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Gioia

Original title: La gioia

2026 · 1h 48m

Directed by Nicolangelo Gelormini

6.8

TMDB audience score
42 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

Gioia is a high school teacher who has never known any other love than the oppressive bond with her own parents, with whom she still lives. One of the students at her school, Alessio, is cashing in on his own body to make a couple of hundred euros to help his mother, a cashier in a supermarket. The relationship that dawns between Gioia and Alessio is forbidden fruit, fragile yet, inexplicably, one they can’t do without. Still, Alessio’s desire to improve his social standing is a silent killer that prevents him from ultimately accepting Gioia’s surprising affection for him. He goes and destroys it all, cancelling the only person who has ever loved him.

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Cast

  • Valeria Golino
    Gioia

  • Saul Nanni
    Alessio

  • Jasmine Trinca
    Carla

  • Francesco Colella
    Cosimo

  • Betti Pedrazzi
    Gisella

  • Gianni Bissacca
    Professore di Filosofia

  • Laura Mazzi
    Paola

  • Anita Fiorello

  • Gilda Postiglione Turco

  • Andrea Vasone