Sylva Koscina Filmography

Born:: August 22, 1933 in Zagreb, Yugoslavia
Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: Yugoslav-born actress Sylva Koscina was an Italian resident from the age of 12. In films from 1955, Koscina gained international attention for her leading-lady stints in Steve Reeves' first two Hercules films. She went on to appear in so many films in so many roles that it's difficult to...Read More

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C'e Kim Novak al Telefono

Actors: Jacques Perrin, Joanna Pacula, Joachim Lombard, Sylva Koscina, Anna Falchi

Synopsis: This poignant Italian drama tells the tale of a producer who would do just about anything to have actress Kim Novak appear in his next film. Enrico, a producer, needs $250,000 so he can hire Kim Novak for his film. The problem is that he is almost broke. He wants to sell his palatial family home Read More

1994
Ricky E Barabba

Synopsis: Ricky (Renato Pozzetto) has been a prosperous businessman, but lately things haven't been going so well, and he isn't sure why. Whatever the reason, he attempts suicide and is saved by Barabbas (Christian De Sica), a very peculiar man with the hereditary vocation of being a hobo (he's the seventh Read More

1993
Rimini Rimini

Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Serena Grandi, Eleonora Brigliadori, Laura Antonelli, Jerry Calà

Synopsis: Gildo (Paolo Villaggio) is a moralistic magistrate who shuts down red light districts in this sex comedy. His enemies conspire to photograph him in a compromising position with sex goddess Lola (Serena Grandi). Laura Antonelli plays a wealthy woman who believes her husband has drowned. A priest is Read More

2/27/87
Cenerentola '80

Actors: Bonnie Bianco, Pierre Cosso, Sandra Milo, Adolfo Celi, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: In this musical adaptation of the Cinderella story geared toward teen audiences, Cindy (Bonnie Bianco) lives with her father, stepmother, and two half-sisters in Brooklyn. The shrewish stepmom hates Cindy and is taking off for Rome to get her daughters trained in classical music. Completely Read More

2/16/84
Questo E Quello

12/21/83
Mani Di Fata

10/27/83
Stelle Emigranti

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Sylva Koscina, Virna Lisi, Claudia Cardinale, Giorgia Moll

Synopsis: In a revealing documentary about one slice of film history, directors Francesco Bortolini and Claudio Masenza interview eight Italian actresses who attained fame in the U.S. through films they made in Hollywood. Most of the eight agree that performers are treated better in Hollywood than in Italy Read More

1983
Asso

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Renato Salvatori, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local bar -- and wins a handy amount of money. As Ace heads home to his waiting bride Bocconcino (Edwige Fenech), he is killed by a hired gun. When he reappears to see his wife Read More

4/9/81
Sunday Lovers

Actors: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Robert Webber, Catherine Salviat, Gene Wilder, Denholm Elliott

Synopsis: Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each episode was filmed by a separate unit in the country where the story was set. "The French Method" (directed by Eduoard Molinaro) finds a businessman (Lino Ventura) trying to Read More

10/31/80
Sex on the Run

Actors: Tony Curtis, Marisa Berenson, Marisa Mell, Jean Lefebvre, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: In a way, the title of Some Like It Cool was a piquant comment on the career of star Tony Curtis, whose stardom had chilled since his 1959 appearance in Some Like It Hot. This time around, Curtis plays famed 18th-century lover Giacomo Casanova. The plot would have us believe that Casanova has Read More

3/1/77
The House of Exorcism

Synopsis: This Italian horror outing is made even more horrible by the fact that the first two thirds were originally a complete feature, Lisa and the Devil by Mario Bava and the last third was tacked on later to capitalize on the continued popularity of The Exorcist by producer Alfredo Leone thereby nearly Read More

4/2/75
Delitto d'autore

10/16/74
The Slasher

Synopsis: When a series of adulterous women begin to turn up dead, a police officer (Farley Granger) must hunt down their crazed killer. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
La Strana Legge Del Dr. Menga

