Valeria Golino
Birthday: 1965-10-22
Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Biography: Valeria Golino is an Italian actress and director. She is best known to English-language audiences for her roles in Rain Man, Big Top Pee-wee, and the two Hot Shots! movies, particularly the olive-in-the-belly-button scene. In addition to the awards David di Donatello, Silver Ribbon, Golden Ciak, and Italian Golden Globe, she is also one of the three actresses who has won the Best Actress award at the Venice Film Festival twice.
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Four Rooms
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to pla...
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Rain Man
When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincin...
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Leaving Las Vegas
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arri...
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Hearts of Hot Shots! Part Deux—A Filmmaker's Apology
As part of the film's promotion, a mockumentary was aired on HBO. Titled Hearts of Hot Shots! Part D...
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Escape from L.A.
Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken. His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined la...
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpec...
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Big Top Pee-wee
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the cir...
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36th Precinct
In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search ...
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Quiet Chaos
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two...
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Mario's War
A court takes 9-year-old Mario away from his abusive family and entrusts him to a childless couple. ...
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Actresses
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month ...
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Year of the Gun
American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan...
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The Indian Runner
Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in e...
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Respiro
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic ...
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Hot Shots! Part Deux
Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a re...
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Hot Shots!
The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper H...
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Ca$h
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ...
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Immortal Beloved
A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle...
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The Girl by the Lake
A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake....
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Giulia Doesn't Date at Night
Guido, an acclaimed author, leads an idyllic life with his beautiful wife and teenage daughter. But ...
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Alive
To regain the one he loves and his children, Alex Meyer, composer and director of musicals, hard hit...
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Torrents of Spring
In 1840, a young Russian aristocrat, Dimitri Sanin, is returning home after a long tour of Europe. I...
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Last Summer in Tangiers
In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turm...
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Puerto Escondido
Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexic...
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Last Harem
On the eve of the fall of the Ottoman Empire: in the harem of Sultan Abdulhamit II, the odalisque of...
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My Place in the Sun
Three couples and a single guy, from different social and career backgrounds, and of various ages, s...
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Clean Slate
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking ...
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The French Kissers
An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of va...
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Raphael: The Young Prodigy
Raphael: The Young Prodigy tells the story of the artist from Urbino, beginning with his extraordina...
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Blind Date
A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong wit...
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The King's Whore
Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King...
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Don't Waste Your Time, Johnny!
In 1976, Faustino, an aspiring guitarist wasting away his teenage years in a sleepy town, gets what ...
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Texas
Enrico, Carlo, Davide, Cinzia, Elisa. Three Saturdays in the life of a group of friends in a quiet t...
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Olé !
Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi...
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Le acrobate
A chemical analyst and a supermarket clerk strike up a friendship after they are brought together by...
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Dark Love
The aftermath of a rape seen through the parallel lives of the assailant and victim as they try to r...
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The Cézanne Affair
Gabriele returns home in southern Italy to bid farewell to his father Ernesto, a former stationmaste...
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Like Two Crocodiles
A successful Italian man living in Paris returns to Italy to exact financial revenge upon his cruel ...
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Our Country
Set in Milan, where people's lives are invisibly lead by money in its different shapes: too much, to...
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A Butterfly Kiss
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But...
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Kryptonite!
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended ...
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Black Sun
After learning the identity of the man who killed her husband, a young widow struggles with whether ...
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An Occasional Hell
A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of...
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Spanish Judges
A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two duelin...
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San Antonio
While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, th...
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Love and Fear
Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusio...
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Take Me Away
Thirteen-year-old Giampiero is the teenage son of a decaying family. He gets to know Romana, a girl ...
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Side Streets
The lives of diverse characters in each of New York City's five boroughs overlap....
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Traces of an Amorous Life
What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning gene...
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Shooting the Moon
14-year-old Siddharta, wise beyond his age, has to deal every day with his heroin-addict mother Silv...
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Marcel!
The young girl, an insomniac. The mother, an artist. The dog, named Marcel. The little girl loves he...
