Virna LisiFilmography

Balzac

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Jeanne Moreau, Virna Lisi, Fanny Ardant

Synopsis: Gérard Depardieu stars as the great French author Honoré de Balzac in this historical biography produced for French television. Balzac's childhood is marked by a difficult relationship with his mother, Charlotte-Laure (Jeanne Moreau), whose strident criticism and inability to show affection are Read More

Và Dove Ti Porta Il Cuore

Actors: Virna Lisi, Margherita Buy, Galatea Ranzi

Synopsis: The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel by Susanna Tamaro. It begins with the peaceful death of Olga, the elderly family matriarch. Marta, her granddaughter returns from the US to attend the funeral and once in Read More

Queen Margot

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Vincent Perez, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: The historical novel by Alexandre Dumas was adapted for the screen with this lavish French epic, winner of 5 Césars and a pair of awards at the Cannes Film Festival. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marguerite de Valois, better known as Margot, daughter of scheming Catholic power player Catherine de Read More

Buon Natale, Buon Anno/Joyeux Noël, Bonne Annee

Actors: Michel Serrault, Virna Lisi, Consuelo Ferrara, Paolo Graziosi, Tiziana Pini

Synopsis: In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no longer pay the rent on their longtime apartment. Absence, in this case, refreshes their memory of the Read More

I Ragazzi Di Via Panisperna

Actors: Andrea Prodan, Ennio Fantastichini, Laura Morante, Virna Lisi, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: This unusual biographical drama explores a period in the life of Nobel Prize-winning Italian nuclear physicist Enrico Fermi, (1901-1954) who contributed to the U.S.'s Manhattan Project (which developed the nuclear bomb) after developing the first working nuclear reactor at the University of Read More

Joyeux Noel Bonne Annee

Actors: Virna Lisi, Michel Serrault, Paolo Graziosi, Tiziana Pini

I Love N.Y.

Actors: Scott Baio, Christopher Plummer, Kelley Van Der Velden, Jennifer O'Neill, Jerry Orbach

Synopsis: Celebrity photographer Gianni Bozzacchi supposedly wrote and directed this uneven romantic drama based on his own personal experience. Struggling photographer Mario Cortone (Scott Baio) falls in love with the pretty debutante Nicole (Kelly Van Der Velden), daughter of the popular but moody stage Read More

Christopher Columbus

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Leading man Gabriel Byrne adds a "Harlequin Romance" dash to the two-part, six-hour TV movie Christopher Columbus. Seeking out a swifter route to the lucrative Indies, Genoa-born Columbus begs King John of Portugal (Max Von Sydow) to finance a westbound expedition. Failing this, he turns to Read More

Amarsi un Po'

Sapore Di Mare

Actors: Marina Suma, Jerry Calà, Karina Huff, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: In this nostalgic look back at the 1960s through rose-colored glasses, a group of teens meet and frolic and experience their individual emotional maelstroms at a seaside resort one summer -- and then they meet again two decades later. Most of the film is spent on the teen summer, filled with Read More

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

Bugie Bianche

Miss Right

Actors: Karen Black, Margot Kidder, Virna Lisi, Marie-France Pisier, William Tepper

Synopsis: William Tepper, whose only significant credit to date was the lead role in the Jack Nicholson-directed 1972 cult film (#Drive, He Said), wrote and stars in Miss Right. He plays Terry Bartell, a U.P.I. reported stationed in Rome. Bartell is an inveterate ladies man who suddenly decides he's through Read More

La Cicala

Synopsis: In this Italian drama, Wilma, an aging dance hall girl, befriends La Cicada, a feisty, free-spirited woman who refuses to have sex for money. Together, they go traveling and on the rode take up with the handsome Hannibal, who dreams of opening up his own truck stop/gas station. The two women end Read More

Ernesto

Actors: Martin Halm, Michele Placido, Virna Lisi

Synopsis: Ernesto (Martin Hahn) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees--then experiments with heterosexuality, courtesy of an obliging prostitute. Read More

