Barbara Cupisti

Barbara Cupisti

Barbara Cupisti is an Italian award-winning documentary director with a long career as film actress. As an actress, she is well known outside of her native country by horror fans, who will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi and Dario Argento. As a director, she is considered one of the most talented female directors of documentaries in the world. Mostly focused on human rights, she said that her goal is to give voice to the people who don't have the opportunity to speak.

  • Title: Barbara Cupisti
  • Popularity: 0.3137
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1962-01-24
  • Place of Birth: Viareggio, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
  • Homepage: https://sparkmedia.org/team/barbara-cupisti/
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Barbara Cupisti Movies

  • 1987
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    Stage Fright

    Stage Fright

    6.5 1987 HD

    While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.

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  • 1994
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    Cemetery Man

    Cemetery Man

    6.897 1994 HD

    Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.

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  • 1982
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    The New York Ripper

    The New York Ripper

    6.2 1982 HD

    A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.

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  • 1989
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    The Church

    The Church

    6 1989 HD

    In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.

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  • 1989
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    The Hell's Gate

    The Hell's Gate

    4.6 1989 HD

    As part of a science experiment, a man has spent a record-breaking length of time alone down a hole, but an hour before he's due to re-emerge, something goes wrong and his colleagues have to go in to rescue him.

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  • 2008
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    Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

    Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

    6 2008 HD

    This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.

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  • 2000
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    Teeth

    Teeth

    6.5 2000 HD

    Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his extra-large smile.

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  • 1997
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    Strong Arms

    Strong Arms

    6.5 1997 HD

    This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The events he describes sound just like those of Brescia, and Claudia, who still grieves for her sister, begins to wonder if Tancredi is telling the truth. Her investigation proves that he is lying, but it leads her to wonder why he has chosen her as his psychoanalyst. After talking to her husband, Claudia visits her old mentor who suggests she continue working with Tancredi but warns her not to call in the police. After that the story frequently jumps to 1998. By then Claudia and her newborn baby have become part of the witness protection program and she is preparing to testify against those involved in covering up government-sponsored terrorist activity.

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  • 2017
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    Il mistero della cattedrale

    Il mistero della cattedrale

    8 2017 HD

    A retrospective look at the making of Michele Soavi's "The Church" including interviews with cast and crew.

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  • 1990
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    Il volo di Teo

    Il volo di Teo

    1 1990 HD

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  • 1989
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    Dark Bar

    Dark Bar

    8 1989 HD

    Anna, a young saxophone player, investigates her sister's disappearance with the help of a friend.

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  • 2023
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    Dream Time

    Dream Time

    6 2023 HD

    Spaghetti westerns, giallo, mondo... are the legacy of a golden age in Italian genre filmmaking, which began in the sixties and came to an end in the eighties, but not without leaving behind a few final masterpieces. This film explores, a few decades later, what became of those filmmakers and their films. A number of the most famous survivors of Italian horror movies will help to shed light on what happened.

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  • 1983
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    The Key

    The Key

    5.981 1983 HD

    Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...

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  • 1992
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    The Flesh and the Devil

    The Flesh and the Devil

    1 1992 HD

    Colombia 1662: In the Spanish colonies there the Inquisition: apostates are tortured, burned witches. The indigenous people are demonized and in the middle are two friends into enemies. The doctor Alfonso should marry the eldest daughter of the wealthy Don Ramon, but her other two sisters hedges of deadly intrigue. Father Guzman plays a spy of the church is a dangerous game that will be fatal for him and the mysterious Esmeralda turned all men's head.

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  • 1990
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    Eyewitness

    Eyewitness

    4 1990 HD

    Elisa is the only witness to a savage murder that takes place in a department store after hours. And yet, as a blind woman, she’s unable to visually describe the killer. Soon, the psychopath is after her too, and will stop at nothing to eliminate Elisa… and everyone around her.

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  • 2003
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    Sotto gli occhi di tutti

    Sotto gli occhi di tutti

    1 2003 HD

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  • 1999
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    Scandalous Crimes

    Scandalous Crimes

    3.2 1999 HD

    In Parma, conversing with a CSM judge from Rome, the judge Bocchi tells what intrigues are hidden behind the beautiful and charming facade of the city, referring in detail to the latest and most 'chatted episode. It begins when Bocchi interrogates Giulio, a handsome and unassuming young man, for reasons of strangling, and invites him to collaborate with justice.

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  • 1989
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    Il bambino e il poliziotto

    Il bambino e il poliziotto

    5.846 1989 HD

    Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Seeing that Carlo is the person responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until his mother is freed. Carlo does everything possible to have Social Services or somebody look after the kid but is told by the Courts that he is the best candidate for his custody until a better one is found. Even though Giulio manages to turn Carlo's life inside out he ends up getting to like the kid and falling for the kid's mother, Rosanna, while she is in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out for dinner.

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  • 1990
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    Flight from Paradise

    Flight from Paradise

    7 1990 HD

    In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom.

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  • 1995
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    L'anno prossimo... vado a letto alle dieci

    L'anno prossimo... vado a letto alle dieci

    4.9 1995 HD

    This rollicking Italian black comedy follows the hellish, bizarre New Year's Eve night of two average guys who find themselves stumbling from one outlandish situation to the next. After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man tags along to the party his friend is attending, leading to a series of misadventures.

