Luisa Ranieri

Acting

Luisa Ranieri

Born

1973-12-16 (52)

Place of birth

Naples, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

51 titles

Luisa Ranieri was born on December 16, 1973, in Naples, Campania, Italy. She is an actress in theater, cinema, and television. In 2001, she made her debut on the big screen as the protagonist in the film "The Prince and the Pirate". She is known for "Eros" (2004), "Letters to Julie" (2010), and "The Friends at the Margherita Cafe" (2009). Between 2009 and 2010, she acted in the theater with "L'oro di Napoli" by Gianfelice Imparato and Armando Pugliese, the latter also the director of the show, a theatrical transposition of the stories by Giuseppe Marotta, that became famous thanks to the homonymous film by Vittorio De Sica. In 2021, she became widely famous by playing Aunt Patrizia in "Th…

Known for

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

Parthenope poster
6.7

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.

Parthenope

2024

Letters to Juliet poster
7.0

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

Letters to Juliet

2010

Boris poster
8.6

Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered in 2022. The show brings to the stage the behind the scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many fictions airing on the Italian TV networks.

Boris

2007

The Hand of God poster
7.5

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

The Hand of God

2021

Eros poster
5.7

A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Eros

2004

Film credits

2020s · 9 titles

Parthenope poster
6.7

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.

Parthenope

2024

The Hand of God poster
7.5

In 1980s Naples, an awkward teen struggling to find his place experiences heartbreak and liberation after he's inadvertently saved from a freak accident by football legend Diego Maradona.

The Hand of God

2021

Diamonds poster
7.1

In 1970s Rome, a filmmaker gathers actresses for a new project, which triggers memories of his past working in a Roman costume shop, run by Alberta and Gabriella, navigating personal and professional challenges while creating costumes for a major film.

Diamonds

2024

Nuovo Olimpo poster
6.9

In 1970s Rome, a casual encounter between Enea and Pietro at a movie theater turns into an unforgettable romance — until destiny pulls them apart.

Nuovo Olimpo

2023

Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness poster
6.2

Through the streets of World War I Paris, Italian bohemian artist Modigliani attempts to outmaneuver bombs, policemen, girlfriends, and critics in a increasingly desperate search of a home for his art.

Modi, Three Days on the Wing of Madness

2024

7 Women and a Murder poster
5.5

When the family patriarch is murdered, seven women find themselves trapped together in his mansion to solve the mystery.

7 Women and a Murder

2021

Mrs. Christmas poster
5.3

When Santa Claus, in the midst of an existential crisis, suddenly disappears during the holiday season, his wife Margaret must roll up her sleeves and save the most special day of the year.

Mrs. Christmas

2025

Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me poster
7.2

Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte.

Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me

2020

Sarò con te poster
7.5

Football offers bitter disappointments, but equally powerful and infinite emotions. Napoli rises again on May 4, 2023, winning the championship with five days to spare, an epochal result destined to remain forever in history. A joy awaited for 33 years and told through the eyes of the players, such as captain Giovanni Di Lorenzo, of personalities from the world of sport, entertainment and journalism, of Napoli's sporting directors and staff, including coach Luciano Spalletti.

Sarò con te

2024

2010s · 20 titles

Letters to Juliet poster
7.0

An American girl on vacation in Italy finds an unanswered "letter to Juliet" -- one of thousands of missives left at the fictional lover's Verona courtyard, which are typically answered by the "secretaries of Juliet" -- and she goes on a quest to find the lovers referenced in the letter.

Letters to Juliet

2010

The Music of Silence poster
7.0

Born with a serious eye condition that eventually leads to his blindness, Bocelli nevertheless rises above the challenges, driven by great ambitions towards his passion. The silent pursuit of his daily mission continues.

The Music of Silence

2017

Fasten Your Seatbelts poster
6.6

Elena and Antonio seem not to be made for each other. They are too different in terms of character, life choices, worldview, and the way they relate to others. They are total opposites. However, they are overwhelmed by a mutual attraction they're trying hard to avoid; but to which they succumb to.

Fasten Your Seatbelts

2014

Naples in Veils poster
6.2

In a Naples suspended between magic and superstition, madness and rationality, a mystery envelops the existence of Adriana, overwhelmed by a sudden love and a violent crime.

