Alida Valli
Alida Valli (31 May 1921 – 22 April 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria.
Suspiria
as Miss TannerAn American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is...
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The Third Man
as Anna SchmidtIn postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a...
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The Cassandra Crossing
as Mrs. ChadwickPassengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them...
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Luna
as Giuseppe's MotherWhile touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship...
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The Paradine Case
as Mrs. ParadineAttorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her...
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Inferno
as CarolA young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
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Eyes Without a Face
as LouiseDr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his...
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1900
as Signora PioppiThe epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two...
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Lisa and the Devil
as ContessaLisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to...
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Oedipus Rex
as MeropeIn pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son -...
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Senso
as La Contessa Livia SerpieriA troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love...
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Il Grido
as IrmaA sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
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Indian Summer
as Marcella Abati - Vanina's motherIn Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of...
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look,...
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The Spider's Stratagem
as DraifaA young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind...
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Berlinguer: I Love You
as Mamma di MarioA young poet falls in love with a sophisticated woman who hates poetry. But the poet wants to...
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The Antichrist
as IreneAn Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a...
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Killer Nun
as Mother SuperiorA demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of...
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Flesh of the Orchid
as la folle de la gareA disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper,...
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The House of Exorcism
as Countess (archive footage)A re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly...
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A Month by the Lake
as Signora FascioliFor 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como....
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The Miracle of the Bells
as Olga TreskovnaThe body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that...
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Forbidden Dreams
as Madre di MarinaPaolo Coniglio is a naive and clumsy employee in a comics publishing house, bullied by his...
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It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
as LouiseA young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his...
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The Long Absence
as Thérèse LangloisTherese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier....
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Eye in the Labyrinth
as GerdaJulie is disturbed by the disappearance of her psychiatrist boyfriend Luca following a bizarre...
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The Happy Thieves
as Duchess BlancaA suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting...
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The Paper Man
as La ItalianaA deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he...
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The Dialogue of the Carmelites
as Mère Thérèse de Saint-AugustinThis drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman...
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Il peccato degli anni verdi
as madre di ElenaReleased from a boarding school of nuns in Como, the seventeen-year-old Milanese Elena Giordani...
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The Castilian
as Reina TeresaAlso released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the...
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Walk Softly, Stranger
as Elaine CorelliA petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past....
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Tender Dracula
as HéloïseTwo writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing...
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The White Tower
as Carla Alton (as Valli)Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.
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Dirty World
as TeresinaSenator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against...
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The Perfect Crime
as Lady Clementine De RevereThe death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the...
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The Wide Blue Road
as Rosetta, the WifeSquarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy....
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Piccolo mondo antico
as Luisa MaironiFranco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his...
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The Night Heaven Fell
as Aunt FlorentineUrsula finishes her studies and returns to her aunt Florentine and uncle, Ribera who is the...
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Fatal Frames
as Countess Alessandra MirafioriAlex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania...
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Angel of Death
as Doña CatalinaThe most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through...
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We, the Women
as Alida (segment "Alida Valli")Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
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The Killer Strikes at Dawn
as Linda BensonA young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her...
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L'uomo dai calzoni corti
as CarolinaSalvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he...
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Signed, Arsène Lupin
as Aurélia ValéanoAt the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings...
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We the Living, Part One
as Kira ArgounovaAt 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate...
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The Stranger's Hand
as Roberta GleukovitchEight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat...
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Suspiria 25th Anniversary
as Self (archive footage)Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre...
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The Final Scoop
as Caterina, Andrea's motherMarco, a television journalist, reads "red lies" on his teletext system in order to gather...
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Miracles Only Happen Once
as Claudia1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under...
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Zitti e mosca
as ClaraIn a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion...
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La Fille du torrent
as uncreditedWidowed at the age of twenty, Madame Boissière is a real mother hen, excessively brooding over...
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To Our Late Husband
as CatarinaThe widow of a thief learns that the chateau she lives in has a fortune in gold hidden somewhere.
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Manuela's Loves
as BachaThe survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair...
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Life Begins Anew
as Patrizia MartiniA compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
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La bocca
as Countess Bianca RospigliosiA young restorer is commissioned a job at an old villa which belongs to an aging countess.
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The Game of Solitaire
as GermaineA psychiatrist takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool,...
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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
as Self - Actress (archive footage)The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the...
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Manon Lescaut
as Manon LescautManon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and...
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Eugenia Grandet
as Eugenia GrandetEugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town...
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Ophélia
as Claudia LesurfA young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
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The World Condemns Them
as Renata GiustiniForced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli,...
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Cher Victor
as AnnaA pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up...
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That House in the Outskirts
as IsabelA young girl's husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last...
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Zoo zéro
as Yvonne, la mèreEva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is...
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Apparizione
as AndreinaOne of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is...
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Aspern
as Juliana BartherA publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.
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A Simple Heart
as Mrs. ObinSet in a rural area of France in the 19th century, this simple tale tells the story of a servant...
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Disorder
as Carlo's MotherStudy of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of...
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Black Humor
as uncreditedA unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus,...
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Black Humor
as The Widow - segment 3 'La cornacchia'A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus,...
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as ClaudeTwenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions...
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The Other Woman
as AnnabelThe troubling attraction of a young decorator, Agnès, on a small Spanish island, for a man...
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The Sons of Medea
as Medea / Alida ValliThe sons of Medea are an Italian "teledramma", broadcast live on 9 June 1959 on the National...
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Secrets Secrets
as GinaYoung terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a...
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We the Living, Part Two
as Kira ArgounovaAfter having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in...
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Luce nelle tenebre
as Marina FerriAlberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the...
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Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein
as Sveva SalviniHalf-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama...
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Season of Peace in Paris
as uncreditedA Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their...
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Il trovatello
as MariaA taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
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The Long Silence
as Carla's MotherCarla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front...
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The Fall of the Rebel Angels
as BettinaWho is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She...
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The Lovers of Toledo
as Doña Inés de Arévalo BlasToledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry...
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The Sweet Sounds of Life
as Sofia's grandmotherSofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting...
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The Sweet Sounds of Life
as Nonna di SofiaSofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting...
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as Lina CastelliThe wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two...
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Stasera niente di nuovo
as MariaA singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found...
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Il canto della vita
as GiovannaDuring the German occupation, the only heir of a rich owner of the Roman countryside, in order...
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The Gigolo
as AgatheAgathe Perrin, a wealthy widow in her forties, lives with her ailing father in an estate on the...
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Three Cornered Hat
as uncreditedA comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting...
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Homage at Siesta Time
as Constance FischerThe widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon...
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I Was to Blame
as LaurettaA comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with...
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T'amerò sempre
as Adriana RoséSeduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so...
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Illa - Punto d'osservazione
as Maria Dal PonteIlla, a brilliant and somewhat immature girl, involuntarily witnesses a ferocious shootout...
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Towards Zero
as Lady Camilla TressilianVerso l'ora zero is an Italian television film from 1980. It is based on the Agatha Christie...
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Dr. Kildare
as Luisa BrabanteThe story of a young intern in a large metropolitan hospital trying to learn his profession,...
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Combat!
as MarieCombat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The...
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Private Crimes
as Matilde PierboniWhen a prominent businessman is found murdered, an ambitious newspaper reporter and a local...
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