Ida Di Benedetto

Ida Di Benedetto

Born: June 3, 1945
in Naples, Italy
From Wikipedia

Ida Di Benedetto (born 3 June 1945) is an Italian actress and film producer.

She appeared in 53 films and television shows between 1974 and 2004. She starred in the film The Whores, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. She won the Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) for Best Supporting Actress in 1981 for her supporting role as Maria Rosa in Fontamara and the following year she won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress for Immacolata e Concetta.

Movies for Ida Di Benedetto...

Leone nel basilico
Title: Leone nel basilico
Character: Maria Celeste
Released: December 10, 2015
Type: Movie
Maria Celeste is a widow that lives in a retirement home. She is stingy, unpleasant, solitary and looks down on people. Every Sunday Maria sits alone on the park bench, though she tells everyone that she goes to her son's to cook a lovely meal. But on that Sunday, while dozing on the bench, a young girl places a ten month old baby in her arms and runs away leaving Maria stunned and confused. Finally the girl comes back and they start to know each other. The girl asks Maria to take the baby for a second, crosses the street and a tram hits her. She dies without a reason on a warm summer morning. Maria is alone with the baby. Her Maria Celeste's story begins.
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Three Touches
Title: Three Touches
Character: Marcella
Released: November 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia.
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Fratella e sorello
Title: Fratella e sorello
Character: Cicera
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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Alla fine della notte
Title: Alla fine della notte
Released: October 3, 2003
Type: Movie
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Fondali notturni
Title: Fondali notturni
Released: October 4, 2002
Type: Movie
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Rosa Funzeca
Title: Rosa Funzeca
Character: Rosa Funzeca
Released: October 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Rosa Funzeca, after twenty years as a prostitute, decides to make a change in her life and to look for an honest job that'll allow her to be reunited with her son Fernando. But things are not easy.
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Quartet
Title: Quartet
Character: Elena
Released: December 12, 2001
Type: Movie
The film begins on New Year’s Eve 2001 when Angelica attempts suicide by somewhat theatrically cutting her wrists in the bath. Over the weeks that follow we learn all about the complexities of her life and her three best friends, the quartet of the title.
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Joseph of Nazareth
Title: Joseph of Nazareth
Character: Elizabeth
Released: January 5, 2000
Type: Movie
The people of Jerusalem are suffering under the reign of Herod, and are hoping to be delivered from the Roman occupiers by the Messiah whose arrival, it is rumored, is to take place very soon. Unlike his nephew Judas, who wants to join the zealots (freedom fighters), 35 year old widower Joseph is not interested in participating in any fighting against the Romans.
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Oltremare - Non è l'America
Title: Oltremare - Non è l'America
Character: Gemma
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Morte di una Strega
Title: Morte di una Strega
Character: Concetta
Released: February 5, 1996
Type: Movie
Pina Acciai, a fortune teller dedicated to usury, is found dead in her apartment with her skull smashed in. The police try to shed light on the matter and discover that all the tenants of the building could have a motive.
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The Whores
Title: The Whores
Character: Orlanda
Released: August 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Orlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica are five women in Palermo, Sicily, each different from the other. But, along with transvestite Kim and young man Maurizio, they all share something: they're "buttane", hookers, who spend the day between the streets and home; some got children, some got problems with the pimps, some with the clients...
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Miracle of Marcellino
Title: Miracle of Marcellino
Character: La contessa
Released: December 19, 1991
Type: Movie
In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.
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Title: I ragazzi del muretto
Character: Debora's Mother
Released: March 28, 1991
Type: TV
I ragazzi del muretto is an Italian television series.
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Ferdinando, Man of Love
Title: Ferdinando, Man of Love
Released: November 27, 1990
Type: Movie
In a southern villa after the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies live Donna Clotilde and Donna Gesualda. The first is a Bourbon baroness who rejects the new world and the Italian language. The other is the poor relative with duties as a maid. Apart from the village priest, they see no one. Then her nephew Ferdinando arrives at the villa, young, handsome, and squirming.
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Title: Mit den Clowns kamen die Tränen
Character: Dr. Alessandra Gordoni
Released: September 23, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Abenteuer Airport
Character: Frau Gabiano
Released: September 9, 1990
Type: TV
Abenteuer Airport was a German television series broadcast in 1990. It was an airport adventure series; 12 episodes were produced.
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Title: Treasure Island in Outer Space
Character: Mrs. Hawkins
Released: November 19, 1987
Type: TV
Treasure Island in Outer Space is a 1987 science fiction Italian and German television miniseries directed by Antonio Margheriti. It is based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, setting the story in space on the year 2300. The series was produced by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in co-production with West Germany and France, and directed by Anthony M. Dawson. It is the biggest sci-fi production of Italian television. The miniseries of 5 episodes of 100 min was originally aired in Italy from November 19, 1987 on RAI Due channel. It was also adapted as a 120 min film. The miniseries is also known as Space Island (UK and Norway, USA on VHS) and Der Schatz im All (Germany).
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Regina
