Valeria Golino Filmography

Cash

Actors: Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Alice Taglioni, Valeria Golino, François Berléand

Synopsis: It's hard to tell the good guys from the bad guys in this slick, densely plotted thriller from France. Cash (Jean Dujardin) is a suave and well-mannered outlaw who specializes in grand-scale heists that turn on carefully constructed confidence games as much as muscle. When Cash's brother and Read More

La Fabbrica Dei Tedeschi

Girl by the Lake

Actors: Toni Servillo, Nello Mascia, Anna Bonaiuto, Marco Baliani, Giulia Michelini, Fausto Maria Sciarappa, Omero Antonutti, Valeria Golino

Synopsis: A brilliant detective from Southern Italy investigates the death of a young girl found drowned in a remote lake in the mountains of Friuli in director Andrea Molaioli's dramatic mystery. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Actresses (Dreams of the Night Before)

Actors: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Noemie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel, Marysa Borini

Synopsis: Actress-cum-director Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi's sophomore feature, the comedy-drama Les Actrices (Le reve de la nuit d'avant), follows the trials and travails of Marcelline (Tedeschi), a tense and jittery stage thesp whose personal and professional life threaten to fall into pieces simultaneously. Read More

Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!

Actors: Antimo Merolillo, Ernesto Mahieux, Lina Sastri, Peppe Servillo, Fabrizio Bentivoglio

Synopsis: A handful of semi-professional musicians struggle to make a name for themselves in this nostalgic comedy-drama set in Italy in the mid-seventies. Faustino (Antimo Merolillo) is a would-be jazz guitarist who has just graduated from school and is looking for a gig, at least in part because he's Read More

A Casa Nostra

Synopsis: Director Francesca Comencini teams with screenwriter Franco Bernini to explore the manner in which money dictates the lives of people in Milan at the dawn of the 21st century in this drama that premiered at the 2006 Rome Film Fest. Ugo (Luca Zingaretti) is a crooked banker with a shifty hand for Read More

Texas

Actors: Valeria Golino, Fausto Paravidino, Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Binasco, Iris Fusetti

Synopsis: A good-natured Saturday night gathering amongst a group of thirtysomethings takes a decidedly perilous turn in director Fausto Paravidinio's moody entry into the 2007 Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival. At first the celebration was going strong, but when memories of two previous events arise and Read More

Ole!

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Gad Elmaleh, Sabine Azéma, Valeria Golino, Bob Swaim

Synopsis: A group of students are eager to get an education while on a class trip in this comedy from Italy. Salvatore (Vincenzo Salemme) and Archimede (Massimo Boldi) are two teachers at a private high school for boys who have arranged for their students to travel to Spain for a learning holiday. While Read More

Mario's War

Synopsis: A determined mother struggles to raise her adopted son with love and understanding as the disapproving eyes of her boyfriend and mother weigh heavily on her conscience in this drama from director Antonio Capuano. Mario (Marco Grieco) is a rebellious youngster who has been taken from his abusive Read More

San Antonio

36 Quai des Orfevres

Actors: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier, Roschdy Zem, Valeria Golino

Synopsis: Euro screen legends Gérard Depardieu and Daniel Auteuil star, respectively, as French cops Denis Klein and Leo Vrinks, in Olivier Marchal's tough-as-steel policier 36 Quai des Orfevres. The story unravels at the titular Parisian police headquarters, where Klein (who heads up the department's Read More

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

Respiro

Actors: Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa, Veronica D'Agostino, Filippo Pucillo

Synopsis: Italian director Emanuele Crialese's Respiro tells an intimate tale of a family living in a quiet fishing community. Grazia (Valeria Golino) is deeply committed to her husband Pietro (Vincenzo Amato) and their children, as well as stray dogs. She suffers from extreme mood swings that result in Read More

Julius Caesar

Actors: Jeremy Sisto, Richard Harris, Chris Noth, Christopher Walken, Valeria Golino

Synopsis: This ambitious, four-hour cable miniseries stars Jeremy Sisto (taking time off from his regular series Six Feet Under) as Roman general-turned-emperor Julius Caesar. Expensively filmed in Malta and Bulgaria, the production vividly traces Caesar's rise to prominence as a brilliant military Read More

Prendimi E Portami Via

Actors: Valeria Golino, Rodolfo Lagana, Noah Lewis Scialom, Romina Hazovic, Antonino Iuorio

Frida

Actors: Salma Hayek, Alfred Molina, Geoffrey Rush, Ashley Judd, Antonio Banderas

Synopsis: After being attached to a number of actors, directors, and producers, this long-gestating biography of one of Mexico's most prominent, iconoclastic painters reaches the screen under the guiding hand of producer/star Salma Hayek. Hayek ages some 30 years onscreen as she charts Frida Kahlo's life Read More

Ivans Xtc.

