Laura MoranteFilmography

Born:: August 21, 1956 in Santa Fiora, Grosseto, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Italian actress Laura Morante began her onscreen career in earnest at the beginning of the 1980s and worked steadily on the small and big screen from that point forward. She first gained fame in her own country, and soon built a reputation throughout Europe and the world. By the beginning of the...Read More

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Il Grande Sogno

Actors: Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Luca Argentero, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando

2009
The Anarchist's Wife

Synopsis: Love and politics pull a couple in two directions at once in this historical drama. It's 1937 in Spain, and Justo (Juan Diego Botto) is a handsome, idealistic radio commentator who is married to Manuela (Maria Valverde), who loves him but doesn't share his passion for social justice. A confirmed Read More

2008
Molière

Actors: Romain Duris, Fabrice Luchini, Laura Morante, Edouard Baer, Ludivine Sagnier

Synopsis: In 1645, the French playwright and actor Jean-Baptiste Poquelin -- better known as Molière -- mysteriously disappeared for several weeks, and this lavish comedy drama imagines a scenario that could explain what may have happened to him. At this time, Molière (Romain Duris) is touring the French Read More

7/27/07
Private Fears in Public Places

Actors: Laura Morante, Lambert Wilson, Pierre Arditi, Isabelle Carré, André Dussollier

Synopsis: A handful of characters struggle to hold on to relationships with the people they care for in this collaboration between playwright Alan Ayckbourn and filmmaker Alain Resnais. Dan (Lambert Wilson) has recently finished up a hitch in the Army, but rather than deal with his emotional issues, Dan Read More

4/13/07
Avenue Montaigne

Actors: Cécile De France, Valérie Lemercier, Albert Dupontel, Claude Brasseur, Dani

Synopsis: A fresh-faced orphan from the provinces labors away at the last old-fashioned café on Avenue Montaigne as the Paris theater elite prepare for the biggest night of the year in Jet Lag director Danièle Thompson's whirlwind comedy of intersecting lives. Jessica (Cécile De France) may have been Read More

2/16/07
Ballroom Dancing

Actors: Laura Morante, Antonio Catania, Umberto Morelli, Giorgia Brunacchi, Giordano Di Pietro

Synopsis: An unusually wise twelve year old boy attempts to save his mother's failing love life by setting her up with his handsome music teacher in director Claudio Antonioni's entry into the 2007 Montreal World Film Festival. Raul is a precocious adolescent who lives with his mother Monica - a singer in Read More

2007
The Hideout

Actors: Laura Morante, Rita Tushingham, Burt Young, Treat Williams, Yvonne Scio

Synopsis: A woman making her way back to sanity finds herself living in a house with a history of madness in this thriller. Lei (Laura Morante) is a woman who has spent fifteen years in a mental hospital; eager to start her life over again, she's decided to put her life's savings into opening a restaurant. Read More

2007
The Empire of the Wolves

Actors: Jean Reno, Jocelyn Quivrin, Arly Jover, Laura Morante, Philippe Bas

Synopsis: When the wife of a high-ranking government official begins experiencing chilling visions that are somehow tied to a series of murders around Paris, her fate becomes intricately tied with that of the two police officers investigating the gruesome crimes in this horror-flavored thriller from the Read More

2005
Remember Me, My Love

Actors: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Laura Morante, Nicoletta Romanoff, Silvio Muccino, Monica Bellucci

Synopsis: Gabriele Muccino's Ricordati di Me (Remember Me) is a drama about two generations in an Italian family. Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) and Giulia (Laura Morante) are a married couple who have each given up their aspirations in order to live an average life. Their 19-year-old son, Paolo (Silvio Muccino Read More

9/3/04
L'Amore E Eterno- Finche Dura

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Laura Morante, Stefania Rocca, Rodolfo Corsato, Lucia Ceracchi

2004
Hotel

Actors: Max Beesley, Rhys Ifans, Saffron Burrows, David Schwimmer, Salma Hayek, Burt Reynolds

Synopsis: Following up on his innovative work Timecode, which featured four stories being told in real time simultaneously, Mike Figgis returns to a modified form of his technique in this film about the tourists, the prostitutes, the tour guides, a killer, and a film crew who frequent the Hungarian Palace Read More

