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Monica Bellucci

Monica Bellucci
Monica Anna Maria Bellucci - born 30 September 1964, in Umbria, Italy

Wise words: "When I'm old, I'd rather watch my children than my films."



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Monica Bellucci - news / articles


  • Bellucci: 'I want no part of the Hollywood tragedy' - 14 August 2010
    -Italian siren Monica Bellucci was shocked when she was asked to star in recent fantasy film The Sorcerer's Apprentice - because she shuns Hollywood and all it stands for.- -The Matrix Reloaded star has only appeared in a handful of big budget American movies, preferring


  • Miller traumatised by Bellucci rape scene - 13 April 2009
    -Sienna Miller fears she'll never be shocked by a love scene in a film ever again - after watching Monica Bellucci's rape scene in Irreversible. - -The actress admits she was left "traumatised" by the harrowing sex scene in Gaspar Noe's controversial 2002 film, and now s

Monica Bellucci - what members say


  • Malena
  • Malena review by from glasgow
    Rated - 5.0 stars powerful, 29 March 2004
    ...hanges dramatically. Powerfully emotional but at the same time quite humourous. Monica Bellucci's acting matches her looks. If you liked the movie 'Life is Beautiful' with Rob...   Read customer review
  • Brotherhood Of The Wolf
  • Brotherhood Of The Wolf review by SeteezenX from
    Rated - 5.0 stars C'est Fantastique 7 January 2013
    ...detective yarn with a Hound of the Baskervilles twist then give this a go. Plus Monica Bellucci's in it, what's not to like? Highly recommended....   Read customer review
  • Irreversible
  • Irreversible review by paulfisher9 from lancs
    Rated - 4.0 stars as the rollercoasters always say - not for the faint of heart! 26 February 2004
    ... This however, is so realistic it is impossible not to be shocked. Apparently Monica Bellucci's real-life husband (co-star Vincent Cassell) refused to watch the rape scene,...   Read customer review