Cobblestones

Synopsis: In this romance, the magic of gay Paris is not lost on a young couple who fall in love there. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Al di la del Bene e del Male

Actors: Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson, Robert Powell, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy

Synopsis: A misguided attempt to dramatize the psychological triad formed by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Erland Josephson), his Jewish friend Paul Rees (Robert Powell), and a Russian girl named Lou Von Salome (Dominique Sanda), this overbearing drama fails mightily. Nietzsche is portrayed as a Read More

Il Ritorno di Zanna Bianca

Synopsis: A brave German Shepherd defends an elderly gold-mine owner against greedy baddies in this Arctic adventure. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Zanna Bianca

Actors: Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, Fernando Rey, John Steiner

Synopsis: This Yukon adventure is yet another telling of Jack London's tale of a prospector and his loyal sled dog as they battle avaricious villains during their search for gold. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Night Flight from Moscow

Actors: Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: In this convoluted spy thriller, a Russian ambassador places his life on the line when he steals classified documents and defects to the U.S. The papers he carries could rock the free world. Unfortunately, the C.I.A. must first prove that they are real. The film is also known as The Serpent. Read More

Les Galets D'Etreta

Actors: Virna Lisi, Maurice Ronet

Synopsis: Virna Lisi stars in this slick French romantic thriller. She plays Almy, a beautician on her way to a "fat farm." The story pairs her with a tough, charming race car driver (Maurice Ronet). After he rapes her, she seeks to get revenge by seducing him, but instead finds herself falling in love with Read More

Bluebeard

Actors: Richard Burton, Raquel Welch, Joey Heatherton, Virna Lisi, Natalie Delon

Synopsis: Bluebeard is the retelling of the now familiar story of a wealthy aristocrat who marries and murders and marries again. Baron Von Sepper (Richard Burton), the BlueBeard of the story, meets and marries Anne (Joey Heatherton) who becomes suspicious of Von Sepper when she finds evidence of his Read More

Roma Bene

Un Beau Monstre

Actors: Helmut Berger, Virna Lisi, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Helmut Berger is Alain, a real sicko, who may be so because his mother was a prostitute. He can only make love with a "decent" woman when she is drugged senseless, though he can manage one-time encounters with prostitutes and also gladly suffers the abuse of his boyfriends. He seems to have Read More

The Statue

Actors: Pistillo Antonio, Mircha Carven, Maria Comberti, Kiko Concalves, Christopher Cruize, Antonino D'Acquisto, Edward Danko, Julie Fair, Marco Gobbi, F.L. Greaves, Mario Guizzardi, Mike Harvey, Ron Hepher, Hazel Hoskins, Tolis Karachalios, Roberto Lande, Maureen Lane, Nicolette LePelley, Pamela LePelley, Katarina Lidfeldt, Gianni Musi, Dough Parish, Robert Pomeroy, Jack Repp, Zoe Sallis, Luigi Scavran, Sergio Silverio, Bill Vanders, John Wregg

Synopsis: David Niven is Alex, a scholar who has won the Nobel Prize for developing a universal language. The U.S. State Department has decided to honor him with a statue, to be displayed in London's Grosvenor Square. The commission for the project went to Alex's wife Rhonda (Virna Lisi), who has designed a Read More

Le Temps Des Loups

Actors: Robert Hossein, Charles Aznavour, Virna Lisi, Genevieve Thenier, Albert Minsky

Synopsis: Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi Read More

L'Arbre de Noël

Actors: William Holden, Virna Lisi, Bourvil, Brook Fuller, Madeleine Damien

Synopsis: Laurent (William Holden) is willing to give his terminally ill son Pascal (Brook Fuller) anything to make his last days comfortable. The unfortunate boy is stricken with leukemia after being showered with radioactive poison when an airplane exploded. Laurent takes Pascal back to Paris where he and Read More

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Anna Magnani, Virna Lisi, Hardy Kruger, Sergio Franchi

