Isabella Ragonese

Acting

Isabella Ragonese

Born

1981-05-19 (45)

Place of birth

Palermo, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Rocco Schiavone poster
7.9

Weed smoking, foulmouthed Rocco Schiavone is an offbeat Deputy Commissioner of the State Police. For disciplinary reasons he is transferred to the Alpine town of Aosta, far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated but cranky Roman despises the mountains, the cold, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes.

Rocco Schiavone

2016

Il Re poster
6.7

No synopsis available yet.

Il Re

2022

Golden Door poster
6.5

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

Golden Door

2006

My Brother Chases Dinosaurs poster
7.0

As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his life.

My Brother Chases Dinosaurs

2019

The God of Love poster
5.8

Love Divine is a choral journey into romantic relationships, exploring the emotional destinies of interconnected lives. With an ironic, light tone tinged with bitterness, it portrays a humanity caught in the chaos of love. Each character is a knot in an intricate weave shaped by the capricious God of Love, while Ovid, the eternal poet, guides us from ancient Rome into the present.

The God of Love

2026

A Whole Life Ahead poster
6.6

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.

A Whole Life Ahead

2008

Film credits

2020s · 12 titles

The God of Love poster
5.8

Love Divine is a choral journey into romantic relationships, exploring the emotional destinies of interconnected lives. With an ironic, light tone tinged with bitterness, it portrays a humanity caught in the chaos of love. Each character is a knot in an intricate weave shaped by the capricious God of Love, while Ovid, the eternal poet, guides us from ancient Rome into the present.

The God of Love

2026

Like Sheep Among Wolves poster
6.1

Two estranged siblings are thrown back into each other's lives during a high-stakes heist: one wearing the badge, the other holding the gun.

Like Sheep Among Wolves

2023

Lei mi parla ancora poster
6.2

Nino and Caterina have been married for 65 years. After Caterina's death, their daughter Elisabetta, trying to help her father to overcome the loss, hires an author to write a book on their love story.

Lei mi parla ancora

2021

Yara poster
6.3

The murder of 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio shocks the little town of Brembate di Sopra, Italy. To bring the culprit to justice, prosecutors have only scant DNA evidence and no database to compare them to. Based on a true story.

Yara

2021

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

Il giorno e la notte poster
5.5

After a terrorist attack in Rome, the government urges the population not to leave their houses: several couples clash during isolation. Shot during the first COVID-19 lockdown.

Il giorno e la notte

2021

Murmur poster
NR

Murmur follows the real and metaphorical flight of a seagull, through the gaze of a female figure—suspended in indefinite time—who explores its physical and divine mechanics. Drawing inspiration from Nina's famous monologue from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Murmur engages—through a richly imaginative language—in a dialogue with the essence of a truly free art.

Murmur

2026

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta

2021

Mom to Hundreds poster
6.4

With the continuous arrival of migrants to Palermo, a councilor becomes the legal guardian of hundreds of children while also dealing with her own family problems.

Mom to Hundreds

2020

Così è (o mi pare) poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Così è (o mi pare)

2021

La quinta stagione poster
NR

Five of the most important and prestigious names in Italian cuisine gather to discuss their choices, their sense of time, and the future, free from prejudice and convention. One by one, they begin to speak, leading us on a journey through the different latitudes, flavors, and histories of our country. All under the banner, however, of one great shared spirit: love for the life to come. The fifth season that unites us all.

La quinta stagione

2025

Rosa - Il canto delle sirene poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rosa - Il canto delle sirene

2022

2010s · 20 titles

My Brother Chases Dinosaurs poster
7.0

As a child, Jack believed the tender lie his parents told him, that Gio was a special being with superpowers, as in a comic book. Now that he is about to go to high school, however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his life.

My Brother Chases Dinosaurs

2019

Leopardi poster
6.8

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

Leopardi

2014

One Day More poster
6.1

Giacomo is a 40-year-old man who works for a big company in Milan. To avoid working on weekends, he lies about having a girlfriend whose character he creates based upon a girl he sees every morning.

One Day More

2011

A New World poster
7.0

During World War II, a group of young anti-fascists is sentenced to confinement on an island, where they work on the groundbreaking Ventotene Manifesto.

A New World

2014

It's All About Karma poster
5.8

Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.

It's All About Karma

2017

La sedia della felicità poster
5.6

Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.

La sedia della felicità

2014

So Far So Good poster
6.1

It’s the last weekend together for three men and two women who for years have studied and lived in the same house in Pisa. University is over and each of them is about to embark on a new path: some will stay in Pisa, some will return home to their parents, and some will move to another city or even country. That protected period of their life in which infinite opportunities awaited them, is fading away – now is the time for decisions and responsibility: love or a well-paid job? Have a child or wait for better circumstances? Follow your dreams or be happy with whatever comes your way? Once thing is certain: their carefree university days are over and nothing will ever be the same again.

So Far So Good

2015

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

Somewhere Amazing poster
4.6

Asti, third millennium. Lucia, mother and wife on the verge of boredom, opens up to friendship with the immigrant Ahmed, looking for an escape from the routine.

Somewhere Amazing

2015

Il traguardo di Patrizia poster
NR

Patrizia is born in Sicily from Bengali parents she has an Italian name and feels Italian, despite her amber skin. She has many friends, goes to school and is an athletes promise . Runs fast and jumps obstacles like none, but just when the Federation selects her to participate at the European Championships, the girl discovers that legally she is not Italian and therefore could not compete.

