Florinda BolkanFilmography

Born:: February 15, 1941 in Urburetama, Ceara, Brazil
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Florinda Soares Bulcao
Biography:: Born Florinda Bulcao, this tall, leggy, brunette Spanish-Indian leading lady is proficient in several languages. She worked in the PR department of the Brazilian national airline, then went to Paris and studied art at the Sorbonne for two years. While visiting Italy in 1967, she met director Luchino Visconti...Read More

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Eu Nio Conhecia Tururu

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Maria Zilda Bethlem, Florinda Bolkan, Ingra Liberato

Synopsis: As Carmen (Suzana Goncalves) prepares to marry for the fourth time, her three sisters find themselves juggling romantic predicaments of their own in this offbeat comedy from Brazil. Rose (Maria Zilda Bethlem), an artist who does better with paintings than she does with romance, is stuck in a Read More

2000
Some Girls

Actors: Patrick Dempsey, Florinda Bolkan, Jennifer Connelly, Sheila Kelley, Lance Edwards, Ashley Greenfield

Synopsis: Michael (Patrick Dempsey) is a college student invited to spend Christmas vacation in Quebec City with his sweetheart Gabby (Jennifer Connelly) and her family. The wide-eyed Michael sees the city as a fairytale land with the splendid architecture gently dusted by the falling snow. When Michael Read More

9/9/88
Prisoner of Rio

Actors: Steven Berkoff, Paul Freeman, Peter Firth, Florinda Bolkan, Desmond Llewelyn

Synopsis: In 1981, Ronald Biggs was kidnapped by agents from Scotland Yard from his Brazilian hideout for his participation in the 1964 British train robbery. This feature was written by Biggs and director Lech Majewski as a fictionalized account of the authorities trying to bring the colorful crook to Read More

1988
La Gabbia

Actors: Tony Musante, Laura Antonelli, Blanca Marsillach

Synopsis: An international co-production with dialogue in both Italian and English, this erotic thriller from writer Lucio Fulci and director Giuseppe Patroni-Griffi stars Tony Musante as Michael Parker, a successful American businessman living in Italy with his girlfriend. When she leaves on vacation Read More

9/11/85
La Piovra [TV Series]

Actors: Michele Placido, Barbara de Rossi, François Perier, Florinda Bolkan

1984
Acqua e Sapone

Actors: Carlo Verdone, Natasha Hovey, Florinda Bolkan, Elena Fabrizi

Synopsis: Rolando (Carlo Verdone) has tried everything to find a teaching job and so when he fakes it and lands a job as a priest tutoring Sandy, a teenage American model (Natasha Hovey), he feels particularly blessed -- it certainly beats his work as a janitor at an English school run by the Catholic Read More

10/27/83
Manaos

Actors: Fabio Testi, Agostina Belli, Jorge Rivero, Andrés García, Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis: American and Venezuelan foreigners try to steal coveted seeds from a rubber-tree plantation in this action-adventure saga. They battle crocodiles, Indian attacks, slave revolts, and a director who insisted on putting disco music to a 19th-century setting. The two heroes are hidden by a concubine Read More

3/29/80
The Word

Synopsis: Word is about the newly discovered text that is allegedly written by the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It the document is genuine, it would throw the world's theological community into chaos. David Janssen plays an archaeologist who travels to Italy to verify the document's origins. ~ Stephen Read More

1978
La Settima Donna

Actors: Florinda Bolkan, Raymond Lovelock, Flavio Andreini, Sherry Buchanan, Stefano Cedrati

Synopsis: This shameless knockoff of Last House on the Left even goes so far as to repeat the detail of having the theme song performed by the lead villain. Florinda Bolkan (Non Si Sevizia un Paperino) plays a nun who takes the teenage girls in her care to a remote house where they rehearse A Midsummer Read More

1978
Le Orme

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Luigi Bazzoni (Giornata Nera per l'Ariete) directed this stylish and surrealistic giallo thriller reminiscent of such paranoid classics of the form as Il Profumo della Signora in Nero and Tutti i Colori del Buio. Florinda Bolkan stars as a translator named Alice Cespi, whose life Read More

2/1/75
Royal Flash

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Alan Bates, Florinda Bolkan, Oliver Reed, Britt Ekland

Synopsis: Novelist George MacDonald Fraser penned the script for this swashbuckling, picaresque adventure tale. The story is based on one of the books in his "Harry Flashman" series, loose sequels to "Tom Brown's Schooldays" that followed that story's central bully character through his checkered Read More

1975
Atentat u Sarajevu

Actors: Christopher Plummer, Florinda Bolkan, Maximilian Schell, Irfan Mensur, Rados Bajic

Synopsis: When the only surviving heir to the Emperor of Austro-Hungary, Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand (Christopher Plummer) was killed by Gavrilo Princip, a Serbian nationalist, on June 28th, 1914, his death set in motion a chain of events which resulted in the First World War. This movie chronicles Read More

1975
Flavia the Heretic

Actors: Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis: A young girl in the 13th century is sent to a nunnery in Portugal. There she is subjected to torture, rape and whippings, but she escapes with a Jewish man named Abraham. She soon takes on a Muslim lover, who leads an invading army that castrates rapists. Amazingly enough, some of this story is Read More

4/13/74
Love at the Top

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Romy Schneider, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Jane Birkin, Florinda Bolkan, Georges Wilson

Synopsis: In this French satire, a meek little bank (Jean-Louis Trintignant) clerk finds fame and fortune when he begins getting lessons from an impoverished novelist (Jean-Pierre Cassel) . Soon the clerk is wowing the Parisians with his ability to make the women swoon, and for his talent at attracting Read More

