Barbara Cupisti

Acting

Barbara Cupisti

Born 1962-01-24 · Viareggio, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

Barbara Cupisti is an Italian award-winning documentary director with a long career as film actress. As an actress, she is well known outside of her native country by horror fans, who will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi and Dario Argento. As a director, she is considered one of the most talented female directors of documentaries in the world. Mostly focused on human rights, she said that her goal is to give voice to the people who don't have the opportunity to speak.

Acting credits

The Key poster
6.0

In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.

The Key

1983

Only You poster
6.7

Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named 'Damon Bradley', but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to marry podiatrist Dwayne in ten days, Faith receives a phone call from Dwayne's old classmate Damon Bradley, who is on his way to Venice. She impulsively decides to fly to Italy with the hope of finally encountering the man of her dreams. Accompanying her on the trip is her sister-in-law and best friend Kate, who has just left her husband, Faith's brother Larry.

Only You

1994

Eleven Days, Eleven Nights poster
5.1

In eleven days time, Michael is due to wed his fiancée Helen. However, a chance meeting with Sarah, a total stranger, threatens to destroy all his plans as he is seduced on the spot and finds himself unable to resist her.

Eleven Days, Eleven Nights

1987

Opera poster
6.7

A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

Opera

1987

Cemetery Man poster
6.9

Francesco Dellamorte is the groundskeeper at a cemetery where the dead just won’t stay dead—and it’s up to him to deal with those who come back to life with a hunger for human flesh. But Dellamorte’s job soon becomes much more complicated when he falls for an enigmatic young woman whose husband has recently died.

Cemetery Man

1994

The New York Ripper poster
6.3

A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

The New York Ripper

1982

The Church poster
6.1

In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.

The Church

1989

Stage Fright poster
6.4

While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.

Stage Fright

1987

Dark Bar poster
7.5

Anna, a young saxophone player, investigates her sister's disappearance with the help of a friend.

Dark Bar

1989

Flight from Paradise poster
8.5

In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom.

Flight from Paradise

1990

The Hell's Gate poster
4.7

As part of a science experiment, a man has spent a record-breaking length of time alone down a hole, but an hour before he's due to re-emerge, something goes wrong and his colleagues have to go in to rescue him.

The Hell's Gate

1989

Il bambino e il poliziotto poster
6.0

Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Seeing that Carlo is the person responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until his mother is freed. Carlo does everything possible to have Social Services or somebody look after the kid but is told by the Courts that he is the best candidate for his custody until a better one is found. Even though Giulio manages to turn Carlo's life inside out he ends up getting to like the kid and falling for the kid's mother, Rosanna, while she is in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out for dinner.

Il bambino e il poliziotto

1989

No artwork available
8.0

A retrospective look at the making of Michele Soavi's "The Church" including interviews with cast and crew.

Il mistero della cattedrale

2017

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 poster
6.0

This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

2008

Scandalous Crimes poster
4.0

In Parma, conversing with a CSM judge from Rome, the judge Bocchi tells what intrigues are hidden behind the beautiful and charming facade of the city, referring in detail to the latest and most 'chatted episode. It begins when Bocchi interrogates Giulio, a handsome and unassuming young man, for reasons of strangling, and invites him to collaborate with justice.

Scandalous Crimes

1999

Eyewitness poster
5.4

Elisa is the only witness to a savage murder that takes place in a department store after hours. And yet, as a blind woman, she’s unable to visually describe the killer. Soon, the psychopath is after her too, and will stop at nothing to eliminate Elisa… and everyone around her.

Eyewitness

1990

L'anno prossimo... vado a letto alle dieci poster
5.4

This rollicking Italian black comedy follows the hellish, bizarre New Year's Eve night of two average guys who find themselves stumbling from one outlandish situation to the next. After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man tags along to the party his friend is attending, leading to a series of misadventures.

L'anno prossimo... vado a letto alle dieci

1995

Teeth poster
6.5

Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his extra-large smile.

Teeth

2000

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vietato sognare

2008

Dream Time poster
6.0

Spaghetti westerns, giallo, mondo... are the legacy of a golden age in Italian genre filmmaking, which began in the sixties and came to an end in the eighties, but not without leaving behind a few final masterpieces. This film explores, a few decades later, what became of those filmmakers and their films. A number of the most famous survivors of Italian horror movies will help to shed light on what happened.

