Chiara Caselli Filmography

BirdWatchers

Actors: Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli, Abrisio Da Silva Pedro

Synopsis: A group of indigenous people face off against the modern day owners of their ancestral homeland in this drama from Italian filmmaker Marco Bechis. The Guarani Indians are the native peoples of central Brazil, and though a handful of them still cling to the ways passed down by their ancestors, most Read More

The Past Is a Foreign Land

Actors: Elio Germano, Valentina Lodovini, Chiara Caselli

Synopsis: A fresh-faced law student and a crafty card shark form a volatile friendship based on mutual treachery in Maximum Velocity director Daniele Vicari's adaptation of Gianrico Carofiglio's best-selling novel. At first, all fast friends Giorgio (Elio Germano) and Francesco (Michele Riondino) were Read More

Cover Boy... Last Revolution

Actors: Luca Lionello, Chiara Caselli, Francesco Dominedo

Synopsis: Italian director Carmine Amoroso's politically tinged, slice-of-life seriocomedy Cover Boy... Last Revolution details the wild, unpredictable, and bittersweet experiences of Ioan (Eduard Gabia), an illegal Romanian immigrant who passes into Italy undetected and attempts to eke out a life for Read More

Ripley's Game

Actors: John Malkovich, Dougray Scott, Ray Winstone, Lena Headey, Chiara Caselli

Synopsis: The cool and mannered sociopath Tom Ripley returns to the big screen in director Liliana Cavani's 2002 crime thriller Ripley's Game, adapted from the 1974 novel by Patricia Highsmith. Living a life of luxury as an art dealer in northern Italy with his musician wife Luisa (Chiara Caselli), Ripley (John Malkovich Read More

Sleepless

Actors: Max von Sydow, Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli, Rossella Falk, Paolo Maria Scalondro

Synopsis: Director Dario Argento, best known for his stylishly bloody horror films, revisits the style and themes of his early directorial efforts in this tense crime thriller. A prostitute (Barbara Lerici) discovers one of her customers has a taste for much rougher sex than she's willing to give him; Read More

Waiting For The Messiah

Actors: Héctor Alterio, Chiara Caselli, Daniel Hendler, Melina Petriella, Enrique Pineyro

Synopsis: Set in the vibrant Jewish community of Buenos Aires, Daniel Burman's second feature takes a poignant look at the lives of two men. One is a young man who is torn between his devotion to traditional family ties and the desire for something different, the other is an older bank employee who suddenly Read More

Il Prezzo

Actors: Stefano Dionisi, Chiara Caselli, Alessandro Repossi, Barbara Lerici, Vittorio Amandola

Synopsis: Rolando Stefanelli directs this drama about Romano (Stefano Dionisi), a hard-drinking loser hailing from Rome. Without a penny and without many options, Romano accepts an offer to transport a large amount of hashish to Amsterdam for his buddy Italo (Vittorio Amandola). Needing an escort to make Read More

Forgotten City

Synopsis: A group of people from diverse backgrounds set out on an expedition in search of fabled Mayan city. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

La Vuelta de El Coyote

Actors: Jose Coronado, Mar Flores, Nigel Davenport, Chiara Caselli, Raymond Lovelock

Garage Olimpo

Actors: Antonella Costa, Carlos Echeverria, Dominique Sanda, Chiara Caselli, Enrique Pineyro

Synopsis: Chili-born Italian director Marco Bechis's second feature is a political drama based on his experiences with the military regime of Argentina (1976-1980) when he lived there. Maria (Antonella Costa) is a militant activist in an organization that is fighting the oppressive dictatorship. She teaches Read More

Cinque Giorni di Tempesta

Actors: Roberto De Francesco, Massimo Reale, Amanda Sandrelli, Karin Prioa, Chiara Caselli

Synopsis: The journey in this road movie begins in Sicily as Giovanni (Roberto De Francesco) heads for compulsory military service in Bolzano, near the Austrian border, although his cousin (Renato Carpentieri) wants him to skip out on military service so they can go into business together in Australia. Read More

Storia D'Amore Con I Crampi

Synopsis: Unceremoniously dumped by her lover Roberto, bitter Marcella is determined to win him back at any cost. Such is the basis of this frothy Italian comedy. Roberto has since gone on a Tunisian vacation with his voluptuous new love Alessia. Meanwhile Marcella enacts an elaborate scheme to get him Read More