Synopsis: Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) is the mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittorio. The wine-loving town leader erases a pro-Mussolini slogan when he hears of the fascist being killed and hanged from a meathook. His wife Rosa (Anna Magnani) throws him out of their wine shop when he and his Read More

The Girl Who Couldn't Say No Tenderly

Synopsis: In this comedy, a medical assistant and his strange childhood friend fall in love. Unfortunately, the girl is unable to make a permanent commitment. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron

Synopsis: A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 Read More

Meglio Vedova

Actors: Virna Lisi, Peter McEnery, Gabriele Ferzetti, Jean Servais, Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: A British engineer tries to convince the Mafia to allow an oil refinery on some prime waterfront real estate in Sicily. Proby (Peter McEnery) talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements in the Mafia soon surface. One faction wants the refinery, the other a beachfront resort. Read More

Tenderly

Actors: Virna Lisi, George Segal, Lila Kedrova, Paola Pitagora, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Childhood sweethearts Jolanda (Virna Lisi) and Franco (George Segal) meet once again after a separation of nearly 15 years. The two immediately rekindle the romance on an adult level. Franco is a dedicated physician working hard to have a successful career and longtime security, while Jolanda is a Read More

Arabella

Actors: Virna Lisi, James Fox, Margaret Rutherford, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: Apparently in the Italy of the 1920s, the only way to keep your home out of the maws of the tax collector was to steal and cheat from everyone in sight -- and the dupes you'd swindle wouldn't know the difference since all their attentions would be focused upon cheating you. That little bit of Read More

Le Dolci Signore

Actors: Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Claudine Auger, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four beautiful women (Ursula Andress, Marisa Mell, Virna Lisi, and Claudine Auger) who cheat on their husbands to relieve their marital discontent. Jean-Pierre Cassel also stars in Read More

La Ragazza e il Generale

Actors: Virna Lisi, Rod Steiger, Umberto Orsini

Synopsis: Set in Italy during WW I, this war drama centers on the off-beat relationship between a Bavarian general an a peasant girl after they both end up captured by a bungling Italian soldier. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

La Vingt-Cinquième Heure

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Serge Reggiani, Gregoire Aslan, Michael Redgrave

Synopsis: Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis invade his country. Because local police chief Read More

A Maiden for a Prince

Synopsis: In this Italian comedy set in the 16th-century, a prince and a princess marry. Trouble ensues when a rumor that they have not consummated their marriage is circulated. The prince's father is most concerned, as a virgin marriage means he will have no heirs. He insists that the marriage be annulled. Read More

Signore e Signori

Actors: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Nora Ricci, Beba Loncar, Alberto Lionello, Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis: Pietro Germi's funny anthology combines the standard sex comedy format with some unexpectedly subtle observations about village life. The film centers on three stories exposing the sexual secrets of the Italian town of Treviso. Toni Gasparini (Alberto Lionello) pretends to be impotent in order to Read More

Assault on a Queen

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa, Richard Conte, Alf Kjellin

Synopsis: Assault on a Queen is a complex, exciting crime-caper film in which a gang of clever mercenaries try to rob the famous luxury liner, the Queen Mary. Mark Brittain (Frank Sinatra) is hired by wealthy Italian adventuress Rosa Lucchesi (Verna Lisi) and her German partner-in-crime, Eric Laufftiauer (Alf Kjellin Read More

Not with My Wife, You Don't!

Actors: Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott, Carroll O'Connor, Richard Eastham

Synopsis: In the words of Hamlet, there's a plentiful lack of wit in Not with My Wife, You Don't! Korean war vet Tony Curtis is living in London, blissfully married (so he thinks) to Virna Lisi. In strolls old air force buddy George C. Scott, who has a history of stealing Curtis' ladies away from him. Read More

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

Oggi, Domani e Dopodomani

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Pamela Tiffin, Virna Lisi, Luciano Salce, Raimondo Vianello

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. A police inspector is told of the bizarre behavior of a pistol-packing papa who shoots blanks at his wife to keep her intimidated. He inserts a real bullet every so often just to let her know Read More

Casanova '70

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michele Mercier, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Marco Ferreri

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni portrays the handsome lover Casanova pitted against a thoroughly modern woman. This is a legendary hero often depicted in movies, but this time he is portrayed with a slightly different problem - the only time he's "in the mood" is when he feels that he is in danger. His job Read More

Bambole!

