Giuliana De Sio
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Giuliana De Sio was born in Salerno and grew up in Cava de 'Tirreni, where her family originates from. De Sio's first public appearance was her when she was five in a show at the Teatro Verdi in Salerno. She moved to Terrasini when she was eighteen to live in a hippy commune before moving to Rome, where she befriended Teresa Ann Savoy and Alessandro Haber, who encouraged her to start acting. Her professional debut took place in 1976 when Gianni Bongiovanni chose her for Una donna. Elio Petri then gave her a part of her in Mani dirty di lei and Tonino Cervi chooses her to act in The Imaginary Sick with Alberto Sordi. In the early 1980s she meets Massimo Troisi, who chooses her for an important role in her second film, Sorry for the delay (1982). She subsequently worked with Francesco Nuti in The Pool Hustlers (1982) and Casablanca Casablanca (1985).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salerno, Campania, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: April 02, 1956
Age: 69 years old
Gender: Female
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The Pool Hustlers
Overview: Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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The Short Night
Overview: After twenty-five years, lawyer Lara Degli Esposti finds the son she had abandoned at birth is the main suspect in a murder case.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-04
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Casablanca, Casablanca
Overview: Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-02-16
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One Hundred Days in Palermo
Overview: In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-04-06
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Per non dimenticare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Hypochondriac
Overview: During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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Sorry for the Delay
Overview: Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-03-10
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Let's Hope It's a Girl
Overview: Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm herself with the help of her female servants and relatives. When the Count (Philipe Noiret) comes back into her life, he and his male buddies find themselves outclassed by the expertise of the ladies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-02-06
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Mary Magdalene
Overview: Employed as a spy and given the task of investigating the threat posed by John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene is overwhelmed by John's powerful message of the coming of the Messiah. Gazing into John's eyes before he dies, Mary is left with the certainty that her place is at the side of this great man, Jesus Christ.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-04-24
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I picari
Overview: The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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Italiani
Overview: 1965, a train with a variety of passengers is heading north when it makes an unexpected stop. On the other track, heading south, a train passes with the same passengers 20 years later.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-03-01
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The Wicked
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, a junior resident takes an interest in a newly-arrived patient, a young Italian woman who has mysteriously developed schizophrenia. To identify the causes of her condition, he employs psychoanalytic methods to dig into her sexual past, despite objections by the old-fashioned chief physician.
Genres: Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-10-07
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A luci spente
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-05-15
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Feu sur le candidat
Overview: Robert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers, he decided to run for office. His campaign in support of animal rights gives him a lead in the opinion polls - which worries the main political parties. Since his past is unassailable, his political opponents decide to give the job of getting rid of him to a bizarre couple - a professional killer called Jean and a high-class call girl named Clara. The pair has to ruin him with scandal and then eliminate him for good. Jean's first attempt at his task is a failure: instead of a killer he ends up looking like Cavaillon's savior and friend. Clara is forced to play the role of the killer's tender wife, because their victim sees them as a kindly pair not interested in using him for his position like everyone else. Between one bungled assassination attempt and the next, the three are enmeshed in an intense relationship in which their roles all change.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-07-04
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Ti voglio bene Eugenio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-01-18
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Roma, Napoli, Venezia... in un crescendo rossiniano
Overview: Composer Gioachino Rossini comes back to the three Italian cities — Rome, Naples, and Venice — and recalls artistic beauties and experiences of his life.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-06-16
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What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
Overview: Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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Ares Gate: La fabbrica delle illusioni
Overview: Everything started from the house of Celebrity Big Brother after statements by Adua Del Vesco and Massimiliano Morra. With the death of Teodosio Losito on January 8, 2019, an inquiry was opened by the Prosecutor’s Office of Rome for incitement to suicide, at the end of which the dismissal was requested.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-07-22
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Il console italiano
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-01-10
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Vorrei vederti ballare
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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Ci vediamo a casa
Overview: Three different couples are looking for a house to live.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-12-28
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Rue du Pied de Grue
Overview: A drifter navigates the fringes of Parisian society. The protagonist, a solitary man seeking direction, becomes entangled with a group of outsiders—misfits, lovers, and wanderers—who live on the city's margins. As he moves through this world, he connects with a woman whose struggles mirror his. Their relationship is fragile, shaped by fleeting moments of intimacy and the harsh realities of their surroundings. The film captures their attempts to escape their circumstances, but fate and the weight of their pasts make change elusive.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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Uno scandalo perbene
Overview: Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea who he is or where he belongs, he is put into an asylum for the mentally disturbed. After his photograph is published in the newspapers, a woman shows up at the institution claiming that he is Professor Canella, her missing and wealthy husband. The news obtains the release of the amnesiac, but his claim is quickly and hotly contested by another family, arguing that the man is an imposter. As a result, his case goes back to court and in the meantime, the "professor" is put in jail. As the courtroom drama continues, there are various clues that suggest whether or not the amnesiac has been accurately identified and by whom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Per sempre al Massimo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-06-05
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The Truth About Love Is...
Overview: Dora, raises her two children with the help of her eccentric family, free-spirited best friend, and a charming poet-turned- nanny.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-03-30
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Private Affairs
Overview: Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-12-29
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Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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Angelo Nero
Overview: Jack Altieri, a young Italian-American restaurant owner, arrives at Vesta awaits him a painting of the sixteenth century that depicts the veiled face of Medea of Carpi, noble woman processed to witchcraft. Shortly after the arrival of Jack, a country girl is killed in a mysterious way, dropping the suspicions of the Commissioner Gianzi on the young restorer, who is soon advised to not complete the work on the opera, because it would hide an ancient curse.
Genres: Crime Fantasy TV Movie Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-06-24
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La vera vita di Antonio H.
Overview: This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Italy, and his early life in the Middle East and follows him through the highs and lows of his acting career, using a combination of interviews with real-life colleagues, archival footage and improvised scenes along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-09-02
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San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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Centro storico
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Buon Lavoro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-06-07
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Chopin
Overview: A small town has its placid waters rocked when a 120-piece orchestra is slated to visit on a regular basis to offer special concerts to the community and its environs. The honor of conducting the orchestra seems like it will fall to Francesco (Michele Placido), the community's most well-established music teacher, and to insure his success, his ambitious wife starts sleeping with one of the organizers of the future concerts. Meanwhile, a disgruntled member of the organizing committee decides to muddy the waters by suggesting that another conductor (Andrea, a friend of Francesco's) be hired. Andrea is also a native son who went to the big city to find conducting work but ended up doing television jobs instead. When he receives the call about the prestigious job opportunity, he enthusiastically goes to the town but his wife refuses to join him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-31
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Raqmar
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Original Language: it
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