Simone Silva
Actor · 1928 – 1957 · Cairo, Egypt
Simone Silva was born to French-Italian parents in Cairo as Martha Simone de Bouillard. She was known mainly in England, where the great majority of her films were produced, as an actress of B-movies, who usually played supporting roles and bit parts.This mostly forgotten actress in some ways was more bright in life than in her very short career. Her tragic death was not entirely the result of natural causes. She was found dead in London's fashionable Mayfair district after having apparently suffered a stroke likely brought on by a severe diet, as she struggled desperately to return to the screen in perfect shape. (Source: - IMDb Mini Biography By: Yury Soriedem)
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Movie5.9ComedyMarjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
Lady Godiva Rides Again
1951 · 10 votes
Movie6.5DramaJean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
The Weak and the Wicked
1954 · 13 votes
Movie6.4AdventureAn American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
Duel in the Jungle
1954 · 7 votes
Movie6.4CrimeDramaThis tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
Secret People
1952 · 22 votes
Movie6.3CrimeDramaA bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
Turn the Key Softly
1953 · 15 votes
Movie5.5ComedyCochu, a peasant, is the whipping boy of his regimental comrades. He is called "buffer of the capiston", that is to say the captain's order. But he finds himself in the service of Hortense, the captain's sister.
Le Tampon du capiston
1950 · 2 votes
Movie6.5ThrillerStory of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
Desperate Moment
1953 · 2 votes
Movie6.7ThrillerCrimeAn Italian racketeer on the run in London holes up in a disused theatre with a hard-drinking journalist out to get the full story.
Escape by Night
1953 · 3 votes
Movie4.7CrimeDramaVacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the police are after him!
Third Party Risk
1954 · 9 votes
Movie5.6DramaCrimeA saloon owner falls in love with the abused wife of a heavy gambler. He is snared into a web of intrigue when an ex-girlfriend is found murdered in his apartment.
Street of Shadows
1953 · 11 votes
Movie6.6DramaAdventureArchaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
South of Algiers
1953 · 5 votes
Movie6.6ThrillerCrimeA tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.
The Gelignite Gang
1956 · 6 votes
Movie7.8ComedyAn archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Song of Paris
1952 · 2 votes
Movie6.0ComedyVictor Boniface's life is not exactly a rest cure. Just imagine: Victor is both a store detective and a ... shoplifter (only when he walks in his sleep, mind you)! And falling in love while sleepwalking is no bed of roses either, as the good-natured man simply forgets everything after waking up. Fortunately love wins the game in the end. Does that mean that life will become as easy as pie ? Certainly not: the little Bonifaces will be sleepwalkers just like their daddy!