Valentina Lodovini

Acting

Valentina Lodovini

Born

1978-05-14 (48)

Place of birth

Umbertide, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

62 titles

Valentina Lodovini is an Italian film and television actress. Born in Umbertide, Lodovini grew up in Sansepolcro and to attend the School of Dramatic Arts in Perugia, then moved in Rome to continue her studies at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. After some secondary roles, Lodovini emerged in 2007 with Carlo Mazzacurati's drama film La giusta distanza, for which she was nominated for David di Donatello for Best Actress. In 2011 Lodovini won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress for the role of Maria in Benvenuti al Sud. She reprised the role in the film sequel Benvenuti al Nord.

Known for

Inspector Coliandro poster
8.1

Coliandro is an inspector serving at the Bologna police headquarters who constantly finds himself embroiled, against his will, in matters bigger than himself. But Coliandro never backs down, even though his carelessness and investigative incompetence inevitably land him in trouble.

Inspector Coliandro

2006

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

GialappaShow poster
7.8

Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci - supported in the studio by Mago Forest, a great cast of comedians and many surprise guests - comment with biting irony on the most popular TV programs, the main sporting events and the last web trends.

GialappaShow

2023

Inspector Montalbano poster
8.3

Inspector Montalbano is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is Commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, Il giovane Montalbano.

Inspector Montalbano

1999

Coco Chanel poster
6.6

Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.

Coco Chanel

2008

When Mom Is Away... With the Family poster
6.2

Carlo and Giulia are grappling with new problems regarding the division of their respective tasks within the family. Since Giulia has started working again, it is Carlo who takes care of the children and the household chores. However, he starts to find the role of “Mr. Mom” a bit tight-fitting. Just when he decides to get back into the game and look for a job, Giulia reveals to him that she is up for a promotion that would lead her to move to Sweden. As if that weren’t enough, she will have to take the interview on December 24 in Stockholm. Everything seems to threaten the family unity. What should they do? Carlo comes up with a "brilliant" idea… To recover the old camper and drag the family into an adventure that will lead them on a journey to the North to spend Christmas all together lovingly. Unexpected events along the way and a hilarious encounter/confrontation with a self-styled Santa Claus will make the trip unforgettable.

When Mom Is Away... With the Family

2020

Film credits

2020s · 20 titles

When Mom Is Away... With the Family poster
6.2

Carlo and Giulia are grappling with new problems regarding the division of their respective tasks within the family. Since Giulia has started working again, it is Carlo who takes care of the children and the household chores. However, he starts to find the role of “Mr. Mom” a bit tight-fitting. Just when he decides to get back into the game and look for a job, Giulia reveals to him that she is up for a promotion that would lead her to move to Sweden. As if that weren’t enough, she will have to take the interview on December 24 in Stockholm. Everything seems to threaten the family unity. What should they do? Carlo comes up with a "brilliant" idea… To recover the old camper and drag the family into an adventure that will lead them on a journey to the North to spend Christmas all together lovingly. Unexpected events along the way and a hilarious encounter/confrontation with a self-styled Santa Claus will make the trip unforgettable.

When Mom Is Away... With the Family

2020

Love & Gelato poster
5.4

Lina is about to graduate high school and has her sights set on her future at MIT. But when her mom gets sick, she encourages Lina to follow in her footsteps and have “the summer of a lifetime” in Rome. Using her mom’s old diary as a guide, she explores the romantic and magical city, where she just might find love... and gelato, of course.

Love & Gelato

2022

A Family Upside Down poster
5.5

The story follows a family, including three children who are driving their parents out of their minds. One morning, they all wake up inside each other's bodies.

A Family Upside Down

2025

Neighbors poster
5.5

A couple receives an indecent proposal from their younger, more daring neighbors.

Neighbors

2022

Three Perfect Daughters poster
5.9

Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.

Three Perfect Daughters

2020

Say It Loud poster
5.9

A woman seeking treatment for her stress, suddenly finds herself unable to filter herself when she speaks.

Say It Loud

2020

The Best Days poster
5.9

A quartet of stories unfold across four holidays as family members, friends and colleagues face hard decisions, career setbacks and life-changing events.

The Best Days

2023

The Aphid and the Ant poster
6.0

Fatima is 16 years old and wears a veil. Her culture requires it, and her mother Amina imposes it on her. Born in Calabria to Muslim parents, the girl experiences all the conflicts and emotions typical of her age, but feels she is not like her peers: she is closed in her solitude, constantly out of place. Until one day the physical education teacher, Michele Scimone, suggests his students to sign up for the Sant'Antonio Marathon. For Fatima it is the first real opportunity to be seized. But for the teacher, a shy and depressed former runner, tormented by an unresolved past and a failed relationship with Anna, the veil that Fatima wears is a cause of prejudice.

