Rossana Podestà

Rossana Podestà

Born: June 20, 1934
Died: December 10, 2013
in Tripoli, Libya
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Rossana Podestà (born Carla Podestà, Tripoli, June 20 1934 – Rome, December 10 2013) was an Italian actress.

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Secrets Secrets
Title: Secrets Secrets
Character: Maria
Released: March 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating.
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Hercules
Title: Hercules
Character: Hera
Released: August 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.
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Sunday Lovers
Title: Sunday Lovers
Character: Clara (segment "Armando's Notebook") (as Rossana Posta)
Released: October 31, 1980
Type: Movie
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
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The Women of Quiet Country
Title: The Women of Quiet Country
Character: Anna Maldini
Released: March 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Italy, late thirties. The regime of Mussolini in the Prime of their Italian volunteers are sent to the civil war in Spain. On the background of a peaceful village landscapes, behind the walls of the old farmhouses Florianna (Carmen Scarpitta - La Orca) creating its own dictatorship: everything runs her brother Guido, requires unquestioning obedience to his will. He believes all women around their property, and, as a rooster in the hen house, must constantly confirm this action. Its problem - the young son Alberto, all is not similar to the father, who dreams of breaking free from the dictatorial care. When the estate is coming with his beautiful cousin Gloria, between young people flashes novel. Guido learns that my sister is going to bequeath his estate «unworthy» to his son. All the heralds tragic ending
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Seven Dangerous Women
Title: Seven Dangerous Women
Character: Ivonne
Released: September 30, 1979
Type: Movie
Seven female friends decide to play an erotic game. They try to seduce as many aristocrats and middle-class men as possible.
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Pane, burro e marmellata
Title: Pane, burro e marmellata
Character: Simona
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
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Il gatto mammone
Title: Il gatto mammone
Character: Rosalia
Released: December 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
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Sex Diary
Title: Sex Diary
Character: Serena
Released: July 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The Don Juan of a small provincial town saves from suicide a young American girl who falls in love with him. The citizens, after having discovered that the girl is very rich, will do everything to organize the marriage between them.
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The Sensuous Sicilian
Title: The Sensuous Sicilian
Character: Lilia
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?
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The Migratory Bird
Title: The Migratory Bird
Character: Delia Benetti
Released: August 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Andrea Pomeraro, a history teacher, has an affair with a student who then blackmails him. Attempting to retrieve the incriminating photos, he accidentally becomes the head of the student revolt and ends up in jail.
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Homo Eroticus
Title: Homo Eroticus
Character: Cocò Lampugnani
Released: September 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things goes terribly wrong.
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The Married Priest
Title: The Married Priest
Character: Silvia
Released: November 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
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Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Title: Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Character: Giorgia
Released: February 1, 1966
Type: Movie
The Professor and his men are captured by U.S. agents during an attempted train robbery. To avoid jail, they must kidnap a Latin dictator.
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Seven Golden Men
Title: Seven Golden Men
Character: Giorgia
Released: October 21, 1965
Type: Movie
After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.
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Le ore nude
Title: Le ore nude
Character: Carla
Released: August 27, 1964
Type: Movie
In this sex-charged character study, a woman's husband persuades her to share in his predilection for group sex. Later, she meets a student and has a one-day affair with him.
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F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Title: F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Character: Isabel Moore
Released: June 29, 1964
Type: Movie
An Interpol agent is tasked with investigating the deaths of several other agents.
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Horror Castle
Title: Horror Castle
Character: Mary Hunter
Released: August 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Women are being tortured to death with various torture devices in the dungeon of an old castle by a deformed, hooded, holocaust survivor.
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Title: Sodom and Gomorrah
Character: Shuah
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.
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The Golden Arrow
Title: The Golden Arrow
Character: Jamila
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom.
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Alone Against Rome
Title: Alone Against Rome
Character: Fabiola
Released: September 6, 1962
Type: Movie
A Roman Consul, on his way to fight a border war, stations a garrison of soldiers in a provincial town. The townspeople aren't happy with this situation but decide it's in their best interests to cooperate. However, the Tribune left in charge of the garrison proves to be cruel and demanding.
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Slave of Rome
Title: Slave of Rome
Character: Antea
Released: February 2, 1961
Type: Movie
During Julius Caesar's invasion of Gallia: The Gauls have broken their treaty with the Romans. Marcus Valerius and his friend are sent to punish them. Antea's father wants to have peace with Rome, having once been there and acknowledging their superior culture, but Lysircus forces a severely anti-Roman politic. When her father is killed by him in treachery, Antea joins the Romans who have to evade into a swamp. She falls in love with Marcus. Will she forsake her people forever?