1973
Un Par de Zapatos Del '32

Synopsis: That's Ray Milland all right, making the best of a seedy situation in the Spanish-lensed Student Connection. He plays the headmaster of an exclusive boys' school, who is conducting an affair with a married woman. Driven by passion, Milland kills his paramour's husband. He then discovers that one Read More

1973
No Desearas la Mujer Del Vecino

12/24/72
La Mala Ordina

Actors: Woody Strode, Cyril Cusack, Henry Silva, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: This Italian action film focuses on a crook, framed as a drug kingpin, whose wife is killed by the mob as a result. He must take matters into his own hands to have revenge. Manhunt was also re-titled The Italian Connection to steal thunder from its French counterpart. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

9/2/72
Beati I Ricchi

Synopsis: Geremia is a smuggler who sneaks cigarettes and chocolate across the border between Switzerland and Italy. His brother-in-law Augusto, a municipal guard, draws him into a plot to smuggle a person across the border, but their efforts collapse when the illegal immigrant is caught and falls to his Read More

8/30/72
Sette Scialli Di Seta Gialla

Synopsis: A serial killer is murdering beautiful models in this Italian slasher film. It turns out that he is using the poisoned claws of a black cat to do it. A blind composer whose girlfriend was one of the victims sets out to stop him. ~ Brian Gusse, All Movie Guide Read More

8/12/72
Uccidere in Silenzio

Synopsis: This Italian melodrama, with a dubbed English soundtrack, is an anti-abortion platform wrapped in a drama. Throughout the film, but beginning with the title sequence, the lively and engaging baby whose life might have been cut short is featured in many short scenes. The story involves two students Read More

2/11/72
Lisa and the Devil

Synopsis: In this chiller from Italian director Mario Bava, Elke Sommer stars as Lisa, a young tourist who keeps running into a strange bald man who carries around a mannequin. The bald man is Leandre (Telly Savalas), the butler at the estate of a blind Countess (Alida Valli) and her slightly off-kilter son Read More

1972
African Story

10/21/71
Homo Eroticus

Actors: Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: Since the Italian Homo Eroticus was released to the US as Man of the Year, this video version is available under both titles. Lando Buzzanca plays the servant to dazzling socialite Rosanna Podesta. His duties go far beyond carrying tea on a silver tray. Fact is, Rosanna is what you might call Read More

9/15/71
Mazzabubu ... Quante Corna Stanno Quaggiu?

2/25/71
The Manipulator

Synopsis: A film-industry makeup man (Mickey Rooney) goes crazy in Manipulator, kidnapping an actress and holding her hostage on a back lot. The film is R-rated for violence and nudity. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
Nini Tirabuscio

Actors: Monica Vitti

Synopsis: Turn-of-the-century Naples is the setting for this show-business comedy about a theatrical nobody who starts a popular dance craze based on the Can-Can. This film continues lead actress Monica Vitti's successful transition from doing critically acclaimed (but not awfully profitable) dramas to Read More

10/29/70
Vertige Pour un Tueur

Actors: Marcel Bozzuffi, Sylva Koscina, Marc Cassot, Michel Constantin, Daniel Moosmann

Synopsis: Marc (Marcel Bozzuffi) is a hood who is hunted down by his boss when he fails to execute a man who happens to be his friend. He is hidden by a woman (Sylvia Koscina) whose husband has murdered his business associate and wants Marc to take the rap for the crime. Michel Constantine is the friend Read More

8/5/70
La Modification

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Emmanuelle Riva, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: A husband (Maurice Ronet) recalls his past experiences as he travels by train to Rome from Paris. He has just left his wife (Emmanuela Riva) for his mistress (Sylva Koscina), and flashbacks are employed to tell his story. He thinks of his future in Rome with the mistress as he fondly remembers the Read More

7/26/70
La Colomba Non Deve Volare

3/12/70
Hornet's Nest

Actors: Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Jacques Sernas, Mark Colleano

