Livia Venturini
Actor · 1926 – 2008 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Movies15
Movie7.9DramaWhen Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
La strada
1954 · 1.2K votes
Movie7.7ComedyFantasyTwo 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
Movie6.5DramaRomanceSix vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
Movie5.7ComedyI miei più cari amici
1998 · 9 votes
Movie6.4ComedyThis is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
1956 · 29 votes
Movie5.4ComedyRomanceA poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
Movie6.8ComedyBefore finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.
Mortacci
1989 · 20 votes
Movie6.1DramaHistoryIn late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys that ruled those lands—fights to preserve its waning power in the face of the newly unified Italian regime.
I Vicerè
2007 · 36 votes
Movie7.0ComedyItalian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri.
Movie6.5MusicDramaGoethe's drama and Gounod's opera "Faust" is treated here like a movie rather than the usual photographed-opera from a stage method. Faust is a man who sells his soul to Mephistopheles in exchange for eternal youth, and the latter, with guileful glee, leads Faust to disaster along the paths of pleasure. Marguerite falls in love with Faust, and suffers as a consequence.
Movie5.8ComedyAldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in the hospice and invites him to take a pleasure trip to Sanremo in Liguria. In fact Vittorio, though blind, is a cheat who’s in trouble.
Infelici e contenti
1992 · 109 votes
Movie6.1ComedyDramaMatriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.
Ritorno a casa Gori
1996 · 15 votes
Movie8.0ComedyLa bisarca
1950 · 1 votes
MovieThrillerNemi (Roma). Some girls are killed and bear a mark on their bodies. Is it perhaps the work of a mad painter?
Movie6.3Chi nasce tondo...
2008 · 8 votes