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Tre storie proibite (1952)
Character: Gianna's mother
While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
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Guai ai vinti (1954)
Character: N/A
A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and both faces struggles with friends and family as they return to their homes.
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Pia de' Tolomei (1958)
Character: N/A
Pia de' Tolomei, despite being in love with Ghino Perticari, was forced to marry a nobleman from Siena who, when he discovers her love for the other man, has her locked up in a tower.
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Stasera sciopero (1951)
Character: N/A
A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
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Il morbidone (1965)
Character: N/A
Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.
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Abracadabra (1952)
Character: Cesira Caiazzo
Three crooks scheme to swindle a wealthy widow out of her fortune, but their plans are thwarted by the sudden return of her husband who is far from dead.
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La Suora Giovane (1965)
Character: N/A
The life of Antonio suddenly changes when she meets Serena, a young nun who took the veil to escape the hard life of the country and has chosen the provision of assistance to the sick to get out of the convent, which falls in love, moving from the role of seducer to that of seduced.
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Giorno per giorno disperatamente (1961)
Character: cartomante
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.
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Era notte a Roma (1960)
Character: Antoniani Family's Maid (uncredited)
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
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È arrivato il Cavaliere (1950)
Character: Signora Varelli
A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
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Totòtruffa '62 (1961)
Character: N/A
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
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La nave delle donne maledette (1953)
Character: Nora
After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo. Despite the strenuous efforts of her attorney-lover DeSylva, Consuelo is found guilty and shipped to a penal colony along with several other female prisoners.
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Giovani mariti (1958)
Character: Franco's mother
In a small Italian town, the local youngsters realize that their youth is coming to an end and marriage will soon follow. They gather together for one last time in an attempt to revive their younger days, but this comes to a dismal conclusion. Gradually it dawns on the group that childhood is over and the next stage in human growth must be faced.
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La spiaggia (1954)
Character: Luigina, moglie di Roberto
A mysterious woman takes her daughter on vacation after they've been separated for several months. There, she meets some of the richest and most eccentric people, who are hiding just as much as she is.
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La calda vita (1964)
Character: N/A
Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage male friends to go for a beach vacation. Their main motive is to try to win her affection and get to sleep with her. Tragedy soon follows when the love triangle unravels.
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Lo sai che i papaveri... (1952)
Character: N/A
A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
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Il segno di Venere (1955)
Character: Elvira
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
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Caporale di giornata (1958)
Character: N/A
A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
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Passaporto rosso (1935)
Character: N/A
Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.
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Le notti bianche (1957)
Character: La Padrona della Pensione
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
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La noia (1963)
Character: Tenant
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
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Anonima cocottes (1960)
Character: N/A
A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a pimp and the prostitutes take over the country.
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I motorizzati (1962)
Character: Maria Grazia
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
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Arrivederci, papà! (1948)
Character: Zia Gertrude
Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
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Senilità (1962)
Character: N/A
Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and coquettish young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.
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Made in Italy (1965)
Character: The Maid (segment "5 'La Famiglia', episode 2")
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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Totò cerca moglie (1950)
Character: Anna
Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
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Nella città l'inferno (1959)
Character: Signora Luisa
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
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Terza liceo (1954)
Character: Madre di Camilla
It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during those years of school.
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Un uomo da bruciare (1962)
Character: Madre di Francesca
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.
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Il gattopardo (1963)
Character: Peasant Woman
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.
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Risate di gioia (1960)
Character: N/A
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
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After the Fox (1966)
Character: Salvatore's Wife (uncredited)
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
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Le sei mogli di Barbablù (1950)
Character: Silvana
Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
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Cameriera bella presenza offresi... (1951)
Character: La contessa
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
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The Visit (1964)
Character: Mayor's Wife (uncredited)
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
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La telefonista (1932)
Character: signora Bàttigo, moglie di Alfredo
Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
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La banda Casaroli (1962)
Character: Gabriele's mother
Based on the misdeeds of the criminal group headed by Paolo Casaroli, who were dedicated to robbing banks.
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Darò un milione (1935)
Character: La donna del tiro a segno
A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
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Bravissimo (1955)
Character: N/A
The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice.
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Europa '51 (1952)
Character: Mrs. Puglisi
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.
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