Actors: Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena

Synopsis: Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a woman so busy talking on the phone that she fails to notice that her husband is having sex with a neighbor; "Treatise on Eugenics," the chronicle of a Swedish girl's search Read More

Une Vierge Pour Le Prince

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy

La Donna Del Lago

Actors: Peter Baldwin, Salvo Randone, Philippe Leroy, Valentina Cortese

Synopsis: A young writer goes to a summer resort in wintertime to be alone and contemplate his moral dilemma in this thrilling and suspenseful psychological drama. He goes to visit Tilde (Virna Lisi), a young woman with whom he had a brief sexual relationship. To his horror, the writer learns that she has Read More

How to Murder Your Wife

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas, Eddie Mayehoff, Claire Trevor

Synopsis: George Axelrod's script for How to Murder Your Wife isn't politically correct in the least, but you're likely to get a charge out of it -- provided you are of the male persuasion, that is. Jack Lemmon stars as Stanley Ford, a successful cartoonist and a confirmed bachelor who shares a lavish Read More

The Doll That Took the Town

Synopsis: The "doll"in this Italian seriocomedy is played by Virna Lisi. Craving attention, Virna claims that she has been robbed and assaulted. Thanks to this artifice, she becomes a celebrity, and then a high-priced model. Her chickens come home to roost when three innocent men are arrested and charged Read More

Coplan Prend des Risques

Actors: Dominique Paturel, Virna Lisi, Jacques Balutin, André Weber

Synopsis: This espionage thriller is about an agent investigating the theft of an experimental jet. He gets some help from an unexpected source -- a beautiful enemy spy who tells him that she has left the spy game and will lead him to the jet her former comrades have stolen. He must decide if she is telling Read More

La Tulipe Noire

Actors: Alain Delon, Dawn Addams, Virna Lisi, Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis: Alain Delon stars as twin brothers in Christian-Jaque's film based on a novel from Alexandre Dumas. Set in 18th century France during rumblings of revolution, Guillaume De Saint-Preux is the legendary Black Tulip, battling for the people against the monarchy. In reality, he is not much more than a Read More

Les Bonnes Causes

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Marina Vlady, Virna Lisi, Bourvil

Synopsis: In a biting, critical look at "justice" and how it does not necessarily work, director Christian-Jaque develops this tale of murder and deception via two principle, conniving characters and their upright opponents in the legal system. Catherine (Marina Vlady) is a heartless, self-serving woman Read More

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

Eva

Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi, Giorgio Albertazzi, James Villiers

Synopsis: Joseph Losey's turbulent melodrama concerns a phony writer, Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), who has recently sold the film rights to his autobiography as a Welsh coal miner (actually penned by his deceased brother). Tyvian is engaged to Francesca (Virna Lisi), an alluring screenwriter, but then Eva (Jeanne Moreau Read More

Don't Tempt the Devil

Synopsis: A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection. She goes to court where eventually, the real killer is revealed by his own jilted lover in this French drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Romolo e Remo

Actors: Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Virna Lisi, Jacques Sernas

Synopsis: This unexceptional Duel of the Titans takes place on two different levels at once. The legendary brothers Romulus and Remus go at it to see who will ultimately survive and found the city of Caesars. And the slightly less legendary but still impressive Steve Reeves (Romulus) and Gordon Scott Read More

Sua Eccellenza Si Fermo a Mangiare

Lost Souls

Synopsis: The trouble in this Italian crime drama begins when five convicts and their leader escape from Elba and endeavor to rob the payroll office of an iron mine. The mine owner's son refuses to allow this. Unfortunately, the son's sister and her pals happen into the office and soon find themselves held Read More