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Sandra Milo

Born March 11, 1933 · Tunis, French Protectorate Tunisia [now Tunisia]

Died January 29, 2024 · aged 90

Sandra Milo (born Salvatrice Elena Greco; 11 March 1933, Tunisi - 29 January 2024, Rome) was an Italian actress, television personality, author, and musician. She won a Silver Ribbon best supporting actress award for each of her roles in Federico Fellini's 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits. She made her film debut in 1955 alongside Alberto Sordi in The Bachelor. Her first major role came in 1959 thank…

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Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

A Bookshop in Paris

A Bookshop in Paris · 2021

A Bookshop in Paris

MovieDramaRomance

Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter Albertine, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her a few years earlier. One day Yolande, an exuberant, eccentric, funny and beautiful girl, bursts into Vincenzo’s shop. Charmed by her vital energy, the man starts feeling again emotions he’s been chocking-off for too long, and which will make him question his melancholic and somehow suspended way of facing life.

The Big Risk

The Big Risk · 1960

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.

Juliet of the Spirits

Juliet of the Spirits · 1965

Juliet of the Spirits

MovieComedyDrama

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

How I Learned to Love Women

How I Learned to Love Women · 1966

How I Learned to Love Women

An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.

Tesoromio

Tesoromio · 1979

Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.

General Della Rovere

General Della Rovere · 1959

General Della Rovere

In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

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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Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

Carla

A Bookshop in Paris

A Bookshop in Paris · 2021

A Bookshop in Paris

MovieDramaRomance

Vincenzo dedicates his life to the bookshop he owns in Paris and to his daughter Albertine, forced to stay home because of an accident occurred to her a few years earlier. One day Yolande, an exuberant, eccentric, funny and beautiful girl, bursts into Vincenzo’s shop. Charmed by her vital energy, the man starts feeling again emotions he’s been chocking-off for too long, and which will make him question his melancholic and somehow suspended way of facing life.

Madame Milo

The Big Risk

The Big Risk · 1960

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.

Liliane

Juliet of the Spirits

Juliet of the Spirits · 1965

Juliet of the Spirits

MovieComedyDrama

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

Suzy / Iris / Fanny

How I Learned to Love Women

How I Learned to Love Women · 1966

How I Learned to Love Women

An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.

Ilde

Tesoromio

Tesoromio · 1979

Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.

Solange

General Della Rovere

General Della Rovere · 1959

General Della Rovere

In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Olga

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?

Gabriella

Way of Youth

Way of Youth · 1959

This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.

Olga, prostituée

There's No Place Like Home

There's No Place Like Home · 2018

There's No Place Like Home

MovieComedyDrama

An extended family reunites on an idyllic island to celebrate their grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary. However, a storm causes them to get stuck in there longer than expected, causing secrets and long-held grudges to break out.

Maria

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.

Giulia

Cinderella '80

Cinderella '80 · 1984

MovieDramaFantasy

A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?

Marianne

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.

Erede siciliana (uncredited)

Witness in the City

Witness in the City · 1959

Witness in the City

MovieCrimeThriller

Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.

Liliane

Nero's Mistress

Nero's Mistress · 1956

Nero's Mistress

MovieComedyHistory

On seaside holiday, Nero, Poppea, Seneca and their friends and family prepare a great show where Nero will star. When his mother Agrippina arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she's asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.

Weekend, Italian Style

Weekend, Italian Style · 1965

Weekend, Italian Style

Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.

Giuliana Marletti

Nemici

Hollywood sul Tevere

Hollywood sul Tevere · 2009

Hollywood sul Tevere

MovieDocumentary

Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.

In morte di Federico Fellini

In morte di Federico Fellini · 1994

In morte di Federico Fellini

MovieDocumentaryDrama

Federico Fellini died on October 31, 1993. In the following days, his funeral chapel was set up in Cinecittà's historic Studio 5, often used by the maestro as a film set. Sergio Zavoli shot footage of his funeral, which he later edited together with archive material. The film also documents the reactions to Federico Fellini's death and funeral.

Vanina Vanini

Vanina Vanini · 1961

MovieDramaHistory

Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Carboneria.

Vanina Vanini

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin · 1957

The Adventures of Arsène Lupin

MovieCrimeComedy

Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, he removes his vault in Alsace, steals two paintings of old masters, steals valuable gems and calls out to the police prefect to avoid his arrest. But this time he risks being seriously recognized. Lupin must once again use his fine intellect to deftly escape the situation.

Mathilde Duchamp

The Green Mare

The Green Mare · 1959

MovieComedyDrama

A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death, war broke out in 1870. One day, his neighbor Zèphe Maloret denounces Honoré, Haudouin's son, a maverick, to the Prussians. Following this denunciation, their non-commissioned officer enters the Haudouin home and rapes the mother while Honoré is hidden under the bed. The resentment already existing between the Haudouin and Maloret families turns to hatred... A letter recalling the events is lost, which doesn't help matters.

Margerite Maloret

Roma, santa e dannata

Roma, santa e dannata · 2023

Roma, santa e dannata

MovieDocumentary

Sé stessa

Male Companion

Male Companion · 1964

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.

Maria

Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue

Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue · 2022

Stasera c’è Cattelan su Raidue

A Late Show with a strong identity that bears the name of Alessandro Cattelan: surprising interviews, monologues, music and guests who face all the challenges, even the most unlikely, but without ever taking themselves seriously.

Sandra Milo

Fading Gigolo

Fading Gigolo · 2023

When his father Giacomo comes back into his life after a heart attack, Alfonso has to cope with a life-changing truth: his father is a gigolo. After a series of unfortunate events, Alfonso is forced to follow in his father's footsteps.

Marisa

Quelle brave ragazze

Quelle brave ragazze · 2022

Quelle brave ragazze

Cinderella '87

Cinderella '87 · 1987

In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets, and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?

Marianne