuccia
Released: September 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On a normal day at the beach, tragedy strucks.
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Il delitto Mattarella
Title: Il delitto Mattarella
Character: Irma Mattarella
Released: July 2, 2020
Type: Movie
January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in cold blood, killing him. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty that day is Pietro Grasso, future General Anti-Mafia Prosecutor and President of the Italian Senate. His investigations are continued by Giovanni Falcone, who uncovers dangerous connections between the Mafia, the ruling Christian Democratic Party, neo-fascist terrorists, and secret services.
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Despite the Fog
Title: Despite the Fog
Character: Valeria
Released: October 19, 2019
Type: Movie
According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "Despite the Fog" is a movie story about one of them. In short: Ali-Musa Sarhan, a refugee whose parents drowned while traveling by rubber boat on the Italian coast in search of a better life, is accepted by family, husband and wife who have lost a child. They are trying to find solace in little Arab and a sort of replacement for their early deceased son, Mark. Valeria (Donatella Finokjaro) and Paolo (Giorgio Tirabasi) are increasingly confronted with resistance from the environment and their own family, who do not accept their decision to keep Muhammad - It is also a story of a world that is increasingly sinking into xenophobic fog.
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Title: L'Aquila - Grandi speranze
Character: Silvia Merli
Released: April 16, 2019
Type: TV
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Girl in Flight
Title: Girl in Flight
Character: Giulia
Released: March 7, 2019
Type: Movie
11-year-old Silvia's life at home is consumed by her mother’s clinical depression. When no one will take the time to fulfill her dream to visit Rome, she runs away, determined to see it for herself. On a train, she meets a Roma girl, Emina, and begins following her through the streets of Rome to her gypsy camp.
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La stagione della caccia
Title: La stagione della caccia
Character: Donna Matilde
Released: February 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guardian of the secrets of certain miraculous plants, the noble Peluso family is ravaged by a series of mysterious deaths…
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Capri-Revolution
Title: Capri-Revolution
Character: Maria
Released: December 13, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the attention of young Lucia, a local illiterate shepherdess who soon falls under their spell.
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08 giugno '76
Title: 08 giugno '76
Character: Angela Zagaria
Released: December 4, 2018
Type: Movie
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Beate
Title: Beate
Character: Armida
Released: May 29, 2018
Type: Movie
In the northeast of Italy, the workers of a lingerie factory are about to be fired. Not far away, a handful of nuns, skilled in the art of embroidery and devoted to the Blessed Armida, risk being removed from their beloved convent. To oppose a destiny already marked, workers and nuns join forces and start a "business" outside the rules in the hopes that a miracle will help them keep the convent and the factory.
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Youtopia
Title: Youtopia
Character: Laura
Released: April 25, 2018
Type: Movie
A young woman decides to sell her virginity to pay off her mother's debts when she realises that her earnings as an online x-rated model are not enough.
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Title: Trust
Character: Regina
Released: March 25, 2018
Type: TV
The trials and triumphs of one of the wealthiest and unhappiest families of the United States, the Gettys. Originally planned to be told over multiple seasons and spanning the twentieth century, the series begins in 1973 with the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, an heir to the Getty oil fortune, by the Italian mafia in Rome.
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Couch Potatoes
Title: Couch Potatoes
Character: Presidente Barenghi
Released: November 23, 2017
Type: Movie
Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, eating, talking about nothing and playing video games. Until one day when he suddenly informs his father that he would join him in this trip. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, at the end, somehow father and son will find the way to communicate … or at least they will try.
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Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
Title: Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
Character: Chiara
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
After losing his farm during the floods of 1953, a romantic Dutch farmer is tired of getting his socks wet. He cycles to Italy and decides to grow tulips in the sweltering heat of Puglia.
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Nato a Casal di Principe
Title: Nato a Casal di Principe
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
In the late 1980s, Amedeo Letizia, a young 20 something Italian, leaves his hometown of Casal di Principe to pursue a career in acting in Rome. While he's making his debut, his younger brother Paolo is kidnapped by armed men. Amedeo comes back, this return being an infernal descent into his past and his region's contradictions.
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Everything You Want
Title: Everything You Want
Character: Claudia
Released: May 11, 2017
Type: Movie
An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their daily walks, the two banter and become friends, and Alessandro quickly learns more about this forgotten poet as the old man’s memory drifts. After learning a secret from Giorgio’s past, Alessandro and his friends work to uncover the mystery of this tale, an unexpected history lesson and a touching coming-of-age adventure.
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L'accabadora
Title: L'accabadora
Character: Annetta
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: Movie
Cagliari in the 1940s is a big city for those who come from a small village. Annetta arrives in the days befpre Italy enters WWII and the Allies begin bombing the city. She's a 25-year old woman, always dressed in black, solitary and quiet, typical of the beauty of those from the most sparse areas of Sardegna.
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Assolo
Title: Assolo
Character: Evelina
Released: January 5, 2016
Type: Movie
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Le Supplici di Eschilo - Teatro greco di Siracusa
Title: Le Supplici di Eschilo - Teatro greco di Siracusa
Character: Prima Corifea
Released: June 24, 2015
Type: Movie
“The Suppliants of Aeschylus were part of a trilogy consisting of Supplicants, Sons of Egypt and Danaids, followed by a satyr drama Amirnon. It was first performed at the Theater of Dionysus in Athens, probably in 463 BC."
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Mio papà
Title: Mio papà
Character: Claudia
Released: November 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Lorenzo is a 35-year-old diver and an incurable Casanova. But one night, after having withdrawn with the beautiful Claudia, he comes across his little Matteo, the son of the woman. The presence of the child throws Lorenzo into a vortex of doubts and remorse that will lead the man to review his crushed sentimental conduct.
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Una villa per due
Title: Una villa per due
Released: April 21, 2014
Type: Movie
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La missione di 3P
Title: La missione di 3P
Character: Anna adulta (voice)
Released: April 10, 2014
Type: Movie
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War Story
Title: War Story
Character: Daria
Released: January 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persistently ringing telephone hint at her volatility brewing beneath the surface. Between fitful naps, she wanders the streets, snapping pictures of refugees as if her camera were both weapon and olive branch. Struggling to confront her demons, Lee resolves to help a beautiful young woman in need.
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The Bad Child
Title: The Bad Child
Character: Flora
Released: November 20, 2013
Type: Movie
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Marina
Title: Marina
Character: Ida Granata
Released: November 6, 2013
Type: Movie
The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.
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Non lo so ancora
Title: Non lo so ancora
Released: November 2, 2013
Type: Movie
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Meglio se stai zitta
Title: Meglio se stai zitta
Character: Dona
Released: May 1, 2013
Type: Movie
For Valeria, her wedding day has arrived. Antonia spots the groom kissing a woman in an unmistakable loving manner and gifting her a jewel.
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The Ghosts of San Berillo
Title: The Ghosts of San Berillo
Character: narratrice
Released: March 23, 2013
Type: Movie
Ghosts from the past and the present inhabit the old neighborhood of San Berillo, in Catania. It is 1958: while brothels are being shut down all over Italy, San Berillo is razed to the ground and its inhabitants are deported to the suburbs. A piece of the neighborhood, however, remains intact and thousands of prostitutes from all over Italy find shelter there, creating one of the biggest red light districts in the Mediterranean. Until 2000, when a police raid forces the neighborhood's inhabitants to abandon their homes once again.
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La logica delle cose
Title: La logica delle cose
Character: -
Released: February 7, 2013
Type: Movie
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Convitto Falcone
Title: Convitto Falcone
Character: Madre di Antonio Conti
Released: May 23, 2012
Type: Movie
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To Rome with Love
Title: To Rome with Love
Character: Reporter on Street
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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Questi Fantasmi
Title: Questi Fantasmi
Character: Maria Lojacono
Released: November 16, 2011
Type: Movie
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Terraferma
Title: Terraferma
Character: Giulietta
Released: September 7, 2011
Type: Movie
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.
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Make a Fake
Title: Make a Fake
Character: Aurora
Released: May 6, 2011
Type: Movie
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I baci mai dati
Title: I baci mai dati
Character: Rita
Released: April 29, 2011
Type: Movie
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Sorelle Mai
Title: Sorelle Mai
Character: Sara Mai
Released: March 16, 2011
Type: Movie
The film, a nostalgic fantasy documentary, depicts in six episodes a family story in Bobbio between 1999 and 2008. We discover the 5 years-old Elena being brought up by her aunts (Marco Bellocchio's sisters) because her mother Sara is trying to succeed as an actress in Milan. Her uncle Giorgio has a difficult relationship with his sister and judges her for not taking care of her daughter. But as soon as Sara can afford it, she offers to take Elena with her, leaving the village and her aunts, perhaps for ever - while Giorgio, up to his eyeballs in debt, takes refuge in Bobbio. His sister will help him and sell a house.
