Galatea Ranzi
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma
Birthday: March 28, 1968
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Gender: Female
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Appassionate
Overview: Pina was born in Portugal but now lives in poor circumstances in Naples. Pina has two daughters, Rosa, who has been wearing a wedding dress since she was left stranded at the altar several years ago, and Caterina, who murdered a man who wronged her as he left the church following his wedding. Caterina winds up in prison alongside Maddalena, a prostitute who witnessed the murder and was inspired to kill a man in her own life who had hurt her. The incidents from these women's lives are interspersed with another story, set in 1929 and filmed in black-and-white, about a man who shoots his wife in a movie theater and must run to avoid the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-09-03
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The Life I Want
Overview: A relationship develops between seasoned actor Stefano and his young, ambitious co-star Laura when they are cast as the two leads in a film. Stefano must deal with his growing jealousy when Laura's career begins to take off.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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Bodyless
Overview: Daniela is a confused and problematic girl. She realizes she doesn’t like her body. Maybe she wishes she were a man. As a result she changes identity on the web, posing as Daniele; she meets girls, tells her phantasies, which remain just virtual. Daniela goes into therapy. She tells her story to Doctor Romanini. She announces having met Roberta, a nice girls she has invited to a date, always hiding behind Daniele’s profile. The story between the two girls ends up with an unpredicted epilogue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-04-01
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Fiorile
Overview: The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-06-06
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The Fine Art of Love: Mine Ha-Ha
Overview: A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside the college's high walls. At the age of 16, some of them start asking questions about their origins, their parents and the true purposes of the Headmistresses strict rules. When two of them disappear mysteriously, the initial fairytale atmosphere grows more and more eerie...
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-25
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A Journey Called Love
Overview: The life and loves of poet Sibilla Aleramo (Laura Morante), focusing on her relationship with Dino Campana (Stefano Accorsi).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-09-03
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Aria
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-03-20
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Salvatore. Questa è la vita
Overview: Salvatore is a young orphan, living in Sicily with his little sister and his grandmother; after loosing his father in a tragic way he quits school and starts working as a fisherman and a farmer in order to support his little family. The Social Services soon discover the situation and resolve to put Salvatore in an orphanage, parting him from his family. Only a young, idealistic teacher (Enrico Lo Verso) tries to help him, going everyday after school to his house, to teach him the lessons he misses in the morning and to work with him in his greenhouse or on his fishing boat.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-31
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Strangeness
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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Pontormo - Un amore eretico
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Follow Your Heart
Overview: The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-09
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Water and Salt
Overview: Ana lives in a little village by the sea, with her husband and daughter. He decides to leave for a few days. That seems to be the ideal solution, because Ana needs to finish a work she has been doing for a long time. But her concentration seems threatened when she starts doing her daily walks by the village and the beach: she saves a stranger from death in the sea, meets young Alexandre and Emilia, and her friend Vera turns up in her house. And then, everything changes…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2001-08-01
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The Great Beauty
Overview: Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-05-21
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I Want You
Overview: A macho type man becomes entangled with an independent-minded girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-03-09
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Madame
Overview: The story of Emma, a courageous woman who left home at a very young age. Emma's first job is working in a paddy field. There she meets Paride, and a romance begins. But amid a workers strike, Paride dies, leaving Emma alone and also pregnant. From this point on Emma struggles for survival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2004-11-21
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The Last Days of Humanity
Overview: The last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, broadcast by Rai
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-09-23
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Three Steps Over Heaven
Overview: A bad boy and a socialite girl hook-up.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-03-12
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Caterina in the Big City
Overview: When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-10-24
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Notte senza fine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-11-19
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The Girl in the Fog
Overview: A gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where an enigmatic detective is investigating the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old girl.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-10-26
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Il pranzo della domenica
Overview: The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-04-29
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Ma che bella sorpresa
Overview: High school professor Guido is a hopeless romantic whose life falls apart after his girlfriend leaves him for another man. Paolo, a former student of his, helps him to exit his depression, only in order to become a PE teacher himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-03-11
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Lettere dalla Sicilia
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-02-23
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Little Horrors
Overview: A woman in her flooded kitchen thinks of Ophelia and death by drowning. A nun wonders about her vocation. A girl, dumb by choice, walks around in Naples. A ballerina in a wheelchair. Three youths around a bonfire in a little island. A man secluded in a tower waiting for the end of the world. And many other stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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Copperman
Overview: Despite his adult age, Anselmo behaves like a child and takes up the role of a superhero called "Copperman."
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-02-07
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Come le formiche
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-06-22
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Citizens of the World
Overview: Three Italian retirees embark on a journey to find a new country to live in.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-02-20
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L'Aurora
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
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Zoroastro. Io, Giacomo Casanova.
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-03-01
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Nuvole
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-08-19
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