7/25/03
The Dancer Upstairs

Actors: Javier Bardem, Juan Diego Botto, Laura Morante, Elvira Mínguez, Alexandra Lencastre

Synopsis: Actor John Malkovich made his directorial debut with this tense political thriller, set in an unnamed Latin American nation and based on a novel by Nicholas Shakespeare. Agustin Rejas (Javier Bardem) is a former lawyer who became a police detective as a more direct way of dealing with crime and Read More

9/20/02
The Son's Room

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice, Sofia Vigliar, Silvio Orlando

Synopsis: A family struggles to go on after a devastating loss in this deeply emotional drama from Italy. Giovanni (Nanni Moretti) is a psychiatrist with a successful practice in a small community near the ocean. Giovanni has a warm relationship with his wife Paola (Laura Morante), and they have a pair of Read More

1/25/02
Un Viaggio Chiamato Amore

Actors: Laura Morante, Stefano Accorsi, Alessandro Haber, Galatea Ranzi, Diego Ribon

Synopsis: Italian director Michele Placido explores the legendary -- yet brief -- affair that occurred between writers Dino Campana and Sibilla Aleramo in the early part of the 20th century in his 2002 romantic drama, A Journey of Love. Early Italian feminist Sibilla Aleramo (played by Laura Morante) Read More

2002
Vajont

Actors: Michel Serrault, Daniel Auteuil, Laura Morante, Jorge Perugorría, Anita Caprioli

2001
Liberate i Pesci

Actors: Laura Morante, Francesco Paolantoni, Michele Placido, Lunetta Savino, Emilio Solfrizzi

Synopsis: Cristina Comencini follows up her critically acclaimed 1998 opus Marriage (a funny though sensitive look at marriage in modern life) with this star-crossed comedy. Mafioso Michele Verrio (Michele Placido) has both a wife (Angelica Ippolito) and a long-suffering mistress, Lunetta (Lunetta Savino). Read More

2000
Prime Luci Del'Alba

Actors: Francesco Giuffrida, Laura Morante, Roberto Nobile, Gian Marco Tognazzi

Synopsis: Lucio Gaudino directs this family drama about a pair of brothers grudgingly reunited after their parents are killed by Mafia extortionists. After learning of the murders, affluent yuppie Edo leaves his abode in northern Italy to visit his family's home in Sicily. There he and his resentful Read More

2000
Film

Actors: Laura Morante, Monica Scattini, Maddalena Crippa, Gigio Alberti

Synopsis: A woman finds herself wondering if the support of her friends is helping or hindering her progress as a writer in this comedy-drama from Italy. Mara (Laura Morante) is an actress in her late thirties who has broken up with her boyfriend, a film producer (Vanni Corbellini), just as she's trying to Read More

2000
L'Anniversario

Actors: Laura Morante, Luca Zingaretti, Elena Fresco, Alessandra Celi, Massimo Rossi

Synopsis: The veneer of a happy marriage disguises an ugly secret in this hard-hitting drama from Italy. Anita and Michele (Laura Morante and Luca Zingaretti) are celebrating the tenth anniversary of their wedding. At a dinner party in which the couple's friends and family are helping to mark this joyous Read More

1999
La Mirada Del Otro

Actors: Laura Morante, Jose Coronado, Miguel A. Garcia, Sancho Gracia, Juanjo Puigcorbe

Synopsis: Scripter Alvaro del Amo and director Vicente Aranda adapted this Spanish film from Fernando G. Delgado's prize-winning novel. The story follows the psychosexual experiments of upper-middle-class consultant Begona (Laura Morante). Japanese businessmen arrive in Madrid to test a palm-size video Read More

1998
Coppia Omicida

Actors: Raoul Bova, Francesca Schiavo, Laura Morante, Thomas Kretschmann, Raz Degan

Synopsis: Claudio Fragasso directed this Italian thriller in which a former French secret service agent (top Israeli male model Raz Degan) recruits newlyweds to become assassins. After Carla (Laura Morante), married to Domenico (Thomas Kretschmann), kills several people, neighbor Dario (TV-star Raoul Bova) Read More

1998
Marianna Ucria

Actors: Emmanuelle Laborit, Roberto Herlitzka, Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis: Based on an acclaimed, popular historical novel by Dacia Maraini, this 18th-century set costumer follows the adventures of a deaf-mute noblewoman who strives to escape her dark past and the social conventions that force her to remain married to a man she detests. The story begins when the already Read More