The Aphid and the Ant

2021

Conversazioni con altre donne poster
5.5

Two former partners reignite their spark at a wedding reception, but as the night wears on, fond memories fade into mutual regrets and their brief affair turns into a desperate attempt to recapture lost time.

Conversazioni con altre donne

2023

When Mom Is Away... With the In-laws poster
6.0

After the phenomenal success of the first two films, “When Mom is Away” and “When Mom is Away… With the Family,” the adventures of the Rovelli family continue! This time, they’re heading to Puglia, where their eldest daughter, Camilla, is moving to attend university with her boyfriend, Antonio.

When Mom Is Away... With the In-laws

2025

Group Therapy poster
6.0

Six OCD patients mistakenly receive appointments at the same time. While waiting for the delayed therapist, they run their own makeshift group session, confront their personal quirks, and form unexpected bonds.

Group Therapy

2024

The Land of Women poster
6.2

The 1950s: in the ancient and far-off island of Sardinia, two generations of women fight against restrictive age-old traditions to reach sexual and emotional freedom.

The Land of Women

2023

Carlo Mazzacurati: A Certain Idea of Cinema poster
NR

Explore the life and work of acclaimed Italian filmmaker Carlo Mazzacurati, who passed away in 2014. It delves into his distinctive poetic style, blending genres, and portraying rarely seen parts of Italy with empathy and dignity.

Carlo Mazzacurati: A Certain Idea of Cinema

2024

Spore poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Spore

2020

Unicorni poster
5.9

Lucio, the host of a popular radio show, is confident, charismatic, and holds progressive views. He is married to the beautiful Elena, who is insecure and emotionally dependent on her husband. Together, they form a harmonious blended family (which includes Lucio’s first wife and daughter) and have one child together: Blu, a 9-year-old who loves dressing in girls’ clothes and is allowed to do so—by both mom and dad—but only at home. When the school play comes around, however, Blu is determined to wear a Little Mermaid costume on stage. His parents, caught between their desire to support him and their instinct to protect him, find themselves confronting the limits of their open-mindedness. They embark on a journey of self-awareness and acceptance, joined by a diverse group of “Unicorn Parents” led by a compassionate psychologist.

Unicorni

2025

Vulcano | La vita che dorme poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vulcano | La vita che dorme

2022

Alla ricerca di Rose poster
NR

In a hypothetical near future (2029), a group of children, after a mysterious event, find themselves having to deal with a world without adults, electricity and technology, and set out in search of what appears to be the only woman left at the waist: "Roses". The protagonists of the story will embark on a journey to discover themselves, unspoiled nature and in search of a mother figure.

Alla ricerca di Rose

2023

Io sono... Italia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Io sono... Italia

2021

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bentornati al Sud

2026

È andata così poster
NR

Cecilia, a determined mother of two with three failed relationships behind her, faces an unexpected crisis and turns to the three fathers of her children - Christophe, her first love and daughter’s father; Guido, her son’s father and former manager turned rider; and Tony, her estranged ex-husband and self-styled music manager - for support.

È andata così

2026

2010s · 20 titles

When Mom Is Away poster
6.5

A stressed-out mom takes off on a 10-day solo vacation, sending her family into chaos as the dad tries to take over the household duties.

When Mom Is Away

2019

Welcome to the South poster
6.7

Alberto, post office manager of a small town in Brianza, under pressure of his wife Sylvia, is willing to do anything to get the transfer to Milan. Even pretending to be disabled to climb in the ranking. But the trick does not work and as punishment, he is transferred in a small town in Campania, which to an inhabitant of the north is equivalent to a nightmare ...

Welcome to the South

2010

The Games Maker poster
5.4

Young Ivan Drago's newfound love of board games catapults him into the fantastical and competitive world of game invention, and pits him against the inventor Morodian, who has long desired to destroy the city of Zyl, founded by Ivan's grandfather. To save his family and defeat Morodian, Ivan must come to know what it is to be a true games maker.

The Games Maker

2014

Mafia Millionaires poster
6.1

The rise and fall of a Neapolitan criminal clan through the story of a boss and his family, divided between the aspiration for a bourgeois life and the deep impulses of oppression. Thirty years of history of one of the most beautiful and discussed cities in the world, the dream of a boy who is overwhelmed by the desire for power as an end in itself, to become the nightmare of a man and those who live next to him.

