
Ida Di Benedetto
Actor · b. 1945 · Naples, Italy
From Wikipedia Ida Di Benedetto (born 3 June 1945) is an Italian actress and film producer. She appeared in 53 films and television shows between 1974 and 2004. She starred in the film The Whores, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. She won the Nastro d'Argento (Silver Ribbon) for Best Supporting Actress in 1981 for her supporting role as Maria Rosa in Fontamara and the following year she won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actress for Immacolata e Concetta.
Movies22
Movie6.0DramaIn the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.
Movie6.0CrimeHorrorStory about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.
Movie5.8ComedyA couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.
Movie5.7ActionCrimeAn Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.
Pizza Connection
1985 · 30 votes
Movie8.0DramaIn North Africa, a father and his illegitimate son are in love with the same woman.
Movie6.0DramaTV MovieThe people of Jerusalem are suffering under the reign of Herod, and are hoping to be delivered from the Roman occupiers by the Messiah whose arrival, it is rumored, is to take place very soon. Unlike his nephew Judas, who wants to join the zealots (freedom fighters), 35 year old widower Joseph is not interested in participating in any fighting against the Romans.
Movie5.8DramaA woman experiences psychic disintegration and ends up in a psychiatric hospital.
Movie4.3DramaSeveral actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia.
Movie5.5ComedyTwo back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
Movie5.6DramaOrlanda, Liuccia, Milù, Blu Blu and Veronica are five women in Palermo, Sicily, each different from the other. But, along with transvestite Kim and young man Maurizio, they all share something: they're "buttane", hookers, who spend the day between the streets and home; some got children, some got problems with the pimps, some with the clients...
Movie6.6ComedyHistory1770. Young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with “normal” boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius.
Movie3.8ComedyIn Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.
Più bello di così si muore
1982 · 8 votes
Movie4.3DramaThe film begins on New Year’s Eve 2001 when Angelica attempts suicide by somewhat theatrically cutting her wrists in the bath. Over the weeks that follow we learn all about the complexities of her life and her three best friends, the quartet of the title.
Movie4.7DramaRomanceA love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".
Movie4.9DramaBased on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.
Movie7.1DramaThirty years of Neapolitan history (from 1942 to 1972) through the ups and downs of the Cavioli and Pagano families.
Movie7.0ThrillerCrimePina Acciai, a fortune teller dedicated to usury, is found dead in her apartment with her skull smashed in. The police try to shed light on the matter and discover that all the tenants of the building could have a motive.
Morte di una Strega
1996 · 1 votes
Movie7.3ComedyTony is a young Neapolitan musician. He has a lot of problems and a past with drugs, but also with women. He is engaged to Susy, but he betrays her with a university professor, who has an invalid husband, but also with other young aspiring singers, who try in every way to break into the world of music. Among these there is Elena, engaged in various difficulties to organize a concert with the best names of Neapolitan music.
Blues metropolitano
1985 · 2 votes
Movie5.5DramaAn impoverished young man from Sicily travels to Wolfsburg, West Germany to find work. He takes a job in the Volkswagen factory after he travels through Northern Italy by train.
Movie10.0ComedyThe story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser who has ruined him; and the Snake, a male strip-teaser who has traveled all over the world on cruising boats, a tough guy made tougher after a treachery by one of his friends. They meet in jail, where they are kept for different reasons and a strong, brotherly link is born between them.
Fratella e Sorello
2005 · 1 votes
Movie6.5DramaMusicTradimento
1982 · 6 votes
Movie3.7In a southern villa after the fall of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies live Donna Clotilde and Donna Gesualda. The first is a Bourbon baroness who rejects the new world and the Italian language. The other is the poor relative with duties as a maid. Apart from the village priest, they see no one. Then her nephew Ferdinando arrives at the villa, young, handsome, and squirming.
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TV5.5ComedyI ragazzi del muretto is an Italian television series.
I ragazzi del muretto
1991 · 3 votes
TV6.4Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyTreasure Island in Outer Space is a 1987 science fiction Italian and German television miniseries directed by Antonio Margheriti. It is based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, setting the story in space on the year 2300. The series was produced by RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana in co-production with West Germany and France, and directed by Anthony M. Dawson. It is the biggest sci-fi production of Italian television. The miniseries of 5 episodes of 100 min was originally aired in Italy from November 19, 1987 on RAI Due channel. It was also adapted as a 120 min film. The miniseries is also known as Space Island (UK and Norway, USA on VHS) and Der Schatz im All (Germany).
TVCrimeMysteryL'indizio
1982
TV9.0CrimeEverything revolves around a virus that manipulates people, a vaccine against this virus, and secret research findings that a major power learns about through betrayal. In this cynical game, any means are justified to get hold of the vaccine: kidnapping, murder, intrigue, lies, and deceit. No easy task for journalist Norma Desmond, whose son was killed in an attack, and Alwin Westen, who hope to track down those behind it all...
Mit den Clowns kamen die Tränen
1990 · 1 votes