Biography
Donatella Finocchiaro (born 16 November 1970) is an Italian actress.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Paradiso in vendita
2025
New film by Luca Barbareschi.

Unicorni
2025

L'amore che ho
2025
as Rosa Balistreri

E poi si vede
2025
as Senator Purpura
Three houses, three boys, the same goal: to win the competition for a position as an employee in the legal office of the city. Federico, a law graduat...

Assunta
2024
Assunta is a prostitute who, once she has taken her little son Mattia from the heinous fury of an abusive father, chooses to foster him to allow him t...

L'anima in pace
2024
as Lia
Dora is a 25-year-old girl with an apparently rough and impenetrable character who works by bringing shopping home, a very heavy job. This is not the ...

Devoti tutti
2023
as Agatha
Through magical realist animations in the style of baroque chiaroscuro, Devoti Tutti returns to the martyred Saint Agatha of Catania a voice she never...

Upside Down
2023
Paolo, 19, a boy with Down syndrome, befriends a tough and lonely boxing trainer.

Strangeness
2022
as La balia
During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. Pirandello...
La notte è un posto sicuro
2022
Hamid, a 25-year-old boy, survived the escape from Eritrea, with the intention of arriving in Switzerland by his brother Yemane, but Natale, a Sicilia...

L'altro buio in sala
2022
as Sé stessa

Bentornato papà
2021
as Anna
We are in a beautiful southern family, united by a deep relationship, despite some misunderstandings: Franco, a father who has dedicated his life to h...

Sisters Forever
2021
Two previously unknown families see their lives turned upside down when a seemingly insignificant mistake leads them to a shocking discovery about the...

Caught by a Wave
2021
as Susanna
A summer fling born under the Sicilian sun quickly develops into a heartbreaking love story that forces a boy and girl to grow up too quickly.

Io, una giudice popolare al Maxiprocesso
2020
as Caterina Parisi

A New Perspective
2020
as Girl's mother
Early one morning, in an unspecified and seemingly far off time, a 12 year old boy, together with some friends, is searching a thick forest for objec...

The Macaluso Sisters
2020
as Adult Pinuccia
Maria, Pinuccia, Lia, Katia and Antonella are five sisters who live in an apartment in Palermo. They make a living by renting doves for ceremonies. On...

Il delitto Mattarella
2020
as Irma Mattarella
January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in c...

Despite the Fog
2019
as Valeria
According to Interpol, over ten thousand refugees of minors without parental care are wandering today in Europe, half of which are on Italian roads. "...

Girl in Flight
2019
as Giulia
11-year-old Silvia's life at home is consumed by her mother’s clinical depression. When no one will take the time to fulfill her dream to visit Rome, ...

La stagione della caccia
2019
as Donna Matilde
Vigàta, Sicily, Italy, 1880. Shortly after the return to the village of Fofò La Matina, pharmacist and son of the late Santo La Matina, jealous guardi...

Capri-Revolution
2018
as Maria
In 1914, with Italy on the cusp of joining World War I, a group of foreign artists establishes a commune on the rural island of Capri, catching the at...

08 giugno '76
2018
as Angela Zagaria

Beate
2018
as Armida
In the northeast of Italy, the workers of a lingerie factory are about to be fired. Not far away, a handful of nuns, skilled in the art of embroidery ...

Youtopia
2018
as Laura
To help her financially struggling mother, a teenage girl turns to escorting and meets a wealthy man who makes a proposal she can't refuse.

Couch Potatoes
2017
as Presidente Barenghi
Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to ...

Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
2017
as Chiara
After losing his farm during the floods of 1953, a romantic Dutch farmer is tired of getting his socks wet. He cycles to Italy and decides to grow tul...

Nato a Casal di Principe
2017
In the late 1980s, Amedeo Letizia, a young 20 something Italian, leaves his hometown of Casal di Principe to pursue a career in acting in Rome. While ...

Everything You Want
2017
as Claudia
An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prosp...

L'accabadora
2017
as Annetta
Cagliari in the 1940s is a big city for those who come from a small village. Annetta arrives in the days befpre Italy enters WWII and the Allies begin...