8/13/97
Santo Stefano

Actors: Claudio Amendola, Claudio Bigagli, Laura Morante, Andrea De Rosa, Antonio Petrocelli

Synopsis: Much like Alcatraz, Santo Stefano is a fortress-like Mediterranean penitentiary closed by the Italian government in the mid-'60s. The prison, named for the small island where it's located in the Tyrrhenian Sea, provides the setting for the directorial debut of screenwriter Angelo Pasquini. Antonio Read More

1997
Ferie D'Agosto

Synopsis: Two disparate Italian families battle it out on a remote island during summer vacation in this barbed social comedy that sharply comments on the yawning chasm created by ideological and political differences between liberal-but-narrow-minded intellectual elitists and ultra-conservative, ignorant Read More

1996
Io e Il Re

Synopsis: This gentle Italian children's drama is set in 1943 and tells the true tale of Mathilde, a 13-year-old girl who meets Italy's King just before the US Army invaded Rome. During that fateful summer Mathilde and Beatrice, her mother, head out to the country estate of her grandfather, the Count. Read More

1995
Faut pas rire du bonheur

Actors: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Laura Morante, Philippe Nahon, Roland Amstutz

Synopsis: What there is of a plot in this drama serves mainly as a vehicle for the exploration of character. In the story, Michel (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) is a recent widower. As the story opens, he and his friend Andre (Philippe Nahon) are sharing a drink on Christmas Eve. He takes a yellow scarf from a Read More

1994
Juste Avant L'Orage

Actors: Laura Morante, Christophe Malavoy, Zabou, Christophe Odent

Synopsis: In this somewhat literary exploration of the meaning of romance, loosely based on the works of Henry James, five modern-day couples gather at a country estate to mark the anniversary of their long friendship. Their romantic maneuverings, past and present, are too complex to summarize here. Read More

1993
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

1992
La Voix

Actors: Nathalie Baye, Sami Frey, Laura Morante, Jean-Claude Dreyfus

Synopsis: Lorraine and Gille are sharing a romantic dinner at a cafe in Rome while they celebrate their relationship with a vacation to that historic city. Gille is suddenly still, as he hears a voice out of sight that sounds familiar. Eventually he places it: it is the voice of his former flame Laura, a Read More

1992
Ao Fim Da Noite

1991
La Femme Fardée

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jacqueline Maillan, Anthony Delon, André Dussollier, Philippe Khorsand

Synopsis: Except for the millionaire film producer, who undoubtedly only gets what he deserves, in this bedroom comedy almost everyone else on a luxury cruise liner headed for Mykonos seems to be having a good time with someone new. Doria (Jeanne Moreau) is a famed but aging opera singer whose career is Read More

1990
Turné

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Synopsis: Dario (Diego Abatantuono) is a lively, loyal friend, and a good trouper who can recover cheerfully from even the worst onstage disasters. He needs to be, because he is constantly onstage with his best friend Federico (Fabrizio Bentivoglio), who is a barely adequate actor. In everyday life Read More

1990
I Ragazzi Di Via Panisperna

Actors: Andrea Prodan, Ennio Fantastichini, Laura Morante, Virna Lisi, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: This unusual biographical drama explores a period in the life of Nobel Prize-winning Italian nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, (1901-1954) who contributed to the U.S.'s Manhattan Project (which developed the nuclear bomb) after developing the first working nuclear reactor at the University of Read More

2/3/89
Onde Bate O Sol

Actors: Laura Morante

Synopsis: The young men in this Portuguese drama have one thing in common: they all have homosexual urges, and all have hidden or repressed them. When this was filmed in Portugal in the late 1980s this was shocking stuff. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Corps Perdus

Actors: Laura Morante, Tchéky Karyo, Georges Claisse, Gerardo Romano

Synopsis: An art restorer and (of neccessity) a bit of a historian, Eric (Tcheky Karyo) has been asked to come to a very spooky mansion to restore what looks to be a painting by a hideously deformed, mentally deranged artist who is only now becoming popular, years after his death. As he restores the Read More

1989
Un Jeu D'Enfant

Actors: Dominique Lavanant, Laura Morante, Jean Carmet

1989
Un Amore Di Donna

1988
Man on Fire

Actors: Scott Glenn, Jade Malle, Brooke Adams, Danny Aiello, Joe Pesci, Paul Shenar

