Bella Starace Sainati

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Mamma Grazia

A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as he vows not to have sex with her.

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Donna Assunta

A man and a woman love each other, but they can’t marry because he’s ashamed of his unjustly incarcerated mother. What’s more, he loses his eyesight in an accident.

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Giovanna Dini, l'ostetrica

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1946, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist.

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Mamma Ada, la fattuchierra

In 1893, on an island in the Strait of Sicily, a woman is beginning to go crazy due to an officer that she loved leaving. When she believes a newly arrived official to be the man that left her, he plays along.

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil while alive. Defending himself against the accusation in an impassioned plea, however, he succeeds in obtaining to return to earth for a few hours to make reparation for the evil he committed and, above all, for the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's suicide attempt. The affair will lead him to make a risky but happy choice.

Movie - 1948, 2h 15m • as Lucia

Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres".

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as La portiera da Rutolo

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Celestina, la guardiana

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Donna Provvidenza, farmer's wife

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A detective investigates on the death of a factory owner.

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Zia Giovanna

An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Nonna di Iris

The yearnings of three young women: one is concerned about her weight, another aspires to write poems, and the last is already prepared for love and marriage.

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Locusta

Pushed by his mother Agrippina, Neron seized power at the expense of Britannicus. His poetry makes him commit numerous crimes. He will die stabbed after having killed his wife, his mother, his advisers, his wife's lovers, and an incredible number of Christians ...

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Priest's Sister

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions.

Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as La madre di Stefano

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Suora

Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Mamma di Dorina

A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Donna Amalia Fusco

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Signora Genoveffa Martin

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Sua madre

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as domestica di Adriana

Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her.