Acting

Virna Lisi

Born November 8, 1936 · Ancona, Marche, Italy

Died December 18, 2014 · aged 78

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Virna Lisi (born 8 November 1936 in Ancona - December 18, 2014) is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress. She was born in Ancona, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi.

Known For

The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip · 1964

The Black Tulip

Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.

Queen Margot

Queen Margot · 1994

MovieDramaHistory

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.

How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife · 1965

How to Murder Your Wife

Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.

The 25th Hour

The 25th Hour · 1967

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria · 1970

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

MovieComedyDrama

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.

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.

Arabella

Arabella · 1967

A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother.

The Bachelor

The Bachelor · 1955

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

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The Black Tulip

The Black Tulip · 1964

The Black Tulip

Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.

Caroline 'Caro' Plantin

Queen Margot

Queen Margot · 1994

MovieDramaHistory

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.

Catherine de Médicis

How to Murder Your Wife

How to Murder Your Wife · 1965

How to Murder Your Wife

Stanley Ford is a successful cartoonist and happily single. That is, until he gets drunk at a friend's bachelor party and impulsively proposes to the beautiful woman who pops out of the cake. Once sober, he regrets the decision, but she won't agree to a divorce. Stanley jokingly vents his frustrations in his comic strip by having the main character kill his wife. But when his actual wife goes missing and Stanley is arrested for her murder, he has a change of heart.

Mrs. Ford

The 25th Hour

The 25th Hour · 1967

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.

Suzanna Moritz

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria · 1970

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

MovieComedyDrama

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.

Caterina Malatesta

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.

John's Beautiful Cousin in Rome

Arabella

Arabella · 1967

A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother.

Arabella

The Bachelor

The Bachelor · 1955

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

(uncredited)

White Fang

White Fang · 1973

MovieWesternAdventure

The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.

Sister Evangelina

Bluebeard

Bluebeard · 1972

MovieThrillerHorror

Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.

Elga

Challenge to White Fang

Challenge to White Fang · 1974

Challenge to White Fang

MovieAdventureWestern

Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered gold mine in 1899 Yukon, Canada.

Sister Evangelina

Romulus and Remus

Romulus and Remus · 1961

Romulus and Remus

Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.

Julia

Love Me Strangely

Love Me Strangely · 1971

Love Me Strangely

MovieThrillerDrama

Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?

Nathalie Revent

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

Not With My Wife, You Don't! · 1966

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

MovieComedyRomance

During the Korean War, Italian nurse Virna Lisi falls in love with two American fliers, Tony Curtis and George C. Scott. Lisi marries Curtis after he convinces her that Scott has been killed in a plane crash. She soon discovers Scott is alive, but remains happily married to Curtis until Scott re-enters their lives 14 years later.

Julie Ferris

Latin Lover

Latin Lover · 2015

MovieDramaComedy

The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.

Rita

Casanova '70

Casanova '70 · 1965

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.

Gigliola

The Serpent

The Serpent · 1973

Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.

Mrs. Annabel Lee

Lost Souls

Lost Souls · 1959

MovieAdventureTV Movie

A gang of violent criminals holds captive a group of young women and men in an abandoned mining complex.

Anna

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare · 1961

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.

Silvia

The Christmas Tree

The Christmas Tree · 1969

The Christmas Tree

A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.

Catherine Graziani

Assault on a Queen

Assault on a Queen · 1966

Assault on a Queen

MovieAdventureCrime

A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.

Rosa Lucchesi

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day · 1963

The Shortest Day

MovieComedyHistory

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Naja, una spia austriaca

Taste of the Sea

Taste of the Sea · 1983

Taste of the Sea

MovieRomanceComedy

A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

Adriana Balestra

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians · 1966

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.

Milena Zulian

L'onore e il rispetto

L'onore e il rispetto · 2006

L'onore e il rispetto

SeriesDramaCrime

L'onore e il rispetto is an Italian television series. There are three seasons, each with six episodes: first season aired in 2006, second in 2009 and third in 2012. First season was directed by Salvatore Samperi, second by Samperi and Luigi Parisi, third by Parisi and Alessio Inturri. On October 2, 2012 Gabriel Garko announced through an interview with Tgcom 24 [1], which will soon turn a fourth season of the TV series.

Ersilia Romeo

Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus · 1985

Christopher Columbus

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.

Dona Moniz Perestrello

Caterina e le sue figlie

Caterina e le sue figlie · 2005

Caterina e le sue figlie

SeriesComedyDrama

Caterina e le sue figlie is an Italian television series that aired from December 4, 2005 to March 3, 2010 on Canale 5. The comedy series follows single mother Catherine as she tries to balance raising three daughters alone and dating.

Caterina Foresi Pensiero

I Misteri Della Giungla Nera

I Misteri Della Giungla Nera · 1991

I Misteri Della Giungla Nera

SeriesAction & Adventure

In British ruled India, an army officer lost his daughter when she was a child. Now after a very long time he is about to find her. But she falls in love with a native Indian, who was also a freedom fighter.

Sara Corishant

Balzac

As Balzac prepares to die, his entire past flashes before his eyes. As a young writer, he was driven by the desire to achieve something great. With the support of Laure de Berny, he started printing and publishing without much success, but it was with his pen that he achieved fame, thanks to the constant support of Madame de Berny. Balzac became a writer that readers devoured.

Laure de Berny

C'è posta per te

C'è posta per te · 2000

C'è posta per te

SeriesRealityTalk

Baciamo le mani: Palermo-New York 1958

Baciamo le mani: Palermo-New York 1958 · 2013

Baciamo le mani: Palermo-New York 1958

Donna Agnese Vitaliano

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio · 1957

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio

The English countryside provides the backdrop for the story of the Bennet family, who are of modest social standing, and in particular for the second daughter, Elizabeth. Italian adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice".

Elizabeth Bennet

Il sangue e la rosa

Il sangue e la rosa · 2008

Il sangue e la rosa

SeriesAction & AdventureSoap

Marchesa Lucrezia Sciarra

Tides of Change

Tides of Change · 2001

Tides of Change

The nobleman Franco Maironi is sailing over Lake Lugano together with his beloved Luisa. Luisa is from a bourgeois family and therefore marrying her would mean going outside his social class. But this is be no problem for the courageous young Italian patriot.

Marchesa Orsola

Madre, aiutami

Madre, aiutami · 2014

Madre Germana