Vincent Riotta

Vincent Riotta
Date of Birth: 03 Jan 1959
Country: UK
Total Credits at Criticker: 20 (Actor)
Biography submitted by howler19
Titles you haven't rated - Actor (20)
Heaven
A luminous and haunting love story, layered, in the tradition of Kieslowski, over a probing exploration of the modern world and its moral choices. (Miramax)
Under the Tuscan Sun
After Frances's seemingly happy San Francisco marriage ends abruptly, she goes into a funk. Urged by her friends to move on, she joins a bus tour of Tuscany where, on the spur of the moment, she buys a crumbling villa. She assembles a crew of oddballs and immigrants to repair the house; over the next year, as they work, she welcomes one of her New York friends who's pregnant and at loose ends, and she seeks love... (imdb)
Revolver
Gambler Jack Green (Statham) enters into a game with potentially deadly consequences. (imdb)
Father Hope
Father Hope (2005) - TV Movie
Spencer plays a somewhat renegade catholic priest, with strong concerns about lower-class youth. He is transferred to a small parish in Sicily, where his main task is as a priest in a youth prison. When a murder happens in the prison and a 16 year old boy seems to be guilty, the padre starts his investigations. Together with the commissar and the attorney he struggles with the fear of the common people and the local crime lords. (imdb User Comments)
Belly of the Beast
Belly of the Beast (2003) - Direct-to-Video
An ex-CIA agent's quest to find his kidnapped daughter leads him on a trail of political intrigue, corruption, danger and betrayal; he will stop at nothing to save her (imdb)
Shadow Man
Shadow Man (2006) - Direct-to-Video
An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage. (imdb)
Nine
Film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his life, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.
Leon the Pig Farmer
Leon is a jewish estate agent who, during a routine check-up at an infertility clinic, discovers he has something in common with Captain Blighe of the Bounty. Yes, they were both victims of mixed up se(a)men. It turns out that his biological father is not quite as jewish as he'd hoped and is, in fact, a Yorkshire pig farmer. Despite their differences, Leon is welcomed into the family, but loyalties are torn when he accidentally breeds the first Kosher pig! (imdb)
Chernobyl: The Final Warning
True story about the tragic nuclear power plant accident in Chernobyl (imdb)
Pius XII. - Under the Roman sky
The film is set in 1940s Rome, and reflects the Church's efforts to save people from the Nazis, as well as Adolph Hitler's plot to kidnap the Pope. (zenit.org)
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher. (imdb)
Goltzius and the Pelican Company
The film tells the story of Hendrik Goltzius, a 16th century Dutch engraver of erotic prints, who convinces the Margrave of Alsace into paying for printing two illustrated books, one of them a version of the Old Testament. To further enhance the deal, Goltzius and his company staff offer to perform dramatisations of six Old Testament erotic stories, symbolising the six sexual taboos: fornication, incest, adultery, paedophilia, prostitution and necrophilia. (iksv.org)
Black Butterfly
Paul (Banderas), a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter (Rhys Meyers) and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
Ciao Italia!
A tender love story intertwines with the allied conquer of Sicily during WWII, where the US Army had to find partners in the local society.
The Chinese Widow
Having bailed out after a bombing run on Tokyo, an American pilot is saved by a young local widow, who risks her life to hide the injured foreigner in her house. Despite not being able to communicate verbally, they soon fall in love.
Zen
Zen (2011) - TV Mini-Series
The adventures of Italian Police Commissioner Aurelio Zen. Based on the Aurelio Zen detective novels by Michael Dibdin.
House of Gucci
Spanning three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder, we see what a name means, what it's worth, and how far a family will go for control.
Divorzio a Las Vegas
About a 35 year old Italian young lady who is about to get married and is reminded that she was already married during a few hours of forgetful circumstances and must now return to Las Vegas with the man she married to divorce so that she can marry her apparent love of her life. (imdb)
Culprits
Culprits (2023) - TV Series
Power and Lovers
Two brothers start to bicker and battle when Nick, an aggressive businessman, finds himself thwarted by a group of scientists, headed by his brother Tony. It seems that the scientists stand in the way of big profits for Nick. It's a dramatic duel between two opposite siblings who have more in common than what they think - including the sexy and strong women in their lives. (imdb)