Acting

Marina Berti

Born September 29, 1924 · London, England, UK

Died October 29, 2002 · aged 78

Elena Maureen Bertolini, known as Marina Berti, (29 September 1924 – 29 October 2002) was an English-born Italian film actress. Her first screen appearance was in the Anna Magnani film, La Fuggitiva in 1941. She appeared mainly in small roles and in the occasional leading role in nearly 100 films both Italian and American. Her appearances include Quo Vadis (1951), Abdulla the Great (1955), Ben Hu…

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Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur · 1959

MovieHistoryDrama

In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.

Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis · 1951

MovieDramaHistory

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Jessica

Jessica · 1962

MovieComedyDrama

When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.

Late Night Trains

Late Night Trains · 1975

Late Night Trains

MovieThrillerHorror

Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair.

Le avventure di Ulisse

Le avventure di Ulisse · 1969

Le avventure di Ulisse

Amen.

MovieDramaHistory

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.

The Stranger Returns

The Stranger Returns · 1967

The Stranger Returns

The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium · 1969

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

MovieRomanceComedy

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.

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Ben-Hur

Ben-Hur · 1959

MovieHistoryDrama

In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.

Flavia (uncredited)

Quo Vadis

Quo Vadis · 1951

MovieDramaHistory

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Eunice

Jessica

Jessica · 1962

MovieComedyDrama

When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.

Filippella Risino

Late Night Trains

Late Night Trains · 1975

Late Night Trains

MovieThrillerHorror

Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair.

Laura Stradi

Le avventure di Ulisse

Le avventure di Ulisse · 1969

Le avventure di Ulisse

Arete

Amen.

MovieDramaHistory

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a poison gas he helped discover is being used to kill Jews. Driven by his conscience to alert the rest of the world, Gerstein teams up with a young Jesuit priest, Riccardo Fontana, but their protestations fall on deaf ears in the Vatican.

La Principessa

The Stranger Returns

The Stranger Returns · 1967

The Stranger Returns

The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

Ethel

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium · 1969

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

MovieRomanceComedy

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.

Gina

Madame

MovieComedyDrama

Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.

Elisa Bonaparte

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

What Have They Done to Your Daughters? · 1974

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

MovieCrimeThriller

An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.

Mrs. Polvesi

An Angel for Satan

An Angel for Satan · 1966

An Angel for Satan

At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.

Ilda, the Housekeeper

La primadonna

La primadonna · 1943

Ester

Moses the Lawgiver

Moses the Lawgiver · 1976

Moses the Lawgiver

The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. This is the edited-down version for theatrical release.

Eliseba

The Divine Nymph

The Divine Nymph · 1975

The Divine Nymph

MovieRomanceDrama

In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.

Zia di Manuela

A Spiral of Mist

A Spiral of Mist · 1977

A Spiral of Mist

The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him..

Costanza Sangermano

Stubborn Fate

Stubborn Fate · 1992

Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.

Eva Meyer

Prince of Foxes

Prince of Foxes · 1949

Prince of Foxes

MovieAdventureDrama

In 1500, Duke Cesare Borgia hopes to marry his sister to the heir apparent of Ferrara, which impedes his conquest of central Italy. On this delicate mission he sends Andrea Orsini, his sister's lover and nearly as unscrupulous as himself. En route, Orsini meets Camilla Verano, wife of the count of Citta' del Monte, and sentiment threatens to turn him against his deadly master, whom no one betrays twice...

Angela Borgia

Il cavaliere dalla spada nera

Il cavaliere dalla spada nera · 1956

Il cavaliere dalla spada nera

Contessa Laura

The Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba · 1952

The Queen of Sheba

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.

Zamira, betrothed of Rehoboam

Made in Italy

Made in Italy · 1965

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Bored Diner (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 1")

The Odyssey

The Odyssey · 1969

MovieAdventureDrama

After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Ithaca. [Theatrical version of the 1968 mini-series.]

Arete

The Red Carnation

The Red Carnation · 1976

The Red Carnation

Our hero is the 18-year-old Alessio Mainardi, who receives a token red carnation from a girl named Giovanna and becomes a symbol of love, desire, and even has political overtones as a symbol of the struggle for political freedom in opposition to Fascism.

Hate Is My God

Hate Is My God · 1969

A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge for the murder of his brother against three men who are now notable men of the town.

Blanche Durand

The Swordsman of Siena

The Swordsman of Siena · 1962

The Swordsman of Siena

MovieAdventureDrama

A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.

Countess of Osta

Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth · 1977

Jesus of Nazareth

Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.

Elizabeth

The Odyssey

The Odyssey · 1968

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Odysseus' journey, told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

Arete

Moses the Lawgiver

Moses the Lawgiver · 1974

Moses the Lawgiver

The Story of the Exodus or freedom of Hebrews from Egypt is told in a perspective which highlights Moses' efforts to persuade first the stubborn Pharaoh Merneptah, who was his adopted cousin, to release his work force of slaves. Then, once free and in the wilderness en route to the Promised Land, Moses must prove to be a pious and patient leader or lawgiver to a people who still think they want more out of him or God. For 40 years, Moses must carry on this load and challenge for God and Israel.

Eliseba

Castle Hohenstein

Castle Hohenstein · 1992

Castle Hohenstein

After the tragic loss of her mother, the medical student Christine Berger takes a job as a supervisor for the young Countess Leonore von Hohenstein, who suffers from a heart disease. Leonore's husband Gregor and Christine are drawn to each other from the first moment, but both are aware of the impossibility of their love and try to suppress their feelings.

Fürstin Federica di Veneria

Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe · 1969

SeriesCrimeMystery

Callie Frost