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Sulla strada di casa
Title: Sulla strada di casa
Character: Laura
Released: March 15, 2011
Type: Movie
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Ages of Love
Title: Ages of Love
Character: Eliana
Released: February 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Roberto is a young and ambitious lawyer who is going to marry Sara. His whole life is perfectly planned out. During a expropriation which he is in charge of, he meets Micol, a gorgeous and provocative young woman from a small village in Tuscany. This is when things start to get complicated... Fabio, a famous anchorman, has been the perfect husband for twenty five years. At a party one night, he meets Eliana, a femme fatale full of surprises. This one-night stand proves to be more than what he bargained for when she refuses to leave... Adrian is an American art history professor who moved to Rome after his divorce. He is friends with Augusto, the building's concierge, whose ebullient daughter Viola is about to disrupt his peaceful existence and relight his fire
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Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
Title: Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
Character: Angela (voice)
Released: June 24, 2010
Type: Movie
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Baaria
Title: Baaria
Character: merciaia
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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Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Title: Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
Released: September 5, 2009
Type: Movie
John Turturro goes back to the land of his ancestors.
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All Human Rights for All
Title: All Human Rights for All
Released: December 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.
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Galantuomini
Title: Galantuomini
Character: Lucia
Released: November 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A well known judge comes back to his native region, Salentino in the South of Italy, to find out that his old friend is dead and the woman he loved is now working for a crime organization.
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Title: Donne assassine
Character: Marta Amadei
Released: October 16, 2008
Type: TV
True crime anthology series about female murderers.
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'O professore
Title: 'O professore
Released: September 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The story of Pietro Filodomini, professor of Italian in a middle school in the Sanità district of Naples, who tries to offer with books an alternative to life on the street and a possibility for the future.
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Aldo Moro - Il presidente
Title: Aldo Moro - Il presidente
Character: Adriana Faranda
Released: May 9, 2008
Type: Movie
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, the band of the Red Brigades went on the attack. The terrorists kidnap Aldo Moro and kill all the men in his escort.
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Title: Aldo Moro - Il Presidente
Character: Adriana Faranda
Released: May 9, 2008
Type: TV
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L'abbuffata
Title: L'abbuffata
Character: Enza
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
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Amore che vieni, amore che vai
Title: Amore che vieni, amore che vai
Character: Veretta
Released: November 13, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Sweet and the Bitter
Title: The Sweet and the Bitter
Character: Ada
Released: September 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".
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Non prendere impegni stasera
Title: Non prendere impegni stasera
Character: Paola
Released: June 15, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Crimini
Character: Mariangela
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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Secret Journey
Title: Secret Journey
Character: Anna
Released: October 20, 2006
Type: Movie
After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.
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The Wedding Director
Title: The Wedding Director
Character: Bona di Gravina
Released: April 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?
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La fiamma sul Ghiaccio
Title: La fiamma sul Ghiaccio
Character: Caterina
Released: March 10, 2006
Type: Movie
A sick young man lives an intense love story with a female tramp.
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Amatemi
Title: Amatemi
Character: Giulia
Released: June 3, 2005
Type: Movie
Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly left by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by having multiple affairs with strangers.
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Se devo essere sincera
Title: Se devo essere sincera
Character: Gina
Released: October 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Adelaide is a 40-year-old literature teacher married with children. One day, she learns about the murder of a wealthy and arrogant co-worker of hers, strangled in her own home. Adelaide meets Gaetano, the charming inspector dealing with the case and decides to help him in the investigation, much to her husband's chagrin.
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Upon My Skin
Title: Upon My Skin
Character: Bianca
Released: November 2, 2003
Type: Movie
On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was screened in competition at the 2003 Turin Film Festival.
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Lost Love
Title: Lost Love
Character: Mary
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later Ettore is once again the center of attention and the hip crowd.
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Angela
Title: Angela
Character: Angela
Released: October 30, 2002
Type: Movie
True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.
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Greta e le favole vere
Title: Greta e le favole vere
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie