Piera Degli Esposti

AKA:

0.4723

1938-03-12

Bologna, Italy

Biography

Crew Roles

The Story of Piera

Screenplay

La California

Story

La California

Screenplay

The Future Is Woman

Writer

The Story of Piera

Story

The Story of Piera

Book

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {67}

2022-04-28 6.3

Anima bella

Gioia has just turned 18. She lives with her father Bruno in a small country village where she works as a shepherdess. They live very simply yet harmoniously with the villagers. Their lives are disrup ...

Genre :Drama

Gina

2006-10-09 7.188

The Unknown Woman

Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning ...

Genre :Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Prigioniere Troiana 6

1967-02-17 0

The Trojan Women

In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, ...

Genre :Drama

Signora Enea

2008-05-28 7.6

Il Divo

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of fri ...

Genre :Drama

Self

2015-03-04 7.5

Senza Lucio

The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twenty years: Marco Alemanno. The tale of how they met and how he grew on a human, professional, and ar ...

Genre :Documentary

Lea

2010-02-26 5.539

Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso

Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy. ...

Genre :Comedy

Attilia

2009-02-27 6.4

Giulia Doesn't Date at Night

Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But despite his seemingly perfect existence, Guido's restless search for inspiration leads him into the ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

1967-12-23 6.2

Ghosts, Italian Style

Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work. ...

Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Giuliana

2009-09-08 5.6

David's Birthday

Two couples are enjoying their summer at the beach, but when the grown son of one couple arrives, it surprisingly stirs something in the husband of the other couple, will the forbidden feelings end ba ...

Genre :Mystery, Drama, Romance

Palmina

1996-10-10 4.833

The Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirlwind of Sex and Politics

During the general elections of 1994, Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism fears that his party is about to lose, so he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble. He isn't there ...

Genre :Comedy

Zia Maria

2002-04-19 7.1

My Mother's Smile

A celebrated painter receives a visit from a cardinal's assistant, who informs him that his mother could become a saint. ...

Genre :Drama

Nonna

2022-03-17 6.8

Run to You

Gianni is a serial seducer but his life is destined to change when he meets Chiara, a beautiful woman who has had an accident and is paraplegic. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Viola

2011-04-29 6.7

Lost Kisses

A 13-year-old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles. ...

Genre :Comedy, Romance

Giselda

2004-04-30 4.6

Il vestito da sposa

A young woman is raped the day she goes to the dressmaker's to try on her wedding dress. ...

Genre :Drama

signora Marchetti

1973-08-25 6.6

Hospitals: The White Mafia

A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situ ...

Genre :Drama

Anna

1982-01-01 0

Giocare d'azzardo

While desperately looking for a change, the 40yo Anna - a bored housewife - decides to start gambling. Luck is not on her side though: she loses everything she had, she's almost broke. Caught up by a ...

Genre :Drama

2012-04-01 6.7

Pulce non c'è

Genre :Drama

Eva Berg

1972-03-31 0

Oplà, noi viviamo

Genre :TV Movie, Drama

La madre di Lina

1988-01-31 6

Don Bosco

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin. ...

Genre :History, Drama

Elena

2009-05-08 5.5

Principessa

Among the many odd jobs Matilda, a provincial girl, takes on to make ends meet is playing the role of a princess in historical costume reenactments. But when she finds herself pregnant, her boyfriend ...

Genre :Comedy

Mara

2015-02-05 5

A Holy Venetian Family

Gualtiero Cecchin, the son of an entrepreneur must find a new way to make money after squandering his huge family fortune. With an idea and a good dose of recklessness Gualtiero must find a way to fun ...

Genre :Comedy

2007-12-31 0

4B Movie

Some images come out from the darkness, fragments from ’Steamboat jr.", “Film”, “Persona” and “Nostra Signora dei Turchi”. ...

Genre :

Voce narrante

2022-11-10 5.9

La California

Two young twins grow up in the Emilia province, expressing the two faces of an era and the adolescent nature that clashes with traditions. ...

Genre :Drama

Preside

2015-01-24 5.542

Chlorine

Seventeen-year-old Jenny dreams of becoming a synchronized swimmer. Family events turn her life upside down and she is forced move to a remote area to look after her ill father and younger brother. It ...

Genre :Drama

Stella

1969-01-01 0

Johnny Belinda

Genre :

Gina

2009-12-03 6.4

The Other Half

It tells the story of an elderly woman, confined in a nursing home because of her poor health. Her daughters do not want to take her to the wedding of her granddaughter. The woman, with the complicity ...

Genre :Drama

Cameriera

1968-06-28 10

Le Case del Vedovo

Genre :TV Movie, Comedy

Adriana

2015-08-27 4.643

Somewhere Amazing

Asti, third millennium. Lucia, mother and wife on the verge of boredom, opens up to friendship with the immigrant Ahmed, looking for an escape from the routine. ...

Genre :Drama

Thérèse

1986-12-03 4.667

The Malady of Love

Physician Robert Briand (Robin Renucci) runs a leper colony in the 15th century that takes in new residents who suffer from the ravages of syphilis. When the beautiful Marie-Blanche (Isabelle Pasco) i ...

Genre :Drama, Romance

Dott.ssa Grunewald

2016-01-05 4.9

Assolo

A funny and intelligent comedy about a wonderfully flawed woman. ...

Genre :Comedy

moglie di De Andreis

1983-09-29 4.6

A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit

The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them. ...

Genre :Comedy

2015-09-04 4.7

The Journey

Bari, a city caught in the relentless economic crisis. Ivo is an agronomist, but the lack of opportunities pushes him to accept a job in the fertile region of Banat in Romania. Clara has just ended a ...

Genre :Drama

Marcella Baralli

1989-03-25 6

To Save Nine

Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed, impoverished mother of a huge farm family. The w ...

Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Madre di Michele

1981-09-10 7.1

Sweet Dreams

Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1969-04-04 5.4

Under the Sign of Scorpio

An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is equally susceptible to such a catastrophe via its o ...

Genre :Drama

Direttrice del giornale

2016-09-01 7.1

Ears

A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who t ...

Genre :Comedy

2011-11-03 2.5

Case Chiuse

February 20, 1958: the Italian Parliament approved Law No. 75, the "Merlin Law": the end of an institution of Italian society for ages: the brothel. The Italian writer Dino Buzzati likens the event to ...

Genre :Documentary

2017-03-01 10

Caro Lucio ti scrivo

Genre :Documentary

Miranda (segment "La donna del Mister")

2006-05-18 5.382

4-4-2 - Il gioco più bello del mondo

Four stories about football. ...

Genre :Comedy

1984-09-05 5.3

The Future Is Woman

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strang ...

Genre :Drama

Madre di Simone

2016-11-10 6.539

Sweet Dreams

Turin, 1969. Nine-year-old Massimo’s idyllic childhood is shattered by the mysterious death of his mother. The young boy refuses to accept this brutal loss, even if the priest says she is now in Heave ...

Genre :Drama

2017-09-01 6

Lievito madre – Le ragazze del secolo scorso

Genre :

Self

2016-08-31 4.8

The Isle of Medea

On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two ...

Genre :Documentary

Janis' Mother

2013-03-21 6.162

Welcome Mr. President!

In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the co ...

Genre :Comedy

Giulia

2008-10-24 5.8

The Man Who Loves

A man is broken hearted at the loss of his lover, then later visits the same pain on the next woman with whom he becomes involved. ...

Genre :Drama

Lady Augusta Warwick

2006-02-23 0

Lettere dalla Sicilia

Genre :

1998-10-16 4.9

Nerolio

This film depicts three episodes in the life of the highly eccentric, unabashedly homosexual Italian filmmaker Per Paolo Pasolini. Pasolini was best known to Americans for his film The Gospel Accordin ...

Genre :Drama

Sei personaggi della famiglia Bentivoglio

1976-01-01 0

Fantasia, ma non troppo, per violino

Genre :History

2007-11-16 0

Giuni Russo: La sua figura

Genre :Documentary, Music

2006-10-21 0

Tre donne morali

Genre :Drama

Herself

2011-01-11 0

Il pranzo di Natale

Genre :

Piera

2017-01-09 7.167

I delitti del BarLume - Aria di mare

Sea Air - Massimo seeks help for his nightmares and depression. The uncles have it in for a blind choir conductor. Tizi find a dead body, which leads to Massimo and Vittoria, who wants her old job bac ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime, Drama

Gilberta

1989-04-14 0

L'appassionata

Genre :Drama

Mother

2018-06-25 7

Fairytale

Two housewives in America in the 1950s, Mrs Fairytale and her best friend Mrs Emerald, meet every day to share their quiet and bourgeois lives, but the façade of perfection slowly crumbles to reveal t ...

Genre :Comedy

Self

2015-09-21 6.3

Behind the White Glasses

It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmüller. ...

Genre :Documentary

Angelina's Mother

1969-11-23 0

A Nice Girl Like Me

Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine m ...

Genre :Comedy

Woman

1969-12-28 6.565

Medea

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has b ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy

Louise (voice)

2016-11-23 6.914

Louise by the Shore

On the last day of summer in a small seaside resort town, an older woman named Louise realizes that the last train has departed without her. She finds herself alone in the town, abandoned by everyone. ...

Genre :Animation

Self

2007-09-06 6.8

Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The document ...

Genre :Documentary

Sorella di Anna

1967-04-12 0

Trio

The lives of three young people in their teens are linked through their experiences in this drama from director Gian Franco Mingozzi. A girl wins a pop singing contest and begins a successful career, ...

Genre :Drama

2014-06-26 0

Tutte le storie di Piera

Genre :Documentary

Emily Wardle

1968-02-04 0

Il Circolo Pickwick

Genre :

Katerina

1983-02-09 0

Delitto e castigo

Genre :Drama

Clelia Arcangeli

2008-12-07 7.4

Tutti pazzi per amore

Paolo Giorgi and Laura Del Fiore, coincidentally approaching their forties, find themselves sharing the ups and downs of life with growing children, extended families, and a hilarious love story. ...

Genre :Comedy, Family

badessa

1989-11-12 6.5

I promessi sposi

Set between 1629 and 1631. Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are Lombard peasants forced to separate and endure a thousand vicissitudes because of the bullying of the squire Don Rodrigo. However, du ...