Stefania Casini

Acting

Stefania Casini

Born

1948-09-04 (78)

Place of birth

Villa di Chiavenna, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

81 titles

After graduating in Architecture, Stefania began a career in acting and worked with Pietro Germi, Bernardo Bertolucci, Peter Greenaway and Dario Argento. She moved to New York in the late 1970s, where she acted in Andy Warhol's 'Bad'. While in New York she decided to move behind the camera, and became a director. With Francesca Marciano, she wrote and directed the film "Lontano da dove", presented at the Venice Film Festival (1983). In 1997 she wrote and directed another feature film "Un Paradiso di Bugie". Her career as director also includes the making of six feature films for the Italian television network MEDIASET. A passionate traveler, Stefania has made a great number of documentarie…

Known for

Enchantment poster
6.0

Incantesimo is a long-running drama series on Italian television, broadcast on the RAI network. It is set in a hospital called Clinica Life in Turin, Italy, and revolves around the life of the doctors and nurses in the hospital. According to the official website, it is "interested in social themes, the incoherence of daily life, solidarity, love and passion, not forgetting moments of comedy". Incantesimo was first broadcast in March 1997, is now in its 10th series and has broadcast 400 episodes. Incantesimo is also being broadcast on the Chinese CCTV 8 network, dubbed into Mandarin. Many notable Italian actors and actresses have starred in the series including, Orso Maria Guerrini, Delia Boccardo, Kaspar Capparoni, Paolo Malco, Guido Furlani, Alessio Boni, Vanessa Gravina, Paola Pitagora, Alessandra Acciai and Barbara Livi. The series was especially popular in Bulgaria, where it was aired on BNT 1 and Nova Television. In Armenia it was aired on ArmeniaTV and TV5 in Russian, as well as on Shant TV in Armenian.

Enchantment

1998

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

You, Me & Tuscany poster
7.3

When a woman crashes at an empty Italian villa, posing as the owner's fiancée, she discovers an unexpected romance that could transform her life.

You, Me & Tuscany

2026

Suspiria poster
7.5

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

Suspiria

1977

1900 poster
7.8

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

1900

1976

Blood for Dracula poster
5.6

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

Blood for Dracula

1974

Film credits

2020s · 8 titles

You, Me & Tuscany poster
7.3

When a woman crashes at an empty Italian villa, posing as the owner's fiancée, she discovers an unexpected romance that could transform her life.

You, Me & Tuscany

2026

The Goldsmith poster
5.8

Determined to rob a goldsmith, three young robbers break into his country house. The man and his wife turn out to be less defenseless than they seem.

The Goldsmith

2022

Funeral: I Don't Want You poster
7.0

Famous pianist, in order to not compromise her career, forcefully refuses motherhood despite the insistence of her partner. However, the obstinacy of that refusal is neither casual nor purely selfish and has roots and motivations back in a tragic past, which she thought had been removed forever and which instead returns to loom forcefully on both of them amidst nightmares and terrible physical and psychological consequences.

Funeral: I Don't Want You

2024

Buio come il cuore poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Buio come il cuore

2024

Good Vibes poster
6.0

Five stories that intertwine around a mysterious smartphone that allows you to have a copy of anyone's phone. Just enter the number and you immediately have access to bank accounts, photos, videos, emails, messages, even the most intimate ones, and if you activate the camera in spy mode you can observe the lives of others live. A morbidity that pervades anyone who comes into contact with this phone, in the frantic search for the power to influence the lives of others. Thus begins an escalation of linked events in which, without a moment's respite, we will follow the fate of the phone and of those who come into possession of it. The protagonists of the five episodes must confront their most hidden desires and the (in)ability to manage the power of knowledge.

Good Vibes

2023

Cactus poster
NR

Gaia is seventeen years old and has decided that the time has come to lose her virginity and explore her sexuality. Yes, decided! Everything seems to be going right when her plans are overturned by the return to town of Federica, her childhood friend. Day after day, a tangle of strong and incomprehensible feelings grows in Gaia's stomach. Together with an unusual grandmother, however, she will learn to accept these new emotions and, above all, herself.

