Isabella Ragonese

Acting

Isabella Ragonese

Born 1981-05-19 · Palermo, Italy

Acting credits

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

The God of Love poster
5.9

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

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

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

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

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

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

Leopardi poster
6.8

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

Leopardi

2014

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta

2021

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

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