Naples in Veils

2017

Welcome Aboard poster
5.4

Isabelle, HR of a large cruise company, made the mistake of choosing her boss as a lover. Before embarking on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the fleet, though, he decided to disembark from their relationship! Some women take their revenge by poison, firearm, or slander. Isabelle chooses Remy a flamboyant, unemployed ne'er-do-well who flunked out in life on land, but after all is said and done, might have better luck at sea... She recruits him as leader of her plot and on this Palace of the Seas, Remy will first prove to be the worst nightmare of the CEO and Richard, the Cruise Director...then, little by little, he will change his life and that of all those who cross his path...

Welcome Aboard

2011

The Immature poster
6.2

Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma, forcing them to repeat the final high school exam.

The Immature

2011

Life Is a Wonderful Thing poster
5.5

A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely complicated and troubled lives ... Even if, after all, life is a wonderful thing ...

Life Is a Wonderful Thing

2010

Poison poster
5.3

Two brothers who own a buffalo farm near Caserta attempt to resist the pressures of local mobsters who want to turn their land into an illegal landfill.

Poison

2017

Dark Love poster
4.1

The aftermath of a rape seen through the parallel lives of the assailant and victim as they try to redeem and rebuild their lives respectively.

Dark Love

2010

The Immature: The Trip poster
6.0

Seven thirty-something friends organise a post-grad trip they were never able to take after school. They find new adventures on a Greek island, and show that true maturity is never really achieved.

The Immature: The Trip

2012

Forever Young poster
5.5

Intertwined stories of 50somethings that won't give up on their glory days.

Forever Young

2016

Vita segreta di Maria Capasso poster
5.9

Maria married an honest worker at a very young age, works as a part-time beautician and has three children. Her life is like many others in the working-class suburbs of Naples, where the daily struggle to make ends meet makes you get used to everything. When her husband is diagnosed with a terminal illness, Maria accepts the help of Gennaro, a rich owner of a car dealership. She lets him court her until she becomes his lover. One day he suggests that she become a business partner: he will transport a load of cocaine to Switzerland. Once she becomes a widow, her relationship with Gennaro will make her fall into a criminal vortex, which will finally allow her to experience new possibilities and fulfill old dreams. But the path chosen by Maria for her personal revenge will leave its inevitable victims in its wake, just like in a war that does not look anyone in the face.

Vita segreta di Maria Capasso

2019

Lightning Strike poster
5.3

A film in two episodes. A psychiatrist, forced to pose as a priest because he's being unfairly hounded by the tax authorities, falls in love with the beautiful Angela. In the second episode, an ambassador studies how to become a real lout and seduce a genuine Roman fishmonger.

Lightning Strike

2012

The Marquis poster
5.2

Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of his fellow inmates, he claims he is "The Marquis," a brilliant robber whose identity has remained a mystery. Two weeks before his release, an armed robber named Quentin Tasseau helps him escape and takes him to Manila so he can take part in a robbery whose mastermind requires the talents of the Marquis.

The Marquis

2011

Mozzarella Stories poster
6.0

Ciccio D.O.P., undisputed lord of the mozzarella kingdom, sees his dairy empire imperiled when enigmatic Chinese producers unleash a half-priced, top-quality mozzarella on Italian shelves, igniting a brutal market war. As he scrambles to defend his realm, his daughter Sofia, the crooner Angelo Tatangelo, former flame Autilia “Jazz-Mood,” and ex-water-polo champ Dudo are swept into a high-stakes struggle that tests loyalties, reignites old passions, and reveals the true cost of domination.

Mozzarella Stories

2011

Maldamore poster
5.1

No synopsis available yet.

Maldamore

2014

Hanukkah - La festa delle luci poster
6.7

A young pastry chef struggles to save the family shop in post-war Rome, as Hanukkah approaches.

Hanukkah - La festa delle luci

2019

Gli anni spezzati poster
2.3

No synopsis available yet.

Gli anni spezzati

2014

Ci vuole un fiore poster
5.5

Realized for the Telethon research awareness campaign. The protagonist is a researcher, a scholar who has spent her entire life looking for a possible cure to defeat thalassemia, in honor of a childhood friend.

Ci vuole un fiore

2017

Luisa Spagnoli poster
7.6

This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in business, it is an amazing story of someone way ahead of her time.

Luisa Spagnoli

2016

2000s · 10 titles

Eros poster
5.7

A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.