Actors: Danny Huston, Peter Weller, Lisa Enos, Joanne Duckman, Angela Featherstone

Synopsis: Bernard Rose directed this look at the sordid underside of the film business and one man's attempts to come to terms with his mortality in this fallen world, in a story loosely based on Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. Ivan Beckman (Danny Huston), a hot-shot talent agent at the powerful Read More

To Tama

Actors: Georges Corraface, Valeria Golino, Yannis Voglis, Ilias Aletras, Tania Kazandjieva

Controvento

Actors: Margherita Buy, Ennio Fantastichini, Valeria Golino, Maria Monti

Synopsis: Strained family ties add to the tension of a romantic triangle in this downbeat drama from Italy. Nina (Valeria Golino) is an emotionally unstable actress who can't figure out how to get her life in order and who frightens away almost any man who comes near her, including her former husband and Read More

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her

Actors: Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Valeria Golino, Holly Hunter

Synopsis: Although Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her does bear some similarities to Short Cuts and Magnolia in its setting (Southern California) and mood (modern malaise), and its multiple story format, its focus is exclusively on female characters, and it's possible to view each story on its own. Read More

Spanish Judges

Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio, Valeria Golino, Sam Hiona

Synopsis: One day Jack (Matthew Lillard) shows up at the antiques-laden warehouse apartment of Max (Vincent D'Onofrio) and Jamie (Valeria Golino), two ruthless low-level criminals with higher aspirations than the two-bit thieving they do now. Jack insists he's Max's brother, but Jamie, whose hobby is Read More

L'Albero Delle Pere

Actors: Valeria Golino, Sergio Rubini, Stefano Dionisi, Niccolo Senni, Francesca di Giovanni

Synopsis: Francesca Archibugi directed this Italian drama set in Rome where 14-year-old Siddhartha (Niccolo Senni) is forced to deal with his heroin-addicted mother Silvia (Valeria Golina). He occasionally gets a visit from his filmmaker father Massimo (Sergio Rubini), who left them years earlier. Silvia is Read More

Side Streets

Actors: Valeria Golino, Shashi Kapoor, Leon, Art Malik, Shabana Azmi

Synopsis: Tony Gerber made his directorial debut with this anthology film, a comedy-drama that opens with a 1950s black-and-white newsreel focusing on the ethnic diversity of New York City. This multicultural mix is dramatized in five interlinked tales set in each of NYC's five boroughs on a hot summer day Read More

Harem

Actors: Marie Gillain, Alex Descas, Lucia Bosé, Valeria Golino, Malick Bowens

Synopsis: Following the success of Hamam, Turkey-born, Italy-based Ferzan Ozpetek delivers another exotic film that delves into the traditions of his origin. Once again, the exotic city of Istanbul is the place of intrigue. But, unlike Hamam, which was a contemporary story, Harem Suare takes place at the Read More

The Treat

Synopsis: Tony (Daniel Baldwin) runs a rather intriguing Hollywood brothel. His primary hookers -- Francesca (Julie Delpy), Mimi (Georgina Cates), and Dolly (Pamela Gidley) -- are given to elaborate, costumed, role-playing fantasies to please Tony's peculiar, highly emotional clientèle. The Read More

Le Acrobate

Synopsis: Two very different Italian women from opposite ends of the country and the Italian economic stratum forge a friendship based on their amorphous longing for something meaningful in their lives. Elena works as a chemical analyst with a cosmetics company in Treviso. It's a good job, and what with a Read More

Escoriandoli

Synopsis: Comprised of a series of bizarre and unrelated incidents, this absurdist Italian comedy earned the inglorious honor of being the film with the most audience walkouts at the 1996 Venice Film Festival. In the first segment a widow attends her husband's funeral and ends up having sex with her Read More

I Sfagi Tou Kokora

Actors: Georges Corraface

Synopsis: Set upon the island of Cyprus, a pair of good friends who run a prominent nightclub/prostitution ring find their good life about to come unraveled when they receive a damning film that reveals them having disturbingly kinky sex. These acts happened years ago when both friends were migrant workers Read More

Escape from L.A.