Mafia Millionaires

2014

La verità sta in cielo poster
5.9

In 1983 an English journalist travels to Italy to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a young vatican girl.

La verità sta in cielo

2016

A Liberal Passion poster
5.6

When an uncompromising idealist and rich, arrogant heir cross paths, their contrasting beliefs begin to shift when they fall for each other.

A Liberal Passion

2013

Welcome to the North poster
5.8

Now in the Far North (i.e. Milan!), Alberto has accepted to manage a program for efficiency improvement in the Italian Post. He devotes all his time and all his energy to this noble task and neglects his wife Silvia, which of course annoys her beyond limits. Things do not fare much better in Castellabate where it is rather Maria, Matta's wife, who gets on his nerves by always blaming him for his lack of ambition. One day, due to a misunderstanding, Mattia is transferred to... Milan! And on whose doorstep does he land? Alberto's of course!

Welcome to the North

2012

A Woman as a Friend poster
5.2

Francesco and Claudia are best friends. They're inseparable and tell each other everything, until another man enters the picture stealing Claudia's heart. Francesco then realizes that friendship between man and woman is a complicated thing.

A Woman as a Friend

2014

South Is Nothing poster
5.7

Set in a tiny seaside town, Fabio Mollo’s feature debut is a quietly evocative drama about a family’s attempts to cope with the loss of their son, and the impact of his absence on his teenaged sister Grazia.

South Is Nothing

2013

Si muore tutti democristiani poster
6.5

Enrico, Fabrizio, and Stefano are three lifelong friends and colleagues who share left-wing political ideals. They run a small production company, juggling commercials and wedding shoots, but hope to return to making social-themed documentaries. One day, they receive a financially attractive offer that seems to meet their expectations. Unfortunately, the deal has unethical implications.

Si muore tutti democristiani

2018

Cosa fai a Capodanno? poster
4.8

A group of swingers decide to spend New Year's Eve in a chalet. Their goal is to welcome the new year in a very original way: having an orgy.

Cosa fai a Capodanno?

2018

Un Natale con i fiocchi poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Un Natale con i fiocchi

2012

Ma che bella sorpresa poster
5.9

High school professor Guido is a hopeless romantic whose life falls apart after his girlfriend leaves him. Paolo, a former student of his, helps him in getting out of his depression for a better chance to become a PE teacher himself.

Ma che bella sorpresa

2015

Woman of My Life poster
5.5

Longtime Italian cinema star Stefania Sandrelli (The First Beautiful Thing) is Alba, the mother of two very different adult sons. While Giorgio is a playboy who constantly cheats on his wife, Leonardo (Luca Argentero, Eat Pray Love) is always unlucky in love. When Leonardo finally meets the woman of his dreams, Sara, he brings her home to meet the family, but it appears this is not the first time that Sara has met Giorgio. Directed by Luca Lucini and stars Luca Argentero, Alessandro Gassman and Stefania Sandrelli.

Woman of My Life

2010

Good for Nothing poster
5.8

Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. Faced with the outrageous possibility of having to do a full day's work, he sets about finding a way to achieve a quiet life

Good for Nothing

2014

La linea gialla - Bologna, 2 agosto poster
6.6

No synopsis available yet.

La linea gialla - Bologna, 2 agosto

2015

Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Soundtrack - Ti spio, ti guardo, ti ascolto

2015

Things from Another World poster
5.3

Maroso Golfetto, a firm manager from Veneto, is known for his frequent yelling at his employees, who are either immigrants or Southern Italians. He regularly appears on the local TV channel to denounce the evils of immigration, and his popularity extends to children. His speeches resonate more deeply with people than those of Lucia, their anti-racist schoolmistress. One morning, a miracle occurs: by invoking the help of God to rid Veneto of its immigrants, all the immigrants disappear. However, is this truly a blessing?

Things from Another World

2011

Three Touches poster
4.3

Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia.

Three Touches

2014

Forbidden School poster
7.5

Mixing dramatizations and real-life interviews, this film tells the story of four Jewish children who endured the brutal anti-Semitism of fascist Italy.

Forbidden School

2019

2000s · 12 titles

Coco Chanel poster
6.6

Fashion icon Coco Chanel, steeped in wealth and fame, still issues game-changing designs and collections. The audience is taken backwards in time to the woman's upbringing in an orphanage, and traces her path to ubiquity as it winds through poverty, wars, doomed romances, and rather glamorous betrayals.

