Acting

Mariella Valentini

Born

1959-06-23 (67)

Place of birth

Milano, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Father Matteo poster
6.3

Don 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.

Father Matteo

2000

A Brighter Tomorrow poster
7.0

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.

A Brighter Tomorrow

2023

Una pallottola nel cuore poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Una pallottola nel cuore

2014

DeGenerazione poster
5.9

Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento.

DeGenerazione

1994

Cinderella poster
8.8

Once upon a time in post-war Rome: 13-year old Aurora, a gifted pianist, is the daughter of Valerio, a brilliant conductor. After Aurora's mother died, Valerio hired Irene, a single mother of two girls, to run the household. To Aurora's regret he decides to marry Irene. One day, Aurora happens to meet the boys next door, Freddy and Sebastian, the sons of a wealthy Italo-Austrian family. Freddy is an easy-going chap, though sometimes a little bit arrogant. His brother Sebastian is kind and shy, with a great ability to listen to and understand people, which makes him win Aurora's heart.

Cinderella

2011

Palombella rossa poster
7.1

Michele is an MP for the Italian Communist Party who loses his memory in a car crash, though hardly anyone around him seems to notice. During a crucial water polo match on the eve of election day, he gradually begins to remember his past life, revealing a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors that of Italian communism itself.

Palombella rossa

1989

Film credits

2020s · 4 titles

2000s · 10 titles

In This World of Thieves poster
5.4

A group of middle-aged time-share investors get ripped off and their desire for revenge is well-timed for them to be recruited by a bank clerk who feels the same about his employers.

In This World of Thieves

2004

Questo piccolo grande amore poster
5.6

From the album of the same name by Claudio Baglioni the film tells the love story of two teenagers during the legendary seventies. A story so overwhelming as to compel the world to retreat, to step aside. Andrea and Giulia come from two different worlds, have different friends, and two different lives who call them strongly in opposite directions. Will they keep their love alive in spite of everything?

Questo piccolo grande amore

2009

To Sleep Next to Her poster
5.9

A well-liked employee in a multinational firm, formerly working on peers' motivation and professional training, is given the task to fire 25 of his colleagues. Stress and changes in his life ensue.

To Sleep Next to Her

2004

Never Again as Before poster
6.1

Six schoolmates, after their final exams, decide to go together on holiday in the Dolomites, in what will probably be their last summer together before taking different ways. In that time they will learn to know themselves and others better, facing and trying to overcome their fears.

Never Again as Before

2005

Piano, Solo poster
6.2

A biopic of jazz pianist Luca Flores.

Piano, Solo

2007

Baciami piccina poster
5.8

7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.

Baciami piccina

2006

Quore poster
7.0

Paola, a double bass player at the last concert of her band's tour, discovers she's pregnant. But that's not the only problem she's forced to face. The relationship with her parents is problematic: his father is lost in alcohol and the future grandmother is becoming a mother for the second time. To complicate things further, the friends who play with her have just signed a contract for a series of concerts in Europe.

Quore

2002

Gasoline poster
4.8

Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance.

Gasoline

2002

Italian Dream poster
NR

London-based Italian Antonio bets on everything, from the lottery to horses and soccer matches without ever winning or losing the hope of winning; so convinced that his luck is going to turn that his betting companions have started to call him "Win tomorrow". One day Antonio notices that he's being followed by a suspicious looking stranger, well - dressed and obviously rich. This happens frequently, causing Antonio to become very concerned. Alarmed, he tells wife and gambling companions about the situation, but they all just make fun of him, convincing him he's the victim of his imagination.

Italian Dream

2007

Una vita sottile poster
9.0

Gaia lives her life in joy. She is a teenager, she loves her father, manager of an important firm, she has a boyfriend and she is among the best in her classroom. But one night two policemen arrest her father. He is accused of bribe.

Una vita sottile

2003

1990s · 15 titles

DeGenerazione poster
5.9

Horror/sci-fi anthology with a punk streak, co-directed by and starring — among other newcomers — Asia Argento.

DeGenerazione

1994

To Want to Fly poster
6.4

Maurizio works in a dubbing studio and puts sound effects into cartoons. One day his hands turn into cartoon ones, with a life of their own.

To Want to Fly

1991

Marching in Darkness poster
5.8

A young recruit to the Italian army discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before leaving this world he is raped by a highly-respected senior officer and must decide whether to risk bringing proceedings against him.

Marching in Darkness

1996

The Game of Shadows poster
9.0

A writer is haunted by eerie appearances after the death of his wife.

The Game of Shadows

1991

Love Burns poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love Burns

1994

Consigli per gli acquisti poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

Consigli per gli acquisti

1997

Da cosa nasce cosa poster
10.0

italian short

Da cosa nasce cosa

1998

Quattro figli unici poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Quattro figli unici

1992

Italia Village poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Italia Village

1994

Io, Peter Pan poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Io, Peter Pan

1990

No artwork available
7.0

Five untitled episodes: a businessman visits prostitutes before returning to his wife; an extra falls asleep at the cinema; a farmhand faces an Eastern European bully; a woman foresees the death of her lover; a small-time criminal feels the eyes of the mafia on him.

Fiabe metropolitane

1998

La grande quercia poster
7.0

In 1943, Vincenzio and Maria take their children to his father's Tuscan farm. Vincenzio commutes to Rome where he's a physician and, in the hospital basement, prints an anti-Fascist paper. His brother is in the Resistance; his father supplies food to a local monastery where 12 fugitives hide. All is seen through the eyes of the oldest child, Paulo, who's about 7 and the only lad at school who doesn't wear a Fascist Youth uniform. For Paulo and his siblings, it's great fun playing with their nonno, finding herbs in the fields, watching a maid's tryst with a soldier, teasing a silent monk. Then the war reaches the farm when Italy surrenders and the Germans exact revenge.

La grande quercia

1997

Segreto di Stato poster
7.5

A bomb blows up in Milan and five people die. After only three hours Ravida, the chief of the Secret Service, knows the name of the killer and that of his chief.

Segreto di Stato

1995

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Per non dimenticare

1992

Prestazione straordinaria poster
5.4

A white-collar worker finds himself in the crosshairs of his attractive female boss.

Prestazione straordinaria

1994

1980s · 6 titles

Series credits