Raoul BovaFilmography

Born:: August 14, 1971 in Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Handsome and muscular Italian leading man Raoul Bova is also a trained athlete and national swimming champion. He began his acting career on Italian television, joining the cast of the award-winning crime drama La Piovra (shown in France as La Mafia) during its seventh season, which led to...Read More

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Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Raoul Bova, Luca Angeletti, Simonetta Solder, Alessandro Sperduti

Synopsis: This tough, visceral thriller from Italian director Roberto Burchielli concerns a cadre of undercover police officers who spend their days battling drug dealers and find their lives shaped by the personal and professional activities of a local journalist. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide Read More

4/10/09
Baaria

Actors: Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Raoul Bova, Nicole Grimaudo, Enrico Lo Verso, Ángela Molina, Michele Placido, Lina Sastri

Synopsis: Giuseppe Tornatore directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in a small town in Sicily. The Torrenuovas are a family of peasant shepherds who have lived and worked in Bagheria though many generations. In the years before the rise of Mussolini, the family often found Read More

2009
Scusa ma ti chiamo amore

Actors: Raoul Bova, Michela Quattrociocche

Synopsis: The Italian romantic comedy Scusa ma ti chiamo amore (AKA Sorry If I Call You Love) concerns a May-December romance that blossoms between a middle-aged man named Alex (Raoul Bova) and a much younger woman (Michela Quattrociocche); Alex must subsequently contend with the fallouts and disapprovals Read More

1/25/08
What About Brian: Season 01

Actors: Barry Watson, Matthew Davis, Sarah Lancaster, Rick Gomez, Amanda Detmer, Rosanna Arquette, Raoul Bova, Krista Allen

2006
Karol: A Man Who Became Pope

Actors: Piotr Adamczyk, Malgorzata Bela, Kenneth Welsh, Ken Duken, Matt Craven

Synopsis: While the major American TV networks were jockeying to be the first to present a filmed biography of the late Pope John Paul II, cable's humble Hallmark Channel managed to beat everyone to the punch with the four-hour Karol: A Man Who Became Pope. Actually, this made-for-TV film was a Read More

2005
Alien vs. Predator

Actors: Sanaa Lathan, Raoul Bova, Lance Henriksen, Ewen Bremner, Colin Salmon

Synopsis: Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson, Alien vs. Predator follows billionaire Charles Bishop Weyland (Lance Henriksen) and his team of drillers, scientists, and archaeologists, to an obscure pyramid site in Antarctica. Among the icy ruins, allegedly, lies the proof of an empire predating humankind. Once Read More

8/13/04
Facing Windows

Actors: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro, Serra Yilmaz, Massimo Poggio

Synopsis: Young married couple Giovanna (Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and Filippo (Filippo Nigro) have been married long enough to have become almost completely jaded by their lots in life, with most of their individual aspirations having been set aside some time ago. As their marriage begins to fall apart, the Read More

6/18/04
Under the Tuscan Sun

Actors: Diane Lane, Sandra Oh, Lindsay Duncan, Raoul Bova, Vincent Riotta

Synopsis: A woman starts her life over with a new home in a new land in this romantic comedy drama . Frances (Diane Lane) is a writer in her mid-'30s who feels emotionally derailed after her divorce. Unhappy and unable to write, she isn't sure what to do with her life, and her best friend Patti (Sandra Oh) Read More

9/26/03
Avenging Angelo

Actors: Andy Garcia, Sylvester Stallone, Madeleine Stowe, Raoul Bova, Anthony Quinn, Harry Van Gorkum

Synopsis: Directed by Martyn Burke, Avenging Angelo centers around the life of bodyguard Frank (Sylvester Stallone) and his client, neurotic socialite Jennifer (Madeleine Stowe). Frank must constantly fight his emotions in order to maintain a strictly professional relationship with Jennifer, who has Read More

2002
Francesca e Nunziata

Actors: Sophia Loren, Giancarlo Giannini, Claudia Gerini, Raoul Bova, Carmen Femiano

Synopsis: A mother who thinks of marriage in terms of business butts heads with a daughter who has her own unusual ideas about love in Lina Wertmuller's screen adaptation of Maria Orsini Natale's historical novel. Francesca (Sophia Loren) was a woman of common birth whose beauty and charm so entranced Read More

2001
I Cavalieri che fecero l'impresa

Actors: Edward Furlong, Raoul Bova, Marco Leonardi, Thomas Kretschmann, Stanislas Merhar

Synopsis: A handful of young knights are given the grave responsibility of rescuing one of the most sacred relics in Christianity in this lavish historical epic. In the year 1272, the bloody swath of the Crusades has swept much of Europe, and King Louis IX of France dies after a battle in Tunisia. After the Read More

2001
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
La Frontiera

Synopsis: On convalescent leave on his birth-island off Dalmatia, Franco (Marco Leonardi), a Croatian-speaking soldier in the Italian army, sees things that cause him to question his loyalty to the Italian rulers in the area. Thus, he does not think too harshly of the local children's efforts to sabotage Read More

1996
La Lupa

Synopsis: The title creature is not a canine but rather a passionate, strong-willed Sicilian woman who turns her home village on its ear with her constant battles against sexual repression. This sensual Italian drama chronicles some of La Lupa's seductive hunts. Her prey includes a strapping young buck just Read More

1996
Il Sindaco

Actors: Anthony Quinn

Synopsis: Set in a non-descript Midwestern town during the 1950s, this fable chronicles the last days in the life of local Mafioso Don Antonio Barracano (Anthony Quinn). During preparations for his 75th birthday celebration, he muses upon his life. While he thinks, his wife Armida continues her campaign to Read More

1996
Ninfa Plebea

Synopsis: A ripe 19-year-old virgin fights to keep her virtue and retain her free-spirited ways during WW II. Set in an ancient, remote Neapolitan village, Miluzza is the lovely pubescent daughter of the glorious Nunziata, a nymphomaniac who is surprisingly well tolerated by her husband and her normally Read More

1996
Palermo - Milano Solo Andata

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Raoul Bova

Synopsis: An elite team of plainclothes policeman are assigned to see that a murderous Mafia stoolie and his family make it safely from their Palermo home to the courts in Milan, where he plans to testify, in this Italian thriller. The man they escort is Mafia-attorney Leofonte, who recently had another Read More

1995
Comincio Tutto Per Caso

Actors: Margherita Buy, Massimo Ghini, Raoul Bova, Laura Marinoni

Synopsis: Stefania (Margherita Buy) is having her own troubles with her marriage, and the troubled romance between Marilu (Barbara Jane Ricassa), her Filipina nanny, and a local plumber (Raoul Bova) only highlights her own concerns. Her husband (Massimo Ghini) used to be full of the fire of political Read More

1993
Piccolo Grande Amore

Actors: Raoul Bova, David Warner, Susannah York, Paul Freeman

Synopsis: In this romantic fantasy, Liechtenhaus is one of those seldom-heard-of tiny European principalities. It is being ruled by Prince Max (David Warner), but the little country is nearly bankrupt. In fact, if he can't get an infusion of cash quickly, he may have to sell the royal palace to American Read More

1993