Cactus

2023

Story of a Night poster
6.0

Piero and Elisabetta loved each other very much, despite the opposition of her parents, and had three children with whom they formed a seemingly indissoluble unit. But when the eldest, Flavio, loses his life in an accident, the family falls apart: Elisabetta and Piero glare at each other and exchange ferocious jokes, unable to overcome that tragic event and not blame each other. It is the two remaining children, Dennis and Sara, who convince them to celebrate Christmas together in Cortina d'Ampezzo, the town where their maternal grandparents own a luxurious chalet. The two children have a plan, which will however be abruptly interrupted by an unexpected event. All the family dynamics will be called into question, and will keep everyone in suspense for a long night of waiting and reflections on the past.

Story of a Night

2025

DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

DARIO ARGENTO - The Exhibit

2022

2010s · 5 titles

2000s · 3 titles

1980s · 7 titles

The Belly of an Architect poster
6.8

Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.

The Belly of an Architect

1987

Polsi sottili poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Polsi sottili

1984

Habibi, amor mío poster
4.8

Young Stefano falls in love with a Spanish girl, Habibi. The two become engaged, but after a happy period, Stefano will discover the girl's betrayals. This will lead the protagonists to drift apart and seek new paths; this will be an opportunity for them to reflect on themselves and the loss of values in life.

Habibi, amor mío

1981

Lontano da dove poster
7.7

After his military service, Mario is hosted by a friend in New York and joins his circle of Italians residing abroad.

Lontano da dove

1983

Illa - Punto d'osservazione poster
NR

Illa, a brilliant and somewhat immature girl, involuntarily witnesses a ferocious shootout during a bank robbery. This fact places her at the center of an intrigue in which private life, journalism and investigations are dangerously intertwined.

Illa - Punto d'osservazione

1981

Cocktail Molotov poster
6.0

"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not. Swindled out of their car and virtually broke, they hitchhike back to Paris, hoping to arrive in time for some of the excitement.

Cocktail Molotov

1980

Mora poster
7.2

A reporter travelling to Latin America witnesses a murder through the lens of his camera.

Mora

1982

1970s · 25 titles

Suspiria poster
7.5

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

Suspiria

1977

1900 poster
7.8

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

1900

1976

Blood for Dracula poster
5.6

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

Blood for Dracula

1974

The Cousin poster
5.4

Italian coming of age story about two cousins, Enzo and Agata, told in three stages.

The Cousin

1974

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover poster
5.4

Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was.

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

1978

Emergency Squad poster
5.7

A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it's personal: Years earlier, the daring thief murdered the operative's wife in cold blood.

Emergency Squad

1974

Bad poster
6.5

Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers using women, but decides to try him on a trial basis. Meanwhile, the cop she pays off wants an arrest to make it look like he's doing his job, but Hazel doesn't want to sacrifice any of her "associates". The sleazy side of life is explored in this delightfully dark and deadpan film.

Bad

1977

Bye Bye Monkey poster
6.2

In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.

Bye Bye Monkey

1978

The Bloodstained Shadow poster
6.2

A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back.

The Bloodstained Shadow

1978

The Climber poster
5.8

Joe Dallesandro plays a hungry young buck who aspires to be a career criminal. He starts out working at a warehouse for a gangster where he helps to relocate illegal contraband, and because of his ruthlessness and dependability he begins to ascend the ladder of organized crime. Of course, the more powerful he becomes, the more "Climbers" come out of the shadows to take his place.

The Climber

1975

Dedicated to the Aegean Sea poster
3.5

Dedicato al mare Egeo is a forgotten and bizarre co-production produced between Italy and Japan from 1979, starring the famous Italian porn star Illona Staller (Cicciolina) and directed by the famous Japanese pinter, printmaker and novelist Masuo Ikeda (1934–1997) from his own script based on his novel “Ege-kai ni sasagu”, for which he won the Akutagawa Prize, the most prestigious literary award in Japan. Ikeda’s vigorous artistic activity even included screenplay writing and film directing. With this movie, Masuo Ikeda has undoubtedly left his mark on the ’70s Italian skin cinema.

Dedicated to the Aegean Sea

1979

For Love One Dies poster
9.0

A hyper sensitive film student falls in love with an older woman.

