Acting

Maria Cumani Quasimodo

Born May 20, 1908 · Milano, Lombardia, Italy

Died November 22, 1995 · aged 87

Maria Cumani Quasimodo was an Italian actress and dancer. Born Maria Cumani in Milan, she studied dance under Jia Ruskaja. In 1936, she became the companion of the poet Salvatore Quasimodo, with whom she had a son, Alessandro. In 1937, she made her professional debut as a dancer, and shortly later she specialized in "poetic dance", a personal style in which dance was combined with poetic verses. …

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The Two Missionaries

The Two Missionaries · 1974

The Two Missionaries

MovieActionAdventure

Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.

Pulp

MovieMysteryCrime

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Behind Convent Walls

Behind Convent Walls · 1978

Behind Convent Walls

On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns.

All the Colours of the Dark

All the Colours of the Dark · 1972

All the Colours of the Dark

MovieHorrorMystery

After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nightmares that shake her to her core. After seeking professional help, her haunting visions turn into an even more frightening reality, one full of black magic, blood orgies, and murder.

Medea

MovieDramaFantasy

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

The Nun and the Devil

The Nun and the Devil · 1973

The Nun and the Devil

MovieDramaHorror

It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.

The Laughing Woman

The Laughing Woman · 1969

The Laughing Woman

MovieRomanceThriller

Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr. Sayer, where she is subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre, terrifying, and degrading sex games. Sayer admits that he has murdered several women after the same ordeal, always killing them at the point of orgasm. But all is not what it seems, and through a series of twists and turns, the whole situation is slowly turned on its head.

Nosferatu in Venice

Nosferatu in Venice · 1988

Nosferatu in Venice

Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.

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The Two Missionaries

The Two Missionaries · 1974

The Two Missionaries

MovieActionAdventure

Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.

Mrs. Gonzaga

Pulp

MovieMysteryCrime

A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

Office Manageress

Behind Convent Walls

Behind Convent Walls · 1978

Behind Convent Walls

On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns.

All the Colours of the Dark

All the Colours of the Dark · 1972

All the Colours of the Dark

MovieHorrorMystery

After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nightmares that shake her to her core. After seeking professional help, her haunting visions turn into an even more frightening reality, one full of black magic, blood orgies, and murder.

Elderly Neighbor

Medea

MovieDramaFantasy

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

(uncredited)

The Nun and the Devil

The Nun and the Devil · 1973

The Nun and the Devil

MovieDramaHorror

It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.

Lavinia

The Laughing Woman

The Laughing Woman · 1969

The Laughing Woman

MovieRomanceThriller

Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr. Sayer, where she is subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre, terrifying, and degrading sex games. Sayer admits that he has murdered several women after the same ordeal, always killing them at the point of orgasm. But all is not what it seems, and through a series of twists and turns, the whole situation is slowly turned on its head.

Sayer's Secretary

Nosferatu in Venice

Nosferatu in Venice · 1988

Nosferatu in Venice

Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.

Princess

Riot in a Women's Prison

Riot in a Women's Prison · 1974

Riot in a Women's Prison

This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than rehabilitation.

Ursula - the Mother Superior

The Babysitter

The Babysitter · 1975

MovieCrimeThriller

Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is informed of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress. However, upon arrival, Michelle makes a horrifying discovery.

Princess Ruspini (uncredited)

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

Pardon, Are You for or Against? · 1966

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.

Baronessa Cornianu

She

MovieActionAdventure

In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle orgiastic werewolves, a psychic communist, a tutu-wearing giant, a mad scientist, and gladiators before standing against the odds to defeat the evil Norks.

Moona

The House of Witchcraft

The House of Witchcraft · 1989

The House of Witchcraft

MovieHorrorTV Movie

A man discharged from the hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown is taken to a remote Italian villa by his strangely-behaving wife. But he has strong premonitions that the house is possessed by some force of witchcraft, which he has been experiencing in his recurring nightmare.

Witch

Summer Frenzy

Summer Frenzy · 1964

Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist. The characters in the episodes intertwine, but the stories are not always treated with a light touch.

Julia

Teresa

MovieRomanceComedy

Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.

contessa madre

Five Women for the Killer

Five Women for the Killer · 1974

Five Women for the Killer

MovieThrillerMystery

Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead...

Marta

Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate

Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate · 1973

Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate

MovieComedyDrama

Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her to get money to disappear with. With this method he feeds his family.

la madre di Teresa

I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!

I Do Not Forgive... I Kill! · 1968

I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!

Don Ramon, a wealthy patron, receives his son back after he has sent him away to medical school, only to have him fall in love with his new young wife.

Night Is Made for Stealing

Night Is Made for Stealing · 1967

Night Is Made for Stealing

A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumptions, three burglars are hired with the task of violating one. A wealthy jeweler's new safe is targeted.

Olga

Galileo

Galileo · 1968

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.

The Subversives

The Subversives · 1967

The Subversives

The film combines actual footage of Communist leader Palmiero Togliatti's funeral with the intermingled stories of four people affected by his death: Ettore, a Venezuelan radical who abandons the wealthy Italian woman he loves to go back to his country and help his cause; Ludovico, an ailing filmmaker who finds out that art alone is not enough; Giulia, a woman who embarks upon a lesbian affair with a former mistress of her husband; and Ermanno, a philosophy graduate who breaks up with his past.

Ludovico's Mother

Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman

Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman · 1971

Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman

MovieDramaFantasy

Fashion photographer Franco Rubartelli's visually lush and moody head film about European supermodel Veruschka.

L'inquilina del piano di sopra

L'inquilina del piano di sopra · 1978

L'inquilina del piano di sopra

Exasperated by the great racket coming from Miss Aurora Trabocchetti's apartment, the neighbors give Professor Canestrari a mandate to deliver an ultimatum to the young woman. Too bad the teacher takes a liking to Aurora and agrees to give her private lessons. In fact, the girl aspires to marry the scion of a noble family and to try to crown her dream she must improve her culture.

Play-Boy

Play-Boy · 1967

Baroness