Assolo
2016
as Evelina
A funny and intelligent comedy about a wonderfully flawed woman.
Le Supplici di Eschilo - Teatro greco di Siracusa
2015
as Prima Corifea
“The Suppliants of Aeschylus were part of a trilogy consisting of Supplicants, Sons of Egypt and Danaids, followed by a satyr drama Amirnon. It was fi...

Mio papà
2014
as Claudia
Lorenzo is a 35-year-old diver and an incurable Casanova. But one night, after having withdrawn with the beautiful Claudia, he comes across his little...

Una villa per due
2014

La missione di 3P
2014
as Anna adulta (voice)

War Story
2014
as Daria
Lee is a world-weary American woman who arrives in an Italian city. Her tangles with hotel staff, incessant smoking and her disregard of the persisten...

The Bad Child
2013
as Flora

Marina
2013
as Ida Granata
The true story of Rocco Granata, an Italian coal miner's son who followed his passion for music against his father's wishes and social barriers.

Non lo so ancora
2013

Meglio se stai zitta
2013
as Dona
For Valeria, her wedding day has arrived. Antonia spots the groom kissing a woman in an unmistakable loving manner and gifting her a jewel.

The Ghosts of San Berillo
2013
as narratrice
Ghosts from the past and the present inhabit the old neighborhood of San Berillo, in Catania. It is 1958: while brothels are being shut down all over ...

La logica delle cose
2013
as -

Convitto Falcone
2012
as Madre di Antonio Conti

To Rome with Love
2012
as Reporter on Street
Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful in...

Questi Fantasmi
2011
as Maria Lojacono

Terraferma
2011
as Giulietta
A Sicilian family deals with the arrival of a group of immigrants on their island.

Make a Fake
2011
as Aurora

I baci mai dati
2011
as Rita

Sorelle Mai
2011
as Sara Mai
The film, a nostalgic fantasy documentary, depicts in six episodes a family story in Bobbio between 1999 and 2008. We discover the 5 years-old Elena b...

Sulla strada di casa
2011
as Laura

Ages of Love
2011
as Eliana
In Italy, three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a reti...

Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
2010
as Angela (voice)

Baaria
2009
as merciaia
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), ...

Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy
2009
John Turturro goes back to the land of his ancestors.

All Human Rights for All
2008
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 ar...

Galantuomini
2008
as Lucia
A well known judge comes back to his native region, Salentino in the South of Italy, to find out that his old friend is dead and the woman he loved is...

'O professore
2008
The story of Pietro Filodomini, professor of Italian in a middle school in the Sanità district of Naples, who tries to offer with books an alternative...

Aldo Moro - Il presidente
2008
as Adriana Faranda
At the end of the seventies the Red Brigades are plotting a new target to hit, the president of the Christian Democrats Aldo Moro. On 16 March 1978, t...

L'abbuffata
2007
as Enza
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.

Amore che vieni, amore che vai
2007
as Veretta

The Sweet and the Bitter
2007
as Ada
Saro, a young Sicilian thug, that from jobs assigned by his godfather, won the favor of leaders of Cosa Nostra, becoming a "man of honor".

Non prendere impegni stasera
2007
as Paola

Secret Journey
2006
as Anna
After witnessing the murder of their mother thirty years ago, a man and his sister struggle with challenges of their adult lives.

The Wedding Director
2006
as Bona di Gravina
Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man ...

La fiamma sul ghiaccio
2006
as Caterina
A sick young man lives an intense love story with a female tramp.

Amatemi
2005
as Giulia
Married for most of her adult life, Nina plunges into depression after being suddenly deserted by her husband. Eventually, she'll find a way out by ha...

Se devo essere sincera
2004
as Gina
Adelaide is a 40-year-old literature teacher married with children. One day, she learns about the murder of a wealthy and arrogant co-worker of hers, ...

Upon My Skin
2003
as Bianca
On My Skin (Italian: Sulla mia pelle, also known as Upon My Skin) is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Valerio Jalongo. It was s...

Lost Love
2003
as Mary
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later ...

Angela
2002
as Angela
True story of an attractive Sicilian mob-wife who participates in her husband's drug-dealing business and falls for her husband's lackey.
Greta e le favole vere
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