Synopsis: Captain Turner (Rock Hudson) is the American paratrooper who employs Italian children to blow up a strategic dam controlled by the Nazis. He is the only survivor of his unit gunned down during the jump. Rescued by the moppets, he slaps and rapes German medico Bianca (Sylva Koscina), which Read More

1970
Bitka na Neretvi

Actors: Yul Brynner, Hardy Kruger, Franco Nero, Orson Welles

Synopsis: Originally released as The Battle of the Neretva, this sprawling epic is a tribute to the Yugoslav partisan fighters of World War II. Yul Brynner stars as a guerilla leader whose mission in life is to eradicate all Nazis from his homeland (recently revealed instances of Yugoslav collaboration are Read More

12/3/69
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

9/28/69
Vedo Nudo

4/17/69
Der Kampf um rom II: Der Verrat

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman

1969
I Protagonisti

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Jean Sorel, Pamela Tiffin, Lou Castel, Luigi Pistilli

Synopsis: An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire Read More

2/27/68
Baraka X-77

1968
A Lovely Way to Die

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Sylva Koscina, Eli Wallach, Kenneth Haigh, Sharon Farrell

Synopsis: Schuyler (Kirk Douglas) is a hard-boiled detective who turns in his badge when he believes the criminals are being handled with kid gloves and too much respect. He is hired by prominent attorney Fredericks (Eli Wallach) as a bodyguard for his client Rena (Sylva Koscina), who is accused of Read More

1968
The Secret War of Harry Frigg

Actors: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Tom Bosley, Andrew Duggan, John Williams

Synopsis: This World War II comedy finds Harry Frigg (Paul Newman) as the unwilling volunteer slated to rescue five generals from the clutches of the Germans and Italians. Frigg would rather spend his time goofing off than fighting the war, but his superiors make him a fake general and pack him off to Read More

1968
Der Kampf um Rom I

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman, Robert Hoffman

Synopsis: This 99-minute film constitutes the first half of Robert Siodmak's mammoth two-part epic Der Kampf um Rom (Fight for Rome). The film depicts the Goths' sacking of Rome in 526 AD. No expense was spared in bringing this story to the screen: for example, Siodmak utilized six companies of Rumanian Read More

1968
Johnny Banco

Synopsis: In this comedy, a casino owner in Barcelona absconds with a gangster's fortune and is chased to Monte Carlo where he impersonates a millionaire. While there he weds a wealthy American widow. When the gangster learns of the marriage, he and the thief's ex-mistress team up and head for Monte Carlo Read More

11/17/67
Deadlier Than the Male

Actors: Richard Johnson, Elke Sommer, Sylva Koscina, Nigel Green, Suzanna Leigh

Synopsis: In this 1967 drama, resourceful British agent Bulldog Drummond, who appeared onscreen in a series of spy stories between 1929 and 1951, returned to duty in the wake of James Bond. Here, Drummond (Richard Johnson) is on the trail of Carl Petersen (Nigel Green), a corrupt industrialist who has a bad Read More

1967
Three Bites of the Apple

Actors: David McCallum, Sylva Koscina, Tammy Grimes, Harvey Korman, Domenico Modugno

Synopsis: In this lightweight comedy, David McCallum stars as Stanley Thrumm, a retiring British tour guide who strikes it rich one night in a casino on the Riviera. He's not sure that he wants to take the cash back to England, because he'll have to pay taxes on it, so he decides to put it in a Swiss bank Read More

1967
Carre De Dames Pour Un As

Actors: Roger Hanin, Sylva Koscina, Dominique Wilms, Catherine Allegret

10/5/66
Come Imparai ad Amare le Donne

10/2/66
Monnaie De Singe

Actors: Dr. Robert Hirsch, Sylva Koscina, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Yanne

Synopsis: Fulbert (Robert Hirsch) is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter in this slapstick situation comedy. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs who want Read More

3/9/66
Io, Io, Io...E Gli Altri

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Director Alessandro Blasetti used an all-star Italian cast for this satirical comedy that pokes fun at the selfishness of humans and uses one character to link a series of comic vignettes. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