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Nuts
François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after hi...
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Like the Wind
The last few years in the life of Armida Miserere, female jail director who committed suicide...
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Típota
A Donatello award nominated short drama about a wandering family, including a lady about to give bir...
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Hotel
A sex worker, a hired killer, and a movie crew cross paths in a Venice hotel where human meat is on ...
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Human Capital
The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a...
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I Told You So
In Rome, during a January weekend a sudden heatwave arrives. The sun is initially pleasant, but the ...
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Just Five Minutes
A Donatello award nominated short feature about the difficulties faced by a wheelchair bound journa...
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Maria
Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...
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Little Flames
Tommaso, a quiet, thoughtful child of five, lives in a world of his own, conversing daily with three...
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The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza: Writing for Emancipation
Between 1967 and 1976, Italian writer Goliarda Sapienza (1924-76) wrote The Art of Joy, a subversive...
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The Invisible Boy
Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a cos...
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An Italian Name
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the r...
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Portrait Of My Father
A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back...
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Slaughter of the Cock
Longing for a better life, Evagoras and Onisilios decide to emigrate to the Persian Gulf to earn eno...
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La scuola è finita
Some people say that school days are the best day of our lives... but there are plenty of exceptions...
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For Your Love
An extremely mannered and increasingly preposterous tale of a fortysomething woman who has to deal w...
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The Very Private Life of Mister Sim
Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has...
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Word of Honour
Drama set in 1940 about a peasant who traverses Cyprus to pray at a monastery....
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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 Parliam...
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A Brief Affair
Lea and Rocco meet by chance in a bar and an instant attraction ignites between them. From that mome...
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My Dearest Son
A respectable lawyer finds out his son is a heroin addict. Heartbroken, he'll do anything to help hi...
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Fuori
Rome. The 1980s. After the magnum opus The Art of Joy she has been working on for a decade is reject...
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La vita possibile
Anna and her son Valerio run away from a husband and a father who has destroyed the love of their fa...
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Red Wind
In 1940s, sympathetic African American L.A. shamus Philip Marlowe helps a dame in trouble whose love...
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The Invisible Boy: Second Generation
Three years later Michele (The Invisible boy) meets his mother and his twin sister. Both have storie...
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Emma
Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeti...
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The Stand-In
A small film crew is wandering about Marrakesh and the surrounding desert. They are looking for loca...
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The Gold Rimmed Glasses
A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy....
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Detective School Dropouts
Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves ...
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Daughter of Mine
A daughter torn between two mothers, one who raised her with love and her biological mother, who ins...
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L'inverno
It's the story of a couple with some relationship's problems who meet another couple. It's a drama o...
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Frida
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous ...
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The Summer House
A large and beautiful property on the French Riviera. A place that seems out of time and sheltered f...
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Casanova, Last Love
Year 1763. Forced into exile, the famous libertine Giacomo Casanova leaves Paris and travels to Lond...
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged ...
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5 Is the Perfect Number
Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his singl...
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Volare
The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike f...
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Adults in the Room
A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of th...
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You Came Back
Marco and Anita discover they are expecting a child. Finally a ray of light in Marco’s life after hi...
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Land of the Sons
Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to jo...
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Against the Wind
Carla, a lonely forty-year-old child psychiatrist, devotes all her time to her job. One day a man ap...
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Fortuna
Fortuna (6 years old) lives with her mother in an anonymous suburb. She spends her time with two pla...
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Ivansxtc
Ivan Beckman, Hollywood's most sought-after talent agent, the darling and crown prince of La La Land...
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Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
In a country where women are in charge, a man goes to unusual lengths to make his dream of marrying ...
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The Catholic School
Three well-off young men—former students at Rome’s prestigious all-boys Catholic high school San Leo...
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The Beautiful Game
A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compet...
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Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring ...
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Gioia
Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known any other love than the oppressive bond with her ...
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Elisa
Elisa, the daughter of an ordinary family, has been in prison for ten years for brutally murdering h...
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