Monica Scattini

Acting

Monica Scattini

Born — Died

1956-02-01 — 2015-02-04

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Monica Scattini (1 February 1956 – 4 February 2015) was an Italian actress. Films Scattini appeared in include Maniaci sentimentali, for which she won a David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actress, and Lontano da dove, for which she was awarded with a Nastro d'Argento for Best Supporting Actress. Her television credits include Un ciclone in famiglia and Recipe for Crime. She also appeared in the films Nine, Le Bal, One from the Heart, and Nora. Scattini died of cancer on 4 February 2015, aged 59. She was the daughter of director Luigi Scattini. Source: Article "Monica Scattini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Film credits

2010s · 8 titles

My Way poster
6.4

A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.

My Way

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

Tutto l'amore del mondo poster
6.0

Four friends to the discovery of the most fun and romantic of Europe: Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and finally Scotland. A road trip that will bring our protagonists to know each other better and to fall in love.

Tutto l'amore del mondo

2010

Tutta colpa della musica poster
5.2

The Tuscan Giuseppe, after a lifetime spent working in a company in Biella, reaches the well-deserved retirement; but soon he is forced to confront the boredom of retired life.

Tutta colpa della musica

2011

One Life, Maybe Two poster
5.5

You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps into another car and life hasn't been the same anymore. Even though you have everything something keeps on eating you up.

One Life, Maybe Two

2010

Prigioniero della mia libertà poster
2.0

Alejandro Torres, a young architect, lives a quiet life with his family until the day he is unjustly arrested. Traumatized by the miscarriage of justice and desperate for the truth, he will carry out his "revenge" on those who have turned his life upside down.

Prigioniero della mia libertà

2018

First Happiness poster
NR

Five patients suffering from serious mental disorders, after therapy carried out at the mental health department, are entrusted to the care of Carmen who has the task of helping them resume a normal life and reintegrate into the social and working context. All of them go to live in the apartment where they are distrusted by their neighbours, intimidated by their strange habits. Only four of them will be able to regain possession of their lives, overcoming the dark tunnel into which their mind had fallen.

First Happiness

2011

Baci salati poster
NR

Catania, 1960s. At the beach resort run by the charming Rozzo Finocchiaro, Stefano, a blind elderly man, observes and comments with ironic and acerbic commentary on the behavior of the people who frequent the beach and whose lives are intertwined. Passing under his scrutiny are the industrialist Alfredo Condorelli—married to the wealthy Maria Rita and engaged in a clandestine affair with his secretary Rosalba—the stifling Rosa—wife of the former playboy Alfredo—the four bigwigs Roberto, Michele, Armando, and Rocco; the musician Gregorio Alacci; the fallen boss Jano Suarez; the Lanzafame family; and Peppino Di Paternò—a fifty-year-old married to the statuesque Ulla.

Baci salati

2012

2000s · 8 titles

Nine poster
5.5

Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.

Nine

2009

Nora poster
5.2

In 1904, in Dublin, James Joyce chats up Nora Barnacle, a hotel maid recently come from Galway. She enchants him with her frank, direct and uninhibited manner, and before long, he's convinced her to come with him to Trieste, where he has a job with Berlitz. Over time, Nora pulls him through phobias, tolerates his drinking, takes in his brother Stan, and bests Joyce at 'the writin' game' to bring him back to Italy from Dublin where he's gone to open a cinema. But his sexual jealousy threatens the relationship and sends her back to Galway with the children. Is there any way to tame Jim's green-eyed monster? And, will the lad ever get his stories published?

Nora

2000

VIP poster
4.7

No synopsis available yet.

VIP

2008

Lessons in Chocolate poster
5.9

Mattia, a building contractor on a promising career path, is about to close the biggest deal of his professional life, when his illegally-hired worker Kamal falls off some scaffolding, suffers a severe break and threatens to sue and press charges against Mattia unless... Unless Mattia takes his place in an advanced course for pastry makers! This is the reason Kamal came to Italy from his native Egypt and that will allow him to realize his dream of opening his own pastry shop... Mattia has no choice but to take Kamal’s place in the school and pretend to be him. Among laughs and mouth-watering recipes, Mattia will discover a way to bring his and Kamal's disparate cultures together.

Lessons in Chocolate

2007

Come si fa un Martini poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Come si fa un Martini

2001

Feisbum - Il film poster
4.4

The title translates literally as "Faceboom." An omnibus film helmed by seven top-tiered Italian directors, this comedy explores the worldwide Facebook craze of the early 21st century by recounting the adventures of numerous Europeans whose lives are altered by that social networking site.

Feisbum - Il film

2009

Scacco pazzo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Scacco pazzo

2003

Film poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Film

2000

1990s · 21 titles

Excellent Cadavers poster
6.3

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.

