Sylva Koscina

Born: 1933-08-22

Sylva Koscina (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsilva ˈkɔʃʃina]; born Silvija Košćina, pronounced [sǐlʋija kǒʃtɕina]; 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sylva Koscina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Homo Eroticus

as Carla
Released: 1971-09-14

Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town...

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Ace

as Enrichetta
Released: 1981-04-09

Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too...

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Marquis de Sade: Justine

as Marquise de Bressac
Released: 1969-04-03

Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to...

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Juliet of the Spirits

as Sylva
Released: 1965-10-22

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows...

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The Italian Connection

as Lucia Canali
Released: 1972-09-02

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is...

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The Battle of Neretva

as Danica
Released: 1969-10-07

In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great...

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The Secret War of Harry Frigg

as Countess Francesca De Montefiore
Released: 1968-02-29

When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the...

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So Sweet, So Dead

as Barbara Capuana
Released: 1972-07-18

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves...

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Lisa and the Devil

as Sophia Lehar
Released: 1973-05-08

Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to...

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Judex

as Daisy
Released: 1963-12-04

Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent...

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The Traffic Policeman

as Herself
Released: 1960-11-16

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates...

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Rimini Rimini

as sorella dell'ingegnere
Released: 1987-02-27

Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a...

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Michael Strogoff

as Sangarine
Released: 1956-12-14

When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of...

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Are We Men or Corporals?

as The aspiring actress
Released: 1955-08-26

These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp,...

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Hercules

as Iole, Daugher of Pelias
Released: 1958-02-20

In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod...

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Hornets' Nest

as Bianca
Released: 1970-09-08

An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a...

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Ricky & Barabba

as Cristina Bonelli
Released: 1992-12-19

A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a...

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La cambiale

as Odette Mercury
Released: 1959-11-19

The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives...

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That Man in Istanbul

as Kenny
Released: 1965-08-11

An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in...

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Deadlier Than the Male

as Penelope
Released: 1967-02-12

British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to...

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I See Naked

as Self
Released: 1969-04-17

Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see...

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The Dictator's Guns

as Rae Osborne
Released: 1965-06-18

An experienced skipper is hired to buy a boat from an American heiress in the Caribbean, but...

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Hercules Unchained

as Iole, bride of Ercole
Released: 1959-02-14

En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and...

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Siege of Syracuse

as Clio
Released: 1960-03-17

Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power...

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The Shortest Day

as uncredited
Released: 1963-02-14

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an...

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Magic Touch

as Contessa Irene
Released: 1983-10-27

Andrea, a forty-year old engineer, suddenly becomes unemployed while his wife France gets a...

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The House of Exorcism

as Sophia Lehar (archive footage)
Released: 1975-04-02

A re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly...

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The Iron Mask

as Marion
Released: 1962-10-26

The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the...

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Casanova & Co.

as The Prefect's Wife
Released: 1977-03-01

While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his...

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A Lovely Way to Die

as Rena Westabrook
Released: 1968-04-19

A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a...

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Cinderella '80

as Mafalda Gherardeschi
Released: 1984-02-16

A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her...

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The Great Swindle

as Lola
Released: 1971-03-06

A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play...

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The Railroad Man

as Giulia Marcocci
Released: 1956-11-21

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front...

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Poor Millionaires

as Alice
Released: 1959-05-02

After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young...

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Young Husbands

as Mara
Released: 1958-03-13

In a small Italian town, the local youngsters realize that their youth is coming to an end and...

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Made in Italy

as Diana (segment "3 'La Donna', episode 3") (as Silva Koscina)
Released: 1965-12-22

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

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La nipote Sabella

as Lucia
Released: 1958-11-20

Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets...

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The Crimes of the Black Cat

as Françoise Ballais
Released: 1972-08-12

In Copenhagen, a blind pianist hunts the culprit in string of murders, each linked by the...

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Love on the Riviera

as Renata Morandi
Released: 1958-11-27

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del...

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Blessed Are the Rich

as Contessa
Released: 1972-08-30

Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of...

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Sunday Lovers

as Zaira (segment "Armando's Notebook")
Released: 1980-10-31

A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France,...

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The Mighty Crusaders

as Clorinda (as Silva Koscina)
Released: 1957-12-23

The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade,...

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This and That

as Dora, madre di Daniela
Released: 1983-12-21

Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book...

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Agent X-77 Orders to Kill

as Mania
Released: 1966-01-01

A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a...

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My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure

as La moglie del tintore
Released: 1973-04-14

In '500 a noble Tuscan gives a banquet in which they are told bawdy stories: a cardinal tells...

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The Odyssey

as Minerva
Released: 1991-12-13

An Italian made for television musical comedy.

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Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move

as La baronessa di Valdarno
Released: 1970-12-20

Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì...

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Hot Enough for June

as Vlasta Simoneva
Released: 1964-01-01

A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an...

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The Fight for Rome

as Empress Theodora
Released: 1968-12-17

A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen,...

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The Masseuses

as Marisa
Released: 1962-09-20

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They...

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The Swordsman of Siena

as Orietta Arconti
Released: 1962-10-19

A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less...

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Dangerous Women

as Tosca
Released: 1958-11-26

Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny...

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Love, the Italian Way

as Luciana
Released: 1960-12-22

A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various...

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Corpse for the Lady

as Laura Guglielmetti
Released: 1964-08-19

Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and...

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Mariti in pericolo

as Silvana
Released: 1960-11-24

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Rampage

as Stewardess
Released: 1963-10-09

In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton...

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Toto in Paris

as Juliette Marchand
Released: 1958-10-23

Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of...

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Oh! Sabella

as Lucia
Released: 1957-08-29

Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He...

