Lina Sastri
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Italy
Birthday: November 17, 1953
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Gender: Female
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David
Overview: A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rousing victories. A simple shepherd boy chosen to be king, under the watchful eyes of prophet Samuel.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-03-23
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Saint Rita
Overview: Cascia, 14th century, Rita Liotti falls in love, gets married and has two children. Her dream of love is soon hindered by a masculine and violent society, that Rita faces with peace and forgiveness. When she loses her husband and her children, she understands she has a mission: pursuing her path of peace, that will lead her to take the vows, and then to become Saint. Rita is a Saint of these days, who lived in a very violent age and was so brave to break free from the vengeance chain, through a deep, sincere and christian forgiveness. She is a particular Saint, talking to everybody’s hearts, as she was everything. She was a daugher, a wife, a mother and a nun, she experienced every sort of life, and in all her different lives she was a living model of christian life.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-09-26
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Ecce Bombo
Overview: Michele, Goffredo, Mirko and Vito are four friends who have participated in the battles of the student in Sixties. Now in the Seventies, the four friends don't know what to do, though young and with so many possibilities to find a job in life. Intellectuals marginalized and misunderstood, the four friends find themselves when they can in a restaurant to discuss their outlandish theories. A girl named Olga disrupts their life, but Michele is her favorite, although he does not know what to do with the girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-08
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Excellent Cadavers
Overview: Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
Genres: Drama Thriller History TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-16
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A Brighter Tomorrow
Overview: An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
Overview: A talented guitarist tries to make a living out of his music, ending up to collaborate with an unreliable manager and a famous pianist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-11-30
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Discovery at Dawn
Overview: Thirty years after the disappearance of her father, a university professor who was targeted by radicals in the '70s, a woman discovers a way to communicate with her past self and tries to prevent the tragedy that marred the life of her family, but she learns that not everything was as she thought.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-01-09
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Passione
Overview: John Turturro tells, shooting alleys and testimonies of real neapolitan people, the history and musical culture of Napoli, attending every event and tale with a song.
Genres: History Music Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-04
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Li chiamarono... briganti!
Overview: The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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Where's Picone?
Overview: During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-01-12
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Saint John Bosco Mission to Love
Overview: Piedmont (Italy), nineteenth century. In Turin, the priest Don Bosco, a man from a humble farming family, he gave himself totally and passionately to the task of collecting from the streets to marginalized children and care for them. Not only out of poverty, ignorance and social distress, but it got for the first time, to feel loved. He fought with extraordinary faith and tenacity to overcome obstacles and snares that both the civilian and ecclesiastical authorities, they put in their path to prevent him from completing his goal: the founding of the Congregation of the Salesians, which would guarantee the future of their children .
Genres: Adventure Family History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-09-22
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Strangled Lives
Overview: Francesco is an entrepreneur in the building industry. His company is near to collapse if it doesn't win a deal to build a new school complex. It needs at least 60 million liras to participate to the deal, but all the banks refuse to lend the money. A corrupt bank employee introduces him to Claudio, apparently an assistant of Sergio, Francesco's old school friend. Sergio is an accountant available to lend Francesco the money he needs. Francesco wins the deal, but soon he discovers that Claudio is not what he says.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-23
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Celluloide
Overview: June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Poker Generation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-04-13
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La ballata dei gusci infranti
Overview: Four stories set in the Sibillini mountains, in the heart of Italy
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-03-31
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The Inquiry
Overview: A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-26
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La posta in gioco
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-03-08
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Piccoli equivoci
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Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-05-19
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St. Peter
Overview: Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles' dispersal. In the second half, an aged Peter goes to Rome to join Paul, arriving on the day of Paul's arrest. Paul's death brings a crisis to Rome's Christians and to Peter; lessons from Jesus's teachings guide his decision to stay. Events within the fictive household of Persius, a Roman aristocrat, capture the upheaval that Christian teachings bring to the Eternal City.
Genres: Drama Family TV Movie History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-10-24
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'o Tuono 'e Marzo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-03
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Secrets Secrets
Overview: Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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Sophia!
