Maya Sansa
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Biography: Maya Sansa (born 25 September 1975) is an Italian actress. Maya Sansa was born in Rome the daughter of an Iranian father and an Italian mother. When she was 14, she started to study acting at her high school in Rome the "Virgilio". She then moved to London to study at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. There she graduated in acting and was soon picked by Marco Bellocchio to take part in his new film: La balia. Maya later worked with Bellocchio for a second time, starring in the film Goodmorning, Night. Sansa has also worked with Marco Tullio Giordana in the film The Best of Youth. On 2 May 2004 The New York Times published an article which named her as the new image of Italian cinema. On 14 June 2013, she won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Dormant Beauty. She has a daughter, Talitha, with her partner Fabrice Scott with whom she lives in Paris. Source: Article "Maya Sansa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Birthday: September 25, 1975
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Gender: Female
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Looking for Monica
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-01-01
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Good Morning, Night
Overview: The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-05
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Nella terra di nessuno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-09-21
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The Best of Youth
Overview: After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lifepaths of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family diverge, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-06-22
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Female Agents
Overview: May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Special Operations Executive commando group under the command of Louise Desfontaines and her brother Pierre. Their mission, to rescue a British army geologist caught reconnoitering the beaches at Normandy.
Genres: War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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Gasoline
Overview: Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-05-31
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The Man Who Will Come
Overview: A group of Italian villagers struggle to survive during a tumultuous time in 1943, debating how much assistance to give the partisans with the impending arrival of the Germans. Based on True Events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-10-16
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An Italian Romance
Overview: Giovanni, a married man with a child, meets on a train Maria, a former lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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My Paper Dolls
Overview: End of the 70s in the Treviso area. Two decisive moments in the lives of three teenagers of the Bottacin family: Primo, Anna and Tiberio. The passage from puberty to pre-adolescence experienced between first loves and rugby matches and that from the world of the countryside to the world of the city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-07-13
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Un altro mondo
Overview: Andrea is a twentysomething from a rich but cold family who leads a superficial life devoid of responsibility. After receiving a letter from his dying father, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child, Andrea reluctantly joins him in Kenya to bid him farewell. Once there, he'll find himself with a rather singular inheritance: an 8-year-old half-brother that his father had from a local woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-12-21
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The Black Sheep
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-10-01
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The First Man
Overview: Based on a novel that Albert Camus was working on when he died, we follow Jacques Comery as he travels back to Algeria in 1957, a place full of childhood memories. The country is split between those wanting to remain a part of France, and those demanding independence. Reminiscences of his mother, his stern grandmother and a young Arab boy come flooding back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Il vestito da sposa
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Il prossimo tuo
Overview: Rome, Paris and Helsinki right after the Madrid bombings. Three stories about people who, for different reasons, are afraid of others – the eponymous "thy neighbor." A humanity full of differences, but at the same time, with very similar feelings. So similar that their stories appear almost parallel and complementary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-06-19
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Two Sunny Days
Overview: Peter and Martina are a tourist couple on a vacation on the Croatian coast. Both are successful and in their prime. However, the couple is going through a crisis. Both are frustrated and unsatisfied with their lives. They hope this vacation will help save their relationship. They both hope that this, long expected vacation will improve their relationship. They go on a mountain trip, and they get lost. Far from their usual comfort, confronted with the raw nature, they are left with no other option but to face one another...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hr
Release Date: 2010-07-18
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Dormant Beauty
Overview: A mosaic of several intertwined stories questioning the meaning of life, love and hope, set during the last six days in the life of Eluana Englaro, a young woman who spent 17 years in a vegetative state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-09-01
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Cycling with Molière
Overview: Serge Tanneur is at the pinnacle of his acting career when he decides to turn his back on show business and become a hermit living off of France’s Atlantic coast. Three years later, Gauthier Valence, a beloved TV actor, shows up on the island to offer Serge a role in his directorial debut – a rendition of Molière’s classic play, “The Misanthrope”. Serge refuses at first, but then suggests that they rehearse the first scene and after five days he’ll decide if he wants to dothe play or not. What ensues is a battle of brawn and wits and peculiar encounters with a hotel maid who longs to be a pornstar and an Italian divorcée.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-16
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Meeting with an Angel
Overview: Judith, a young nurse, is so meek in front of her husband Roland, that she can't manage to tell him that she has lost her job. When he learns this, he starts to follow her...He discovers that in a secret life, she is another mysterious and sublime person.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-06-01
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Revoir Paris
Overview: Three months after surviving a terrorist attack in a bistro, Mia is still traumatized and unable to recall the events of that night. In an effort to move forward, she investigates her memories and retraces her steps.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-07
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See How They Dance
Overview: A French video artist traverses Canada on a train that takes her from the east to the west through the snow. This journey leads her to encounter the last girlfriend of her ex-husband, an internationally respected showman who is now dead. Each of the two women will try to understand how the "man of their life" loved and lived with the other. See how they dance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-08-03
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The Nanny
Overview: Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to leave her own baby behind. To the consternation and increasing anger of the wife, the nanny immediately bonds with the couple's infant son - Annette's a natural. Against a backdrop of leftist demonstrations, Annette, who's lover is a teacher jailed for subversion, asks the doctor to teach her to read and write. Her nature and curiosity, the doctor's bland ideas, he and his wife's problems, and the two infants bring the story to a head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-05-21
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La voce naturale - Giving Voice
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-05-08
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Einstein
Overview: The relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-10-26
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Fuori dalle corde
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-11-10
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With the Grace of a God
