Valeria Sabel

Acting

Valeria Sabel

Born — Died

1928-04-07 — 2009-08-18

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 8 titles

Signora poster
7.0

The story of Emma, a courageous woman who left home at a very young age. Emma's first job is working in a paddy field. There she meets Paride, and a romance begins. But amid a workers strike, Paride dies, leaving Emma alone and also pregnant. From this point on Emma struggles for survival.

Signora

2004

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night poster
6.4

Guido, an acclaimed writer, leads a seemingly perfect life with his wife and daughter, but his restless search for inspiration leads him into the arms of Giulia, a charming and mysterious swim instructor who's hiding a secret.

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

2009

Happiness Costs Nothing poster
3.9

A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test.

Happiness Costs Nothing

2003

Light of My Eyes poster
6.7

Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.

Light of My Eyes

2001

Mario's War poster
5.9

A court takes 9-year-old Mario away from his abusive family and entrusts him to a childless couple. For the three of them, living together is difficult and often painful, since they come from two different worlds. To cope with loneliness and displacement, Mario creates his own world, where he meets Schad Sky, an imaginary friend.

Mario's War

2006

Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight poster
5.6

A man jumps into the Tiber two days before Christmas. Alessandro and Irene chat over coffee, while Giorgio and Mariella discuss love and sex. Pietro confesses his pain to Cinzia, Nanni kisses Paola, who is engaged to another, and Andrea loves Veronica secretly. Vittorio falls for a Chinese masseuse, Nicola is infatuated with Cameron Diaz, and Iole waits for a relationship. From September to December, their lives unfold, ending happily or dramatically. Gianluca Maria Tavarelli, uncomfortable with portraying a younger generation in Liberi, returns to filming about his own age after a busy TV break.

Don't Make Any Plans for Tonight

2007

Ti spiace se bacio mamma? poster
5.9

Sandro, a lawyer, has three sisters and a father, Renato, a man of about seventy-five, who despite his age still loves women very much. The arrival of Lena, Sandro's foreign housekeeper, upsets the normal family balance and provokes different reactions among the various members of the family...

Ti spiace se bacio mamma?

2003

Texas poster
5.6

Enrico, Carlo, Davide, Cinzia, Elisa. Three Saturdays in the life of a group of friends in a quiet town in Piedmont. One night in November, one in December close to Christmas, the third in February. A look at their lives and their daily problems, more or less important, which will lead someone to make even an extreme gesture.

Texas

2005

1990s · 6 titles

The Godfather Part III poster
7.4

In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

The Godfather Part III

1990

Il guerriero Camillo poster
8.0

Camillo is a thirty-year-old man who is innocent and naive. He does not speak, sees the world in black and white, and lives with two elderly puppeteers who picked him up somewhere. Camillo is a dreamer who believes he comes from a distant world, perhaps the Middle Ages. He likes to wear armor and helmets and go into the woods to fight his own private battles. His best friend is a boy with Down syndrome, the son of the town's marshal, the only one who seems to listen to the nonsense of the one who, for many, is just the village idiot. But suddenly, Camillo's adoptive parents die, and with them, the court of friends who revolved around him.

Il guerriero Camillo

1999

Follow Your Heart poster
6.1

The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.

Follow Your Heart

1996

Follow Your Heart poster
6.1

The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Olga's villa in Trieste, begins reading her grandmother's diary. Olga's story unfolds via flashback. As a young woman, Oldga had to marry Antonio a man she didn't love. Later she became passionately involved with a handsome doctor at the local spa. He impregnates her and shortly thereafter dies in a terrible car wreck. The result of their love is Illaria, who grows up to be terribly neurotic. She bears Marta and then she too dies in an automobile accident, leaving Marta to be raised by Olga.

Follow Your Heart

1996

Per amore, solo per amore poster
5.8

In 1st century BC Palestine, Joseph is a carpenter who wants to travel and see the world, but destiny makes him meet young Mary. The two fall in love and marry. One day, Mary becomes pregnant and tells Joseph an unbelievable truth... He decides to stay on her side, but things won't be easy.

Per amore, solo per amore

1993

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato poster
6.6

Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline and stars to see a psychologist but in the meantime he meets the problematic and shy Camilla, who disrupts his life.

Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

1992

1980s · 4 titles

Renegade poster
6.2

While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt, son of a friend of his, Moose, who is in jail. Moose asks Luke to take care of Matt, and to help him to take possession of a piece of land. So starts their travel, full of adventures...

Renegade

1987

Via Panisperna Boys poster
6.5

The enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the (private and professional) life of a well-known group of boys fond of physics and mathematics, who just made history as the Via Panisperna boys.

Via Panisperna Boys

1989

My Friends Act III poster
6.4

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

My Friends Act III

1985

Quartiere poster
6.0

The different faces of love provide the theme for this beautifully photographed film comprised of four short episodes. In the first story, two sisters head out for a New Year's Eve celebration and end up getting a ride with a car full of boys. The lads rape one of the girls, and strangely, the victim ends up falling in love with one of the rapists. In the second story, two young bucks who have been friends for ages spend a weekend at one of their wealthy father's homes. Eventually, they become much more than friends. The third tale deals with the emotions of an abandoned lover. While moping about, he watches TV and sees the picture of a Bengal tiger. Soon he becomes obsessed by the creature and spends many hours observing it at the zoo. His lover decides to return, but he spurns her. In the last story, a homeless fellow lives in an abandoned car. Among the locals he is known for his wisdom. One day, the doorkeeper of an adjacent building goes to see the derelict.

Quartiere

1987

1970s · 12 titles

Baron Blood poster
6.1

A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes Baron Blood to return and continue his murderous tortures.

Baron Blood

1972

I Am Afraid poster
7.2

During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.

I Am Afraid

1977

The Violent Professionals poster
6.1

With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.

The Violent Professionals

1973

Morel's Invention poster
6.3

A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed with old-fashioned clothes. He is afraid because people don't see him, like a ghost.

Morel's Invention

1974

Four Times That Night poster
5.3

A night of attempted seduction is recalled from the perspectives of the woman, the man, a lecherous doorman and a psychoanalyst.

Four Times That Night

1971

Amore e ginnastica poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amore e ginnastica

1973

They Killed Another Bandit poster
10.0

A tale of banditry in Sardinia. Considered a "lost" film but a print was located in 2013.

They Killed Another Bandit

1976

Year One poster
5.3

Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.

Year One

1974

The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun poster
10.0

A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg

The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun

1974

Those Sweet Creatures poster
5.9

An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and is drafted. He soon begins a love story with his commander's daughter.

Those Sweet Creatures

1970

No artwork available
NR

The story of Karl, a Spartacist revolutionary who, upon his release after eight years in a psychiatric hospital, finds himself in an inhumane and corrupt society, with his former comrades now assimilated into the system.

Oplà, noi viviamo

1972

Nella vita di Sylvia Plath poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nella vita di Sylvia Plath

1979

1960s · 6 titles

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