Excellent Cadavers

1999

The True Life of Antonio H. poster
8.3

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Italy, and his early life in the Middle East and follows him through the highs and lows of his acting career, using a combination of interviews with real-life colleagues, archival footage and improvised scenes along the way.

The True Life of Antonio H.

1994

The True Life of Antonio H. poster
8.3

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Italy, and his early life in the Middle East and follows him through the highs and lows of his acting career, using a combination of interviews with real-life colleagues, archival footage and improvised scenes along the way.

The True Life of Antonio H.

1994

Christmas Vacation 2000 poster
5.3

Superenalotto winner Pasquale Esposito with his family, two penniless students from Emilia and the Colombo and Covelli families, who accidentally rent the same chalet, will spend the Christmas holidays in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

Christmas Vacation 2000

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

Silent Love poster
10.0

A young restorer is commissioned a job at an old villa which belongs to an aging countess.

Silent Love

1991

Bruno aspetta in macchina poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Bruno aspetta in macchina

1996

Simpatici & antipatici poster
5.4

In the Tiber sports club, Alberto, a ruthless property developer, the cynical surgeon who makes thirty million dollars after a prostate operation, the actor exhausted by failure and the failed salesman who sells caviar by discounting prices and who tries to make up for continuous overdrafts in the bank, meet. There is also the starlet with a Venetian accent and the hateful scion with a Ferrari, the waiter who dreams of being the scion and the jeweler who loses his house, wife and wealth because of the hot Spanish woman.

Simpatici & antipatici

1998

Love Burns poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Love Burns

1994

I'll Be Going Now poster
6.1

After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman.

I'll Be Going Now

1991

Da cosa nasce cosa poster
10.0

italian short

Da cosa nasce cosa

1998

Un'altra vita poster
3.6

Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.

Un'altra vita

1992

Savages poster
5.6

A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.

Savages

1995

Maniaci sentimentali poster
6.9

No synopsis available yet.

Maniaci sentimentali

1994

In principio erano le mutande poster
4.0

Imma falls in love with a fireman.

In principio erano le mutande

1999

Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations poster
7.4

During the annual Christmas gathering at the family home, the parents surprise their children by announcing their decision to move in with one of them and pass on the house.

Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations

1992

Stressati poster
4.0

Two thirtysomething friends on the verge of a nervous breakdown can no longer cope with the stress created by their wives, jobs, mobile phones, and struggle for survival.

Stressati

1997

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Agosto

1993

Un Paradiso di Bugie poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un Paradiso di Bugie

1997

Men Men Men poster
5.2

Four homosexual men in their 40s have issues and no small degree of self hatred. Yet, can laugh at themselves and their comrades and often do.

Men Men Men

1995

Quando si fa buio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Quando si fa buio

1995

1980s · 12 titles

One from the Heart poster
5.9

In a dazzling, dreamlike Las Vegas, longtime couple Hank and Frannie break up on their fifth anniversary and each pursue the fantasy of new love over one neon-soaked night—he with a free-spirited acrobat, she with a seductive musician. But as illusion and reality blur, both must decide whether passion or devotion truly defines the heart.

One from the Heart

1982

Priceless Beauty poster
3.2

A rock-star who stopped singing after the death of his brother finds a female genie in a vase. She tries to help him live again.

Priceless Beauty

1988

Rimini Rimini poster
4.8

Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.

Rimini Rimini

1987

Le Bal poster
7.0

In a French nightclub, choreographed song and dance routines are performed, rather than a streamlined narrative. They tell the story of Parisian culture and politics from the 1920s—1980s. A disparate, anachronistic series of characters, including an ordinary waiter, a Nazi collaborator, resistance fighters, and 1960s student protestors gather to celebrate and satirize 20th century France's icons, demons, and social changes.

Le Bal

1983

The Family poster
7.5

Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo can't really decide until it's too late.

The Family

1987

A Boy and a Girl poster
4.6

Anna and Calogero are in love and living together in a low-scale apartment while going to the University of Milan. When Anna discovers she is pregnant, Calogero handles the situation like the moral coward he is.

A Boy and a Girl

1984

Il mistero del panino assassino poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il mistero del panino assassino

1987

Provvisorio, quasi d'amore poster
7.0

Anthology of urban stories form seven Italian directors.

Provvisorio, quasi d'amore

1988

Sick Love poster
4.1

Marcello is a dwarf who is kept hidden by his family and falls in love with a prostitute from the local brothel. The prostitute's lover plots to kill the dwarf but she helps him to escape, though at a cost to her own well-being.

Sick Love

1982

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

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Incidente di percorso

1986

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rosso di sera

1984

1970s · 3 titles

Series credits