2/16/66
Four Queens for an Ace

Synopsis: Plastic surgery allows a notorious criminal to continue his trade. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Made in Italy

Actors: Marina Berti, Anna Magnani, Andrea Checchi, Virna Lisi, Lando Buzzanca, Giulio Bosetti, Sylva Koscina, Walter Chiari, Rossella Falk

Synopsis: Made in Italy is a multistoried film, set...in Italy, of course. An all-star cast appears in brief seriocomic vignettes about rich and poor, tourist and native. Director Nanni Loy exhibits the realistic and somewhat earthy technique he'd used on his earlier documentaries, with heavy emphasis on Read More

12/22/65
I Soldi

11/25/65
Juliet of the Spirits

Actors: Giulietta Masina, Mario Pisu, Sandra Milo, Valentina Cortese, Sylva Koscina

Synopsis: Juliet of the Spirits is a fantastical showcase for Federico Fellini's vibrant imagery, starring his wife, Giulietta Masina, as the titular leading character. Juliet is a wealthy housewife who constantly fears her husband, Giorgio (Mario Pisu), is cheating on her. While she yearns for a peaceful Read More

10/23/65
Thrilling

10/21/65
Le Lit a Deux Places

Actors: Sylva Koscina, France Anglade, Dominique Boschero, Margaret Lee, Michel Serrault

Synopsis: This episodic film is for those who have ever wondered about the lives of the people who buy beds in a furniture store. Each story presents a vignette from the life of a customer. One is a hotel proprietor who generously allows two young men to stay in his room. He has no idea that one of those Read More

8/6/65
L'Arme à Gauche

Actors: Lino Ventura, Sylva Koscina, Alberto de Mendoza, Leo Gordon

Synopsis: A veteran sea captain (Lino Ventura) is blamed for the disappearance of a ship when the vessel is hijacked by gunrunners. Mrs. Osborne (Sylva Koscina) is a pretty American widow who helps the accused captain search for the missing ship. Leo Gordon plays the menacing heavy, Morrison, and co-stars Read More

6/18/65
L'Homme D'Istambul

Actors: Horst Buchholz, Sylva Koscina, Perette Pradier

Synopsis: Tony (Horst Buchholz) is an international adventurer who is called on to find a kidnapped scientist in this Bond-style spy saga that never sags. After being deported from the U.S., he leaves his gambling club to find the missing man and collect the million dollar reward. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Read More

1965
Baraka Sur X 13

Actors: Gérard Barray, Sylva Koscina, José Suárez, Agnes Spaak

1965
Colpo Grossa a Galata Bridge

Synopsis: In this spy comedy, a jet-setting playboy takes time off from his daredevil endeavors to help a seductive FBI agent save a nuclear scientist from a nefarious megalomaniac with designs on controlling the world. The sexy agent and the playboy are also pursued by a ring of Chinese agents who also Read More

1965
Le Grain de Sable

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Lilli Palmer, Laurent Terzieff, Sylva Koscina

12/17/64
Cadavere Per Signora

8/19/64
Se Permettete ... Parliamo Di Donne

Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general, as referred to by the title. Prior to this feature, Gassman had worked with both Read More

3/25/64
The Circular Triangle

Synopsis: In this thriller three people are murdered during a business power play. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
L'Idea Fissa

Actors: Lando Buzzanca, Maria Grazia Buccella, Umberto D'Orsi, Luciana Angelillo

Synopsis: Infidelity is the real subject linking the four funny vignettes that comprise this Italian anthology. "The First Night" centers on a naive pair of Sicilian newlyweds honeymooning in Naples. While celebrating their wedding night a friendly millionaire invites them aboard his yacht for a few drinks. Read More

1964
Amore in 4 Dimensioni

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Gastone Moschin, Franca Polesello, Carlo Bagno

Synopsis: Four different takes on the meaning of love comprise this Italian anthology. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so Read More