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  • 1987
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    Eleven Days, Eleven Nights

    Eleven Days, Eleven Nights

    5.024 1987 HD

    In eleven days time, Michael is due to wed his fiancée Helen. However, a chance meeting with Sarah, a total stranger, threatens to destroy all his plans as he is seduced on the spot and finds himself unable to resist her.

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  • 1994
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    Only You

    Only You

    6.738 1994 HD

    Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to marry podiatrist Dwayne in 10 days, Faith receives a phone call from Dwayne's old classmate named Damon Bradley who is on his way to Venice. Faith tries to catch him at the airport but just misses him so she impulsively decides to fly to Venice hoping to finally encounter the man of her dreams; accompanying her on the trip is her sister-in-law and childhood best friend, Kate, who has just left her husband, Faith's brother Larry.

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  • 1987
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    Opera

    Opera

    6.758 1987 HD

    A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.

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  • 1997
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    Consigli per gli acquisti

    Consigli per gli acquisti

    7.2 1997 HD

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  • 2008
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    Vietato sognare

    Vietato sognare

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2023
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    Wartime Notes

    Wartime Notes

    1 2023 HD

    24 February 2022. In Ukraine, everyday life flows like any other day. The first bombings arrive, forcing many to leave the country, others to take up arms, almost everyone to face separations, fears, the absence of basic necessities and bereavement. The film is the director's journey, driven by the need to get to the emotional epicentre of this conflict, which starts in Warsaw and travels through the cities of Lviv and Odessa and the forgotten countryside of Ukraine, to Kyiv, Irpin, Bucha, Borodyanka. She meets those who crossed the border to survive or help the resistance, or those who remained in their homeland continuing to fight to defend their country and their culture.

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  • 2023
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    Wartime Notes

    Wartime Notes

    1 2023 HD

    24 February 2022. In Ukraine, everyday life flows like any other day. The first bombings arrive, forcing many to leave the country, others to take up arms, almost everyone to face separations, fears, the absence of basic necessities and bereavement. The film is the director's journey, driven by the need to get to the emotional epicentre of this conflict, which starts in Warsaw and travels through the cities of Lviv and Odessa and the forgotten countryside of Ukraine, to Kyiv, Irpin, Bucha, Borodyanka. She meets those who crossed the border to survive or help the resistance, or those who remained in their homeland continuing to fight to defend their country and their culture.

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  • 2012
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    Fratelli & Sorelle - Storie di carcere

    Fratelli & Sorelle - Storie di carcere

    1 2012 HD

    A Donatello award nominated documentary.

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  • 2012
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    Fratelli & Sorelle - Storie di carcere

    Fratelli & Sorelle - Storie di carcere

    1 2012 HD

    A Donatello award nominated documentary.

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  • 2007
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    Mothers

    Mothers

    1 2007 HD

    Through the testimonies of Israeli and Palestinian mothers living in a land torn apart by endless war, terrified that their children will not return home, the film shows the conflicts and private dramas that tell the story of history. A collection of testimonies of life, everyday moments, archive footage, and private video material to tell stories of pain and anger.

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  • 2020
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    My America

    My America

    1 2020 HD

    The United States is considered a symbol of freedom, the great social experiment made of democratic principles, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. But does this ideal of prosperity and individual freedom reflect the life of all American citizens? My America recounts today's United States: a nation grappling with increasingly complex social problems and heightened political tensions that have weakened the distinctive characteristics of what is considered the most powerful democracy in the world. Besides this social malaise, there is also the ability and determination of regular citizens who try to challenge and repair the country's moral fiber.

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  • 2020
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    My America

    My America

    1 2020 HD

    The United States is considered a symbol of freedom, the great social experiment made of democratic principles, equality, and the pursuit of happiness. But does this ideal of prosperity and individual freedom reflect the life of all American citizens? My America recounts today's United States: a nation grappling with increasingly complex social problems and heightened political tensions that have weakened the distinctive characteristics of what is considered the most powerful democracy in the world. Besides this social malaise, there is also the ability and determination of regular citizens who try to challenge and repair the country's moral fiber.

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  • 2011
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    Io sono. Storie di schiavitù

    Io sono. Storie di schiavitù

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2011
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    Io sono. Storie di schiavitù

    Io sono. Storie di schiavitù

    1 2011 HD

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  • 2008
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    Vietato sognare

    Vietato sognare

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2008
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    Vietato sognare

    Vietato sognare

    1 2008 HD

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  • 2025
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    Ni primera ni dama

    Ni primera ni dama

    1 2025 HD

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  • 2000
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    Police District

    Police District

    6.7 2000 HD

    The events of Police District unfold in the rooms of the 10th Tuscolano, a police station on the outskirts of Rome where current events intertwine with the private lives of the inspectors, officers and commissioners who, over the course of 11 intense seasons, have created one of the greatest successes on Italian TV.

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  • 1992
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    Bony

    Bony

    1 1992 HD

    Bony is an Australian television series made in 1992. The series of 13 episodes followed on from a telemovie made in 1990. The series was criticised for casting a white man (Cameron Daddo) as the title character Detective David John Bonaparte, under the tutelage of "Uncle Albert", an elderly Aborigine (Burnham Burnham). Bony was supposed to be a descendent of the Bony character created by Arthur Upfield in dozens of novels from the late 1920s until his death in 1964.

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  • 1985
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    Châteauvallon

    Châteauvallon

    5.3 1985 HD

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