Elsa Martinelli

  • Sergio Corbucci – Sono un fenomeno paranormale (1985)

    Sergio Corbucci1981-1990ComedyItaly
    Sono un fenomeno paranormale (1985)
    Sono un fenomeno paranormale (1985)

    Quote:
    Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that make the miracle cry out to everyone.Read More »

  • Gérard Oury – La menace AKA The Menace (1961)

    Gérard Oury1961-1970FranceMysteryThriller

    Synopsis:
    ‘Josepha is only eighteen and longs for the companionship of a group of her peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable damage.’
    – Eleanor MannikkaRead More »

  • Giuseppe Fina – Pelle viva (1962)

    1961-1970DramaGiuseppe FinaItaly

    The story of Rosaria, a woman from Apulia, who works in Milan and returns to her village each Saturday to see her illegitimate little boy, who is in a charitable institution

    The film entered the 23rd Venice International Film Festival, in which it received a special mention In 2008 it was restored and shown as part of the retrospective “Questi fantasmi: Cinema italiano ritrovato” at the 65th Venice International Film Festival.Read More »

  • Sergio Gobbi – Maldonne (1969)

    1961-1970FranceSergio GobbiThriller

    Synopsis:
    In this thrilling mystery of mistaken identity, Jacques (Pierre Vaneck) is a piano player in a nightclub who is approached by a man he never met before. The stranger offers him a job posing as the husband of a mentally challenged woman. He will be rewarded for taking care of the woman. Since his contract has expired at the club, he readily accepts the proposition. The stranger turns out to be the valet of the woman, who other than playing with decapitated dolls, seems quite normal. Jacques and the woman end up falling in love. He looks just like her husband who disappeared during an African safari. It turns out the missing man is a former Nazi hiding out from the international police. Soon agents converge on the house along with the man who had supposedly vanished, leading to an inevitable showdown.Read More »

  • Raffaello Matarazzo – La risaia (1956)

    1951-1960DramaItalyRaffaello Matarazzo

    In this heartwarming drama, the life of an Italian rice farmer involved in an unhappy marriage is chronicled. One day, he notices a familiar looking migrant in his field. Upon following the girl, he discovers that she is his illegitimate daughter. To quietly make up for his past indiscretion, he begins giving the girl many gifts, but he does not tell her who he is. Later the girl falls for an auto mechanic who gets jealous of her secret father’s attention to her. This causes the father to tell the mechanic the truth; the fix it man then decides to engineer a reunion. He then goes on to save the girl from getting raped by her father’s deadbeat nephew.

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