Actors: Kurt Russell, Stacy Keach, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda, Cliff Robertson

Synopsis: Escape from L.A. finds Kurt Russell once again in the role of Snake, which he played in the 1981 film, Escape from New York. Los Angeles has finally had the really big earthquake everyone was afraid of, and what remains is now an island. Because the country's ultra-righteous President-for-Life (Cliff Roberton Read More

An Occasional Hell

Actors: Tom Berenger, Kari Wuhrer, Stephen Lang, Trent McDevitt, Sherril M. Turner

Synopsis: This preposterous thriller stars Tom Berenger (Platoon) as Ernie Dewalt, a drug-addicted ex-cop with a catheter, and that isn't the worst of it. Ernie teaches creative writing at a small college where prominent professor Alex Laughton (Stephen Lang) has been blown apart with a shotgun while Read More

Leaving Las Vegas

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Valeria Golino

Synopsis: Mike Figgis' grim drama documents a romantic triangle of sorts involving prostitute Sera (Elisabeth Shue), failed Hollywood screenwriter Ben (Oscar-winner Nicolas Cage), and the constant flow of booze which he loves more dearly than life itself. Arriving in Las Vegas with the intention of drinking Read More

Four Rooms

Actors: Tim Roth, Valeria Golino, Jennifer Beals, Antonio Banderas, Quentin Tarantino

Synopsis: Four of the most celebrated directors in the independent film community pooled their talents for this episodic comedy. Ted (Tim Roth) is the new bellboy at a beautiful but decaying luxury hotel; he is not having a good time of it on New Year's Eve, his first night on the job. In one room, a coven Read More

Come Due Coccodrilli

Actors: Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ignazio Oliva, Giancarlo Giannini, Valeria Golino, Sandrine Dumas

Synopsis: A successful Italian man living in Paris returns to Italy to exact financial revenge upon his cruel half-brothers in this Italian-French drama. Gabriele now runs a successful antique appraisal company in Paris. He lives in a fine, automated apartment which his lover Claire compares to an Read More

Immortal Beloved

Actors: Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Johanna ter Steege, Barry Humphries, Marco Hofschneider, Miriam Margolyes

Synopsis: This biography of Ludwig von Beethoven (played here by Gary Oldman) builds its narrative around an actual letter found after his death, addressed only to the composer's "immortal beloved." The responsibility of discovering this mysterious person's identity falls to Beethoven's friend and secretary Read More

Clean Slate

Actors: Dana Carvey, Valeria Golino, James Earl Jones, Kevin Pollak, Michael Gambon

Synopsis: Dana Carvey plays a private detective who forgets everything when he goes to sleep at night, waking up each morning with a "clean slate," in this hit-and-miss comedy that plays like a companion piece to the much funnier Groundhog Day. Pogue (Carvey) is afflicted with his unique form of amnesia Read More

Puerto Escondido

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Golino, Claudio Bisio, Renato Carpentieri, Antonio Catania

Synopsis: Mario (Diego Abatantuono) is a gentle soul living in a big Italian city. He works as a bank teller. When his bank is robbed for the umpteenth time, and he sees yet another policeman killed, he throws in the towel on city life, and attempts to get away from it all by fleeing to a small town in Read More

Hot Shots! Part Deux

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino, Richard Crenna, Brenda Bakke

Synopsis: Movie references, sight gags, silly puns, and double entendres abound in Hot Shots! Part Deux, Jim Abrahams' sequel to Hot Shots -- only now the object of the skewering is the Stallone Rambo movies instead of Top Gun. Charlie Sheen returns as the lunk-headed Topper Harley, who has retreated to a Read More

Year of the Gun

Actors: Andrew McCarthy, Valeria Golino, Sharon Stone, John Pankow, Mattia Sbragia

Synopsis: In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend (Sharon Stone) Read More

The Indian Runner

Actors: David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino, Patricia Arquette, Charles Bronson

Synopsis: The Indian Runner, Sean Penn's debut film as director (he also wrote the script, based on the Bruce Springsteen song "Highway Patrolman") is a brooding tale of two brothers -- one peaceful and sedate, the other violent and aggressive -- whose natures, left unchecked since they were children, are Read More

Hot Shots!

Actors: Charlie Sheen, Valeria Golino, Cary Elwes, Lloyd Bridges, Kevin Dunn

Synopsis: From director Jim Abrahams, one of the minds behind the Airplane! and Naked Gun films, comes another parody. This time around, Abrahams has his sights set on the action-adventure genre, specifically Top Gun. Charlie Sheen stars as Topper Harley, a maverick air force pilot who constantly lives in Read More

The King's Whore

Actors: Timothy Dalton, Valeria Golino, Stéphane Freiss, Robin Renucci, Feodor Chaliapin, Jr.

