Virna Lisi

AKA: Вирна Лизи, Virna Lisa Pieralisi, ویرنا لیزی
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1936-11-08

Ancona, Marche, Italy

Biography

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.

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Luisa

1967-09-21 3.786

Anyone Can Play

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Gigliola

1965-06-15 6.337

Casanova '70

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

Catherine de Médicis

1994-05-13 7.2

Queen Margot

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 I ...
Genre :Drama, History, Romance

Caterina Malatesta

1970-01-02 6.921

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

John's Beautiful Cousin in Rome

1969-04-24 5.773

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Adventure

Caroline 'Caro' Plantin

1964-02-28 6.3

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 Mo ...
Genre :Adventure

Irene Mazzoni

2002-04-12 6.333

The Best Day of My Life

The lively goings-on of a modern family seen trough the eyes of a young girl just about to receive her first Communion. ...
Genre :Drama

Elga

1972-09-01 5.3

Bluebeard

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' ...
Genre :Thriller, Horror, Comedy

Mrs. Ford

1965-01-26 6.307

How to Murder Your Wife

Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up ...
Genre :Comedy

Wilma Malinverni

1980-04-18 4.9

The Cricket

An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel. ...
Genre :Drama

Rosa Lucchesi

1966-06-15 5.5

Assault on a Queen

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. ...
Genre :Adventure, Crime, Thriller

Adriana Balestra

1983-02-17 6.44

Taste of the Sea

A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations. ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

Silvia

1961-03-30 6.7

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. ...
Genre :Comedy

Virginia (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 1")

1965-12-22 6

Made in Italy

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants. ...
Genre :Comedy

Milena Zulian

1966-02-10 7

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank c ...
Genre :Comedy

Suzanna Moritz

1967-04-26 7.7

The 25th Hour

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 encroa ...
Genre :Drama, War

Maria di Roccasibalda

1954-12-23 6.5

Il cardinale Lambertini

Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna. ...
Genre :History, Comedy

Luisa (segment "La Telefonata")

1965-01-27 5.2

The Dolls

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a sto ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Elizabeth Nietzsche

1977-10-05 5.625

Beyond Good and Evil

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois. ...
Genre :Drama

(uncredited)

1955-12-30 6.4

The Bachelor

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 he ...
Genre :Comedy

Gina Bianchi, nurse

1963-04-17 6.111

Don't Tempt the Devil

A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Catherine Graziani

1969-09-25 6.2

The Christmas Tree

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

Julie Ferris

1966-11-02 5.5

Not With My Wife, You Don't!

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 plan ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Giulia

1965-10-26 5.1

A Maiden for the Prince

Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity ...
Genre :Comedy

Sister Evangelina

1973-12-21 6.4

White Fang

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. ...
Genre :Western, Adventure, Family

Principessa Cellini

1984-10-05 6.3

Amarsi un po'...

In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but ...
Genre :Comedy

Francesca Ferrara

1962-10-03 5.9

Eva

Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding ...
Genre :Drama

Julia

1961-12-06 5.2

Duel of the Titans

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. ...
Genre :Adventure

Olga

1996-02-09 6.057

Follow Your Heart

The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly fam ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Signora Maiorana

1989-02-03 6.3

Via Panisperna Boys

The enthusiasms, fears, joys and disappointments of the (private and professional) life of a well-known group of boys fond of physics and mathematics, who just made history as the Via Panisperna boys. ...
Genre :Drama

Dorotea

1965-12-28 6.4

Kiss the Other Sheik

Italian comedy film in three segments ...
Genre :Comedy

Sister Evangelina

1974-10-25 6.1

Challenge to White Fang

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. ...
Genre :Adventure, Western

Grazia

1961-08-10 5.6

5 marines per 100 ragazze

Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the colle ...
Genre :Comedy

Elisa

1955-12-14 6.1

The Hussars

Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken ...
Genre :War, Comedy, Adventure

Christine Duvivier

1997-01-01 9.3

Desert of Fire

A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. Whe ...
Genre :Adventure, Action

Nathalie Revent

1971-02-10 4.2

Love Me Strangely

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 ...
Genre :Thriller, Drama, Romance

Silvia Santi

1971-10-08 5.636

Roma bene

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

Jeanne Thibaud

1954-12-30 0

Il vetturale del Moncenisio

During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness. ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama

Stella Menzoni

1970-01-21 5.4

Time of the Wolves

Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology ...
Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

1955-06-01 0

Ripudiata

A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes returns to face her accusers, see her son and clear her ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

(archive footage)

1975-07-14 4.8

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

Anthological movie with some of the most famous movie sequences in Italian cinema produced by glorious Titanus Film from 1947 to 1962. ...
Genre :Romance, History, Comedy, Music

