
Acting
Gina Rovere
Born
1935-05-05 (91)
Place of birth
Roma, Lazio, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
6.3Don 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
8.4A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Life Is Beautiful
1997
7.2Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.
The Cesaronis
2006
6.7A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
Catch-22
1970
8.1Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
7.2Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters and a largely hypocritical public, a single committed journalist takes on the task of piecing together the truth, between secrecy and desire, facing suspicion and censorship in the process.
Lord of the Ants
2022
Film credits
2010s · 2 titles
5.5Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken for psychiatrist by a beautiful girl Valentina with whom he falls in love. A divorce lawyer Sandra is romantically attracted to her client's husband Massimo.
Ex 2: Still Friends
2011
5.3A 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
2000s · 1 titles
1990s · 8 titles
8.4A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Life Is Beautiful
1997
5.9In Pietrasanta all are excited for the annual party of summer end. Here we find four characters: Merigo, a naive guy passionate of bike; Pierre, son of the mayor; Simone, a pestiferous kid; Mario, lifeguard of "Bagnomaria".
Bagnomaria
1999
5.6The life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish year old, who's been everything, a divorced husband, a careless father, an unreliable brother. The story is told in flashback by his friends while Armando has been mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death.
Gallo cedrone
1998
6.7The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends...
Mille bolle blu
1993
6.8A Milanese manager inherits a castle in Tuscany and moves there with his girlfriend and her little son, transforming it into a dog nursery.
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
1990
5.7An old farmer, who seeks the beautiful Camilla, is murdered. The young policeman, who is assigned to the mysterious death, also falls on her.
Abatjour 2
1990
4.8No synopsis available yet.
Finalmente soli
1997
4.4Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.
Giovani e belli
1996
1980s · 3 titles
5.2Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality?
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
1985
6.8Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.
Mortacci
1989
8.0A group of aging friends, foes, and former colleagues gather to celebrate and deride the life of 80-year-old actress Francesca on her birthday.
Francesca
1987
1970s · 8 titles
6.7A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch.
Catch-22
1970
5.0On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns.
Behind Convent Walls
1978
5.8Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog.
Heart of a Dog
1976
4.5Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her to get money to disappear with. With this method he feeds his family.
Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate
1973
5.0A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship.
The Last Italian Tango
1973
5.2No synopsis available yet.
Per amore o per forza
1971
6.8A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
Farfallon
1974
5.9No synopsis available yet.
San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
1976
1960s · 24 titles
6.6In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and afterward a gunfight ensues. The quick-drawing gunman makes short work of the robber, then teams up with an insurance agent to look for the hidden fortune. Unbeknownst to them, the robber had an ace up his sleeve...
God Forgives... I Don't!
1967
6.9Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Don Camillo: Monsignor
1961
6.9On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
The Passionate Thief
1960
6.2In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town
Sugar Colt
1967
7.2When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Adua and Her Friends
1960
5.7The diabolical Goldsinger, enraged at being excluded from the UN, hatches a plot to blow up the assembly while all the heads of the state participate. Luckily, inept agent James Tont discovers the plot and sets out to stop Goldsinger.
James Tont Operation U.N.O.
1965
6.6Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed.
Getting Away with It the Italian Way
1962
5.5In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.
Assassination in Rome
1965
4.3A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
Adventure at the Motel
1963
10.0A roving Roman's weekend becomes a nightmare of traffic mix-ups, marital mix-ups and hilarious make-ups.
Always on Sunday
1962
8.5Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
I piaceri dello scapolo
1960
5.8A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story.
How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
1965
8.0Pirates capture a Spanish ship. After having landed on an island, they try to sell the surviving crew, especially the women. One of them is protected by a pirate who gained her as a prize for having saved the captain's life in the battle that ensued. Suddenly a man masked in green arrives and performs - ever haunting - in favour of the Spanish.
The Masked Man Against the Pirates
1964
6.0The evil King Zagro has designs on the beautiful Princess Sira. He wants to marry her so he can take over her kingdom and add it to his own. When Sira is kidnapped, Ursus leaves his farm to rescue her and to eventually lead a revolt against King Zagro.
The Vengeance of Ursus
1961
7.7No synopsis available yet.
Divorzio alla siciliana
1963
7.0A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.
Rocco e le sorelle
1961
5.9A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
I motorizzati
1962
7.0A child flees his abusive father and takes refuge with a clown.
Son of the Circus
1963
10.0No synopsis available yet.
L'assassino si chiama Pompeo
1962
7.0The innocent love of two young students is hindered by their families. The two meet in a squalid apartment where they will perhaps decide their future. At the exit, however, are arrested for a kiss exchanged on the road.
All the Other Girls Do!
1964
NRA gang of four boys and a woman kidnap a lawyer.
A Dirty Business
1964
10.0One Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped to spend a relaxing day, find themselves involved in a series of unpleasant experiences instead.
Sunstroke
1968
3.7Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.
Il morbidone
1965
NRA naive girl moves to Rome and falls for a mature man.
Squillo
1965
1950s · 11 titles
8.1Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958
5.1In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
Hercules
1958
7.4A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Hell in the City
1959
6.4Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner.
March's Child
1958
6.7These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic.
Are We Men or Corporals?
1955
6.5Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
It Happened in the Park
1953
6.2Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
La moglie è uguale per tutti
1955
6.5The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.
La cambiale
1959
10.0No synopsis available yet.
We will get married in Capri
1956
8.0The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecutions, the Russians are confined by their guardians under the promise that, if they win, they can stay and live in Italy. But as they conquer the championship, their guards forget the promises and put them on a plane to Moscow.
Female Three Times
1957
7.0In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots
Roland the Mighty
1956
Series credits
6.3Don 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
7.2Giulio is a widower, struggling to raise three sons, Marco, Rudi, and Mimmo, as best he can. He lives in Rome's working-class Garbatella neighborhood and runs a wine shop with his two brothers. Lucia, meanwhile, comes from Milan's middle-class background; she's divorced and trying to rebuild her life with her two daughters, Eva and Alice. The two meet by chance and recognize each other: they had a fling as teenagers, many years earlier. Yet first love is never forgotten, and so Giulio and Lucia find themselves together again. Their meeting, however, changes not only the lives of a man and a woman, but also those of two families as different as could be. Two families who find themselves living under the same roof without even having had the time to get to know each other well.
The Cesaronis
2006