Il traguardo di Patrizia

2016

Our Life poster
6.5

Claudio is a construction worker living in the outskirts of Rome. He's happily married and his wife is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life.

Our Life

2010

Mexico! Un cinema alla riscossa poster
7.0

The Cinema Mexico is one of the last single-screen cinemas left in Milan. Its story is inextricably tied to the figure of Antonio Sancassani who ran it independently for the past thirty years taking care of every single aspect. At the cinema Mexico he presents independent films, debuts, films in original version, documentaries, forgotten films or films that have been "burned" by large-scale distribution offering them a second chance. The thirty-six years of the Rocky Horror Picture Show and two extraordinary years of The Wind Blows Round are only some of the successes that have made of the cinema a reference point for insiders from all over Italy. A passionate portrait that reflects on the fate of small cinemas and on the difficulties for independent cinema that is suffocated by the laws of the market, by online streaming and by the television.

Mexico! Un cinema alla riscossa

2017

There Is a Light poster
6.8

Paolo is a sceptical 30-year-old who works unwillingly as a sales clerk in a Turin department store. Mia is a back-up singer in a band and lives her life haphazardly, which leads her to being practically homeless. One night, they bump into each other by chance, in a gay club in Turin. It will be the beginning of an emotional adventure and a journey across the country looking for the father of Mia’s baby.

There Is a Light

2017

Un altro mondo poster
7.1

Andrea is a twentysomething from a rich but cold family who leads a superficial life devoid of responsibility. After receiving a letter from his dying father, whom he hasn't seen since he was a child, Andrea reluctantly joins him in Kenya to bid him farewell. Once there, he'll find himself with a rather singular inheritance: an 8-year-old half-brother that his father had from a local woman.

Un altro mondo

2010

Una storia sbagliata poster
5.9

Stefania, a young Sicilian nurse, becomes part of a humanitarian mission committed to helping Iraqi children with a cleft lip, because she wants to meet the family of the man who devastated her life.

Una storia sbagliata

2015

The First Assignment poster
5.9

Nena, a girl from the south of Italy, has to travel far from home to get her first job as a teacher. She is sad, not because she has to leave her mother and sister, with whom everything is clear and sometimes difficult, but because she is having a serious love affair with someone from her village to whom she is very committed: a young upper-middle class man who seems to sincerely feel the same. They promise that nothing will change between them. It is only until June and then she can ask for a transfer. And so she leaves, a little sad and a little curious about what is in store for her. But what she finds is completely different from what she imagined.

The First Assignment

2011

Dobbiamo parlare poster
5.9

Vanni and Linda live in a penthouse apartment for rent in the center of Rome. Vanni writes novels, Linda 'cooperates' to his novels. Between a vernissage and an exhibition of Basquiat, thay hang out Alfredo and Constanza, a couple on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Alfredo is a surgeon with the habit of waking up early and has a lover, Constanza is a dermatologist with the same habits. With the intent to vent their frustrations in their friends' living room, Alfredo and Constanza take hostage the couple and recriminate loudly about the past and the present. In an impossible attempt to contain them, Vanni and Linda eventually take the field and also thrash each other. Someone will end up getting hurt by the end of the night.

Dobbiamo parlare

2015

Sun, Heart, Love poster
5.9

Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two sides of the same coin, but their mutual solidarity isn’t always enough to lighten the load of their difficult circumstances.

Sun, Heart, Love

2017

Cuore di clown poster
NR

Braciola is a clown unable to make people laugh. Tonino, the meanest man in town, blackmails Braciola's girlfriend Gioia and forces her to marry him. The clown interrupts the ceremony, wreaks havoc in the church, with the help of his pet rat, and runs away with Gioia. Many adventures, and yes, laughs, await ahead for our heroes.

Cuore di clown

2011

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fuori

2015

2000s · 6 titles

Golden Door poster
6.5

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and a widower, decides to emigrate to the US with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is supposed to be a British lady and wants to come back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, for unknown reasons wants to marry someone before to arrive to Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts the proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations to be admitted to the States. Tests are not so simple for poor farmers coming from Sicily. Their destiny is in the hands of the custom officers.

Golden Door

2006

A Whole Life Ahead poster
6.6

25-year-old philosophy major Marta faces the ugly truth for many young Italians — a complete lack of career opportunities. While babysitting for single mother Sonia, she starts to work as a telemarketer, experiencing first-hand the fanatical and exploitative rat-race culture pushed on employees while quickly rising through the ranks of the company. Around her revolve people like delusional supervisor Daniela, her womanizing boss Claudio, fragile coworker Lucio "2", and well-meaning but inconsistent union rep Giorgio.

A Whole Life Ahead

2008

The Purple Sea poster
6.6

Nothing - not her father, not the church - can stop unruly Angela from being with her childhood best friend turned great love, Sara. Based on a true story, Viola di Mare, presents a uniquely engaging portrait of family, community and gender roles in a 19th century Italian village.

The Purple Sea

2009

The Cosmos on the Commode poster
5.2

Four comedic episodes framed within the story of a tyrannical Zen master and his two hapless disciples.

The Cosmos on the Commode

2008

Just Married poster
5.7

Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.

Just Married

2009

Ten Winters poster
7.0

Born of a chance meeting in Venice, Silvestro and Camilla's rocky romance unfolds over 10 winters as new lovers come and go but they are eternally thrust back into one another's arms.

Ten Winters

2009

Series credits

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