2000-03-21 7.4

Le ali della vita

The end of the 1950s: Rosanna returns as a music teacher to the claustrophobic confines of the convent boarding school from which she escaped as a young girl. Her happy, understanding ways, unconventi ...
Genre :

Sorella Alberta

2001-11-26 6.6

Le ali della vita 2

Genre :Drama

Alny

1972-03-10 2

The Pebbles of Etratat

Following a car breakdown, Miss Annie, director of a weight loss center, meets a certain Mr. Kelvo, a car champion. But instead of helping her, he rapes her. She decides to take revenge and follows hi ...
Genre :Drama

Anna Miglio

2007-03-05 4

Donne sbagliate

Silvia Soriani, widow of a merchant associated with the Camorra, is arrested by the police. The commissioner and the judge Puglisi Corelli accuse her of collaborating with the mobster Franco Maresco. ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

Laura

1954-04-13 8

Desiderio 'e sole

Genre :Drama

Edit Horváth

2003-12-03 6.1

Die Jungen von der Paulstraße

Coming from a modest background, little Nemecsek faces a tough test in life at an early age: his mother has to leave home after his father discovers her affair with the wealthy merchant Kovacs. At the ...
Genre :Drama

Maria Rovani

1955-12-23 5.5

Eighteen Year Olds

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. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Drama

2014-02-10 7.5

Walt Disney e l'Italia - Una storia d'amore

No other country in the world has the same kind of affection and admiration toward Walt Disney and his art and characters as Italy. His movies are legendary and his stories belong to the collective im ...
Genre :Documentary, History

Lucrezia Sciarra

2008-09-02 6.8

Il sangue e la rosa

Genre :Romance

Anna

1982-01-01 2.3

Miss Right

After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his numerous female lovers one by one. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

Arabella

1967-11-29 7

Arabella

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

Madame de Berny

1999-09-13 5.4

Balzac: A Life of Passion

This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Yolanda

1968-09-26 0

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. ...
Genre :Comedy

Anna Esposito

1954-07-11 0

Lettera napoletana

Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship with "Anna"? ...
Genre :Drama, Music

Greta Tramontana

1957-12-06 0

Il conte di Matera

Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence. ...
Genre :Adventure

Maria

1955-09-15 0

La rossa

Amelia, a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as "La Rossa", returns from Paris to her country, a small seaside town in southern Italy, where her father is the lighthouse keeper. To her father and ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Rita

2015-03-19 5.7

Latin Lover

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. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

1956-03-07 0

Vendicata!

Genre :Drama

Luisa Herrighe

1981-06-25 5.2

Venetian Lies

A lonely 17 year old boy is looking for a couple who is ready to adopt him. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Contessa Marta Dandolo

2001-06-12 0

Occhi Verde Veleno

Federica Felici is a lawyer who has always been involved in cases of small marginalized, but one day is to defend Laura Conti, which is part of one of the most important families of the city, from the ...
Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller, TV Movie

2022-10-07 0

Virna Lisi - La donna che rinunciò a Hollywood

Genre :

Rosa Minniti

1968-10-08 0

Better a Widow

Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. ...
Genre :Comedy

Elvira

1989-11-23 6.6

Merry Christmas... Happy New Year

In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no long ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Ada

1967-09-30 3.333

The Girl and the General

A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives unexpectedly. ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Rhonda Bolt

1971-01-27 4.35

The Statue

Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a Nobel prize. An ambitious diplomat, capitalizing on Bolt's celebrity, arranges for the U.S. to commis ...
Genre :Comedy

Mrs. Annabel Lee

1973-04-07 6.1

The Serpent

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 ag ...
Genre :Thriller

Maria

1989-05-30 5

Cinema

Genre :

Sanna

1999-01-01 6

Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale

Old Sanna lives in the mountain village of Gschaid. At Christmas, she receives a long-awaited visit: Sanna's son with his wife and children. At the same time, mountaineers make a gruesome discovery. T ...
Genre :TV Movie, Drama

Anita Rossi

1960-02-11 7

A Soldier and a Half

Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy. ...
Genre :Comedy

主演

2000-12-27 0

Un dono semplice

Genre :

Laura Damiani

1959-06-25 0

Il mondo dei miracoli

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ingrid Carlsen

1964-04-30 4.7

Coplan, Agent 005

In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan. ...
Genre :Action

Anna Cotone

1987-05-04 5

I Love N.Y.