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Let's Talk About Women

as Reluctant Girl
Released: 1964-03-28

Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual...

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Thrilling

as Paola (segment "L'autostrada del sole")
Released: 1965-10-21

An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.

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Me, Me, Me... and the Others

as The 'Star'
Released: 1966-02-16

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man...

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Totò nella Luna

as Lidia
Released: 1958-11-28

Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to...

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Female Three Times

as Sonia
Released: 1957-10-25

The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the...

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Destination Fury

as uncredited
Released: 1961-07-23

Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how...

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Copacabana Palace

as Ines
Released: 1962-11-03

For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are...

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The Protagonists

as Nancy
Released: 1968-06-07

An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a...

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Trapped by Fear

as Arabelle
Released: 1960-11-04

Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life....

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I piaceri dello scapolo

as Eby
Released: 1960-03-30

Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.

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Le pillole di Ercole

as Silvia Pasqui
Released: 1960-09-10

A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an...

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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

as La moglie del presentatore
Released: 1971-02-25

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous...

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Uncle Was a Vampire

as Carla
Released: 1959-10-28

Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle, staying on as a bellboy when...

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The Author's Crime

as Milena Gottardi
Released: 1974-01-01

Against the wishes of her Aunt Valeria, attractive Milena travels to Milan in order to secretly...

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The Scapegoat

as Clemenza, Barbo's Wife
Released: 1963-08-23

Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio...

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Non sono più guaglione

as Carolina
Released: 1957-12-23

A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.

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He and She

as She
Released: 1969-09-28

Mysterious romance involving an uninhibited woman and a photographer, shot in strange modernist...

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Les jambes en l'air

as Favouille Grandblaise
Released: 1971-05-13

Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter,...

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Carré de dames pour un as

as Dolores Arrabal, Fashion Designer
Released: 1966-10-05

Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out...

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...And Suddenly It's Murder!

as Carolina
Released: 1960-12-13

Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.

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Nights of Boccaccio

as Fiammetta
Released: 1972-03-28

Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and...

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Blood Feud

as Carla
Released: 1961-03-11

An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it...

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Guendalina

as Francesca Redaelli, madre di Guendalina
Released: 1957-03-14

Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a...

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To Kill in Silence

as Valeria's mother
Released: 1972-01-01

Valeria and Gianni are students and soon begin a love affair. When she becomes pregnant, they...

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Funny Money

as Lucile
Released: 1966-03-09

Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a...

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Jessica

as Nunzia Tuffi
Released: 1962-04-19

When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry...

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The Four Truths

as Mia (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")
Released: 1962-12-21

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments,...

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He Thief, She Thief

as Cesira De Angelis
Released: 1958-03-12

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his...

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Engaged to Death

as Lucia
Released: 1957-04-13

A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed...

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Johnny Banco

as Laureen Moore
Released: 1967-08-10

A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.

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Il morbidone

as Irene
Released: 1965-09-30

Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.

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Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

as Mariù
Released: 1975-08-21

A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a...

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The Little Nuns

as Elena
Released: 1963-08-29

Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over...

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The Circular Triangle

as Alexandra Fonseca
Released: 1964-12-17

Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish...

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Three Bites of the Apple

as Carla Moretti
Released: 1967-05-24

A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but...

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Love and Marriage

as (segment "Sabato 18 luglio")
Released: 1964-10-16

An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.

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The Double Bed

as Giulietta / Peggy
Released: 1965-08-06

Various sketches centered on alcove stories.

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Cyrano and d'Artagnan

as Ninon de Lenclos
Released: 1964-10-22

Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the...

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Una storia di notte

as Maddalena
Released: 1964-01-01

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Genitori in blue-jeans

as Elena
Released: 1960-02-10

Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.

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The Dove Must Not Fly

as Anne
Released: 1970-03-11

An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the...

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The Woman's Confidant

as Maria Bonifati
Released: 1959-06-20

A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since...

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Sex of the Devil

as Sylvia, the Assistant
Released: 1971-01-26

After a relaxing anniversary cruise, Andrea and his wife Barbara are dropped off in Istanbul,...

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The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal

as Theodora
Released: 1969-02-21

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his...

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Girl's Apartment

as Eléna
Released: 1963-12-04

Tibere is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his...

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Witness to Murder

as Sonja Dorigny
Released: 1974-04-20

The director of a school is surprised by a student when murdering someone. He must kill the only...

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Vertigo For A Killer

as Sylvie
Released: 1970-08-05

Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc as a hood hunted down by his boss...

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Las correrías del Vizconde Arnau

as Zoraida
Released: 1974-08-26

The actual Viscount Arnau wants to acquire the power and fame that had their ancestors. For this...

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The Surprises of Love

as Marianna
Released: 1959-12-02

This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated...

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The Innocent with Forty Children

as Gina Lantois
Released: 1957-12-20

Jean-François Robignac, a teacher, arrives at a provincial college to teach literature to...

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La salamandre d'or

as (uncredited)
Released: 1962-12-31

In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of...

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African Story

as Barbara Hayland (as Silva Koscina)
Released: 1971-10-21

African set action thriller

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Love in Four Dimensions

as Irma, la moglie (segment "Amore e vita")
Released: 1964-03-21

Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love....

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Quando gli angeli piangono

as Marta
Released: 1958-08-08

After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is...

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Ravishing

as Evelyne Cotteret
Released: 1960-12-14

A womanizing pilot who is asked by a friend to intervene in one of the friend's romantic...

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Die Nacht der vier Monde

as (special guest)
Released: 1984-03-04

Psychological romance about a burglar and a paralyzed artist.

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Sanremo Music Festival

as Self - Host
First aired: 1951-01-29

The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in...

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Reflets de Cannes

as Self
First aired: 1954-03-25

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