Marilù Tolo

Acting

Marilù Tolo

Born January 16, 1944 · Roma, Lazio, Italy (age 82)

Marilù Tolo (born Maria Lucia Tolo; 16 January 1944) is an Italian film actress. She appeared in more than 60 films between 1960 and 1985. Born in Rome, Tolo, at a very young age, worked as an assistant of Mario Riva in the RAI variety show Il Musichiere. She made her film debut at 16 years old in Alberto Lattuada's Sweet Deceptions. She was also a fashion model, and a close friend of Italian st…

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CandyCandy · 1968
Candy
5.11968
MovieAdventureComedy
A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.
Deep RedDeep Red · 1975
Deep Red
7.71975
MovieHorrorMystery
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Marriage Italian StyleMarriage Italian Style · 1964
Marriage Italian Style
7.71964
MovieDramaRomance
During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
ScheherazadeScheherazade · 1963
Scheherazade
7.51963
MovieDramaAdventure
Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.
The WitchesThe Witches · 1967
The Witches
6.01967
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.
Don't Turn the Other CheekDon't Turn the Other Cheek · 1971
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
5.61971
MovieComedyWestern
A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a cache of gold while O'Donnell pursues her revolution.
The Greek TycoonThe Greek Tycoon · 1978
The Greek Tycoon
5.51978
MovieDrama
A lusty Greek shipping magnate courts the widow of an assassinated U.S. president.
The Poppy Is Also a FlowerThe Poppy Is Also a Flower · 1966
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
6.11966
MovieCrimeDrama
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

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The Last Days of PompeiiThe Last Days of Pompeii · 1984
The Last Days of Pompeii
7.41984
SeriesDrama
The different aspects of life in Pompeii, a coastal luxury resort near Naples catering for the very rich of imperial Rome, mainly before but culminating in the eruption of the Vesuvian volcano, which wipes it from the face of the Earth. The residents of Pompeii include Diomed, a common upstart merchant whose self-made riches from trade allow him to consider running for political office against sitting city magistrate Quintus and an impoverished aristocratic marriage for his daughter Julia; the cultivated Greek Glaucus; the gladiator Lydon; the noble-born Antonius and his sister Ione, the evil Isis-priest Arbaces who is after (their) money and power; the persecution-fearing Christian slaves Petrus, his true love Chloe, and their secret leader Olinthus.

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Sogni e bisogniSogni e bisogni · 1985
Sogni e bisogni
7.01985
Series
A TV series composed of eleven episodes and a conclusion, it aired in six one-hour programs starting on October 6, 1985. Lasting about half an hour each, the episodes are separated by intermissions starring three characters: Good, Evil, and Destiny. LA MORTE PORTA CONSIGLIO: At her father's deathbed, a daughter asks the man to tell her the winning Lotto numbers once he makes it to the after-life. But the man is offended by the modest funeral he receives and has fun playing pranks on his daughter. IL FATTACCIO: a doorman is paid to show an apartment in which something gruesome happened. Determined to keep the extra work, he invents increasingly grisly stories to keep interested buyers away. LADRI: two thieves in a working-class neighborhood have tragicomic adventures. L’IMBIANCONE: a very shy man enters a shoe store to buy a pair of shoes and seduce the female shop owner.