Luisa De Santis

Luisa De Santis

Born: April 20, 1944
in Roma

Movies for Luisa De Santis...

Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis
Title: Un'altra Italia era possibile - Il cinema di Giuseppe De Santis
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2023
Type: Movie
The documentary aims to tell the story of a director who managed to capture the attention of the whole world and, due to his political and aesthetic coherence, was able to work much less than he deserved. It's the story of a film professor who earned the gratitude and affection of all his students. The tale of a cinephile who successfully combined social and civic commitment with a spectacular talent worthy of Hollywood.
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Olimpia's Way
Title: Olimpia's Way
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
Acqua e anice is a “dance hall road movie” about Olimpia, a legendary ballroom dancer and a fixture at local dance halls, who, at age seventy, dusts off her orchestra’s tour bus. No tour dates, this time: she is simply setting out to see her fans, her loved ones and all the places where she became a star, once again. For the occasion, Olimpia has hired a young woman, Maria, as shy and awkward as Olimpia isn’t, to be her driver.
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L'ultima festa
Title: L'ultima festa
Released: June 25, 2022
Type: Movie
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Daughters
Title: Daughters
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Martha and Betty have known each other for twenty years and they have decided to breakthrough. But while Martha realizes that her father has only faked his death wish in order to see the great love of his life again on Lake Maggiore, Betty mourns her stepfather Ernesto, who supposedly died years ago.
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The Big Step
Title: The Big Step
Character: Clinic Director
Released: August 20, 2020
Type: Movie
At the age of six, Dario watched the first moon flight on television. Since then, his dream has been to fly to the moon. For the past three decades, the ingenious but difficult by nature Dario has been building a moon rocket on his farm in the Veneto countryside. Rocket technology represents applied rocket science. Its systems are implemented on a do-it-yourself basis, and the components are obtained from the local hardware store. The initial launch of the rocket fails. The neighbor's cornfield burns down and Dario is arrested. When his Roman brother Mario hears about the difficulties that have arisen, he goes to his aid and Italy's secret space program finally gets going.
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L'amore rubato
Title: L'amore rubato
Released: November 29, 2016
Type: Movie
The stories of five women very different from each other, yet linked by morbid and violent love experiences, are intertwined in a drama inspired by the collection of short stories by Dacia Maraini published in 2012 by the same title of the film, "Love Stolen ".
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The Black Sheep
Title: The Black Sheep
Released: October 1, 2010
Type: Movie
Nicola is a man who has spent much of his life in a mental institution, though not always as a patient. Nicola's mother suffered from mental illness, and when young Nicola grew old enough to understand some of her stranger behavior as well as the family's other dark secrets, a few of the adults around him preferred to suggest he was disturbed like his mother, and he was encouraged to visit an asylum not far from his home. As an adult, Nicola has spent enough time around people who have a tenuous connection with reality that he has a superficial resemblance to them, and has developed a strange set of imaginary friends to go along with his eccentric real-life companions and the woman he loves from afar, Marinella.
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18 Years Later
Title: 18 Years Later
Character: Signora funerale
Released: July 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—eighteen years ago. Since then, Genziano left to live in the UK and now is a stockbroker; Mirko instead remained in Rome, to stay with their father Marcello, working at the same run-down family shop. When Marcello dies, he leaves a task for the two brothers in his will: he asks them to take, on an old restored roadster, his ashes to the grave of his old mother in a village in Calabria, where the accident happened.
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Letters to Juliet
Title: Letters to Juliet
Character: Angelina
Released: May 13, 2010
Type: Movie
An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.
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Billo - Il grand Dakhaar
Title: Billo - Il grand Dakhaar
Character: La madre di Laura
Released: September 19, 2008
Type: Movie
A Senegalese boy arrives in Italy in search of fortune, with the desire to work in the fashion world. But life throws in some tragicomic situations.
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Giuseppe De Santis
Title: Giuseppe De Santis
Character: Herself
Released: January 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A brief tribute to the great director, spanning through some insights about his character, his works, his life, through the words of critics, relatives, colleagues, with a collage technique of interviews, archive footage, and brief excerpts and pictures from some of his works.
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Giuseppe De Santis
Title: Giuseppe De Santis
Character: Herself - Host
Released: January 21, 2008
Type: Movie
A brief tribute to the great director, spanning through some insights about his character, his works, his life, through the words of critics, relatives, colleagues, with a collage technique of interviews, archive footage, and brief excerpts and pictures from some of his works.
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Nelle Tue Mani
Title: Nelle Tue Mani
Character: Madre di Teo
Released: November 7, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Family Friend
Title: The Family Friend
Character: Silvia
Released: October 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...
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The Caiman
Title: The Caiman
Character: Marisa, segretaria di Bonomo
Released: March 24, 2006
Type: Movie
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
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Happiness Costs Nothing
Title: Happiness Costs Nothing
Character: Lucia
Released: January 31, 2003
Type: Movie
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test.
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Mi sei entrata nel cuore come un colpo di coltello
Title: Mi sei entrata nel cuore come un colpo di coltello
Character: Maddalena
Released: October 14, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: L'avvocato Porta
Character: Renata
Released: October 20, 1997
Type: TV
L'avvocato Porta is an Italian television series.
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La classe non è acqua
Title: La classe non è acqua
Character: Prof.ssa Passerini
Released: March 14, 1997
Type: Movie
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Un'altra vita
Title: Un'altra vita
Character: Saverio's assistant
Released: September 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
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Il prete bello
Title: Il prete bello
Character: Camilla
Released: September 15, 1989
Type: Movie
In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.
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Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Title: Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Character: Estherina
Released: August 7, 1987
Type: Movie
The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.
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The Mass Is Ended
Title: The Mass Is Ended
Character: Lucia
Released: November 15, 1985
Type: Movie
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.
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Sotto Sotto
Title: Sotto Sotto
Character: Adele
Released: March 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manically for the rival, who he never suspects is a woman.
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Gastone
Title: Gastone
Character: Lucia
Released: September 9, 1977
Type: Movie
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Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
Title: Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
Released: September 10, 1976
Type: Movie
Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when, in a bar, she meets a stranger.
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Allonsanfan
Title: Allonsanfan
Character: Fiorella Imbriani
Released: September 6, 1974
Type: Movie
After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.
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The Five Days
Title: The Five Days
Character: Pregnant Woman
Released: December 20, 1973
Type: Movie
In 1848, as Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrians, a patriotic prisoner named Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison cell. Suddenly, a cannonball comes flying through the air and knocks the main wall of the prison down. Excited to have a chance to see the change taking place in person, Cainazzo hits a bumpy road when one of his former fellow prisoners yells out to all the revolutionary gangs that Cainazzo is not a patriot, but is in fact a traitor!
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One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future
Title: One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future
Character: Nicola's wife
Released: April 25, 1972
Type: Movie
The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill his duty as husband.
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Come Play With Me
Title: Come Play With Me
Character: Nicoletta - The Singer
Released: April 30, 1968
Type: Movie
Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into strange erotic and psychological battle between them.
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Play-Boy
Title: Play-Boy
Released: August 7, 1967
Type: Movie
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Io non protesto, io amo
Title: Io non protesto, io amo
Character: Dorothy
Released: March 21, 1967
Type: Movie
Caterina, a young teacher, has a hobby of singing and occasionally delights her students.