Isa MirandaFilmography

Bay of Blood

Synopsis: A family's murderous battle over some bayfront property is the subject of director Mario Bava's bloody horror-thriller, which many have cited as the grandfather of the modern slasher film. Claudine Auger is the scheming daughter of a murdered Countess; her staged suicide forms the basis of the Read More

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

Actors: Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Marie Liljedahl, Margaret Lee

Synopsis: The classic story of evil by Oscar Wilde is a plodding, campy, trashy production that gives the viewer moments of unintentional laughter. Dorian Gray (Helmut Berger) is the vain young Englishman who sells his soul to the devil to remain eternally youthful in appearance. His portrait is being Read More

Roy Colt and Winchester Jack

Actors: Brett Halsey, Charles Southwood, Marilù Tolo, Teodoro Corra, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: Genre specialist Mario Bava takes a rare trip out to the plains in this rousing comedy-Western that turns the work of iconic spaghetti Western specialist Sergio Leone on its head. When Roy Colt (Brett Halsey) and Winchester Jack (Charles Southwood) fail to make a living at living dishonestly, Roy Read More

Marta

Actors: Stephen Boyd, Marisa Mell

Synopsis: In this suspense thriller, Stephen Boyd plays Miguel, who is clearly not in his right mind. He remembers killing his mother-in-law but cannot determine what happened to his wife Pilar (Marisa Mell). As far as he knows, she may have just run away. As the film opens, it is the servant's day off. Read More

L'Assoluto Naturale

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Sylva Koscina, Isa Miranda, Felicity Mason, Isabella Cini

Synopsis: The love-hate relationship between a poet and his mistress provides the basis for this metaphorical drama. The trouble seems to come from the fact that the two have very different approaches to their relationship. The poet is interested in a more traditional romance while his hot-blooded lover Read More

Caroline Cherie

Actors: Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Caroline (France Anglade) is the heroine who is pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with a lawyer. Unknown to her new husband, she lost her virginity to a handsome young officer the day the peasants stormed the Bastille. When her husband flees the revolutionary fervor, Caroline engages Read More

The Shoes of the Fisherman

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international politics. (Anthony Quinn) plays a Russian priest who has spent 20 years in a Siberian labor camp. When Russian and Chinese relations deteriorate, Russian Premier Kamenev (Laurence Olivier Read More

The Great British Train Robbery

Actors: Horst Tappert, Hans Reiser

Synopsis: This German version of the famed caper, not only examines the detailed planning and precise execution of the famed theft, it also looks at what happened to the robber gang after they robbed the British mail train. Soon after the heist, several gang members made fatal blunders causing their capture Read More

Avengers: Epic

Actors: Diana Rigg

Synopsis: Despite the silliness of its premise, this Avengers episode is a winner all the way, thanks in no small part to its top-drawer supporting cast. Lured to a deserted movie studio, Emma finds herself at the mercy of demented producer Z.Z. Von Schnerk (Kenneth J. Warren) and washed-up film idols Read More

Hell Is Empty

Synopsis: This drama centers upon a female thief and her robber band as they try to hide out from the cops on a deserted island. Their only shelter is an abandoned mansion. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Un Mondo Nuovo

Actors: Christine Delaroche, Nino Castelnuovo, Tanya Lopert, Madeleine Robinson, Georges Wilson, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes pregnant after their passionate tryst. Now the formerly free-wheeling student finds himself facing a difficult situation. He decides that the woman should abort the child, and so Read More

Do You Know This Voice?

Synopsis: Dan Duryea stars in this unsavory British melodrama as a seedy kidnapper who accidentally kills his child victim. The police pretend to be unaware of the murder in hopes of capturing Duryea when he comes to collect the ransom. He wriggles out of this trap, then finds he must contend with a nosy Read More

Dog Eat Dog

Actors: Jayne Mansfield, Cameron Mitchell, Werner Peters

Synopsis: A fortune in cash is the bait that draws some would-be criminals into a feeding frenzy in this offbeat but stylish crime drama. Lylle Corbett (Cameron Mitchell) and his girlfriend, Darlene (Jayne Mansfield), have just pulled off the heist of a lifetime, stealing one million dollars in American Read More

The Yellow Rolls-Royce

Actors: Rex Harrison, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, Shirley MacLaine, Moira Lister, George C. Scott, Isa Miranda, Ingrid Bergman

Synopsis: In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their possession of an unusual car, a yellow Rolls Royce Phantom II. Lord Frinton (Rex Harrison) is a diplomat who purchases the exquisite auto as a gift for his wife (Jeanne Read More

La Noia

Actors: Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak, Daniela Rocca, Lea Padovani

Synopsis: Horst Bucholz plays Dino, a painter who realizes he has no artistic vision and decides to move back into his wealthy mother's (Betty Davis) home. Just before he does this, however, he falls in love with beautiful and self-serving Cecilia (Catherine Spaak). Though Dino diligently attempts to Read More

Rommel's Treasure

Synopsis: The search for the notorious German Field Marshal's legendary treasure forms the basis of this adventure that chronicles the efforts of a small group of people, each with a different design on the loot, to find it. One fellow wants to use the money to help the families of war veterans; another Read More

Le Secret du Chevalier d'Eon

Actors: Andree Debar, Gabriele Ferzetti, Isa Miranda, Bernard Blier, Dany Robin, Jean Desailly

Synopsis: Director Jacqueline Audry spent her career swimming against the current in the male-dominated film industry, a female director making movies, like this one set in the 17th century, with female leads. In this curious story, a young girl has had to pose as a male all her life because her uncle would Read More

Une Manche et la Belle

Actors: Henri Vidal, Mylène Demongeot, Isa Miranda, Alfred Adam

Synopsis: A novel by James Hadley Chase was the source for Une Manche et la Belle (Beauty Up His Sleeve). Bank clerk Henri Vidal ingratiates himself to middle-aged heiress Isa Miranda. Once they're married, however, Vidal's eyes begin to wander. Falling for Mylene Demongeot, Vidal and his new paramour cook Read More

Sois Belle Et Tais-Toi

Actors: Henri Vidal, Mylène Demongeot, Alain Delon, René Lefèvre, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Roger Hanin

Synopsis: Sois Belle et Tais Toi is more popularly known by its American-release title Be Beautiful but Shut Up. Mylene Demongeot plays a birdbrained young lady who gets mixed up with a gang of juvenile-delinquent smugglers. The crooks use the heroine as their go-between, intending to leave her holding the Read More

Responsabilite Limitee

Actors: Carlo Ninchi, Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica

Il Tesoro Di Rommel

Summertime

Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda, Darren McGavin, Mari Aldon

Synopsis: Katharine Hepburn stars as Jane Hudson, an Ohio secretary on the verge of spinsterhood. Carefully saving her money, Jane takes an extended trip to Venice, half hoping to find the romance that has always eluded her. Luck of luck, she meets handsome Renato Di Rossi (Rossano Brazzi), who sweeps her Read More

Gli Sbandati

Actors: Lucia Bosé, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Isa Miranda, Leonardo Botta

Synopsis: Gli Sbandati was released worldwide as The Disbanded. Set during WWII, the film is a drama of the Italian resistance, with all the usual clichéd characters in attendance. The central character, a bombed-out gamine who falls in love with an Italian partisan, is played by Lucia Bose, who earned a Read More

Raspoutine

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Renée Faure, Isa Miranda, Micheline Francey, Milly Vitale

Synopsis: Pierre Brasseur plays the "mad monk" Rasputin -- or "Raspoutine" -- in this French historical melodrama. Insinuating himself into the court of the Romanoffs in early-20th-century Russia, Rasputin is able to gain enormous power through his apparent ability to heal the hemophiliac son of the Czarina Read More

Avant le Déluge

Actors: Marina Vlady, Bernard Blier, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le deluge." Set in 1950, the film concentrates on five Parisian adolescents. Certain that the next war will herald the apocalypse, the youngster make plans Read More

Le Secret De Helene Marimon

Actors: Frank Villard, Isa Miranda, Carla Del Poggio, Jean Debucourt, André Valmy

Les Sept Péchés Capitaux

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Viviane Romance, Frank Villard, Noël-Noël, Jacqueline Plessis, Henri Vidal, Isa Miranda, Eduardo de Filippo, Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis: The Seven Deadly Sins is a portmanteau film (a la Quartet and O. Henry's Full House) assembled by some of the biggest talents in the Italian and French film industry. The film's six sections (one containing two sins) are designed by separate titles, which should be self-explanatory. "Avarice and Read More

Cameriera Bella Presenza Offresi...

Actors: Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Gino Cervi, Giulietta Masina

Synopsis: This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a salesman (Aldo Fabrizi) who values peace and quiet, but never gets it, and a vainglorious actor (Vittorio de Sica) with woman trouble. Through it all, Maria survives with a Read More

La Ronde

Actors: Anton Walbrook, Simone Signoret, Serge Reggiani, Simone Simon, Daniel Gélin, Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravey, Odette Joyeux, Jean-Louis Barrault, Isa Miranda, Gérard Philipe

Synopsis: An exercise in style, La Ronde was one of the few films of the 1950s to contain overtly sexual themes. The story is a series of character vignettes, set in Vienna in the early 1900s and held together by a narrator (Anton Walbrook). As the title implies, both the story and the film's visual motifs Read More

My Widow and I

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Isa Miranda

Synopsis: Filmed in 1945, the Italian My Widow and I made it to the U.S. five years later. Two of Italy's top box-office draws, Vittorio de Sica and Isa Miranda, head the cast. De Sica plays Adriano Lari, who has been missing for so long that he is presumed dead. Returning home, Lari poses as his own Read More

Au-Dela Des Grilles

Actors: Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Andrea Checchi, Robert Dalban

Synopsis: French filmmaker Rene Clement's international reputation was secured with Au Dela des Grilles. A French-Italian production, the film sagaciously teamed the most popular stars of each nation: France's Jean Gabin and Italy's Isa Miranda. Gabin is cast as a murderer who escapes prosecution by stowing Read More

Patto Col Diavolo

Actors: Isa Miranda, Eduardo Cianelli, Jacques Francois, Umberto Spadaro

Synopsis: The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film Read More

L'Aventure Commence Demain

Actors: Isa Miranda, Raymond Rouleau, André Luguet

Synopsis: The title of this literally steamy melodrama translates as The Adventure Starts Tomorrow. The fabulous Isa Miranda heads the cast as what can euphemistically be termed an "adventuress." Together with her partner-in-crime Raymond Rouleau, Miranda sets her sites on famed explorer Andre Luguet. It Read More

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Adventure in Diamonds

Actors: George Brent, Isa Miranda, John Loder, Nigel Bruce, Elizabeth Patterson

Synopsis: British army pilot Stephen (George Brent) falls in love with jewel-thief Felice (Isa Miranda), tricking her out of some stolen diamonds. Stephen and South African Police Commissioner Lansfield (Nigel Bruce) set a trap for her partner Barclay (John Loder), but Felice falls for it instead. She's Read More

Hotel Imperial

Actors: Isa Miranda, Ray Milland, Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, J. Carrol Naish

Synopsis: In this drama, a vengeful woman searches for the man she blames for her sister's suicide. To get at him, the woman masquerades as a mousy maid in the tiny hotel where he stays. The story is set in Gallacia during WW I and while she enacts her plan, the Russians and Austrians take over the town. Read More

Feu Mathias Pascal

Actors: Pierre Blanchar, Ginette Leclerc, Isa Miranda, Sinoel, Margo Lion

Synopsis: Having been showered with critical adulation for his 1935 adaptation of Crime and Punishment, writer-director Pierre Chenal was further honored for his film adaptation of Luigi Pirandello's Il Fu Mattia Pascal (The Late Mathias Pascal). Fed up with his present existence as a henpecked husband Read More

Scipione l'Africano

Actors: Annibale Ninchi, Camillo Pilotto, Fosco Giachetti, Marcello Giorda, Memo Benassi

Synopsis: Scipio L'Africano (aka Scipio Africanus) represented the first foray into filmmaking by Vittorio Mussolini, the war-hero son of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. It was originally intended to be an Italian-American co-production, but Hollywood producer Hal Roach pulled out of the project on the Read More

Le Mensonge De Nina Petrovna

Actors: Isa Miranda, Gabrielle Dorziat, Fernand Gravey, Aimé Clariond, Annie Vernay

Synopsis: Le Mensonge de Nina Petrova (The Lie of Nina Petrova) was filmed in 1937, one year before its director, Russian-born Victor Tourjansky, set up shop in Germany. The titular Nina, played by Isa Miranda, wants to romantically pursue the dashing Lieutenant Franz Korff, played by Fernand Gravet. To do Read More

Passaporto Rosso

Actors: Isa Miranda, Ugo Ceseri

Synopsis: Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Read More

Du Bist Mein Glueck

Actors: Beniamino Gigli, Isa Miranda, Josef Sieber

Synopsis: Du bist Mein Gluck (You Are My Joy) was the third starring feature for the great Operatic tenor Beniamino Gigli. Gigli's imposing presence and splendid singing notwithstanding, the film is dominated by Isa Miranda in a dual role. After deserting her husband to shack up with Mario Monti (Gigli) Read More

Dopo Una Notte d'Amore

Actors: Isa Miranda

Synopsis: Dopo una Notte D'Amore was released in English-speaking countries as After a Night of Love. Per the title, the film takes place "the morning after" a drunken bacchanal. Among the revellers were two men and two women -- and when three of them awaken at sunrise, they discover that the fourth has Read More

La Signora Di Tutti

Actors: Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Friedrich Benfer, Franco Coop

Synopsis: Max Ophuls' La Signora di Tutti can be regarded today as a dress rehearsal for his 1955 masterpiece Lola Montes, though it comes nowhere near the brilliance of that later classic. Isa Miranda stars as a famous actress who, in the opening scenes, attempts suicide. A series of lavish flashbacks Read More