Piera Degli Esposti — Actor (9)
Il Divo (2008) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Il Divo
director: Paolo Sorrentino actor: Toni Servillo / Anna Bonaiuto
other title: Il Divo - Der Göttliche / 大牌明星
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Welcome Mr. President! (2013) [Movie] TMDB
Benvenuto Presidente!
director: Riccardo Milani actor: Claudio Bisio / Kasia Smutniak
other title: Benvenuto Presidente! / Velkommen, hr. præsident!
In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...
Sweet Dreams (1981) [Movie] TMDB
Sogni d'oro
director: Nanni Moretti actor: Nanni Moretti / Nicola Di Pinto
other title: Sogni d'oro / Sonhos de ouro
Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.
The Unknown Woman (2006) [Movie] TMDB
La sconosciuta
director: Giuseppe Tornatore actor: Kseniya Rappoport / Michele Placido
other title: La sconosciuta / A Desconhecida
Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit (1983) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Scherzo del destino in agguato dietro l'angolo come un brigante da strada
director: Lina Wertmüller actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Renzo Montagnani
other title: Scherzo del destino in agguato dietro l'angolo come un brigante da strada / A Joke of Destiny
The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them.
Ghosts, Italian Style (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Questi fantasmi
director: Renato Castellani actor: Sophia Loren / Vittorio Gassman
other title: Questi fantasmi / Die Über-Sinnliche
Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work.
Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bisturi - La mafia bianca
director: Luigi Zampa actor: Enrico Maria Salerno / Gabriele Ferzetti
other title: Bisturi - La mafia bianca / Die weiße Mafia
A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.
Sweet Dreams (2016) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Fai bei sogni
director: Marco Bellocchio actor: Valerio Mastandrea / Bérénice Bejo
other title: Fai bei sogni / Sonhos Cor-de-Rosa
Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heaven. Years later in the 90s, adult Massimo has become an accomplished journalist. After reporting on the war in Sarajevo, he begins to suffer from panic attacks. As he prepares to sell his parents’ apartment, Massimo is forced to relive his traumatic past. Compassionate doctor Elisa could help tormented Massimo open up and confront his childhood wounds…