



There aren’t too many positives about the Matrix sequels, but seeing Bellucci play Persephone, stunning wife to the evil Merovingian, surely rates as a worth-the-ticket-price highlight.Īgain, not a great film by any means, but Bellucci’s Cleopatra was a marked improvement even on the iconic historical figure, gloriously looking well worth worshipping and putting on currency.įrancis Ford Coppola’s film was an intriguing gothic adaptation with a weirdly miscast Keanu Reeves at its core as Count Dracula himself, but all was redeemed by a young Bellucci sultrily playing one of Dracula’s brides. In this nutty comic-book style film made on visual steroids, Bellucci played a prostitute called Donna - in keeping with the rest of the film, she was, naturally, impossibly hot. The first time most of us had our jaws dropped by Monica Bellucci, she played the sensational subject of a schoolboy’s fantasies in this beautiful Italian drama. Before we let her make us jealous of Daniel Craig, here are 10 movies where she made us gape:
