Laura Antonelli
Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991, and she is best known for the movie Malizia. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens ... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance." Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics, she graduated as a gymnastics instructor. She moved to Rome, where she became a secondary-school gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry, who helped her find modelling jobs. Antonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited. Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Other roles followed; her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!. She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series. Antonelli's final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991), following which she retired. She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia. Antonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced. From 1972 to 1980, she was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 27 April 1991, cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonelli's home. She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest. She spent ten years appealing the conviction, which was eventually overturned. In 2006, the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108,000 euros. Antonelli died on 22 June 2015, aged 73, from a heart attack. Source: Article "Laura Antonelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Malicious
as AngelaA widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three...
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How Funny Can Sex Be?
as Madame Juliette ('Signora sono le 8') / Celestina ('Due cuori e una baracca') / Enrico's Wife ('Non è mai troppo tardi') / Grazia ('Viaggio di nozze') / Tamara ('Torna piccina mia') / The Nun ('Lavoratore italiano all'estero') / Donna Mimma Maccò ('La vendetta') / Tiziana ('L'ospite')How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in...
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The Innocent
as Giuliana HermilTullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he...
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Malizia 2000
as AngelaThe teenage son of an architect falls for an older woman, an attractive housewife of his...
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Lovers and Other Relatives
as LauraSandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the...
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Without Apparent Motive
as Juliette VaudreuilA series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in...
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
as Pauline de GéranNicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to...
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Department Store
as Helèna Anzellotti, moglie del capo del personaleA series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big...
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Till Marriage Do Us Part
as Eugenia di MaquedaThe Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on...
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Venus in Furs
as Wanda von DunajewBased on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted...
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Stuff for the Rich
as Mapi Petruzzell (2° episodio)3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a...
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Rimini Rimini
as Noce BoveFunny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a...
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Secret Fantasy
as Costanza VivaldiNiccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the...
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The Divine Nymph
as Manoela RoderighiIn the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing...
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The Magnificent Cuckold
as Guest with a Beehive Hairdo at the Artusis (uncredited)Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage -...
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Sesso e volentieri
as Carla De Dominicis / Supermarket client / The PrincessTen segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
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Passion of Love
as ClaraIn the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away...
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The Trap
as Marie ColbertA woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
as Piera ConfortiA successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious...
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A Man Called Sledge
as RiaJames Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash...
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
as RosannaThe scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over...
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Scoundrel in White
as Martine DupontJean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical...
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The Eroticist
as suor DelicataSenator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can...
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Tigers in Lipstick
as The Businesswoman8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's...
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Wifemistress
as Antonia De AngelisA vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity....
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Hypochondriac
as ToniettaDuring the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two...
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Detective Belli
as Franca (uncredited)A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in...
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I'm Getting a Yacht
as RobertaA dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His...
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The Venetian Woman
as AngelaVenice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city...
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Viuuulentemente mia
as Anna Tassotti MaloniClumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In...
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Slices of Life
as Monica Belli, la starA series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book?...
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Chaste and Pure
as Rosa Di MaggioAntonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his...
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Black Journal
as SandraA mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by...
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Bali
as DariaThe wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex...
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Holy Cow
as MariannaWhen a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
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The Miser
as FrosinaMisery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down...
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The Sexual Revolution
as StellaFourteen people of different ages - seven men and seven women - gather in a comfortable hotel by...
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Gradiva
as GradivaAfter unearthing an ancient bas-relief sculpture of the gradiva or ‘woman who walks’ a young...
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Simona
as SimonaWhile at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with...
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Time of Indifference
as LisaA penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with...
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The Archangel
as Elena (uncredited)Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model...
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Julia Forever
as Carmen MilkovichItaly, 1940: Carmen de Blasco is married to a fascist, but falls in love with a friend of her...
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