5 Movies Starring Giovanna Mezzogiorno

The Last Kiss

The Last Kiss

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2001-02-02

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

(6536 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Gabriele Muccino (screenplay)

Gabriele Muccino (story)

Fullplot:

Carlo's life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia announces she's pregnant. As Carlo faces up to his anxieties about adulthood, his buddies Paolo, Adriano and Alberto reluctantly grapple with their own responsibilities.

Facing Windows

Facing Windows

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2004-06-18

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, Turkey, Portugal, UK

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (8560 Reviews)

Director:

Ferzan Ozpetek

Genres:

DramaRomance

Fullplot:

Giovanna is a bookkeeper in a company which packs chickens. She is married to a man who has a precarious job. First she starts being curious about a young man who lives in the block opposite hers, and then she falls in love with him. The relationship between the two becomes much stronger when she starts to find out more about him from an old man who bursts into their lives. The old man, obsessed with the memories of some things that happened n the long past autumn of 1943, has lost his memory and finds refuge in Giovanna.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Love in the Time of Cholera

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2007-11-16

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

139 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (18223 Reviews)

Director:

Mike Newell

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Ronald Harwood (screenplay)

Gabriel Garcèa Mèrquez (novel)

Fullplot:

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader. Ariza is persistent, writing her constantly, serenading, speaking poetically of love. Her father tries to keep them apart, and then, one day, she sees this love as an illusion. She's soon married to Urbino, a cultured physician, and for years, Ariza carries a torch, finding solace in the arms of women, loving none. After Urbino's fall, are Ariza's hopes delusional?

Vincere

Vincere

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2009-05-20

Languages:

Italian, German

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

128 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (4306 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Marco Bellocchio (story)

Marco Bellocchio (screenplay)

Daniela Ceselli (screenplay)

Fullplot:

The story of Mussolini's secret lover, Ida Dalser, and their son Albino.

The Dinner

The Dinner

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2014-09-05

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.5 (364 Reviews)

Director:

Ivano De Matteo

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Valentina Ferlan (screenplay)

Ivano De Matteo (screenplay)

Herman Koch (novel)

Fullplot:

Story about two brothers and their wives, and the interactions between them and their two high school age children. When the kids get into serious trouble together, how will the parents relationships change with and among each other? Will the parents protect the kids or force them to face the consequences of their actions?

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