Franca Polesello
Actor · b. 1930 · Oderzo, Veneto, Italy
Franca Polesello was born on August 7, 1930. She is an actress, known for Operation White Shark (1966), Il Sorpasso (1962) and Colossus of the Arena (1962).
Movies24
Movie7.5DramaA young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
Movie8.2DramaComedyRoberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
Il sorpasso
1962 · 868 votes
Movie6.2WesternThe sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
Navajo Joe
1966 · 125 votes
Movie7.0ComedySpiaggia libera
1966 · 1 votes
Movie5.2ComedyTwo strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.
Totò sexy
1963 · 17 votes
Movie5.8WesternTed and his gang rob a bank and he hides the loot from his companions. They corner him and fatally wound him, but he manages to slip the map of the hidden money to his rescuer, Joe. The gang catches up with Joe, torture him and introduce him to sexy Rosy, who is to use her undeniable feminine charms on him.
Movie5.5AdventureFantasyMaciste arranges for himself and his new friend Bangor to be captured by a mysterious band of white-clad marauders and taken to an underground city. There the two are forced to turn an enormous wheel along with other captives as part of a gold-and-diamonds mining operation. The underground city's queen, Halis Mosab, takes note of the handsome, muscular Maciste and chooses him to be her consort if he can meet such challenges as saving the kidnapped Princess Saliura from a gigantic ape. Maciste kills the ape and carries Saliura back to the aboveground world. The white-clad marauders can't follow them if it means being caught in the sunlight which instantly dissolves them. Maciste then returns to the underground city to save the other captives. Meanwhile, high priest Kahab informs his son, Katar, that their queen is not one of them but, unbeknownst to her, was kidnapped as a small child from the "world above." If Katar can marry her...
Movie5.3AdventureActionA powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.
Movie5.6AdventureAn American secret agent is tasked with recovering a nuclear bomb stolen by spies.
Movie10.0CrimeThrillerThe scientist Prof. Dr. Franz Hergarten has to leave his playmate, the blonde Lisa, at home, because he is supposed to bring highly explosive and important documents from Germany to New York as an important secret bearer and courier of a certain organization. An ocean liner is chosen as the means of transportation. German security forces are to accompany him and shield him from unwelcome strangers. Soon Hergarten realizes that some agents of hostile powers, who are also keen on the secret papers, are on him, using every trick and weapon imaginable - including women.
Schwarzer Nerz auf zarter Haut
1970 · 1 votes
Movie6.0CrimeActionE.C.H.O., a secret organization with a strange name masterminds a bizarre plot to take over the world by dosing important `nerve centers' with super potent LSD. The only man who can stop them is Rex, a secret agent working for an undisclosed organization.
Movie7.3CrimeAn elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew betrays the details of the operation to a rival gangster.
Gangsters '70
1968 · 6 votes
Movie5.3ComedyTwo fearful and incapable individuals, Ciccio and Franco, are tasked by the leader of the Sicilian Mafia to travel to Milan to sell a large batch of wine. At first they have little luck, but soon they notice one of their competitors having great success using beautiful women to push their product. They adopt this model aggressively, but the women they hire end up enjoying so much success that their husbands become concerned and suspicious of their activities.
Movie4.6ComedyThrillerSix sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
Movie6.5ComedyYoung Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "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 desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.
Movie5.8HorrorMysteryAfter being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her body and sells it as sausages. As friends and relatives start asking questions about her disappearance, they too start ending up in the butcher's display case.
Movie7.0ComedyWesternA pair of twins survive an Indian raid on a caravan. While one of them will be raised by an army captain, the other will be raised by a bandit.
Movie9.0ComedyIl treno del sabato
1964 · 1 votes
Movie6.1CrimeA billionaire hires a professional thief to steal a famous diamond.
Movie6.4ComedyGiulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary money, he is willing to give up even his dignity. And slowly, he alienates his most beloved ones from himself....
Il successo
1963 · 20 votes
Movie5.0ComedyFive episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarder. A man convinces a friend to marry his lover, so as not to arouse his wife's suspicions. A man borrows money from a loan shark to pay for the services of his wife. Two couples try in vain to take a trip to the seaside.
Movie5.1ComedyThree episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
Movie3.4AdventureThe daughter of Sir Donovan is believed dead with her mother and other relatives in a plane crash in the African jungle. Fifteen years later, vague reports arrive in Europe that a Kenyan tribe has elected a white woman as their queen, Tarzana (meaning 'strange woman' in Bantu), and Sir Donovan wants to believe she is his daughter.
Movie6.5ThrillerActionWhen "The Third Eye" - a criminal organization made up of the world's most vicious killers - kidnaps nuclear scientist Professor Von Kraft, his secret formula for a new atomic weapon that can destroy all human life falls into their evil hands. Making things a tad difficult, however, is that the weapon is located deep beneath the ocean. Nevertheless, the Third Eye plans on experimenting with the device in little more than a week. However, the Secret Service has other ideas and asks "Jerry," their super computer, to locate the best man to stop them: Mark Andrews (RODD DANA), a special forces secret agent who infiltrates the criminal gang under the cover of a robber who just happens to be an expert underwater diver! He also wastes no time romancing all manner of shapely women in the tightest clothes imaginable (when they're wearing more than a modestly placed bed sheet) especially JANINE REYNAUD, the bisexual leader of The Third Eye, who sports a wild wardrobe of very revealing outfits.