Title: Regina
Character: Regina
Released: May 18, 1987
Type: Movie
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Bitter Champagne
Title: Bitter Champagne
Character: Mariam
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.
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Mother Ebe
Title: Mother Ebe
Character: Maria Pia Sturla
Released: April 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.
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Blues metropolitano
Title: Blues metropolitano
Released: February 21, 1985
Type: Movie
Tony is a young Neapolitan musician. He has a lot of problems and a past with drugs, but also with women. He is engaged to Susy, but he betrays her with a university professor, who has an invalid husband, but also with other young aspiring singers, who try in every way to break into the world of music. Among these there is Elena, engaged in various difficulties to organize a concert with the best names of Neapolitan music.
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The Sicilian Connection
Title: The Sicilian Connection
Character: Amanda Smedile
Released: January 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Mario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an assassination of a judge in Palermo. He leaves the States, comes back to Sicily and recruit Michele, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is a good guy not involved with the Mafia, that is trying to build his life on honesty and hard-working. Michele needs some money to give freedom to a prostitute he is in love, and Mario promise his help in change of an hands to set up his trap for the judge. Anyway Michele isn't made with the same "pasta" of Mario, he couldn't never be a real Mafioso and this causes many between the two brother and the Mafia. There is only a way for Mario to save his brother. A way that Mafia could like.
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La ballata di Eva
Title: La ballata di Eva
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Noi tre
Title: Noi tre
Character: Maria Caterina
Released: December 20, 1984
Type: Movie
The adolescence of Mozart is chronicled in this Italian biopic. Here, young Wolfgang is seen as a prodigy who aspires to a normal life. He is studying music in Bologna when he falls in love with a local girl and makes friends with a boy his own age. Mozart is so elated that he fails a music exam on purpose so he can stay a little longer. Unfortunately, a priest rigs his test and the young composer is forced to move on.
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L'inceneritore
Title: L'inceneritore
Character: Mora
Released: August 28, 1984
Type: Movie
Pollution caused by an incinerator drives people mad and turns them into maniac killers. But, instead of the victims' bodies, the three wise monkeys are found (one cannot hear, one cannot see, one cannot speak).
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Sleep of Reason
Title: Sleep of Reason
Character: Dr. Dea Jannsen
Released: April 6, 1984
Type: Movie
Dea, gynecologist and scientist, and her colleagues have for the last few months been preparing a campaign against the local pharmaceutical industry. A campaign, which is linked to Dea's published findings concerning harmful side effects of the pill. For years Dea and her husband Rheinhard have been defending opposing sides as to the culpability of the company. Rheinhard, who is also a leading scientist like Dea, is a high-ranking employee of the concern. In the meantime Reinhard and Dea's 2 daughters have grown up. The daughter of the company's boss, Johanna, is Dea's assistant and Reinhard's lover.
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Guapparia
Title: Guapparia
Character: Margherita
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Salvatore Di Donato is one of the most feared and respected members of the Mafia in Naples. His wife, Assuntina, is a young theater actress. During a pilgrimage to Madonna of the Arch, Salvatore and Assuntina meet Margaret, a woman proud and beautiful. Salvatore falls in love with her, leaves Assuntina and goes to live with his new love. Margaret, however, is a strong woman, free, resistant to bring controlled by Salvatore, and ultimately he is forced to return home, ridiculed in the eyes of all.
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Title: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Character: Stefania
Released: December 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
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Tradimento
Title: Tradimento
Character: Carmela
Released: September 9, 1982
Type: Movie
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Giuramento
Title: Giuramento
Character: Concetta Esposito
Released: April 24, 1982
Type: Movie
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Più bello di così si muore
Title: Più bello di così si muore
Character: Ottavia
Released: March 18, 1982
Type: Movie
In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.
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Day of the Idiots
Title: Day of the Idiots
Character: Elisabeth
Released: October 31, 1981
Type: Movie
A woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
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Hotel Room
Title: Hotel Room
Character: Laura
Released: February 12, 1981
Type: Movie
A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.
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Fontamara
Title: Fontamara
Character: Maria Rosa
Released: September 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
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Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy
Title: Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy
Character: Immacolata
Released: March 9, 1980
Type: Movie
A love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".
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Palermo or Wolfsburg
Title: Palermo or Wolfsburg
Character: Giovanna
Released: February 1, 1980
Type: Movie
An impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
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The Kingdom of Naples
Title: The Kingdom of Naples
Character: Pupetta Ferrante
Released: May 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Thirty years of Neapolitan history (from 1942 to 1972) through the ups and downs of the Cavioli and Pagano families.
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Calling All Police Cars
Title: Calling All Police Cars
Character: House Madam
Released: August 28, 1975
Type: Movie
Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.