Lea PadovaniFilmography

Ehrengard

Actors: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Audrey Matson, Lea Padovani, Alessandro Haber

Synopsis: In this imaginary tale set in 18th-century Europe, Cazotte (Jean-Pierre Cassel), a regaled court painter and womanizer is out to seduce the indomitable Ehrengard (Audrey Matson) -- not an easy task, as he is about to find out. Ehrengard has been sent to be a companion and lady-in-waiting to the Read More

Ciao Gulliver

Synopsis: A particular highlight of this symbolic Italian drama is that it marks the return of Lucia Bose to film. She retired from film when she married the famed Spanish bullfighter Dominguin in the 1950s. Socialite Danielo is a higher-up in the television world but is repulsed both by high society and Read More

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

Our Men in Baghdad

Synopsis: An espionage saga as a secret agent tries to infiltrate a spy ring in the Middle East, this one holds no real surprises. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

Un uomo a metà

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Ilaria Occhini, Rosemarie Dexter, Pier Paolo Capponi, Gianni Garko

Synopsis: Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an Read More

Frenesia D'Estate

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Philippe Leroy, Michele Mercier, Sandra Milo, Umberto D'Orsi

Synopsis: Composed by five different screenwriters, this Italian/French comedy stars the talented and ubiquitous Vittorio Gassman as an army officer who has a difficult time believing an attractive woman is in fact a woman. Michele Mercier plays a performer who is taking the place of a female impersonator 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

Germinal

Actors: Jean Sorel, Berthe Grandval, Claude Brasseur, Bernard Blier, Lea Padovani

Synopsis: Etienne (Jean Sorel) is a young man who seeks work in the coal mines of South France. After experiencing the harsh working conditions, he becomes a labor activist and tries to organize a strike to improve wages and conditions. He is tormented by the mine owner, whose promiscuous wife steps out on Read More

The Reluctant Saint

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Ricardo Montalban, Lea Padovani, Akim Tamiroff, Mark Damon

Synopsis: Directed by Edward Dmytryk, The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa (Maximilian Schell) is sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy -- his parents believed he was mentally challenged -- he surprises a local bishop by his Read More

Princesse de Cleves

Actors: Marina Vlady, Jean Marais, Jean-Francois Poron, Lea Padovani

Synopsis: This tragedy of two star-crossed lovers, directed by Jean Delannoy, is based on a 17th-century novel by Madame de La Fayette. When a young teen (Marina Vlady) marries the Prince of Cleves (Jean Marais), more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new Read More

The Naked Maja

Actors: Ava Gardner, Anthony Franciosa, Amedeo Nazzari, Gino Cervi, Lea Padovani

Synopsis: The slow pacing of this fanciful tale about the life and one reputed love of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya makes for an uneven drama. Anthony Franciosa is the artist, and Ava Gardner plays his paramour, the Duchess of Alba. While the Prime Minister of Spain schemes to betray his country to Read More

Montparnasse 19

Actors: Gérard Philipe, Anouk Aimée, Lilli Palmer, Lea Padovani, Lino Ventura, Gerard Sety

Synopsis: Montparnasse 19 is better known as Modigliani, which is also the name of its protagonist. In broad, melodramatic strokes, screenwriter Max Ophuls and director Jacques Becker offer their spin on the tragic, troubled life of Italian abstract painter Amedeo Modigliani. As played by Gerard Philipe Read More

Oeil Pour Oeil

Actors: Curd Jürgens, Folco Lulli, Lea Padovani, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: Director Andre Cayatte's first film in two years, Oeil pour Oeil (An Eye for an Eye) was adapted from a novel by Vahe Katcha. The scene is Lebanon, where doctor Curd Jurgens, worn out by a hard day, refuses to examine the wife of Folco Lulli. When the wife subsequently dies, Lulli holds Jurgens Read More

Il Grido

Actors: Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray, Betsy Blair

Synopsis: The grim, drab life of a man who labors in a Po Valley sugar refinery in northern Italy provides the center of this black-and-white drama from Michelangelo Antonioni. The worker lives with a married woman and their young daughter. One day, the woman learns that her legal spouse died. The refinery Read More

Scandal, in Sorrento

Synopsis: In this Italian romantic comedy set in the town of Sorrento, on the beautiful Bay of Naples, a woman rents a home from a dashing womanizer. Unfortunately, after 30 years away, the man returns to become the town police chief and wants to reclaim his home. The woman refuses to leave. The man then Read More

Eyes of the Sahara

Synopsis: An Arab man enters a desert to chase the doctor who caused his wife's unexpected death. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Pane, amore e...

Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani, Antonio Cifariello

Synopsis: The third entry in the Italian "Bread, Love and. . ." series, Pane, Amore e. . . was directed by Dino Risi, taking over from the auteur of the first two films, Luigi Comencini. Likewise, Sophia Loren substitutes for Gina Lollobrigida, the female star of the earlier films; only Vittorio De Sica Read More

Le Dossier Noir

Actors: Jean-Marc Bory, Bernard Blier, Antoine Balpêtré, Henri Cremieux, Paul Frankeur

Synopsis: The title of this French noir drama translates to The Black File. Jean-Marc Bory plays Jacques Arnaud, an idealistic young investigator who comes to work in a small French town. He is soon involved in a mysterious case incriminating a town notable. Arnaud devotes himself to the case but the Read More

Gran Varieta

Actors: Maria Fiore, Alberto Sordi, Carlo Croccolo

Synopsis: Unlike many multistoried films of the 1950s, Gran Varieta is the handiwork of a single solitary director--though five writers collaborated on the screenplay. The film is divided into five separate playlets, all unified by a "backstage" theme. In the first, Maria Fiore plays an aspiring singer who Read More

Tempi Nostri

Synopsis: This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their baby because they cannot afford to feed it. The second concerns two aristocrats who have fallen into poverty and end up reunited when they both are cast as extras in a movie. Read More

Cento Anni D'Amore

Synopsis: This romantic Italian anthology film is comprised of six episodes that deal with a century of love. The first vignette, "Garibaldin," set in 1854, follows a rebellious priest who attempts to sway others to his beliefs. "Pendolin" examines a philandering wife's affair with a hotel porter who really Read More

Amori Di Mezzo Secolo

Donne Proibite

Synopsis: In this Italian melodrama, three Roman prostitutes suddenly find themselves on the streets when the city informs them that their brothel is to be destroyed. The story chronicles what happens to each of them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Barriera della legge

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Jacques Sernas, Lea Padovani

Synopsis: Barrier of the Law is an Italian crime meller with an above-average cast. Italy's Rosanno Brazzi and France's Jacques Sernas are top-billed in this tense little effort. The plot concerns an undercover operation, wherein a honest cop infiltrates a gang of clever crooks. Complications ensue when a Read More

Droles De Bobines

Actors: Lea Padovani, Walter Chiari, Jean Richard

Una Di Quelle

Actors: Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Lea Padovani, Peppino De Filippo, Laura Gore

Synopsis: Aldo Fabrizi is both director and co-star of the Italian Una di Quelle (One of Those). Basically, however, the film is a vehicle for the inspired film-clown Toto. The latter plays the ardent suitor of a seemingly respectable young widow named Maria. Actually, Maria is a prostitute, albeit an inept Read More

Totò e le donne

Actors: Totò

Due Moglie Sono Troppe

Synopsis: In this comedy, a braggart and his new bride head for a honeymoon in Italy. There they go to the small village the groom claims to have freed all by himself. Unfortunately, the villagers are most unhappy to see him. Before he can safely continue his honeymoon, he must clear his name with them. Read More

Atto di Accusa

Actors: Lea Padovani, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Marcello Mastroianni, Andrea Checchi

Synopsis: Carl Ludwig Diehl stars as famed attorney Ruska in Atto di Accusa. After murdering his wife (Lea Padovani) Ruska arranges the evidence in a manner that will implicate the wife's lover (Marcello Mastrioanni). This "perfect crime" requires the killing of another, wholly innocent victim. Eventually Read More

Three Steps North

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi, William Tubbs, Dino Galvani

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, Frank Keeler (Lloyd Bridges is an American G.I. stationed in Italy whose less-than-legal side business has earned him a small fortune. However, he is eventually caught, convicted, and imprisoned by authorities, but not before he can hide the money. After Keeler is released Read More

Il Sole sorge ancora

Actors: Lea Padovani, Elli Parvo, Vittorio Duse, Egisto Olivieri

Synopsis: Originally Il Sole Sorge Ancora, Outcry is a neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II. The scene is the tiny village of Lombardy, just outside Milan. The villagers have suffered four years of humiliation and exploitation at the hands of the fascists. But when a priest Read More

Christ in Concrete

Actors: Sam Wanamaker, Lea Padovani, Kathleen Ryan, Bonar Colleano, Charles Goldner

Synopsis: On the outs in Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian Read More

Che Tempi!

Actors: Lea Padovani, Walter Chiari, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: The exclamatory title of this Italian drama translates as What Queer Times! The plotline concerns a miser, and the effect his parsimoniousness has on all those around him. To its credit, the screenplay makes an effort to understand the miser's character, rather than depict him as a cardboard Read More

Call of the Blood

Actors: Kay Hammond, John Clements, John Justin, Hilton Edwards, Robert Rietty

Synopsis: Set at the dawn of the 20th century, this British melodrama follows the exploits of a female physician who goes to spend her honeymoon with her new husband in his exquisite Sicilian villa. There they meet a cynical, strange old man. The trouble begins when she is called away to help quell an Read More

The White Devil

Actors: Rossano Brazzi, Annette Bach, Lea Padovani, Harry Feist

Synopsis: The Italian historical melodrama Il Diavolo Bianco (The White Devil) is set in the Caucaucus in the mid-19th century. The title character is a masked swashbuckler who intends to free his homeland from a despotic provincial governor. In time-honored fashion, Il Diavolo Bianco spends his days in the Read More

L'Innocente Casimiro