Coco Chanel

2008

Pornorama poster
5.5

A free-wheeling chronicle of the Munich sex film industry in the 1970s.

Pornorama

2007

The Family Friend poster
7.2

Geremia, an aging tailor/money lender, is a repulsive, mean, stingy man who lives alone in his shabby house with his scornful, bedridden mother. He has a morbid, obsessive relationship with money and he uses it to insinuate himself into other people's affairs, pretending to be the "family friend". One day he is asked by a man to lend him money for the wedding of Rosalba, his daughter. Geremia falls in love at first sight with the bewitching creature and and soon indulges in a "beauty and the beast" relationship...

The Family Friend

2006

Wherever You Are poster
4.8

A doctor's life takes a mysterious turn when his ambulance plunges into a river.

Wherever You Are

2004

Good Morning Heartache poster
6.1

The marriage of an actor and a freelance film editor breaks up unexpectedly in front of two filmmakers' camera.

Good Morning Heartache

2008

The Past Is a Foreign Land poster
6.3

A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.

The Past Is a Foreign Land

2008

Fort Apache Napoli poster
7.1

The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.

Fort Apache Napoli

2009

Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L. poster
5.9

1997: A student of folklore named Andrea Roberti disappears after hypothesizing a possible link between the horror literature of H.P. Lovecraft and the dark folk tales of the Po Delta, a mysterious and remote part of northern Italy.

Il mistero di Lovecraft - Road to L.

2005

No artwork available
NR

Milan, 1969. Two young lovers, members of the student movement, have spent the night together. They are confronted with the consequences of a bomb attack on a bank. This attack marked the beginning of the political terrorism of the Red Brigades in the 1970s. Atmospheric, well-acted drama about social and political confusion.

Yesterday

2007

The Right Distance poster
6.9

The arrival of an attractive young teacher in a small town in the Po valley disturbs the drowsy life of the place, leading eventually to a murder.

The Right Distance

2007

Generazione 1000 euro poster
5.8

In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?

Generazione 1000 euro

2009

Our Country poster
5.4

Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, too little, stolen, earned, visible and even impalpable. The money flows from one story to the next, from one person to the other, becoming the engine of the film.Everything moves around two antagonist characters: Ugo and Rita. Ugo is a banker involved in a not really clean business. Rita, the Finance Police officer, is a strong and obstinate woman in charge of capturing Ugo. Other characters wander around them, with their weaknesses and fragility, their goodness, their evil and their contradictions. Characters meet, clash, love and hate each other, their lust for money becomes intense feelings.

Our Country

2006

Series credits

Inspector Coliandro poster
8.1

Coliandro is an inspector serving at the Bologna police headquarters who constantly finds himself embroiled, against his will, in matters bigger than himself. But Coliandro never backs down, even though his carelessness and investigative incompetence inevitably land him in trouble.

Inspector Coliandro

2006

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

GialappaShow poster
7.8

Marco Santin and Giorgio Gherarducci - supported in the studio by Mago Forest, a great cast of comedians and many surprise guests - comment with biting irony on the most popular TV programs, the main sporting events and the last web trends.

GialappaShow

2023

Inspector Montalbano poster
8.3

Inspector Montalbano is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is Commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, Il giovane Montalbano.

Inspector Montalbano

1999

Uno sbirro in Appennino poster
7.6

Inspector Vasco Benassi is known in Bologna as the “best cop,” but after making a mistake, he is sent to the Apennines, to the small village of Muntagò, the hometown he had left years earlier following a traumatic loss. Investigating various cases will help him reconnect with his roots, in a process of “reopening his heart” that will lead him to become less solitary, to form new relationships, and to deepen others from the past.

Uno sbirro in Appennino

2026

Il segreto dell'acqua poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Il segreto dell'acqua

2011

48 Hours poster
NR

There's no time to waste: in just 48 hours a fugitive can disappear for good! The motto of Deputy Head of Police Diego Montagna and his Catturandi squad is: “in order to know where they are, we must find out who they really are”. In order to do so, the squad must enter the minds and the hearts of the fugitives before it's too late. This battle against time will force them to face up to their own dreams, fears and weaknesses, because the only way of knowing the mind of another is to learn to know and dominate one's own.

48 Hours

2006

L'Aquila - Grandi speranze poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'Aquila - Grandi speranze

2019

No artwork available
NR

Donna Roma is a four-part mini-series thriller from director James Schäuffelen who plays in Italy or Germany. The first broadcast took place on 1 March 2007 on ZDF.

Donna Roma

2007