Eros

2004

The Prince and the Pirate poster
5.4

After his father's death, elementary school teacher Leopoldo discovers he has to share the inheritance with a half-brother he didn't know existed: hustler and small-time crook Melchiorre, currently in jail.

The Prince and the Pirate

2001

Maria Goretti poster
6.1

The life of the virgin and martyr Santa Maria Goretti

Maria Goretti

2003

Callas & Onassis poster
7.2

Maria Callas, one of the most talented opera singers of her time, seemed to have it all. Coming from humble origins, she always felt slighted by her mother's preference for her sister. She grew up in an unhappy environment, until her career in the operatic world took off. Aristotles Onassis also came from a poor Greek family. His ambition took him places where others dare not go and became a shipping magnate whose great wealth bought his entry into an international society he didn't ever dreamed of entering. These two powerful personalities were so much alike that their own passion served to destroy them.

Callas & Onassis

2005

SMS: Sotto Mentite Spoglie poster
5.0

A married man with two children, faithful and in love with his wife, discovers that his wife would like to spice up the menage a little. He plays along and starts texting her as if he were his lover.

SMS: Sotto Mentite Spoglie

2007

Basette poster
7.5

Antonio's first day as a thief is marked by tears. During an incursion at the mall, his mother is arrested. Some 20 years later, Antonio along with his two inseparable friends, after some minor robberies, take on a post office. Things don't go as planned.

Basette

2008

The Friends at the Margherita Café poster
5.6

Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.

The Friends at the Margherita Café

2009

The Producer poster
NR

Two young film authors, Angelo and Lillo, the former a screenwriter, the latter a director, try in every way to present their works to Mr Piras, a successful producer now converted to television production. The faithful secretary filters all appointments, therefore for Angelo and Lillo it is impossible to make contact with the producer. Nothing is left to do but take up arms.

The Producer

2004

Cefalonia poster
6.6

Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themselves under German command and also refused to surrender their weapons. The local German force, supported by Stuka dive-bombers and additional troops, attacked the Italians and after several days of combat the Italians surrendered, having lost 1,300 men. As punishment, the German High Command ordered that all surviving Italians should be executed. Some 5,000 were executed during a week of killings. A handful were rescued by locals and the Greek guerrilla, while the rest were shipped off as prisoners, whereof 3,000 drowned when their ships hit mines. The film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" is based on a novel about the Italian occupation of Cefalonia, but the massacre was much toned down in the Hollywood version.

Cefalonia

2005

'O professore poster
10.0

The story of Pietro Filodomini, professor of Italian in a middle school in the Sanità district of Naples, who tries to offer with books an alternative to life on the street and a possibility for the future.

'O professore

2008

Series credits

Sanremo Music Festival poster
7.9

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest.

Sanremo Music Festival

1951

Boris poster
8.6

Boris is an Italian television series created by Luca Manzi and Carlo Mazzotta, initially produced from 2007 to 2010, with a revival season premiered in 2022. The show brings to the stage the behind the scenes of a television set where a troupe is shooting Gli occhi del cuore 2 (The eyes of the heart 2), a satirical portrait of the many fictions airing on the Italian TV networks.

Boris

2007

Lolita Lobosco poster
7.0

Deputy Chief Lolita Lobosco returns to her hometown, Bari, to direct a team of men only. In a world stubbornly ruled by males, she chooses to remain herself against all odds, and uses her skills and devotion to fight prejudices.

Lolita Lobosco

2021

The Promised Life poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Promised Life

2018

La preside poster
5.9

No synopsis available yet.

La preside

2026

Callas & Onassis poster
7.0

The life and passionate love of famous opera singer Maria Callas and Greek billionaire Aristotle Onassis.

Callas & Onassis

2005

Gli anni spezzati poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gli anni spezzati

2013

Il Giudice Meschino poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Il Giudice Meschino

2014

Luisa Spagnoli poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Luisa Spagnoli

2016

No artwork available
9.0

Set against the gorgeous backdrop of the Trentino region, this Italian-language drama follows the winemaking Masci family.

Una Buona Stagione

2014

Cefalonia poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cefalonia

2005

Amiche mie poster
NR

Amiche mie is a 2008 Italian television series, originally broadcast on Canale 5. The series follows Anna who becomes dissatisfied with her family life and writes to famous gynecologist and sexologist Giorgio Monesi, known as "Dr. G", for advice.

Amiche mie

2008