Anita Zagaria

Acting

Anita Zagaria

Born 1954-06-27 · Napoli, Italy

Acting credits

The Legend of 1900 poster
8.2

Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time. The shopkeeper recognises the song as one on a record matrix he found and asks who the piece is by. Tooney tells the story of an infant found abandoned in the first class dining room of the four-stacker ocean-liner SS Virginian on 1 January 1900. Danny Boodman, a coal-man from the boiler room, names the boy Danny Boodman T. D. Lemon 1900, after himself, the fruit crate the boy was found in, and the year, and raises him as his own.

The Legend of 1900

1998

Under the Tuscan Sun poster
6.9

Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.

Under the Tuscan Sun

2003

Man on Fire poster
5.7

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.

Man on Fire

1987

Don Camillo poster
5.6

A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.

Don Camillo

1984

Jeremiah poster
6.9

The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah

1998

The Professor poster
7.1

Young Franco is imprisoned for murder and rises to become the feared and powerful 'Professor', taking control of Naples' underworld from behind bars.

The Professor

1986

Fair Game poster
4.8

It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian, has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student, is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.

Fair Game

1994

The Night Before the Exams poster
6.5

Rome, 1989. On his last day of high school, Luca gets in trouble when he takes it all out on hated literature teacher Martinelli, only to discover he's going to be heading the examination board for his finals. During a summer of fruitless study, he falls in love with a girl he met once at a party, unaware that she's Martinelli's daughter. The latter, strangely enough, has just offered Luca to prepare with him...

The Night Before the Exams

2006

Unfair Competition poster
7.0

Two textile traders, with the shop close to one another, fight for the supremacy of their own business during the racial laws in 1938 Italy.

Unfair Competition

2001

La scuola poster
6.8

In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.

La scuola

1995

Attention poster
4.1

On the plane back to Rome, a well-known journalist indulges in an unbridled and somewhat melodramatic erotic fantasy involving his estranged wife and his stepdaughter.

Attention

1985

He Looks Dead... But He's Only Fainted poster
7.0

Directed by Felice Farina.

He Looks Dead... But He's Only Fainted

1987

Spaghetti Slow poster
5.5

A wealthy young Italian man is sent to Ireland to learn English, only to fall in love with the daughter of the host family he is staying with.

Spaghetti Slow

1996

Flight of the Innocent poster
5.9

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.

Flight of the Innocent

1992

One Hundred Days in Palermo poster
6.9

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.

One Hundred Days in Palermo

1984

Maria's Child poster
3.3

Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.

Maria's Child

1993

Nicholas’ Gift poster
5.0

Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to donate the boy's organs which ultimately led to saving the lives of seven seriously ill Italian patients.

Nicholas’ Gift

1998

Queen of Hearts poster
6.5

Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.

Queen of Hearts

1989

Killer Rules poster
6.0

Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a deadly triangle in this thriller.

Killer Rules

1993

Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno poster
7.1

A movie about Domenico Modugno, famous singer.

Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno

2013

No artwork available
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un giorno, un giorno, una notte...

...e dopo cadde la neve poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

...e dopo cadde la neve

2005

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage poster
5.9

Life in Naples is tough, so Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse.

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage

1993

La fisica dell'acqua poster
5.1

No synopsis available yet.

La fisica dell'acqua

2010