Margherita Buy

Acting

Margherita Buy

Born

1962-01-15 (64)

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

72 titles

Margherita Buy (born 15 January 1962) is an Italian actress. She is a seven-time David di Donatello Awards winner and seven-time Nastro d'argento winner. After a long period of studying at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, she made her breakthrough role in Duccio Tessari's Una grande storia d'amore (1986), which was followed by roles in Daniele Luchetti's two projects It's Happening Tomorrow (1988) and The Week of the Sphinx (1990). For the last one, she won the best performance by an actress in a leading role award at the San Sebastian International Film Festival. Now Margherita Buy is one of the most appreciated actresses of European cinema: Ferzan Özpetek's The Ignorant Fairies, in which she …

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 15 titles

A Brighter Tomorrow poster
7.0

An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.

A Brighter Tomorrow

2023

The First Day of My Life poster
6.7

In the exact moment they hit rock bottom, four strangers are visited by a mysterious man who gifts them a week to see how the world would be without them.

The First Day of My Life

2023

Flying poster
5.3

Annabì has a fear of flying, which holds back her life and acting career. When her daughter decides to study abroad, Annabì sets out to conquer her fear by taking a course designed specifically for those who are afraid of flying.

Flying

2024

7 Women and a Murder poster
5.5

When the family patriarch is murdered, seven women find themselves trapped together in his mansion to solve the mystery.

7 Women and a Murder

2021

Three Floors poster
6.3

Follows the lives of three families who live in a three-story building in a Roman neighbourhood.

Three Floors

2021

Tell It Like a Woman poster
4.2

Seven segments by female directors from different parts of the world and shot in Italy, India, Japan, and the U.S. Each is an inspirational and empowering story about women, by women, for everyone.

Tell It Like a Woman

2022

We Are Cinema poster
9.5

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

We Are Cinema

2021

Trifole poster
6.4

In this bittersweet portrait of a vanishing rural way of life, Dalia travels to Piedmont to care for her aging grandfather Igor, an expert forager. Armed with his field notes and loyal dog Birba, she searches for a prizewinning truffle to save his home.

Trifole

2024

Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti poster
5.8

Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission.

Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti

2020

Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli poster
6.8

1912. Giovanni Pascoli has died, and a train leaves from Bologna for his funeral. On board, students, officials, and family, including his sister Maria, called Mariù. It is a journey of national mourning, with people from all social classes paying homage to the poet. In Mariù’s recollections, we learn how Giovanni lived: his father’s assassination, his poverty as a youth, his political activism and fraught ties to Giosuè Carducci.

Zvanì - Il romanzo famigliare di Giovanni Pascoli

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

Esterno Notte - Prima Parte poster
7.8

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists.

Esterno Notte - Prima Parte

2022

Esterno Notte - Seconda Parte poster
7.9

The 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by Red Brigades terrorists

Esterno Notte - Seconda Parte

2022

Amleto è mio fratello poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Amleto è mio fratello

2023

The Great Silence poster
7.2

Villa Primic was once a luxurious home. Now in disrepair, the Primic family home is up for sale by the owner, Rose, and her two heirs, Massimiliano and Adele. The head of the family, Valerio, is vehemently opposed to this. The reunion is going to be complicated...

The Great Silence

2021

2010s · 16 titles

We Have a Pope poster
6.8

The newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have gathered to see him. His advisors, unable to convince him he is the right man for the job, call on a renowned therapist who also happens to be an atheist. But the Pope's fear of his newfound responsibility is one he must face alone. Winner Best Film at the Italian Golden Globes.

We Have a Pope

2011

Mia Madre poster
6.6

Margherita, a director in the middle of an existential crisis, has to deal with the inevitable and still unacceptable loss of her mother.

Mia Madre

2015

Love Is in the Air poster
5.4

Couple Andrea and Giulia, an outwardly successful couple, are having problems in the bedroom. When Giulia invites Max, an old friend from high school, to stay in the family home with their teenage son, some new attitudes begin to form.

Love Is in the Air

2012

A Magnificent Haunting poster
6.4

An aspiring actor discovers that his spacious new apartment comes complete with eight friendly ghosts.