Oui

Actors: Miguel Bose, Chiara Caselli, Pierre Palmade, Jean-Marie Bigard

Beyond the Clouds

Actors: John Malkovich, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ines Sastre, Sophie Marceau, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi Stuart Read More

OcchioPinocchio

Synopsis: Elements of the original Italian fairy tale, Pinocchio can still be found in this modern and loose adaptation which was filmed in Texas, Louisiana, and Tuscany. In a mythical, unnamed country, Brando is a tough old banking magnate who discovers upon his despised brother suicide that he has a son. Read More

Fiorile

Actors: Renato Carpentieri, Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, Michael Vartan, Constanze Engelbrecht

Synopsis: In Fiorile (US title: Wild Flower), Italy's Taviani brothers once again dissect the manners and mores of the Tuscany region. The story is predicated on a 200-year-old family curse. During the Napoleonic era, Elizabetta "Fiorile" Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) discovers that her own brother Corado (Claudio Bigagli Read More

La Petite Apocalypse

Actors: Jirí Menzel, André Dussollier, Pierre Arditi, Anna Romantowska

Synopsis: In this cynical comedy, an renowned, out-of-work, unpublished "underground" writer from formerly Communist Poland is driven to unusually desperate measures in order to get his work published. Stan (Jiri Menzel) has been living in the attic apartment of his ex-wife's home, which he shares with a Read More

Dove Siete? Io Sono Qui

Actors: Chiara Caselli, Anna Bonaiuto, Valeria D'Obici

Synopsis: Fausto (Gaetano Carotenuto) is a deaf boy who has been trained from birth to live exclusively in the hearing world. His mother (Anna Bonaiuto) has refused to allow him to meet or interact with other deaf children, much less learn sign language. As a consequence, he gets along (with some Read More

Sabato Italiano

Actors: Francesca Neri, Chiara Caselli

Synopsis: Several different stories are brought together by the end of this film, which chronicles how a number of Italians spend, or mis-spend their Saturday evenings prior to becoming acquainted during an auto collision. In one appealing story, a stripper agrees to do her act for a group of well-heeled Read More

Zuppa Di Pesce

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Macha Meril, Chiara Caselli, Lucrezia Lante Della Rovere

Synopsis: Isabella is the much-loved child of a movie producer, growing up in the 1950s. Key moments in her life are seen as she returns each summer to her family's vacation home on the seaside in Tuscany. The argumentative family has its ups and downs, some of them as a result of successes or reverses in Read More

Nero

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Chiara Caselli, Hugo Pratt

Synopsis: Bear witness to the rise of the most corrupt and ruthless ruler ever to preside over the Roman Empire as filmmaker Paul Marcus tells the tale of Nero's unlikely ascent to the throne, and his historical fall at the hands of his own vengeful kingdom. After murdering his sister's husband on grounds Read More

Soupe De Poisson

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Macha Meril, Chiara Caselli

My Own Private Idaho

Actors: River Phoenix, Keanu Reeves, James Russo, William Richert, Rodney Harvey

Synopsis: Gus Van Sant's dreamtime riff on Shakespeare's "Henry IV, Parts I and II" features River Phoenix as Mike Waters, a narcoleptic male hustler who is first seen drifting on a stretch of highway in Idaho. Mike shifts from Seattle to Portland, where he has taken up with Scott Favor (Keanu Reeves), who Read More

La Domenica Specialmente

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Chiara Caselli, Ivano Marescotti, Ornella Muti

Synopsis: Three very odd relationships provide the basis for this thought-provoking Italian anthology that is overseen by director Bernardo Bertolucci. The first tale, "The Blue Dog" centers on a barber who becomes the fixation of a mysteriously devoted dog with an unusual blue spot upon his head. In Read More

L'Année de L'eveil

Actors: Laurent Grévill, Martin Lamotte, Chiara Caselli, Grégoire Colin, Roger Planchon

Synopsis: In this coming-of-age drama, based on a novel by Charles Juliet, François is a sensitive and thoughtful student at a military boarding school in 1948. He is fourteen and an orphan, and the French are still fighting in Indochina, as they will continue to do for many years. He believes he will be Read More

Il Segreto

Actors: Nastassja Kinski, Stefano Dionisi, Franco Citti, Chiara Caselli, Allesandra Marson

Synopsis: Lucia (atassja Kinski) is a volatile, exciteable young woman. She forms a romance with Carlo (Stefano Dionisi), who is somewhat callow and is very skittish. Their romance is not an easy one, but they are assisted in coping with its ups and downs by their mutual friendship with Franco (Franco Read More