Synopsis: An agent newly retired from the CIA (Scott Glenn) agrees to become an Italian businessman's bodyguard in this adventure film. Things fall apart though, when terrorists kidnap the Italian's daughter and the agent must rescue her. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

10/9/87
Luci Lontane

7/28/87
La Vallée fantôme

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Morante, Caroline Cartier, Ray Serra

Synopsis: This uneven drama concerns the efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production. Paul (Jean-Louis Trintignant) finds difficulty deciding on a location for his film and angrily throws out his script. Jean (Jacob Berger) is the film student who is sent by Paul to Read More

1987
Distant Lights

Actors: Tomas Milian, Laura Morante, William Berger, Giacomo Piperno

Synopsis: In this English-dubbed version of an Italian sci-fi film, a group of aliens lands on the planet in spirit form and take over the bodies of the recently dead. Trouble begins when a toddler tells his dad that he sees his deceased mother walking around every day. When the father investigates, he sees Read More

1987
A Flor Do Mar

1986
Le Due Vite di Mattia Pascal

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Flavio Bucci, Laura Morante, Laura del Sol, Caroline Berg

Synopsis: The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal is based on Le Deux Vite di Mattia Pascal, one of Luigi Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "Truth" and "Identity" Marcello Mastrioanni is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancee, scorned by his Read More

8/30/85
L'Intruse

Actors: Richard Bohringer, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu, Laura Morante

1985
Bianca

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Remo Remotti

Synopsis: The comedic touches in Bianca and its setting at the "Marilyn Monroe High School" whose faculty need the services of the school's clinical psychologist, are at odds with the somber theme of a schizophrenic math teacher and a series of murders. That cinematic split personality leaves the film in Read More

2/23/84
L'Air Du Crime

Actors: Hélène Surgère, Tchéky Karyo, Jean Bouise, Laura Morante, Hanns Zischler

Synopsis: Ostensibly about the sudden disappearance of a businessman and the subsequent behavior of his wife Elena (Helen Surgere), his son Robert (Tcheky Karyo), and his accountant (Jean Bouise), this allegorical film is really a weighty statement on the nature of Swiss society. After her husband has Read More

1984
Colpire al Cuore

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Laura Morante, Fausto Rossi, Sonia Gessner

Synopsis: In this rich, complex drama, the threat of terrorism serves as a backdrop to an examination of dysfunctional family relationships. Fausto Rossi portrays neglected teenager Emilio, whose father Dario (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a university professor, introduces him to his student, Giulia (Laura Morante Read More

3/25/83
Il Momento Dell' Avventura

Actors: Peter Chatel, Laura Morante, William Berger

Synopsis: As the discovery of an ancient map leads to the archaeological search for a long-lost sculptor's studio, the outcome hardly seems as though it will be victorious for anyone, right from the beginning. Two Italian art forgers are in competition with an American dealer to lay claim to the ancient Read More

1983
La Tragedia di un Uomo Ridicolo

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Anouk Aimée, Laura Morante, Victor Cavallo, Ricardo Tognazzi

Synopsis: After his son disappears, an Italian cheese manufacturer is threatened by political terrorists who will supposedly kill the son if he does not pay a large ransom. Unsure if they really have his son and if the son is still alive, he has to decide if he should or should not sell his business to Read More

10/1/81
Sogni d'oro

Actors: Nanni Moretti, Piera Degli Esposti, Laura Morante, Alessandro Haber

Synopsis: In scenes that can be read as fantasy, reality, or dreams - or somewhere in-between all three - the director and writer Nanni Moretti takes the viewers into his world: as a director fighting a flawed establishment, as an artist seeking a true expression of his visions, and as a neurotic, disturbed Read More

9/10/81
Oggetti Smarriti

Actors: Mariangela Melato, Bruno Ganz, Renato Salvatori, Laura Morante, Maria Luisa Santella

Synopsis: A surreal and often abstruse tale about a woman and her innermost feelings, Oggetti Smarriti starts out with Marta (Mariangela Melato) and her husband taking a long train ride to go pick up their daughter from grandmother's house. Theory and practice are immediately at odds when the husband gets Read More

4/11/80

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