Franca Valeri
Birthday: Born in 1920-07-31 in Milan, Italy
Deathday: 2020-08-09
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Caro maestro
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Caro maestro is an Italian television comedy series which aired from 1996 to 1997 on Canale 5. The series follows Stefano Giusti, a bus driver who is allowed to teach at Forte dei Marmi elementary school in which he was raised. There, he meets and falls in love with Elisa, teacher and director of the school, with whom he used to date....
Norma e Felice
Character: Norma Del Becco
Norma e Felice is an Italian television series....
Nel mondo di Alice
Character: La duchessa
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....
Linda e il brigadiere
Character: Olga Peres
Linda e il brigadiere is an Italian television series....
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These Phantoms
Character: Armida, la moglie di Alfredo
A young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises....
You're on Your Own
Character: Marisa, 'Siberia'
In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel....
Totó in color
Character: Giulia Sofia
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios....
Gli onorevoli
Character: Bianca Sereni
Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy....
The Love Specialist
Character: Contessa Bernardi
A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds....
Love in First Class
Character: Signora Della Rosa
A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who obviously is not too often at home, has no clue about how to deal with young children, even the most basic chores a father should know to tend the restless imp thrown in his care. The crowded train traveling from Milan to Reggio, Calabria, is packed in the second class section where Carmelo and Mal...
The Widower
Character: Elvira Almiraghi
Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money....
The Sign of Venus
Character: Cesira
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her....
Piccola posta
Character: Lady Eva / Filomena Cangiullo
Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations....
A Hero of Our Times
Character: Vedova De Ritis
Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble.....
...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Character: Giovanna
Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo....
Basta guardarla
Character: Pola Prima
Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer....
Come ti rapisco il pupo
Character: Dada
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Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Character: Maria
Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scandalizes a first class compartment .....
Italy is Rotten
Character: contessa Giovanna
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution....
Poker in Bed
Character: Giulia Nascimbeni
A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables....
Le signorine dello 04
Character: Carla
The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant....
Leoni al sole
Character: Giulia
The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano....
Questi fantasmi
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Listen, Let's Make Love
Character: Diraghi
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war....
I Don't Understand You Anymore
Character: Maritza
On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise....
Hector the Mighty
Character: Cassandra
A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war....
Paris, My Love
Character: Delia Nesti
Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the GLBT community who quote its lines by heart. Unique as it's the only film where Franca Valeri (now 90) is the unquestioned star, in the role of Delia, a snobbish, stingy prostitute who is moving to Paris looking for greener and more lucrative pastures. An anti-neorealist, amoral, almost abstract comedy, which anticipates Almodóvar, a ferocious, though gentle, non-moralistic portrayal of the 6...
The Last Italian Tango
Character: la regista
A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship....
Mariti in pericolo
Character: Elena
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Character: Journalist
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta....
It's Not Me, It's Him
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Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti wants only to flee her wife to find her mistress Valerie. Misunderstandings when Vallier joined them. They must flee in the desert a jealous husband......
Non perdiamo la testa
Character: Beatrice Clacton
A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain....
Variety Lights
Character: Mitzy - Hungarian Designer
In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role....
Soldier's Girl
Character: Bice Marinetti
Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world....
Vittorio D.
Character: Self
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family....
Lady Football
Character: contessa
It is the story of the brilliant football player Cotechiño, hired by the Napoli team as a centre-forward. Too bad that his professional career will be strongly influenced by the frequent absence of his fiancée, for which he feels an inexplicable, almost obsessive jealousy. That's why he hires a plumber very similar to him to keep an eye on his beloved, but that won't be enough when Cotechiño is kidnapped....
The Rip-Off
Character: Giovanna Bronchi
Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a wealthy French businessman....
The Moralist
Character: Virginia
The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life....
Alberto il grande
Character: Self
Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 2003. Through this documentary Verdone’s brothers with deep respect towards the Roman actor trace an affectionate and sincere portrait not only about an Artist but, above all, about a man with his habits, his ideas, his tics, his vices and his virtues. And for the first time Mrs Aurelia – Alberto Sordi’s sister who is dedicated the documentary – ope...
I cuori infranti
Character: Fatma Angioj (segment "La manina di Fatma")
Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes....
I motorizzati
Character: Velia
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy....
On the Day of the Lord
Character: Vedova Anticoli
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?...
It Happened in the Park
Character: Elvira (segment: Concorso di bellezza)
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there....
The Bigamist
Character: Isolina Fornaciari
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently....
The Maniacs
Character: The Wife (segment "il pezzo antico")
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society....
Zona Franca
Character: Sé stessa (materiale d'archivio)
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Franca, la prima
Character: Se stessa
Directed by Sabina Guzzanti...
Husbands in the City
Character: "Olivetti"
In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time....
The Shortest Day
Character: Moglie del bersagliere alla stazione
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle....
RARA
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In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way....
Tosca e altre due
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Grazie tante arrivederci
Character: Naturista autobus
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