Overview: Back in Genoa for the first time in twenty-five years, to attend the funeral of his best friend from when he was growing up, Luca reunites with the old gang of yore. All of them are sure that the late lamented had brought it on himself, with his dissipated lifestyle. Not Luca: he wants to know, investigate, understand. He searches his memory, in a city as changed as he is, as characters and situations reemerge ghost-like from a buried past, along with Luca’s own true nature, which he thought he had definitively tamed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-11-23
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The Good Life
Overview: Sylvain and Pierre have been running from the law ever since a custody battle with their mother pushed their father Yves into hiding ten years ago. But now that they’re older, the two brothers are road-weary and eager to take advantage of the perks of young adulthood. When the authorities discover their whereabouts, they are forced to move yet again and Pierre, the elder, disappears. Alone with his father on an island in the Loire River, Sylvain meets Gilda: his first girl, his first crush, and the first stop on his way to “the good life” – his own.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-09
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Storie sospese
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-09-03
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The Lithium Conspiracy
Overview: In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-07-27
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The Woman Dress
Overview: In this dark tale of an esoteric ritual, a woman enters a shadowy laboratory where three witches attend a bubbling cauldron, surrounded by hanging skeletons of dresses. She is disrobed, led to a bath, laid in the water and her finger pricked to draw blood. The witches circle, chanting in strange tongues. As the smoke clears, we see the woman has made the ultimate sacrifice, transforming herself into the object of her desire.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-02-14
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The Third Part of the World
Overview: Emma meets François at an airport in France. He is an astronomer who studies the phenomenon of black holes, and Emma finds herself immediately taken with him. Their romance flourishes during a stay in the countryside. But one day, François disappears on a bicycle ride. Left alone in a big house, Emma becomes afraid and returns to Paris to continue her life as a real estate agent. Soon after, François' brother Michel contacts her and together they try to solve the mystery of François' disappearance. But when he encounters Emma, Michel begins to transform into a ghost. Emma slowly begins to realize she possesses a frightening power that she was not aware of.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-18
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La verità sta in cielo
Overview: In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-10-06
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The Royal Exchange
Overview: After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate an era of peace and prosperity that will heal the economies of both nations: his intention is to build a solid network of marriage alliances that will involve four children of very different ages who know nothing of betrayals and power games…
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-27
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The show MAS go on
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-09-02
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A Thread of Passion
Overview: A short film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-08-01
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Under the Starry Sky
Overview: The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a place for oneself in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-29
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Villa Amalia
Overview: Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-08
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The Truth
Overview: Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-10
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The Listening
Overview: Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-04-28
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I ragazzi dello Zecchino d’Oro
Overview: We are in the mid-60s, when a very young Mariele Ventre gave birth to the very first formation of the Piccolo Coro, originally composed of only eight children. In a few years the Piccolo Coro becomes a real school of choral singing. In its 56 years of history, there have been hundreds of small voices that have brought the music of Zecchino d’Oro and its repertoire around Italy and the world.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-11-03
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Lupo mannaro
Overview: Police chief Romeo becomes convinced that affluent professional Velasco is a serial killer known for mauling his victims with his teeth, but nobody believes him. The investigation slowly turns into a personal challenge between obsessive Romeo and stone-faced Velasco, an individual above suspicion — he murders people not because he has to, but simply because he can.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-12-07
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The App
Overview: Loving girlfriend, family fortune, breakout movie role: he's got it all. Until an app awakens a powerful new yearning. While in Rome to shoot his first movie, actor and industrial heir Niccolò becomes obsessed with the dating app "US" that sends him into a self-destructive spiral.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-12-26
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You Came Back
Overview: Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after his heartbreak following the loss of Leo, his first born with his former wife Clara. Suddenly, however Perla, the new owner where the couple lived until the tragic accident, bursts into Marco’s and his ex-wife’s lives. The mysterious woman claims she keeps feeling a strange presence and hearing the voice of a child that is tormenting her and her son. Marco therefore finds himself torn between the ties of the past and an unwritten future.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-10-08
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Security
Overview: After the assault of a young woman in their seaside town, a security expert and his family get caught in a powerful riptide of secrets and lies.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-06-07
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All Human Rights for All
Overview: Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-12-01
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Amo la tempesta
Overview: A gang of fathers and abandoned parents go to extreme measures to fight italian youngsters emigration by performing a reverse illegal immigration, kidnapping and smuggling their children out of Germany.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-08-06
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Sisters in Arms
Overview: Kenza and Yaël are two young French women who go to Syria to fight alongside the Kurdish forces. There they meet Zara, a Yezidi survivor. Born in different cultures but deeply united, the women-fighters heal their past wounds and discover their present strength, especially the fear they inspire in their opponents. The three young women soon bound together and become true sisters-in-arms.
Genres: Action War Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-09
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The Peacock’s Paradise
Overview: On a winter’s day, Nena gathers her family to celebrate her birthday. Il paradiso del pavone is a small journey into the intimacy and authenticity of human beings: a film about an extended family in which everyone talks but no one really listens. Until an unexpected event forces the family members to look into each other’s eyes and reveal themselves for what they really are.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-07-07
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Azuro
Overview: It’s summer, the heat is overwhelming and the weather is out of whack. A group of friends are enjoying their yearly holiday in their favorite little village, wedged between the sea and the mountains. As usual, they are bored and eat and drink a lot. They do not pay attention to the fire which progresses on the mountain nearby, nor to the world around them. But this year, a mysterious man arrives from the sea and shakes up their seemingly balanced existence...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-30
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My Night
Overview: Marion faces Paris at night with a feeling of vulnerability linked to the loss of her sister. She crosses paths with Alex. Their encounter will evolve at the rhythm of their wanderings through the city, like a journey through the night.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-03-09
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