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Fury of the Pagans
Title: Fury of the Pagans
Character: Leonora
Released: October 26, 1960
Type: Movie
In an imaginary northern European country during the High Middle Ages, two leaders of a barbarian village fight to gain power: one is good and right and the other is an evil selfish. Who will have it?
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A Glass of Whiskey
Title: A Glass of Whiskey
Character: María
Released: September 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Víctor is a handsome boy, skeptical and lover of the pleasures of life. He has no job or benefit and lives on women without realizing that his behavior triggers dramas and disappointments, pain and hopelessness.
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Temptation
Title: Temptation
Character: Caterina
Released: March 4, 1959
Type: Movie
When a ship bringing a contingent of international wounded from Korea is torpedoed, three women (two nurses and a secretary) and a male journalist survive and reach a lonely island in a boat. Soon desire erupts among them, but jealousy, lust and madness lead the events to tragedy.
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The Sword and the Cross
Title: The Sword and the Cross
Character: Marta
Released: December 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Mary Magdalene, a notorious harlot, must choose between her lascivious lifestyle and the love and affection of her decent-minded brother.
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Raw Wind in Eden
Title: Raw Wind in Eden
Character: Costanza Varno
Released: September 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Passengers struggle to survive after their plane crashes on a remote island. Director Richard Wilson's 1958 drama stars Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler and Rosanna Podesta.
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The Amorous Corporal
Title: The Amorous Corporal
Character: Bethi
Released: April 24, 1958
Type: Movie
A group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win the undying loyalty of a tribal potentate.
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Santiago
Title: Santiago
Character: Doña Isabella
Released: July 13, 1956
Type: Movie
Two American gun runners at odds with each other and looking to sell guns to the rebels during the Cuban War of Independence navigate a boat to Cuba. Along for the ride is a beautiful Cuban rebel in who both men are interested.
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Playa prohibida
Title: Playa prohibida
Character: Isabella
Released: April 19, 1956
Type: Movie
After her father has been murdered, the beautiful but allegedly insane Isabella lives in the house of her two nephews. A scenarist in need of inspiration walks on the beach and slowly unravels a series of murders.
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Helen of Troy
Title: Helen of Troy
Character: Helen
Released: January 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
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The Girls of San Frediano
Title: The Girls of San Frediano
Character: Tosca
Released: March 11, 1955
Type: Movie
Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing to anyone, but in the end who wants to grasp all lose all.
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Nosotros Dos
Title: Nosotros Dos
Character: María Pedrosa
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
After the death of her father, María returns to her hometown with Maria, her mother. Lupo and Beto fall in love with her, two brothers whose family is at odds with hers. While Beto tries to rape her, Lupo becomes the girl's protector.
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Songs from all over Italy
Title: Songs from all over Italy
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
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Ulysses
Title: Ulysses
Character: Nausicaa
Released: October 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
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Viva la rivista!
Title: Viva la rivista!
Released: August 26, 1953
Type: Movie
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The Net
Title: The Net
Character: Rossana
Released: June 8, 1953
Type: Movie
Antonio dives for sponges which are sold by his sweetheart Rossana. One day, the escaped prisoner José-Luis appears and is hid by his friend Antonio. Although José-Luis does not want to betray his friend, a love affair with tragic consequences between him and Rossana develops. The Net was one of Mexico's entries at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
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Voice of Silence
Title: Voice of Silence
Character: Angiolina De Bellis
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Voice of Silence is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.
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Luxury Girls
Title: Luxury Girls
Character: Pereira
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Lorna, the daughter of an American playboy, enters a girls' school for the international smart-set, in the Alps, where the main course of study appears to be how to trap a rich man. At first, she is dominated and looked down on by the school ring-leaders, and forced into rooming with - horrors - a scholarship student. But when a rich young American shows interest in her she is elevated to the international clique of the upper-termers. Then she falls in love with - horrors again - a poor local mountaineer.
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I, Hamlet
Title: I, Hamlet
Character: Ofelia
Released: September 27, 1952
Type: Movie
The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic.
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Cops and Robbers
Title: Cops and Robbers
Character: Liliana Bottoni
Released: November 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
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The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue
Title: The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue
Character: Princess Snow White
Released: November 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness.
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Domani è un altro giorno
Title: Domani è un altro giorno
Character: Stefania
Released: January 24, 1951
Type: Movie
A doctor saves a woman who was planning to commit suicide and takes her with him during his night shift.