Overview: A documentary crossing all aspects of Sophia Loren's life: cinema, entertainment, private life, triumphs, challenges, suffering. How was the star born? How was a cinematographic archetype built? Childhood during the war in Naples, a beloved family, her mother Romilda, her beginnings at Cinecittà, her triumphs of Hollywood and her great love with Carlo Ponti.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-20
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Hearts and Armour
Overview: Love during wartime blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a female knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. A sorceress predicts to Bradamante that her beloved will die in battle at the hand of a fellow Christian paladin, Rolando, whom in turn is in love with Isabella, Ruggero's sister.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Women in Arms
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-01-09
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Brown Bread Sandwiches
Overview: A 1957 period piece about Italian immigrants in Toronto.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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La casa di Ninetta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-05-31
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Laura's Wedding
Overview: When love blossoms between a young Italian woman and an African student, her family’s disapproval — and a secret — threatens to tear the lovers apart.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-12-08
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Woman of Wonders
Overview: In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, an anonymous "dream woman" has been calling him for some seductive phone exchanges. As he searches out the identity of the mystery caller he is also distracted by Luisa who starts to insinuate herself back into his affections. Sooner or later, Alberto will just have to decide how to handle his love life, which in the end may only be mesmerizing to himself alone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-06
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Sun in My Eyes
Overview: After her longtime marriage ends painfully, a lawyer finds new purpose by working at a refugee center, where she meets a child that changes her life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-02-02
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'Na Santarella
Overview: Happy Sciosciammocca has a double life: he plays sacred music in the convent of Rondinelle and teaches music to the educators, at night he goes to Naples where he is known as the actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-01
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Im Herzen des Lichts – Die Nacht der Primadonnen
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Genres: Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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Baaria
Overview: Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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To Rome with Love
Overview: Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and he seizes the opportunity to rejuvenate his own flagging career; a young couple have separate romantic interludes; a spotlight shines on an ordinary man.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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Li nepute de lu sinneco
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-31
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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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Prigioniero della mia libertà
Overview: Alejandro Torres, a young architect, lives a quiet life with his family until the day he is unjustly arrested. Traumatized by the miscarriage of justice and desperate for the truth, he will carry out his "revenge" on those who have turned his life upside down.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-05-31
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Strana la vita
Overview: A psychologist acquires wife and lover of a friend of him. But he has two more relationships yet. What will he do with four women following him?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-03-11
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La bella Otero
Overview: The story tells the life, the successes, the loves and the decadence of Augustine Caroline Otéro Iglesias, called "La Bella Otéro". The history of a Spanish actor, who - despite being born poor - became a symbol of the Belle Époque and one of the first dives of silent cinema.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-05
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Le lunghe ombre
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Christmas at the Cupiello Household
Overview: Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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I Am the Law
Overview: Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-23
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Lu Curaggio De Nu Pumpiero Napulitano
Overview: Thanks to the legacy of an English lord, the cobbler Andrea has become a baron and now has delusions of nobility: he wants a high-ranking marriage for his stepdaughter Virginia and does not recognize the brothers of his wife, Rosina and Michele, even after the latter has saved the his house from a fire. Virginia does not like her promised Marchese Alberto, but Felice Sciosciammocca, a shy and poor master of calligraphy, who reciprocates her. But when Felice learns that the girl will soon marry another, out of spite he accepts the court of the late Marquise Zoccola, Alberto's mother.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-19
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Ballerina
Overview: The film tells the story of an aspiring dancer who from Eastern Europe is reached in Italy with the mirage of realizing the dream of her life which instead turns into a nightmare. Against her will she will be forced into prostitution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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Yaya & Lennie - The Walking Liberty
Overview: Immersed in the jungle, among relics of a "forgotten future", two kids, Yaya and Lennie, meander. The two live freely in their Eden until armed men, who carry with them an "ancient" concept of civilization, force them to leave their territory. It is the beginning of a journey in search of their place in a world that no longer belongs to man.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-11-04
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Buon Lavoro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-06-07
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The Magic Screen
Overview: The time is the late 1920s, and Angelo and Tonino are two brothers traveling around the country in a rattle-trap truck, showing moving pictures to any group of people willing to pay. When they arrive in the region of Emilia-Romagna, Angelo strikes up a relationship with a wealthy marchesa connected to the fascist movement. Tonino, on the other hand, starts to follow the rebellious Giovanni, locked up for his anti-fascist stance, and the farmers who have joined in the anti-fascist forces. As the rebels are either murdered or put in prison, Tonino becomes more and more commited to their cause - especially after Giovanni is killed. When a silent movie on the condemned and dying Christ is shown on the brothers' screen, Tonino stops the action to project some slides he has taken that show who murdered Giovanni - in an action that calls for his brother and the rest of the bystanders to finally make a decision on where to place their loyalties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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