A Magnificent Haunting

2012

The King's Musketeers poster
5.9

In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last job: saving her son Louis and the whole kingdom.

The King's Musketeers

2018

Two Stepmoms poster
6.0

What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex-husband?

Two Stepmoms

2016

Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso poster
5.5

Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.

Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso

2010

Me, Myself and Her poster
6.0

Two women -- a restaurateur and an architect -- have a seemingly idyllic romantic relationship, until the latter encounters a man she had a fling with.

Me, Myself and Her

2015

The Red and the Blue poster
6.0

In a Roman high school, a jaded art professor who lost the spark for the job clashes with an ex pupil of his, an adjunct literature teacher who is trying to rescue an eccentric and rebellious student, while the stern headmistress deals with a student from a difficult background.

The Red and the Blue

2012

Weddings and Other Disasters poster
5.2

A single, independent woman finds herself organizing her sister's wedding with the help of her future brother-in-law.

Weddings and Other Disasters

2010

Well-Off People poster
4.8

Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his life.

Well-Off People

2014

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents poster
6.8

More and more parents take competitive behavior towards the teachers of their children: deny votes and programs, vaneggiano of likes, dislikes, and conspiracies. So, instead of helping in the training of their children, they become insurmountable obstacles to their growth. Presumptuously they think: "We know better than anyone else our children and we know what they are worth and how and what you have to teach."

How to Grow Up Despite Your Parents

2016

La vita possibile poster
6.1

Anna and her son Valerio run away from a husband and a father who has destroyed the love of their family with beatings and anger. They seek refuge in Turin, with Carla, a lifelong friend, an actress and a woman who lives against the grain, who welcomes them, and with the example of her own experience, will show them the way to a just and possible rebirth.

La vita possibile

2016

A Five Star Life poster
5.7

Single and middle-aged, beautiful Irene is wholly devoted to her job as an inspector of luxury hotels. Constantly on the road, she indulges in expensive pleasures at impeccable resorts, but always incognito and alone, soon escaping to the next exotic destination with her checklist and laptop in tow. When her best friend and ex, Andrea, who has always been a source of emotional support, suddenly becomes unavailable, Irene is thrown into a deep existential crisis. "Luxury is a form of deceit," she is told by a fellow traveller in the fog of a steam room, and thus begins Irene's quest to bring more meaning into her life.

A Five Star Life

2013

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre' poster
NR

A documentary on the making of Mia Madre (2015).

Just a Movie: On the Set of 'Mia Madre'

2016

Monicelli: La versione di Mario poster
5.5

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

2012

2000s · 16 titles

The Manual of Love poster
5.8

Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.

The Manual of Love

2005

Saturn in Opposition poster
6.9

This film focuses on contemporary 30- and 40-somethings trying to make sense of their lives in an age in which the old certainties have disappeared. Lorenzo and Davide make their lives together within a circle that includes Antonio and Angelica, married with children; Nerval and her policeman husband.

Saturn in Opposition

2007

The Unknown Woman poster
7.2

A Ukrainian woman named Irena calculatedly insinuates herself into the lives of a young, affluent Italian family. Stopping at nothing to become the couple's trusted maid and the beloved nanny to their fragile young daughter, Irena risks everything in her quest to uncover the truth about the family.

The Unknown Woman

2006

The Days of Abandonment poster
5.8

Olga's life is shattered when her husband leaves her. This makes her fall into a period of self-degradation and self-destructive behaviors.

The Days of Abandonment

2005

The Caiman poster
6.7

Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it

The Caiman

2006

His Secret Life poster
7.3

When Antonia's husband Massimo is killed in a car accident, she accidentally discovers that he has been having a same-sex affair with a produce wholesaler named Michele.

His Secret Life

2001

Caterina in the Big City poster
6.5

When her social-climbing father is relocated from a one-horse town to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls in his old school, finding herself adrift in an environment where eighth-graders form friendships based on social class and their parents' political affiliations.

Caterina in the Big City

2003

The Best Day of My Life poster
6.4

The lively goings-on of a modern family seen trough the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion.

The Best Day of My Life

2002

Pinocchio poster
6.1

The enchanted story of Pinocchio.