Dream Time

2023

Consigli per gli acquisti poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

Consigli per gli acquisti

1997

The Flesh and the Devil poster
8.0

Colombia 1662: In the Spanish colonies there the Inquisition: apostates are tortured, burned witches. The indigenous people are demonized and in the middle are two friends into enemies. The doctor Alfonso should marry the eldest daughter of the wealthy Don Ramon, but her other two sisters hedges of deadly intrigue. Father Guzman plays a spy of the church is a dangerous game that will be fatal for him and the mysterious Esmeralda turned all men's head.

The Flesh and the Devil

1992

Strong Arms poster
6.6

This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The events he describes sound just like those of Brescia, and Claudia, who still grieves for her sister, begins to wonder if Tancredi is telling the truth. Her investigation proves that he is lying, but it leads her to wonder why he has chosen her as his psychoanalyst. After talking to her husband, Claudia visits her old mentor who suggests she continue working with Tancredi but warns her not to call in the police. After that the story frequently jumps to 1998. By then Claudia and her newborn baby have become part of the witness protection program and she is preparing to testify against those involved in covering up government-sponsored terrorist activity.

Strong Arms

1997

Il volo di Teo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il volo di Teo

1990

Behind the camera

Wartime Notes poster
NR

24 February 2022. In Ukraine, everyday life flows like any other day. The first bombings arrive, forcing many to leave the country, others to take up arms, almost everyone to face separations, fears, the absence of basic necessities and bereavement. The film is the director's journey, driven by the need to get to the emotional epicentre of this conflict, which starts in Warsaw and travels through the cities of Lviv and Odessa and the forgotten countryside of Ukraine, to Kyiv, Irpin, Bucha, Borodyanka. She meets those who crossed the border to survive or help the resistance, or those who remained in their homeland continuing to fight to defend their country and their culture.

Wartime Notes

2023

Wartime Notes poster
NR

24 February 2022. In Ukraine, everyday life flows like any other day. The first bombings arrive, forcing many to leave the country, others to take up arms, almost everyone to face separations, fears, the absence of basic necessities and bereavement. The film is the director's journey, driven by the need to get to the emotional epicentre of this conflict, which starts in Warsaw and travels through the cities of Lviv and Odessa and the forgotten countryside of Ukraine, to Kyiv, Irpin, Bucha, Borodyanka. She meets those who crossed the border to survive or help the resistance, or those who remained in their homeland continuing to fight to defend their country and their culture.

Wartime Notes

2023

My America poster
NR

The United States is considered a symbol of freedom, the great social experiment made of democratic principles, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. But does this ideal of prosperity and individual freedom reflect the life of all American citizens? My America recounts today's United States: a nation grappling with increasingly complex social problems and heightened political tensions that have weakened the distinctive characteristics of what is considered the most powerful democracy in the world. Besides this social malaise, there is also the ability and determination of regular citizens who try to challenge and repair the country's moral fiber.

My America

2020

My America poster
NR

The United States is considered a symbol of freedom, the great social experiment made of democratic principles, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. But does this ideal of prosperity and individual freedom reflect the life of all American citizens? My America recounts today's United States: a nation grappling with increasingly complex social problems and heightened political tensions that have weakened the distinctive characteristics of what is considered the most powerful democracy in the world. Besides this social malaise, there is also the ability and determination of regular citizens who try to challenge and repair the country's moral fiber.

My America

2020

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Io sono. Storie di schiavitù

2011

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Io sono. Storie di schiavitù

2011

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NR

A Donatello award nominated documentary.

Fratelli & Sorelle - Storie di carcere

2012

No artwork available
NR

A Donatello award nominated documentary.

Fratelli & Sorelle - Storie di carcere

2012

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vietato sognare

2008

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vietato sognare

2008

Mothers poster
NR

Through the testimonies of Israeli and Palestinian mothers living in a land torn apart by endless war, terrified that their children will not return home, the film shows the conflicts and private dramas that tell the story of history. A collection of testimonies of life, everyday moments, archive footage, and private video material to tell stories of pain and anger.

Mothers

2007

Ni primera ni dama poster
NR

In a world where tradition and power are often synonymous with stagnation, Irina Karamanos, a young anthropologist and political activist (and former partner of Chile’s current president, Gabriel Boric), is breaking the mold. In 2022, she accepted and dismantled the role of First Lady, refusing to be a mere symbolic figure, shaking up Latin American society and inspiring new generations. Irina fought gender stereotypes and protected democracy, returning political power to those who rightfully deserve it: the people who were actually elected.

Ni primera ni dama

2026