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Stefania Sandrelli has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 4 rank in the Top 10%, led by We All Loved Each Other So Much.
2001
Comedy · Drama

Divorce Italian Style
1961 · Movie · Actor
Top 4%Max · Included

1900
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%MGM+ · Included

Seduced and Abandoned
1964 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The First Beautiful Thing
2010 · Movie · Actor
Top 14%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Family
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%The Roku Channel · Free w/ ads

Parthenope
2024 · Movie · Actor
Top 58%Max · Included

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.
Dir. Pietro Germi · With Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda

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 fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.
Dir. Pietro Germi · With Stefania Sandrelli, Saro Urzì, Aldo Puglisi

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin

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.
Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Valerio Mastandrea, Micaela Ramazzotti, Stefania Sandrelli

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Sandro Dori

A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
Dir. Antonio Pietrangeli · With Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy

"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.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.
Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Walter Matthau, Stefania Sandrelli
The story of a gang of French female robbers disguised as men, who operated in the Avignon area in the mid-1980s.
Dir. Michela Andreozzi · With Ambra Angiolini, Ilenia Pastorelli, Serena Rossi

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.
Dir. Gabriele Muccino · With Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli

Antonio and Emma have been separated for years, but he does not accept when Emma dates other men. Indeed Antonio proves obsessive, aggressive and intrusive, and again threatens Emma to hurt the children: little Kevin, shy and introverted, and the adolescent Valentina.
Dir. Ferzan Özpetek · With Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Valerio Binasco

Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino · With Celeste Dalla Porta, Stefania Sandrelli, Gary Oldman

José Luis has a cushy corporate job at the lingerie factory his mom owns. After he falls in love and proposes to Silvia, a beautiful laborer on the underwear assembly line, his mom enlists Raul, a potential underwear model and would-be bullfighter, to seduce Silvia.
Dir. Bigas Luna · With Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena, Juan Diego
Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Diego Abatantuono, Massimo Boldi, Teo Teocoli
Giacomo is a 40-year-old man who works for a big company in Milan. To avoid working on weekends, he lies about having a girlfriend whose character he creates based upon a girl he sees every morning.
Dir. Massimo Venier · With Fabio Volo, Isabella Ragonese, Camilla Filippi
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
Dir. Edoardo Falcone · With Fabio De Luigi, Elio Germano, Massimo De Lorenzo
In 1940s Venice, after twenty years' marriage, retired art critic Nino Rolfe and his younger wife Teresa feel their passion waning. To help her shed her inhibitions and rekindle their relationship, the professor records his sexual fantasies in a diary.
Dir. Tinto Brass · With Stefania Sandrelli, Frank Finlay, Franco Branciaroli
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.
Dir. Betty Kaplan · With Jennifer Connelly, Antonio Banderas, Stefania Sandrelli
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