Pinocchio

2009

Days and Clouds poster
6.8

Set in Genoa, the film concerns the financial struggles and emotional strain that occur after Michele loses his job. He and his wife Elsa are forced to give up their affluent lifestyle and cope with the tensions of moving into a smaller home, finding new work, and making sacrifices.

Days and Clouds

2007

Ma che colpa abbiamo noi poster
6.4

Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.

Ma che colpa abbiamo noi

2003

The Vanity Serum poster
5.6

A troubled detective investigates the disappearance of junk TV celebrities who hosted the same controversial talk show.

The Vanity Serum

2004

The Cézanne Affair poster
6.3

Gabriele returns home in southern Italy to bid farewell to his father Ernesto, a former stationmaster in a small town not far from Bari. The old man reawakens in Gabriele memories of his childhood, of his loving mother, his uncle, his friends... but also of his father's rage and bitterness over his failure in achieving his artistic ambitions: Ernesto was convinced he was destined to be a famous painter, and was willing to sacrifice everything for this belief, even his own dignity – and this made his son swear that he wouldn't turn out like him. Only now, many years later, through chance and circumstances, Gabriele begins to understand Ernesto and to see what sort of person his father really was.

The Cézanne Affair

2009

The Shadow of the Giant poster
7.0

Capt. Eugenio arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one knows much about the inmate as he is held in a forlorn tower. When the captain's wife Adele tries to shake her melancholia by playing the piano, she finds -- much to her surprise -- that she's being accompanied by violin music coming from the prison cell.

The Shadow of the Giant

2000

La trappola di Maigret poster
8.1

A serial killer is stalking the streets of Paris and Maigret has to resort to setting a trap in order to catch him.

La trappola di Maigret

2004

Love Returns poster
6.1

Luca is a famous actor working on his new film as both its star and director. One day he gets extremely sick and, while at the hospital, rethinks his life.

Love Returns

2004

1990s · 10 titles

The Station poster
6.5

In a forgotten railway outpost, a humble stationmaster meets a glamorous society woman. Their brief wait for her train turns unexpectedly intimate—until her fiancé arrives, and the night erupts into a desperate struggle as he tries to drag her back by force.

The Station

1990

Not of This World poster
6.5

The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.

Not of This World

1999

Bits & Pieces poster
5.0

Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.

Bits & Pieces

1996

Incompreso poster
7.9

Freely taken from the novel "Misunderstood" by Florence Montgomery, "Incompreso" takes place in the second half of the 1950s in Lucca: Edoardo Quaratesi, an important producer of fine wines, while loving his wife Elisa and his two children, Francesco and Mino, is mainly dedicated to his work. To suffer the most from the absence of Edoardo is the firstborn, Francesco, who pours all his unsatisfied need for love on his mother and little brother. After Elisa's death due to a serious illness, the situation at the Quaratesi home gets complicated, until we reach a dramatic epilogue.

Incompreso

1998

Le fils préféré poster
6.6

Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies. To extricate himself, he has to rely on Philippe and François, his two brothers, and on Raphaël, his father; a family torn by disputes and tragic events. However, by rebuilding family unity, Jean-Paul also discovers the secret of his own destiny...

Le fils préféré

1994

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

Love, Money and Philosophy poster
4.4

Stefano, a philosophy grad student without a future, tries to commit suicide after his girlfriend leaves him. He is saved by Giulio, a wisecracking plumber who takes him home and teaches him the tricks of the trade. When Lucia, a woman disappointed in both men and conventional jobs who has started to work as a prostitute, calls them to repair a sink, for Stefano it's love at first sight.

Love, Money and Philosophy

1996

Sweet Idleness poster
8.3

This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wanderer, looking for a direction in his life, meeting famous Rossini and falling in love with young widow Giuseppina. A story of love, betrayal and an analysis of women and men's minds and souls.

Sweet Idleness

1999

Here Comes the Storm poster
6.1

Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.

Here Comes the Storm

1993

An Eyewitness Account poster
7.5

When Milanese salesman Piero witnesses the mob killing of a prominent magistrate, he testifies in court. The government puts him into the witness protection program, but the traumatic experiences he suffers leaves him wondering if he should have remained silent.

An Eyewitness Account

1997

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