Photographer Mario Cotone is hired to cover a big N.Y. actor. When his pretty daughter Nicole Yeats (N.Y.) and Mario fall in love, this angers her father and hurts Mario's work which further infuriate ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy, Drama

Claire de Beaulieu

1959-03-11 7

Il padrone delle ferriere

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Liliana Atteni

1957-02-06 4

The Doll that Took the Town

A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects. ...
Genre :Drama

Claude

1970-11-26 6.3

The Voyeur

Forty-year-old Sandro is married to Claude. Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self-confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything ch ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1955-05-11 0

Luna nova

A young man leaves the countryside and falls for the owner of a nightclub. ...
Genre :

Maria

1953-12-28 5

Naples Sings

Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with he ...
Genre :Music, Romance

Naja, una spia austriaca

1963-02-14 6.22

The Shortest Day

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. ...
Genre :Comedy, History, War

Self

2010-09-07 6.5

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

Genre :Documentary

Anita

1989-10-29 0

E se poi se ne vanno?

Genre :Comedy

Anita Giuliani

1988-05-01 0

E Non Se Ne Vogliono Andare!

Genre :Comedy

Caterina Sforza

1959-06-20 7

Caterina Sforza, the lioness of Romagna

Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Anna

1959-02-07 0

Lost Souls

A gang of violent criminals holds captive a group of young women and men in an abandoned mining complex. ...
Genre :Adventure, TV Movie

Tilde

1965-07-24 6.769

The Possessed

While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with. ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Self - Actress (archive footage)

2019-10-02 6.9

Aznavour by Charles

In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera w ...
Genre :Documentary, Music

Self - in Cannes

1995-01-25 6

One Hundred and One Nights

Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made. ...
Genre :Comedy

Ernesto's Mother

1979-01-12 5.763

Ernesto

Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's em ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Self (archive footage)

2006-05-21 5.2

Marcello, una vita dolce

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale ...
Genre :Documentary

Laura

1954-07-07 0

Violenza sul lago

Genre :Drama

Maria

1954-11-27 0

Piccola santa

Genre :Drama, Romance

Self (archive footage)

2024-10-17 0

Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo

Genre :Documentary

Self

2009-12-06 7

Pietro Germi - The Good, The Beautiful and The Bad

This portrait of the Italian director & actor, Pietro Germi, explores his work, from Italian neorealism to the birth of the Italian comedy. He constructed his movies in a conventional way but also exp ...
Genre :Documentary

2020-05-11 0

Beautiful Like a Poem

I have a lot of interest and respect for classic cinema. I tried to make a film with at least 20 portraits of classical actresses whose films I'm familiar with. Difficult choices from all over the wor ...
Genre :Documentary

Self

1962-10-01 6.2

The Merv Griffin Show

Genre :Talk

Self

1969-09-13 0

The Barbara McNair Show

Genre :

Self

1953-03-19 6.961

The Oscars

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is ...
Genre :

Marchesa Lucrezia Sciarra

2008-09-02 7

Il sangue e la rosa

Genre :Action & Adventure, Soap

Ersilia Romeo

2006-09-05 7.3

L'onore e il rispetto

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 Salva ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Giulia Betocchi

1984-04-01 0

...e la vita continua

Family drama that spans from the end of WWII to the eighties. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

1996-09-29 0

Uno di noi

Uno di noi is an Italian television series, airing on Rai Uno in 1996. The series was rerun on Rai Premium during the summer of 2011. ...
Genre :

2000-01-12 0

C'è posta per te

Genre :Reality, Talk

Elizabeth Bennet

1957-09-21 10

Orgoglio e Pregiudizio

Genre :

Sara Corishant

1991-01-01 8.5

I Misteri Della Giungla Nera

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 f ...
Genre :Action & Adventure

Self - Mystery Guest

1950-02-02 6.926

What's My Line?

Four panelists must determine guests' occupations - and, in the case of famous guests, while blindfolded, their identity - by asking only "yes" or "no" questions. ...
Genre :Family, Comedy

Dona Moniz Perestrello

1985-03-07 6.5

Christopher Columbus

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. ...
Genre :Drama, Action & Adventure

Caterina Foresi Pensiero

2005-12-04 0

Caterina e le sue figlie

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 raisin ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Laure de Berny

1999-09-13 8.5

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 a ...
Genre :Drama

Madre Germana

2014-01-24 0

Madre, aiutami

Genre :Drama

Paola Silenti

2011-10-18 0

La donna che ritorna

Genre :Mystery, Crime

Donna Agnese Vitaliano

2013-09-02 10

Baciamo le mani: Palermo-New York 1958

Genre :Drama

Self

1971-01-09 6

Samedi soir

Genre :Talk

Self

1972-03-06 6

Midi trente

Genre :Reality

Marchesa Orsola

2001-03-28 0

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 ...
Genre :Drama