Monica Bellucci - filmography


  • The Sorcerer's Apprentice on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Nicolas Cage,  Monica Bellucci,  Jay Baruchel
    Director: Jon Turteltaub
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Balthazar Blake (Nicolas Cage) is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan trying to defend the city from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath (Alfred Molina). Balthazar can't do it alone, so he recruits Dave Stutler (Jay Baruchel), a seemingly average guy who demonstrates hidden potential, as his ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 28,641 members
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  • Don't Look Back (2009)
    Starring: Sophie Marceau,  Monica Bellucci,  Andrea Di Stefano
    Director: Marina de Van
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Jeanne a writer, married, with two children - starts to see unsettling changes in her home. Her body is beginning to change. No one around her seems to notice. Her family dismisses these fears as the result of the stress of having to finish her next book, but Jeanne realizes that something far ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 17 members
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  • The Private Lives of Pippa Lee on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Robin Wright Penn,  Blake Lively,  Alan Arkin
    Director: Rebecca Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    From all outward appearances, Pippa Lee leads a charmed existence. She is the devoted wife of an accomplished publisher 30 years her senior, the proud mother of two grown children, and a trusted friend and confidant to all who cross her path. But as Pippa dutifully follows her husband to a new life ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 7,375 members
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  • The Second Wind on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Jacques Dutronc,  Michel Blanc,  Eric Cantona
    Director: Alain Corneau
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    French crime drama based on the novel 'Un Reglement de Comptes' by Jose Giovanni, which was first adapted for cinema by Jean-Pierre Melville in 1966. Daniel Auteuil stars as Gustave 'Gu' Minda, a notorious gangster who has recently escaped from jail. When Gu contacts his old accomplices to organise ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 448 members
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  • The Brothers Grimm on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Heath Ledger,  Lena Headey
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Terry Gilliam's adventure starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. Will (Damon) and Jake (Ledger) Grimm dazzle small towns with their imaginative folklore and elaborate illusions, but when the brothers journey into a real enchanted forest to help a village rid itself of an evil witch, they encounter ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 48,403 members
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  • How Much Do You Love Me ? (2005)
    Starring: Monica Bellucci,  Bernard Campan,  Gerard Depardieu
    Director: Bertrand Blier
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In Paris, after winning the lottery, the clerk François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to the prostitute Daniela to live with him until the end of his money. François is a lonely man, with heart problems and Daniela stays with him for eight days. Then, she ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 16 members
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  • The Brothers Grimm - Blu-ray (2005)
    Starring: Matt Damon,  Heath Ledger,  Lena Headey
    Director: Terry Gilliam
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Terry Gilliam's adventure starring Matt Damon and Heath Ledger. Will (Damon) and Jake (Ledger) Grimm dazzle small towns with their imaginative folklore and elaborate illusions, but when the brothers journey into a real enchanted forest to help a village rid itself of an evil witch, they encounter ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 2,764 members
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  • She Hate Me on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Woody Harrelson,  Brian Dennehy,  Ellen Barkin
    Director: Spike Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Harvard-educated biotech executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong gets fired when he informs on his bosses, launching an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 1,985 member
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  • Remember Me on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Fabrizio Bentivoglio,  Monica Bellucci,  Laura Morante
    Director: Gabriele Muccino
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Award-winning Italian drama about a dysfunctional middle-class family whose individual aspirations pull at the seams of their increasingly fragile bonds. As their children come of age and begin to follow their own dreams, Carlo (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) finds himself torn between his marriage to ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 984 members
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  • Matrix Revolutions on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Harry,  Keanu Reeves,  Laurence Fishburne
    Director: The Wachowski Brothers
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    The final chapter of the Wachowski brothers' Matrix trilogy (filmed back-to-back with 'Matrix Reloaded') seems to answer all the questions left open in the second instalment. Neo (Keanu Reeves) is still on the quest for truth, but his journey into the real world has left him drained of his power ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 53,587 members
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  • Tears Of The Sun on DVD (2003)
    Starring: Bruce Willis,  Monica Bellucci,  Cole Hauser
    Director: Antoine Fuqua
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Navy SEAL Lieutenant A.K. Waters and his elite squadron of tactical specialists are forced to choose between their duty and their humanity, between following orders by ignoring the conflict that surrounds them, or finding the courage to follow their conscience and protect a group of innocent ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 26,110 members
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  • Irreversible (2002)
    Starring: Stephane Drouot,  Jo Prestia,  Vincent Cassel
    Director: Gaspar Noe
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    After a fight with her coked-up boyfriend Marcus, Alex leaves a party to go home. She never gets there; instead she's raped in a desolate tunnel. Her angry boyfriend, and her buddy Pierre decide to take justice into their own hands and hunt down the rapist themselves.
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 16,247 members
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  • Brotherhood Of The Wolf on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Emilie Dequenne,  Mark Dacascos,  Vincent Cassel
    Director: Christophe Gans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Set in 1765, during the reign of Louis XV, an epic adventure based in part on a well-known French legend. In a rural province of France, a mysterious creature is leaving a trail of mutilated corpses across the countryside, savagely killing scores of women and children. Unseen, possessed of enormous ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 8,044 members
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  • Brotherhood Of The Wolf - Blu-ray (2001)
    Starring: Emilie Dequenne,  Mark Dacascos,  Vincent Cassel
    Director: Christophe Gans
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    France, 1766. Sent by the King to investigate a number of attacks by a terrifying wolf-like beast in GĂ©vaudan, scientist and adventurer GrĂ©goire de Fronsac and his martial-arts-trained Iroquois sidekick Mani arrive to find a community pregnant with many secrets. As the beast continues to ravage the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 753 members
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  • Malena on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Matilde Piana,  Monica Bellucci,  Luciano Federico
    Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A story of the painful passage into adulthood from director Giuseppe Tornatore ('Cinema Paradiso'). The year is 1940, and in the sleepy Sicilian town of Castelucto teenager Renato (Giuseppe Sulfaro) has developed a crush on the the beautiful and mysterious Malena (Monica Bellucci). Malena's husband ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 6,535 members
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  • Dobermann on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Tcheky Karyo,  Vincent Cassel,  Antoine Basler
    Director: Jan Kounen
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Stylish and violent French thriller starring Vincent Cassel and Monica Belluci. Yann LePentrec (Cassel) is 'Le Dobermann' - a 21st century gang leader who pulls off daring heists with the aid of his partner, Nat (Monica Bellucci), and their bizarre gang of reprobates. When fledgling gang member and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 3,146 members
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  • Under Suspicion on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Thomas Jane,  Morgan Freeman,  Isabel Algaz
    Director: Stephen Hopkins
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    It's carnival time in Puerto Rico, but three young women have been found dead and the killer is still on the loose. Harry Hearst (Gene Hackman) is a rich and successful lawyer who discovers one of the bodies and is consequently asked by police chief Victor Benezet (Morgan Freeman) to help with his ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 3,702 members
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  • Malena - Blu-ray (2000)
    Starring: Matilde Piana,  Monica Bellucci,  Luciano Federico
    Director: Giuseppe Tornatore
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A story of the painful passage into adulthood from director Giuseppe Tornatore ('Cinema Paradiso'). The year is 1940, and in the sleepy Sicilian town of Castelucto teenager Renato (Giuseppe Sulfaro) has developed a crush on the the beautiful and mysterious Malena (Monica Bellucci). Malena's husband ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 312 members
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  • L'Appartement on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Sandrine Kiberlain,  Jean-Philippe Ecoffey,  Romane Bohringer
    Director: Gilles Mimouni
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Parisian businessman Max (Vincent Cassel) is due to fly to Japan when he recognizes his long-lost love, Lisa, in a cafĂ©. He forgets his travel arrangements and becomes obsessed with tracking Lisa down. When he eventually finds her apartment he hides in it, only to be discovered by Alice, a look-..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 10,584 members
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  • Riffa, La (1993)
    Starring: Monica Bellucci,  Giulio Scarpati,  Massimo Ghini
    Director: Francesco Laudadio
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Francesca an incredibly beautiful woman, loses her husband. Only after his death she discovers his unfaithfulness and overall the huge amount of debts he left. Cesare is Francesca's best friend is a solicitor. Following his advice Francesca starts selling all her goods, like the house, jewels, furs ..read more »
    1.5 stars out of 5 28% from 6 members
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Monica Bellucci facts

5 most recent films

The Whistleblower - 3.5 stars
The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Whistleblower - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Sorcerer's Apprentice - 3.5 stars
Don't Look Back - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Sorcerer's Apprentice - 3.5 stars
The Whistleblower - 3.5 stars
The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Tears Of The Sun - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Malena - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Riffa, La - 1.5 stars
How Much Do You Love Me ? - 2.5 stars
The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Don't Look Back - 3.0 stars
She Hate Me - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Keanu Reeves - 7 times - show films
Vincent Cassel - 7 times - show films
Carrie-Anne Moss - 4 times - show films
Laurence Fishburne - 4 times - show films
Laurence Fishburne - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

The Wachowski Brothers - 8 times - show films
Mel Gibson - 4 times - show films
Christophe Gans - 4 times - show films
Terry Gilliam - 4 times - show films
Rebecca Miller - 3 times - show films