3/13/74
Primal Impulse

Synopsis: In this sci-fi chiller, a young woman's peace is shattered when she begins hearing loud screams in her head. They are the agonized wailings of an astronaut deliberately marooned upon the moon by a double-crossing experimenter. Soon the woman becomes possessed by the astronaut. ~ Sandra Brennan Read More

1974
Cari Genitori

2/9/73
A Brief Vacation

Actors: Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a Read More

1973
Footsteps on the Moon

1973
Don't Torture a Duckling

Synopsis: When several young boys are brutally murdered in a small southern Italian village, the superstitious locals react with ignorance and violence. All misfits are immediately suspected, such as big-city tart Barbara Bouchet, the local village idiot, and voodoo practitioner Florinda Bolkan, who is Read More

9/29/72
Le Droit d'aimer

Actors: Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Pierre Michael, Gilles Segal

Synopsis: This thin French drama takes place on a barren prison island. Pierre (Omar Sharif) has been sentenced to a life of hard labor on an island which lacks even a proper prison building: the men live in tents year 'round. Despite the grim conditions and brutal guards, he manages to hold his temper in Read More

8/14/72
The Master Touch

Actors: Florinda Bolkan, Giuliano Gemma, Kirk Douglas

Synopsis: Despite the objections of his wife (Florinda Bolkan), a safe-cracker recently released from jail (Kirk Douglas) decides to try one last job. With the help of a circus gymnast (Giuliano Gemma), the thief plans to defeat a fool-proof safe in Germany and make off with $1 million. ~ John Bush, All Read More

1972
Ring of Death

Synopsis: When the man he's trailing is killed a street-tough cop finds he's on someone's hit list, too. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1972
Incontro

10/29/71
The Last Valley

Actors: Michael Caine, Omar Sharif, Florinda Bolkan, Nigel Davenport, Per Oscarsson

Synopsis: Noted novelist and sometime film director James Clavell, wrote, directed, and produced this adaptation of J.B. Pick's novel, set during the Thirty Years' War of 1618-1648. During the chaotic confrontations and shifting alliances of the war, a hidden valley protected from the outside world becomes Read More

1971
C'Est La Loi Des Siciliens

Actors: Florinda Bolkan, Antonio Sabato, Didi Perego, Don Backy

1971
A Season In Hell

1971
A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

Actors: Stanley Baker, Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis: This cult movie classic, also known as Schizoid, is a psychodrama murder mystery thriller involving LSD, psychoanalysis, lesbianism, and having at least one extremely gory dream sequence which involves eviscerated dogs. The director had to prove in court that the dogs in question were fabricated Read More

1971
Anonimo Veneziano

Actors: Tony Musante, Florinda Bolkan

Synopsis: Busy actor Enrico Maria Salerno made his directorial debut with this predictable tearjerker using a cast better known to fans of Italian horror than to its target audience. Salerno's script, co-written with Giuseppe Berto, features genre veterans Tony Musante and Florinda Bolkan as an estranged Read More

9/30/70
E Venne Il Giorno Dei Limoni Neri

Synopsis: A mob-affiliated convict faces dangerous consequences when he tries to find the party responsible for murdering his wife, and he starts talking to the police. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

4/23/70
Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Salvo Randone, Gianni Santuccio, Arturo Dominici, Orazio Orlando

Synopsis: Better known as Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, this Oscar-winning political drama stars Gian Maria Volonte as the citizen of the title, an unnamed police inspector. The story finds the inspector calmly cutting his mistress' throat, then planting evidence that will clear him of Read More

2/9/70
Detective Belli

Actors: Franco Nero, Florinda Bolkan, Adolfo Celi, Delia Boccardo, Susanna Martinkova

Synopsis: In this Italian suspenser, a crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1970
The Damned

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Charlotte Rampling

Synopsis: In 1969, The Damned (La caduta degli dei) was director Luchino Visconti's most controversial film to date. Set in the 1930s, the film zeroes in on a Krupp-like family of German munition manufacturers. The Essenbeck clan is headed by the Baron (Rene Kolldehoff), but daughter Sophie (Ingrid Thulin) Read More

10/14/69
Metti Una Sera a Cena

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Florinda Bolkan, Lino Capolicchio, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping Read More

4/3/69
Machine Gun McCain

Actors: John Cassavetes, Britt Ekland, Peter Falk, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: Hank McCain (John Cassavetes) is the imprisoned gangster who gets out of jail with the help of the mob. The syndicate wants him to take part in a heist of a Las Vegas casino. The plan is discussed and soon abandoned by the mob, but Hank decides to go ahead with the robbery. Disguised as a Read More

4/1/69
Le Voleur De Crimes

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Hossein, Florinda Bolkan, Giorgia Moll, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: An unhappily married man with two children watches a beautiful woman kill herself when she ties herself inside a car and drives off a cliff. Jean (Jean-Louis Trintignant) tries to save the woman but is too late. After hanging out with his bohemian friends, he writes a letter to the local newspaper Read More

2/22/69
Una Ragazza Piuttosto Complicata

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Jean Sorel, Florinda Bolkan, Luigi Proietti, Gabriella Grimaldi

Synopsis: This erotic sexploitation feature concerns a couple and their pursuit of sexual fulfillment with each other -- and their mutually agreed upon third bed guests. Lesbian love angles includes the woman's step-daughter. Alberto (Jean Sorel) is soon left alone when the women decides his services are no Read More

1969
Candy

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, John Huston

Synopsis: In this big-budget adaptation of Terry Southern's satiric sex farce (the sort of project that could get an immediate green light in the late 1960's and at practically no other time before or since), Ewa Aulin is Candy, a sweet young woman who doesn't seem entirely aware of the powerful sexual Read More

1968

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