The best Stefania Sandrelli’s drama movies

Stefania Sandrelli

Stefania Sandrelli

05/06/1946 (77 años)
Stefania Sandrelli (1946) is an Italian actress, famous for her many roles in the commedia all'Italiana, starting from 1960s. At 15 years old she made her screen debut, starring in Divorce Italian Style opposite Marcello Mastroianni. Her daughter Amanda Sandrelli, born in 1964, is also an actress.
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The Key

The Key
5.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 19/10/1983
  • Character: Teresa Rolfe
After twenty years of marriage, art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him as well. This sets off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications, as Nino and his unpredictable fascist daughter find that they both enjoy being jealous.

Stealing Beauty

Stealing Beauty
6.5/10
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.

Jamon Jamon

Jamon Jamon
6.4/10
Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. When Sylvia becomes pregnant, Jose Luis promises her that he will marry her, most likely against the wishes of his parents. Jose Luis' mother is determined to break her son's engagement to a girl from a lower-class family, and hires Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter to seduce Sylvia.

1900

1900
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 03/09/1976
  • Character: Anita Foschi
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

The Conformist

The Conformist
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/10/1970
  • Character: Giulia
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

The First Beautiful Thing

The First Beautiful Thing
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/01/2010
  • Character: Anna Nigiotti in Michelucci
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later.

Of Love and Shadows

Of Love and Shadows
4.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/05/1994
  • Character: Beatriz
Irene is a magazine editor living under the shadow of the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile. Francisco is a handsome photographer and he comes to Irene for a job. As a sympathizer with the underground resistance movement, Francisco opens her eyes and her heart to the atrocities being committed by the state.

We All Loved Each Other So Much

We All Loved Each Other So Much
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1974
  • Character: Luciana
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

The Last Kiss

The Last Kiss
6.9/10
Giulia and Carlo have been happy together for three years, but Giulia's announcement that she is pregnant sends him into a secret panic. Terrified at his imminent entry into the adult world of irreversible responsibilities, Carlo finds himself tempted by a bewitching 18 year old girl, Francesca, whom he meets by chance at a wedding. The possibility of one last youthful crazy fling before the impending prison of parenthood proves to be too attractive to resist.

A Matter of Heart

A Matter of Heart
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 17/04/2009
  • Character: se stessa
Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as one of the men's condition deteriorates, the other becomes more deeply involved in his personal life.

The Terrace

The Terrace
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/02/1980
  • Character: Giovanna
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.

I Knew Her Well

I Knew Her Well
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/12/1965
  • Character: Adriana Astarelli
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

Disobedience

Disobedience
5.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/07/1981
  • Character: Angela
Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war ends he is disappointed because things have not changed as he had hoped they wood, and he decides to let himself die. He is saved by Edith who tries to introduce him to sex. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.

Seduced and Abandoned

Seduced and Abandoned
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 30/01/1964
  • Character: Agnese Ascalone
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiance, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father. The film is a dark satire of Sicilian social customs and honor laws, and is very similar to Divorce, Italian Style.

The Family

The Family
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/01/1986
  • Character: Beatrice
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.

With Closed Eyes

With Closed Eyes
5.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/11/1994
  • Character: Anna
Pietro is the sensitive son of Domenico, a gruff father. Pietro falls in love with a beautiful girl, Ghisola, who lives with her grandparents.

Palermo-Milano Solo Andata

Palermo-Milano Solo Andata
6.3/10

Magnet of Doom

Magnet of Doom
6.5/10
A young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.

Traffic Jam

Traffic Jam
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/01/1979
  • Character: Teresa
A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.

Let's Hope It's a Girl

Let's Hope It's a Girl
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/02/1986
  • Character: Lolli
Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm herself with the help of her female servants and relatives. When the Count (Philipe Noiret) comes back into her life, he and his male buddies find themselves outclassed by the expertise of the ladies.

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