Synopsis: Axel Corti directed this historical drama starring Timothy Dalton as King Vittorio Amadeo, a 17th-century Italian monarch who becomes obsessed with the wife of one of his courtiers (Valeria Golino). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Tracce Di Vita Amorosa

Synopsis: In this evidently experimental, episodic film, moments in the lives of a disparate group of people who love or make love to one another are screened. Some of these scenes are filled with whimsey, others are tragic. In one of them, a girl develops an obsession with the transplant recipient of her Read More

Torrents of Spring

Actors: Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski, Valeria Golino, Francesca de Sapio, William Forsythe

Synopsis: Based on the novel by Ivan Turgenev, this drama tells of a young Russian noble during the mid 19th century who, although engaged to a young pastry chef, falls for a seductive married noblewoman who has arranged to buy his estate. Timothy Hutton, Nastassja Kinski and Valeria Golino star in this Read More

Rain Man

Actors: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino, Jerry Molen, Jack Murdock

Synopsis: Self-centered, avaricious Californian Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) is informed that his long-estranged father has died. Expecting at least a portion of the elder Babbitt's $3 million estate, Charlie learns that all he's inherited is his dad's prize roses and a 1949 Buick Roadmaster. Discovering Read More

Big Top Pee-Wee

Actors: Paul Reubens, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino, Penelope Ann Miller, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: Paul Reubens's followup to the box-office hit Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is just as outrageous and cartoonish, though not as good. This time, child-man Pee-Wee runs a colorful farm, chock full of talking animals and outsized produce. On the morning after a tornado of Wizard of Oz dimensions, Pee-Wee Read More

Paura e amore

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi, Valeria Golino, Sergio Castellitto, Paolo Hendel

Synopsis: The loves and lives of three sisters provides the basis of this melodrama. The eldest is intelligent and very aware of life's ticking clock. The middle sister lives on emotions, while the youngest is an idealistic, impassioned pre-med student. The story is loosely based on Chekhov's play Three Read More

Dernier Ete A Tanger

Actors: Valeria Golino, Thierry Lhermitte, Roger Hanin, Vincent Lindon, Jean Bouise

Synopsis: Valeria Golino plays a double role in this thrilling crime drama. A woman returns years later to Tangiers in order to track down the thugs responsible for the gangland-style massacre that killed her father. Corrigan (Thierry Lhermitte) is the local detective recruited to find the international Read More

Gli Occhiali d'Oro

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Rupert Everett, Valeria Golino, Nicola Farron, Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis: In this tragic romance set in Ferrara, Italy in 1938, and at a nearby seaside resort, a wealthy Jewish boy is thwarted in marrying the girl he loves when Mussolini's race laws (enacted to cement the regime's growing alliance with Germany) take effect. Rather than suffer as a Jewess, his intended Read More

Storia D'Amore

Actors: Valeria Golino, Bals Roca-Rey, Livio Panieri, Luigi Diberti

Synopsis: This drama about a young girl's struggle to overcome the dehumanization of poverty depicts the steady, corrosive effects of her life on her psyche. Bruna (Valeria Golino) has had to work since the age of 13 to help support her father and brothers. She gets up at 3 A.M. to catch the bus to go clean Read More

Detective School Dropouts

Actors: David Landsberg, Lorin Dreyfuss, Christian de Sica, Valeria Golino, Rik Battaglia

Synopsis: Neither the idiotic title Detective School Dropouts nor the film's alternate cognomen Dumb Dicks are worthy of this easy-to-take crime comedy. David Landsberg stars as a likeable schlemiel who is addicted to detective stories. He links up with down-and-out gumshoe Lorin Dreyfuss (brother of Richard Read More

Piccoli Fuochi

Actors: Dino Jakosic, Valeria Golino

Synopsis: The Italian childhood fantasy Little Flames (Piccoli Fuochi) concerns 5-year-old Dino Jakosic. Proving too much for his parents, Jakosic is often sent to his room, where he interacts with several bizarre "imaginary" playmates who bedevil the servants with their sadistic pranks (the audience is Read More

Figlio Mio Infinitamente Caro

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Sergio Rubini, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Temperini, Wanda Pasquini

Synopsis: In a routine drama about teen drug addiction, Antonio Morelli (Ben Gazzara) is a lawyer with good community standing who is overwhelmed when he discovers that his son has a heroin habit. Antonio lets his law practice slide, and he does everything he can to get his son off drugs -- but nothing Read More

Blind Date

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Joseph Bottoms, James Daughton, Lana Clarkson, Keir Dullea

Synopsis: Co-writer and director Nico Mastorakis filmed this unusual low-budget thriller in his native Athens, Greece. Timothy Bottoms stars as Jonathan Ratcliff, an American advertising executive who has lost his sight, although the specialist he consults, Dr. Steiger (Keir Dullea), feels that the cause is Read More

Scherzo del Destino in Agguate Dietro l'Angolo Come un Brigante da Strada

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Piera Degli Esposti, Gastone Moschin, Roberto Herlitzka, Renzo Montagnani

Synopsis: In an irreverent send up of politicians and feminists and others, director and co-writer Lina Wertmuller has a Minister of the Interior locked inside his impermeable luxury car with only his broken computer to keep him company. Unfortunately, this accident happens at the villa of a conservative Read More