Acting

Nora Ricci

Born July 19, 1924 · Viareggio, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

Died April 16, 1976 · aged 51

Eleonora Ricci (19 July 1924 – 16 April 1976) was an Italian actress. Born in Viareggio, Tuscany, Ricci was the daughter of actors Renzo Ricci and Margherita Bagni. Ermete Zacconi was her mother's stepfather. At 17 years old, she moved to Rome to enroll in the Academy of Dramatic Arts, where she met Vittorio Gassman, who became her husband in 1944 and from whom she separated shortly after the bir…

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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World · 2021

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

MovieDocumentary

In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs Björn Andrésen’s life.

The Night Porter

The Night Porter · 1974

The Night Porter

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

Death in Venice

Death in Venice · 1971

Death in Venice

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

The Damned

The Damned · 1969

MovieDramaHistory

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.

Ludwig

MovieDramaHistory

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.

The Libertine

The Libertine · 1968

MovieDramaComedy

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

The Witches

The Witches · 1967

MovieComedyDrama

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.

Bellissima

Bellissima · 1952

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

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The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World · 2021

The Most Beautiful Boy in the World

MovieDocumentary

In 1971, due to the world premiere of Death in Venice, Italian director Lucino Visconti proclaimed his Tadzio as the world’s most beautiful boy. A shadow that today, 50 years later, weighs Björn Andrésen’s life.

Tadzio's Governess (archive footage) (uncredited)

The Night Porter

The Night Porter · 1974

The Night Porter

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.

The Neighbor

Death in Venice

Death in Venice · 1971

Death in Venice

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

Tadzio's Governess

The Damned

The Damned · 1969

MovieDramaHistory

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.

Governess

Ludwig

MovieDramaHistory

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.

Countess Ida Ferenczy

The Libertine

The Libertine · 1968

MovieDramaComedy

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

Madre di Mimmi

The Witches

The Witches · 1967

MovieComedyDrama

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.

Gloria's Secretary (segment "La strega bruciata viva")

Bellissima

Bellissima · 1952

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

Laundry Worker

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.

Donna alla stazione (uncredited)

Paulina 1880

Paulina 1880 · 1972

MovieDramaRomance

In 1880's Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married count. However, neither she, nor the count can just move on and all elements for a tragedy are there.

Priscilla

Love Circle

Love Circle · 1969

A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping sex sprees where everyone's morals are challenged in the wake of the sexual revolution.

1st Actress

Roma bene

Roma bene · 1971

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

donna Serena

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.

Gilda Bisigato

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No · 1968

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No

Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

Eleonora

Il medico dei pazzi

Il medico dei pazzi · 1954

Il medico dei pazzi

Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.

La figlia di Amalia

Motivo in maschera

Motivo in maschera · 1955

Motivo in maschera

Eighteen Year Olds

Eighteen Year Olds · 1955

Eighteen Year Olds

MovieComedyRomance

Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.

Una assistente del collegio

Six Characters in Search of an Author

Six Characters in Search of an Author · 1965

Six Characters in Search of an Author

MovieTV MovieDrama

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore is an Italian staged filmmaking of the play of the same name, written by Luigi Pirandello about the relationship between authors, their characters and theater practitioners. The story follows six characters: Il Padre (Romolo Valli), la Figliastra (Rossella Falk), la Madre (Elsa Albani), Il Figlio (Piero Sammataro), la bambina (Patrizia Ponzelli) and Il giovinello(Paolo Figna) that invading a essay by a theater company looking for an author.

La prima attrice

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina · 1974

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky, to whom she's immediately attracted. But in St. Petersburg’s high society, a relationship like this could destroy a woman’s reputation.

Lidia Ivanovna

Come un uragano

Come un uragano · 1971

Come un uragano

Kitty Ryan

Nel mondo di Alice

Nel mondo di Alice · 1974

Nel mondo di Alice

SeriesFamilySci-Fi & Fantasy

On a warm afternoon Alice falls asleep on the lawn and when she wakes up finds herself catapulted into an unreal and colorful world populated by strange characters and talking animals. Following first a white rabbit and then through a mirror, she will have fantastic adventures, amid clumsy talking chessmen and a shrewish duchess, played by Franca Valeri. When she wakes up, everything will return to normal, leaving her with the memory of a frightening but beautiful dream at the same time.

La cuoca