
Rosa Pianeta
Actor · b. 1955 · Torino, Italy
Movies23
Movie6.1DramaThrillerSeminary student Michael Kovak reluctantly attends exorcism school at the Vatican. While he’s in Rome, Michael meets an unorthodox priest who introduces him to the darker side of his faith, uncovering the devil’s reach even to one of the holiest places on Earth.
The Rite
2011 · 2.3K votes
Movie5.9ComedyDramaA young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
CQ
2001 · 77 votes
Movie4.7ComedyRomanceStranded and alone on a desert island during a cruise, a spoiled rich woman and a deckhand fall in love and make a date to reunite after their rescue.
Swept Away
2002 · 323 votes
Movie5.7HorrorThrillerParis, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...
Movie7.3ComedyDramaThe film follows Nello, the recently hired director of a newly developed work cooperative of former mental patients. After the closure of state psychiatric hospitals and asylums in Italy under the Basaglia Law many former patients were left with few resources and little hope of reintegrating into society. With the intention of actually improving the lives of his pupils, rather than just sedating them, Nello encourages them to expand their individual abilities and explore the wider world around them although, regardless of intention, there is sometimes a price to pushing boundaries too quickly.
Movie6.4DramaCrimeNovember 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?
Movie6.2DramaMusicA funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed in a wonderful way by famed actor and later director Sergio Castellitto.
Rossini! Rossini!
1991 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaAlina is a brilliant and enterprising woman who runs a successful art gallery in Palermo. Her husband Daniele, a successful orchestra conductor, cultured and intelligent, is not a regular presence. One day, while accompanying Daniele to the airport, Alina feels a sense of emptiness. She will try to fill it with a butcher who is always joking and full of erotic allusions and who arouses a strong attraction in her.
Movie6.7ComedyTwo cousins haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia.
La matassa
2009 · 496 votes
Movie7.2DramaRomanceAfter being released from an Italian prison, British officer Eric Newby must find his way out of Italy before the Germans come. However, he is injured on the way and is left behind from his fellow soldiers. He is helped out by the local Italians, and he meets Wanda, a beautiful local girl who helps him learn Italian so he can escape. Slowly, their small friendship turns into a romance, but with the Germans looking for Eric, they are kept apart, not knowing what will happen.
In Love and War
2001 · 5 votes
Movie8.0ComedyCarogne - Ciro and Me
1995 · 1 votes
Movie6.5ComedyAlex, Ivo and Pacifico three Sicilian twin brothers are reunited for their father's funeral.
La fame e la sete
1999 · 67 votes
Movie6.4ComedyDramaGaetano works in the historic center of Rome. During the summer months he keeps his nephew Aurelio, a nine-year-old, as a helper.
Nestore, l'ultima corsa
1994 · 28 votes
Movie6.8DramaComedyFederico Fellini welcomes us into his world of film making with a mockumentary about his life in film, as a Japanese film crew follows him around.
Intervista
1987 · 96 votes
MovieAdventureThe Population has been decimated. The survivors began to kill themselves and themselves, no one found any more sense to give birth to children... but not for everyone... there are some who, keeping their human nature intact, did not give up and organized themselves to survive. Due to a sudden arrival, a group of nine surviving members whose day is marked by scouting for food, working at ovens, and queuing for water will have to contend with the harsh reality outside their shelter. The boys will face a dark sect of monks, heinous raiders, and a sinister presence in the woods. Old-world grudges and violence will resurface among the boys, leading to revelations and twists until the unexpected epilogue.
Hope
2012
Movie4.8DramaEnza is a beautiful and lively Sicilian teenager who is starting out in life, but due to her naivety, she always ends up getting into trouble. She has no parents, but lives with her aunt and uncle together with her older sister who acts as her mother and tries to put her on the right path, even ending up in prison for some time. Enza, keeping faith with her rebellious nature, falls in love with Sebastiano, with whom she has her first sexual relations, but for him she also goes as far as stealing. All men are the same.
La ribelle
1993 · 11 votes
Movie8.0DramaFrancesco and Elena, Roberto and Flavia, Thomas and Virginia, make up a fixed and tight-knit company for three years now, they are all living in Rome and come from good families. Elena and Francesco are two twenty-five and to be married, Roberto and Flavia are twenty years and in love with the impetus of youth; Tommaso and Virginia are two singles that have in common the fact that they feel out of lace in the world. The union of these characters will be shocked by the death of Francesco as a result of a car accident, the loss of his friend upset the lives of everyone.
Dopo quella notte
2010 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyTV MovieIl destino ha 4 zampe
2002 · 3 votes
Movie6.3ComedyIl grande botto
2000 · 19 votes
Movie7.0RomanceDramaYoung Dutch widow Emilie travels to a seaside resort in Italy, where she falls in love with Italian officer Aldo. Meanwhile, her deceased husband's assistant Hugo plans to propose to her as soon as the period of mourning is over.
Movie6.3DramaThe last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide.
MovieDramaHistory
Movie9.0DramaLuisa, a young volcanologist, is sent to a villa to install the technical instruments to survey Mount Vesuvius. Here she meets Mariano, a member of the camorra, that has just discovered that he has been betrayed he decided to break off completely from those he considered his friends. Luisa and Mariano have nothing in common except for a deep sense of the failure they are experiencing and which attracts them to each other. Between the young woman, exploited and disillusioned by an ambitious colleague, and the mature ex-criminal, the spark of friendship is kindled.
La vita degli altri
2002 · 1 votes
Series4
TV6.3DramaComedyDon Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
TV8.7DramaIn Rome in the thirties lives Nito Valdi, a difficult boy just out of the reformatory, who works for a local boss together with his friend Tony. The meeting with the beautiful Carmen will take Nito's life to an unexpected turn: after the loss of his greatest friend, with the arrival of fascism Valdi approaches the Blackshirts, while he becomes Carmen's worst nightmare. Nito is obsessed with her and wants her at any cost. But Carmen is expecting a child with Giancarlo, scion of one of the most prominent families in Rome: the Fontamaras. The story of Carmen and Nito, who turns out to be a Nazi psychopath, is intertwined with that of the Fontamaras, who have just discovered that they have Jewish origins and therefore must leave Italy to avoid falling victim to those like Valdi.
Il peccato e la vergogna
2010 · 3 votes
TV6.8DramaThe amazing details and events in Padre Pio's life as a boy and throughout his 50 years as a friar. Padre Pio was a man of great faith and devotion, deep spiritual concern for others, and great compassion for the sick and suffering, but he was persecuted by the church.
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The coach of a small-town soccer team finds himself dealing with an illegal betting ring that is disrupting the normal course of the games. He feels he must take action.