Giovanna Mezzogiorno
Also Known As: ジョヴァンナ・メッツォジョルノ
Biography: Giovanna Mezzogiorno (born November 9, 1974) is an Italian theatre and film actress. Giovanna Mezzogiorno was born in Rome, November 9, 1974, daughter of actors Vittorio Mezzogiorno and Cecilia Sacchi. She grew up watching her parents on set, conscious about acting. At first she wanted to become a ballerina and she studied dancing for 13 years. She is an atheist. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giovanna Mezzogiorno, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: November 09, 1974
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Gender: Female
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Vincere
Overview: The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigor but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-05-20
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Love in the Time of Cholera
Overview: In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-10-04
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Palermo Shooting
Overview: After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-20
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Last Chance Saloon
Overview: Ils sont amis depuis l'enfance et se sont juré de toujours s'entraider. Ensemble, Kathy, Tara et Yann ont quitté leur île bretonne pour s'installer à Paris. Alors que Yann est heureux avec Alfredo, son compagnon, les deux filles connaissent des vies sentimentales plutôt désastreuses. Tara, aussi rieuse que peu sûre d'elle, se fait esclavagiser par Thomas, petit prof égocentrique et mesquin...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-23
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The Last Kiss
Overview: Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18-year-old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-02-01
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The Front Line
Overview: United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captured and thrown in jail. Putting his life on the line, Sergio embarks on a radical plan... Loosely based on the memoir by Prima Linea's 'commander' Sergio Segio.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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Night Bus
Overview: Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-05-11
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Facing Windows
Overview: Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-02-27
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Basilicata Coast to Coast
Overview: A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Les murs porteurs
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-09
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Don't Tell
Overview: Sabina has a regular life. She is satisfied with her job and her love for Franco. Lately nightmares start disturbing her, and almost in the same time she discovers to be pregnant. Step by step she remembers her childhood spent within a severe middle-class family. But a big secret is hidden within her heart. Sabina wants to contact again her brother, a University teacher in the US, to try to understand what is happened in their past. What is the secret? She is determined to bring clarity and serenity in her life. She finally manages to free herself from her "beast in the heart".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-03-17
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Gym Class
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-03-16
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Asini
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-11-11
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Del perduto amore
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-18
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Il viaggio della sposa
Overview: 17th-century noblewoman Porzia leaves the cloister she was raised in to marry, but an ambush leaves her with only humble coachman Bartolo by her side. While venturing into dangerous and unknown lands, the two grow increasingly close despite their opposite backgrounds.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-09-05
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Love Returns
Overview: Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-04-19
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Lezioni di volo
Overview: A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-03-16
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AD Project
Overview: A girl gets involved in the affairs of a mysterious society that supervises the activities of the aliens on Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-05
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Un uomo perbene
Overview: In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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L'amore non basta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-04-18
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The Cruelest Day
Overview: Ilaria Alpi, a young, Italian war-corespondent, was on a dangerous mission in Somalia. While she covered the civil war, she also discovered a big and secret international enviromentscandale. Together with her cameraman she was killed in the streets of Mogadishus March, 1994. The film is based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-03-27
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Malefemmene
Overview: A young woman is wrongly jailed. In prison she finds a completely different world made of women who seem to have found the formula for freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-11-30
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I Am Alive
Overview: A young Italian worker, persuaded by his friend to take on a one-off 'nightwatchman' job for easy money, finds the reality is more macabre -- and complex -- than he expected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-10-19
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Nobel
Overview: A movie from the italian director Fabio Carpi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-16
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Amanda
Overview: Amanda, 24, lives mostly isolated and has never had any friends, even if it's the thing she wants the most. Amanda chooses her new mission as to convince her childhood friend to believe that they are still best friends.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-10-13
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The Dinner
Overview: Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-05
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Vinodentro
Overview: For John Cuttin it all started with the first sip of the wine of her life. A "Marzemino", a typical wine of the province of Trento, quoted by Lorenzo Da Ponte in his libretto for "Don Giovanni" by Mozart. The instant he tasted the blood-red drop of nectar John felt a sort of pleasant and mysterious explosion of the senses, and from that moment on, his nature is transformed. In just three years, from shy bank clerk and faithful husband became director, tombeur de femmes and the most revered and respected expert on wine in Italy. Just as he had predicted the enigmatic "Professor" who had convinced him to taste his first glass of wine. The only event that the "Professor" with his accent and his piercing blue eyes, had not predicted was that he would soon be charged with the murder of his wife Adele. While being put under pressure by the Commissioner Sanfelice, John is to reflect on the last three years of his life, dominated by a single and mad passion: wine.
Genres: Thriller Crime Comedy Mystery Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-12-12
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In the Eyes
Overview: Documentary about the life and career of Vittorio Mezzogiorno through the voice of his daughter Giovanna.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-06
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Virginia, la monaca di Monza
Overview: The film is loosely based on real life events of Marianna de Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," whose story was made famous by the Alessandro Manzoni's novel The Betrothed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-07-01
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How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents
Overview: More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-11-23
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Tenderness
Overview: Back from the hospital where he has been treated after a heart attack, Lorenzo is on his way upstairs to his top-floor apartment in Naples when he meets Michela. The charming young woman, who has just moved to the facing apartment, has forgotten her keys and finds herself locked out. Cynical and grumpy, the retired lawyer who has been living estranged from the rest of the world, should normally leave her to her fate but he mellows under her spontaneous charm. He helps her, becomes friends not only with her but with her husband Fabio and their two children. For once, the self-declared misanthropist seems to be experiencing the long forgotten feeling of empathy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-04-24
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Naples in Veils
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-12-28
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All the Knowledge in the World
Overview: Weird characters, odd mishaps, fates that meet, skim and loose each other in an attempt to shed light on the “meaning of life”: a college student in love with her philosophy lecturer; a disabled man seeking recovery; a pop star meeting a spiritual guru. And above everybody stands a mysterious luminescent man, maybe real, maybe not.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-08-31
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Entrusted
Overview: Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-03
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Stai con me
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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Tornare
Overview: Cristina Comencini defines the film as a "thriller of the soul." It's the story of a woman who returns to Italy from the US to attend the funeral of her late father, an American admiral living in Naples. Here she meets a man who seems to know too many things about her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-10-26
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The Time of Indifference
Overview: Maria Grazia and her children Michele and Carla are left without a livelihood. Maria Grazia's money-hungry lover Leo develops a plan to take the last property from the family - the attic in which they live. Michele tries to thwart Leo's plans, but when his attempts fail, young Carla takes over.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-04-27
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I Remember Piazza Fontana
Overview: A documentary-fiction that reconstructs the complex procedural path followed by the 1969 massacre through the point of view of Francesca Dendena, daughter of one of the victims and President of the Family Association of the victims of the Piazza Fontana massacre.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-12-12
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The Ties
Overview: Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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A Lighter Burden to Bear
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Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-12-08
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Alida Valli: In Her Own Words
Overview: A complete and never-before-seen portrait of the life of a young girl from Pula (Istria) who quickly became one of the most famous and beloved actresses of Italian and international cinema, told through the words of her unpublished letters and diaries, photographs, homemade films in 8 mm, and new interviews with her relatives, friends, and collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-05-17
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