
Acting
Francesca Antonelli
Born 1972-11-10 · Rome, Italy
Acting credits
5.8A 'period' piece set in the hot summer of 2011, in the midst of the Berlusconi era. The life of a quiet corner market is shaken when the mayor decides to close it down. The only political organization people can turn to is the local section of the Democratic Party, which is separated from the market by a concrete wall, built to allow the construction of the subway.
Arance & martello
2014
NRSwimming in a public pool, a young boy faces great danger.
Aquarium
2018
5.9Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento.
DeGenerazione
1994
6.0Alex Belli is a 37 year old advertising executive whose fiancée Elena has just left him, and who is having difficulty at work trying to think of a good advertising campaign for a new Japanese product. Niki is a bubbly 17 year old student. She has three best friends with whom she shares all her problems, and an annoying ex-boyfriend Fabio who is set on getting her back, but Niki's not interested. One day on his way to work, Alex collides with Niki on a city street. They soon begin a romance, despite their 20-year age gap.
Sorry if I Love You
2008
5.3Second part of the film "Sorry if I love you". Alex (Raoul Bova) and Niki (Michela Quattrociocche) are more in love than ever. They have just returned from the lighthouse on the island Blu where they have lived unforgettable days. Niki returns to see his friends, but a number of important changes in their lives will test the friendship of the girls. Alex also resume life with his old friends. All of them, Flavio, Enrico and Pietro, are no longer serene and safe husbands due to certain difficulties that have compromised their marriages.
Sorry if I Want to Marry You
2010
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Maledetto tempo
2026
6.4In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
Dry
2022
7.3One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to join St. Ignatius of Loyola's new order of Jesuits and be a missionary to India, Philip was instead guided by Providence to seek out the poor and abandoned youth of Rome to catechize them in the faith and help them find a better life. He became the founder of the religious congregation, the Oratory, that worked with the youth and also labored to re-evangelize a decadent Rome.
Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven
2010
4.2In 1838 in the kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies, Malacarne, gamekeeper of Baron San Germano, kills the bandit Caruso, whose widow gives birth to Giovanni and at the same time becomes the nurse of Costanza, San Germano’s orphaned daughter. Thirteen years later, Giovanni and Costanza fall in love to the jealousy of her uncle, who shuts her in a convent, ordering Giovanni to be killed by Malacarne who has meanwhile become a bandit. Barely alive, Giovanni is taken away by Bourbon soldiers. After Garibaldi’s arrival in Sicily and its union with Italy, Costanza is freed from the convent and returns to San Germano. She is visited by Giovanni and although still loves him, rejects him since she wishes to become a nun. In the meantime, Giovanni kills Malacarne and takes his place. Costanza marries the rich Lo Turco and the next day departs for Naples, but during the journey the carriage is attacked by Giovanni’s band. Costanza flees with him and they leave for America.
Bandits: Love and Liberty
1994
5.7No synopsis available yet.
Un Natale stupefacente
2014
7.2With her father on trial, 15-year-old Mignon leaves Paris to stay with her Italian relatives. The rather prim, snooty teen at first struggles to fit in with the more earthy Forbicioni family, each with their own problems. Eventually she bonds with her lovestruck little cousin Giorgio—who'll learn important life lessons over the course of his summer with Mignon.
Mignon Has Left
1988
No synopsis available yet.
The World Upside Down
1996
NRIt's Serena's wedding day. The girl is worried about the absence of Nicola, her brother. Turns out she doesn't know that this day, which is so important to Serena, is probably not so joyful for Nicola.
Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
2022
This film exposes the hidden dangers of dating apps driven by the urgent consumption of sex and entertainment. Behind simple profile pictures often hide pathological narcissists and ambiguous characters. Looking for fleeting encounters, they prey on vulnerable users through flattery and deception. In this virtual world, emotional connection is entirely absent. Everyone becomes a mere object of desire in a perverse, addictive game of dominance and submission that detaches users from reality. Ultimately, the virtual realm takes over, leading to a profound depersonalization where human beings are completely stripped of their humanity.
L'altro te
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6.5The life of a working-class boy in Rome through the '70s and '80s, choosing his own path with his friends and family.
The Fifth Wheel
2013
6.7Giulio suddenly finds himself having to change his life when his wife, after discovering his betrayal, asks for a separation and, suddenly, the reality around him is no longer the same. Forty years old and father of two children, Giulio is forced by circumstances to say goodbye to family and economic well-being and to study new solutions in order to stay afloat and not drown in a new poverty made of double rents and double bills to pay, solitary lunches in fourth-rate restaurants, children's wishes not to be ignored and creditors to hide from.
Balancing Act
2012
Summer 1969 is very special for Andrea a 13 year-old boy who is about to leave, with his family, for a little village on the hills surrounding a great lake in Northern Italy. There he finds, like every year, his uncles, aunts, cousins, a fascinating mother, a father always away on business trips, a grandfather who does not want to grow old and a granny who talks to trees. During this summer he makes his first discoveries about life and love and abandons the illusions and the magic of childhood.
Ardena
1997
7.0Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel...
Bakunin's Son
1997
5.7One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.
The Match
2020
6.0A convicted terrorist out on parole meets a man she nearly murdered 15 years before, without recognizing him. He does so, but he chooses to keep quiet and spend time with her—desperate to understand the reasons behind her gesture.
The Second Time
1995
5.3A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.
The House of Smiles
1991
6.7No synopsis available yet.
Rino Gaetano - Ma il cielo è sempre più blu
2007
8.7Rome, 1947. The war is over but in the eternal city is still open and obvious wounds of the conflict. In the maternity ward of a hospital, nine women are waiting to give birth...
Forget You Not
2006
Vincenzina is a courageous woman, president of a charity association: her story is intertwined with that of Beatrice, a girl who lost a leg in an accident. When Beatrice's desperate mother turns to Vincenzina for help, the woman decides to intervene, triggering a journey of memories that leads her to confront her own painful past.
Nata due volte
2025