1964
Una Storia Di Notte

1964
Le Proces Des Doges

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Sylva Koscina, Salvo Randone, Stefania Sandrelli

1964
L'Appartement Des Filles

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Sylva Koscina, Renate Ewert, Sami Frey

Synopsis: Tibere (Sami Frey) is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-smuggling operation in this light comedy. One woman is a snob, the second is adventurous, and Melanie (Mylene Demongeot) is sentimental about love. When Melanie and Tibere fall for each Read More

12/4/63
Judex

Actors: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob, Michel Vitold, Jacques Jouanneau, Théo Sarapo

Synopsis: The characters and plot convolutions of the classic silent French serial Judex are thrust into a 1960s framework in this Georges Franju concoction. Channing Pollock plays a mysterious masked avenger who kidnaps evil-banker Michel Vitold, then sets about to turn the banker's friends and loved ones Read More

12/4/63
Cyrano and D'Artagnan

Actors: Mel Ferrer, José Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sylva Koscina, Daliah Lavi

Synopsis: The oddly featured poet Cyrano De Bergerac(Jose Ferrer, reprising an Oscar-winning role in Michael Gordon's Cyrano De Bergerac), he of the enormous nose, and musketeer D'Artagnan (Jean-Pierre Cassel) lend a hand to put down a revolution in 17th-century Paris. While they bravely fight for the Read More

9/6/63
Le Monachine

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Sylva Koscina, Amedeo Nazzari, Didi Perego, Umberto D'Orsi

Synopsis: Italian nuns raise a quiet ruckus to stop a major airline from flying over their village in this gentle comedy. They are upset because the noise from the jets creates a vibration that is threatening to crumble a much-revered ancient fresco. It also interferes with the quiet of their cloistered Read More

8/29/63
Il Giorno Piu Corto Commedia Umoristica

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia

Synopsis: Somewhere there is someone who finds the lunatic Italian comedy team of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia funny; most filmgoers watch in stony silence, longing for Jerry Lewis to make a comeback. In The Shortest Day, F and C play a pair of zany World War I conscripts who cause more trouble on Read More

2/14/63
Les Quatre Verités

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Leslie Caron, Anna Karina, Michel Serrault, Jean Poiret

Synopsis: The four "truths" are in this instance, four different romantic or dramatic vignettes in a slightly uneven compilation film. All four segments are loosely related to fables by the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. In the first fable "Death and the Woodcutter" directed by Luis Berlanga Read More

1/31/63
Agent 8 3/4

Actors: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley, Leo McKern, Roger Delgado

Synopsis: Dirk Bogarde plays one of those "reluctant spies" so common to adventure films of the 1960s. A poverty-stricken author, Bogarde is sent to Czechoslovakia by the British government as an unofficial "goodwill ambassador" to an industrial firm. It soon dawns upon him that his real assignment is to Read More

1963
Copacabana Palace

Actors: Mylène Demongeot, Claude Rich, Sylva Koscina, Raymond Bussières

Synopsis: A stellar international cast compensates somewhat for the rambling plotlessness of The Girl Game. The film takes place during Carnival Time in Rio De Janeiro. As unconfined joy wafts its way through the streets, the lives of several fabulously wealthy visitors and a group of voluptuous Read More

11/4/62
Le Masque de Fer

Actors: Jean Marais, Jean-Francois Poron, Claudine Auger, Gisèle Pascal, Noël Roquevert, Jean Rochefort

Synopsis: An aging musketeer is called out of retirement to help a king in this comic swashbuckler. The king's twin brother is freed after twenty years in an iron mask. He is to be used as a decoy for the monarch while the real king and his court roust some rebels to foil their insurgent uprising. Read More

10/26/62
Le Massaggiatrici

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Risqué and bawdy, this sex comedy is by Italian director Lucio Fulci, who is also known for his horror films. The story centers around a prostitution ring in which the hookers pose as masseuses, something that was making the headlines in Italy at the time this film was released. A businessman