For Love One Dies

1972

I prosseneti poster
4.0

David and his wife Gilda transform their beautiful villa in a brothel, which are home to several characters. Odile, the daughter of a woman tortured by mercenaries, meets in the villa one of the torturers and want to relive over his own body the suffering endured by the mother. An ambassador who was abandoned by his companion, imposes its new partner to take his place. An eighteen year old, very open-minded, staged an orgy.

I prosseneti

1976

Ammazzare il tempo poster
4.7

From the novel by Lidia Ravera, which wants to be a mirror of the disappointed generation that made '68 and that ten years later finds itself without ideals to reject the world or to fit into that, reassuring, of the fifties. The protagonist, a left-wing journalist, manages to find her identity in the relationship with a teenager who lives her life without wasting it on hopes or regrets.

Ammazzare il tempo

1979

The Big Delirium poster
4.7

A young peasant named Pierre makes friends with John and his sister Sonia, young bourgeoisie, who invite him to their home. Pierre soon falls in love with Emily, John's mistress. After the death of the father of his hosts, he has the idea of ​​transforming their peaceful house into a brothel.

The Big Delirium

1975

Come ti rapisco il pupo poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Come ti rapisco il pupo

1976

A Pocketful of Chestnuts poster
5.5

A TV producer cultivates a somewhat reserved and protective young woman after interviewing her for one of his programs.

A Pocketful of Chestnuts

1970

No artwork available
6.8

Italian comedy about a man who gets shiqwrecked on a lonely island.

Geometra Prinetti, selvaggiamente Osvaldo

1976

Luna di miele in tre poster
5.0

A newlywed couple sets off on their honeymoon expecting romance and privacy, but their plans are quickly disrupted when an unexpected third companion joins them. As jealousy, misunderstandings, and awkward situations pile up, the dream getaway turns into a chaotic and comedic test of their relationship.

Luna di miele in tre

1976

No artwork available
6.8

From Trevico in the province of Avellino, a young man arrives in Turin to work at Fiat. Once hired, he will face harsh experiences as an immigrant and a worker.

Trevico-Turin: Voyage in Fiatnam

1973

A Way of Being a Woman poster
7.0

Italian drama

A Way of Being a Woman

1973

Latin Male Wanted poster
4.1

A film in 5 segments. The first is about a trafficker who takes a German tourist to an illegal sex market in a working-class neighborhood. The second involves an elderly man courting a young adult film star. The third, a thief seduces a man's wife. The fourth involves an Italian immigrant in Germany who is fired and subsequently offered work as a porn actor. Finally the last segment involves a baron who convinces his wife into a swinging.

Latin Male Wanted

1977

The Golden Mass poster
3.7

A middle-aged couple invites a group of youngsters to their luxury villa to introduce them into the rituals and mystery of love and lust.

The Golden Mass

1975

Non si scrive sui muri a Milano poster
NR

Luciana, a country girl who has moved to Milan, is married to Mario, an intellectual type who avoids her since an accident forced him to live with his torso permanently in a cast. Lonely and depressed because also of her recent dismissal, she asks for help through a letter and becomes friends with elementary school teacher Anna, who also resents the negativity of her workplace and the world around her. Meanwhile, blue collar worker Marco waits for his fellow paisan Luciana to reciprocate his feelings. The vicissitudes of this quartet intertwine with the comical interludes of a commune of hippies who live in the tunnels of the Milan subway and spend their time pulling pranks on the passers-by.

Non si scrive sui muri a Milano

1975

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I mariti

1974

Series credits

Enchantment poster
6.0

Incantesimo is a long-running drama series on Italian television, broadcast on the RAI network. It is set in a hospital called Clinica Life in Turin, Italy, and revolves around the life of the doctors and nurses in the hospital. According to the official website, it is "interested in social themes, the incoherence of daily life, solidarity, love and passion, not forgetting moments of comedy". Incantesimo was first broadcast in March 1997, is now in its 10th series and has broadcast 400 episodes. Incantesimo is also being broadcast on the Chinese CCTV 8 network, dubbed into Mandarin. Many notable Italian actors and actresses have starred in the series including, Orso Maria Guerrini, Delia Boccardo, Kaspar Capparoni, Paolo Malco, Guido Furlani, Alessio Boni, Vanessa Gravina, Paola Pitagora, Alessandra Acciai and Barbara Livi. The series was especially popular in Bulgaria, where it was aired on BNT 1 and Nova Television. In Armenia it was aired on ArmeniaTV and TV5 in Russian, as well as on Shant TV in Armenian.

