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Valeria Golino has 26 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Portrait of a Lady on Fire.
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Frances Ha
2013
Comedy · Drama

Brad's Status
2017
Comedy · Drama

Gloria
2013
Comedy · Drama

Friends with Kids
2012
Comedy · Drama

18 Years Old and Rising
2011
Comedy · Drama

mid90s
2018
Drama · Comedy

The Rum Diary
2011
Comedy · Drama

Mississippi Grind
2015
Comedy · Drama

Portrait of a Lady on Fire
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

Rain Man
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%MGM+ · Included

Leaving Las Vegas
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%Prime Video · Included

Hot Shots!
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 31%AMC+ · Included

Immortal Beloved
1994 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%Tubi · Free w/ ads

36th Precinct
2004 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Tubi · Free w/ ads

On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
Dir. Céline Sciamma · With Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami

When car dealer Charlie Babbitt learns that his estranged father has died, he returns home to Cincinnati, where he discovers that he has a savant older brother named Raymond and that his father's $3 million fortune is being left to the mental institution in which Raymond lives. Motivated by his father's money, Charlie checks Raymond out of the facility in order to return with him to Los Angeles. The brothers' cross-country trip ends up changing both their lives.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino

The destinies of two families are irrevocably tied together after a cyclist is hit off the road by a jeep in the night before Christmas Eve.
Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Valeria Golino

Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic Hollywood screenwriter who lost everything because of his drinking, arrives in Las Vegas to drink himself to death. There, he meets and forms an uneasy friendship and non-interference pact with prostitute Sera.
Dir. Mike Figgis · With Nicolas Cage, Elisabeth Shue, Julian Sands

The gang that created Airplane! and The Naked Gun sets its sights on Top Gun in this spoof. Topper Harley is a talented but unstable fighter pilot with an axe to grind: clearing the family name. His mission is to avenge his father and save a mission sabotaged by greedy weapons manufacturers. He also gets involved in a relationship with Ramada Thompson, a woman with an unusually talented stomach. Hot Shots! makes fun of a variety of other films, from Dances with Wolves to The Fabulous Baker Boys.
Dir. Jim Abrahams · With Charlie Sheen, Cary Elwes, Valeria Golino

A chronicle of the life of infamous classical composer Ludwig van Beethoven and his painful struggle with hearing loss. Following Beethoven's death in 1827, his assistant, Schindler, searches for an elusive woman referred to in the composer's love letters as "immortal beloved." As Schindler solves the mystery, a series of flashbacks reveal Beethoven's transformation from passionate young man to troubled musical genius.
Dir. Bernard Rose · With Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini

Topper Harley is found to be working as an odd-job-man in a monastery. The CIA want him to lead a rescue mission into Iraq, to rescue the last rescue team, who went in to rescue the last rescue team—who went in to rescue hostages left behind after Desert Storm.
Dir. Jim Abrahams · With Charlie Sheen, Lloyd Bridges, Valeria Golino
Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Golino, Claudio Bisio

In Paris, two cops are competing for the vacant job of chief of police, in the middle of the search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, taken in part from real events of the 1980s.
Dir. Olivier Marchal · With Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and swimming half-naked in the sea, while the next she's curled in a ball on her bed. Out of her earshot, the adult members of her extended family vaguely discuss sending her to a facility of some sort in Northern Italy.
Dir. Emanuele Crialese · With Valeria Golino, Vincenzo Amato, Francesco Casisa
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow reaching climactic proportions.
Dir. Francesca Archibugi · With Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Golino, Luigi Lo Cascio
Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
Dir. Antonello Grimaldi · With Nanni Moretti, Alessandro Gassmann, Valeria Golino

Civilisation is coming to an end. The death of his only relative gives a feral boy the pretext to journey beyond the confines of his home environment; only by doing this will he be able to decipher his father's journal, the most valuable artefact in his legacy. This singular contribution to the post-apocalyptic sci-fi genre tells of a humanity in crisis, while at the same time conveying the adventurous spirit of adolescence.
Dir. Claudio Cupellini · With Leon de La Vallée, Paolo Pierobon, Maria Roveran

Michele is thirteen year old, shy, unpopular at school, and in love with Stella. After wearing a costume for a Halloween party, he finds out that he's invisible.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Ludovico Girardello, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
The true story of Andrea and Franco Antonello, a father and autistic son who traveled by motorbike for three months between the United States and South America.
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores · With Claudio Santamaria, Valeria Golino, Diego Abatantuono
Teo has a good job, a fiancee, a lover, no intention to assume any responsibility in his life. Meeting Emma, a blind woman, will upset his convictions.
Dir. Silvio Soldini · With Valeria Golino, Adriano Giannini, Arianna Scommegna

A cop investigates the murder of a beautiful teen girl left naked by a lake.
Dir. Andrea Molaioli · With Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Gifuni

Two brothers cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things which his brother desperately tries to point out to him.
Dir. Sean Penn · With David Morse, Viggo Mortensen, Valeria Golino

Matteo is a young successful businessman, audacious, charming and energetic. Ettore instead, is a calm, righteous, second grade teacher always living in the shadows, still in the small town from where both come from. They’re brothers but with two very different personalities. A dramatic event will force them to live together in Rome for a few months, bringing up the opportunity to face their differences with sympathy and tenderness, in a climax of fear and euphoria.
Dir. Valeria Golino · With Riccardo Scamarcio, Valerio Mastandrea, Isabella Ferrari

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as she confronts her identity and life.
Dir. Pablo Larraín · With Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher

A group of advocates to end homelessness organize an annual tournament for homeless people to compete in a series of football matches known as The Homeless World Cup.
Dir. Thea Sharrock · With Bill Nighy, Micheal Ward, Valeria Golino

Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.
Dir. Igort · With Toni Servillo, Valeria Golino, Carlo Buccirosso
A man meets up with two "good guys" to recover what is unlawfully his, taking them on his whirlwind ride, doing things they never would have imagined, just to survive.
Dir. Éric Besnard · With Jean Dujardin, Jean Reno, Valeria Golino

An awkward adolescent boy and his angst-ridden friends try their best to fit in amongst a cast of varied characters.
Dir. Riad Sattouf · With Vincent Lacoste, Anthony Sonigo, Alice Trémolière

as Lilly (segment "Goodnight Lilly, Goodnight Christine")
Prime Video · Included+3
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
Dir. Rodrigo García · With Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
Dir. Randal Kleiser · With Paul Reubens, Penelope Ann Miller, Kris Kristofferson
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