Enchantment

1998

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Donna

1996

Nessuno deve sapere poster
7.0

The Calabrian ’ndrangheta holds control of public works and is behind an inexorable chain of murders and retaliations. A Milanese engineer in his sports car is tragically involved in these events.

Nessuno deve sapere

1972

Illa - Punto di osservazione poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Illa - Punto di osservazione

1981

Behind the camera

Cinque mondi poster
6.5

Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci, Gabriele Salvatores, Paolo Sorrentino and Giuseppe Tornatore talk about their idea of cinema.

Cinque mondi

2016

Pooh - Un attimo ancora poster
8.5

A docufilm retracing the life, successes, and great eras of Italy’s most beloved and longest-running band. A story told in chapters, each corresponding to a major theme explored by the group in their songs: love, children, and more. An exceptional and often unreleased repertoire ties together the story of Pooh—from their beginnings to their rise to fame, from their toughest choices to their commitment to environmental causes, from legendary live concerts to the moment they decided to bring this incredible journey to an end. Roby Facchinetti, Dodi Battaglia, and Red Canzian guide us through a musical and cultural legacy that has united multiple generations of fans, joined by the voices of the late drummer Stefano D’Orazio and Riccardo Fogli.

Pooh - Un attimo ancora

2023

Nessuno siamo perfetti poster
7.0

A loving portrait of reclusive comic-book writer Tiziano Sclavi, creator of Dylan Dog

Nessuno siamo perfetti

2015

Lontano da dove poster
7.7

After his military service, Mario is hosted by a friend in New York and joins his circle of Italians residing abroad.

Lontano da dove

1983

Lontano da dove poster
7.7

After his military service, Mario is hosted by a friend in New York and joins his circle of Italians residing abroad.

Lontano da dove

1983

I cavalieri del cross poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I cavalieri del cross

1990

I cavalieri del cross poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I cavalieri del cross

1990

Vincere per vincere poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vincere per vincere

1990

Vincere per vincere poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vincere per vincere

1990

Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax poster
8.0

1965: Paris, London and Milan all move at the same fast pace, fueled by a fresh creative and rebellious impetus. Guido Crepax picks up on this energy and transfers it to a comic strip in which art, music, design, film and fashion all blend together, breaking with traditional narrative structure. The dreamy photographer Valentina becomes Crepax' alter ego: as lovely as Louise Brooks, as disturbing as one of Lucio Fontana's slashed canvases, as knowing as Bob Dylan's lyrics, and as freewheeling as Charlie Parker's compositions.

Searching for Valentina: The World of Guido Crepax

2019

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cuore in gola

1988

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Cuore in gola

1988

Un Paradiso di Bugie poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un Paradiso di Bugie

1997

Un Paradiso di Bugie poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un Paradiso di Bugie

1997

Fun Jump poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fun Jump

1990

Fun Jump poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fun Jump

1990

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Acque Segrete di Palermo

2015

Roller Wings poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Roller Wings

1990

Roller Wings poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Roller Wings

1990

Nessuno come Ulisse poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nessuno come Ulisse

2024

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un po' d'India

2006

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un po' d'India

2006

Scheggia di Vento poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Scheggia di Vento

1990

Scheggia di Vento poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Scheggia di Vento

1990

No artwork available
NR

21 years after the collapse of the Communist regime, Albania experiences democracy with it's many contradictions. An exclusive insider perspective given by three young protagonists.

Made in Albania

2012

No artwork available
NR

21 years after the collapse of the Communist regime, Albania experiences democracy with it's many contradictions. An exclusive insider perspective given by three young protagonists.

Made in Albania

2012

Dark Vertigo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dark Vertigo

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