Franca Valeri

Franca Valeri

Born: July 31, 1920
Died: August 9, 2020
in Milan, Italy

Movies for Franca Valeri...

Zona Franca
Title: Zona Franca
Character: Sé stessa (materiale d'archivio)
Released: November 27, 2020
Type: Movie
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Alberto il grande
Title: Alberto il grande
Character: Self
Released: February 16, 2013
Type: Movie
Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 2003. Through this documentary Verdone’s brothers with deep respect towards the Roman actor trace an affectionate and sincere portrait not only about an Artist but, above all, about a man with his habits, his ideas, his tics, his vices and his virtues. And for the first time Mrs Aurelia – Alberto Sordi’s sister who is dedicated the documentary – opens the doors of the beautiful house of Via Druso where the actor has lived since 1958. In this way we are led by Carlo Verdone (a sort of Virgilio whose Dante Alighieri wrote about but we are not in the Hell but in the Seven Heaven where there is the source of the Italian Cinema) and on the tips and staying in silence we can go into the rooms of this wonderful house which reveals the true, authentic character of Alberto Sordi.
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Franca, la prima
Title: Franca, la prima
Character: Se stessa
Released: October 31, 2011
Type: Movie
Directed by Sabina Guzzanti
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L'uomo dalla bocca storta
Title: L'uomo dalla bocca storta
Character: Self
Released: October 19, 2009
Type: Movie
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Vittorio D.
Title: Vittorio D.
Character: Self
Released: September 17, 2009
Type: Movie
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
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Tosca e altre due
Title: Tosca e altre due
Released: May 15, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: Come quando fuori piove
Character: Avvocatessa
Released: October 29, 2000
Type: TV
A mysterious lottery win of 5 billions italian liras creates turmoil in the town of Cittadella.
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Title: Linda e il brigadiere
Character: Olga Peres
Released: April 6, 1997
Type: TV
Linda e il brigadiere is an Italian television series.
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Title: Caro maestro
Released: March 8, 1996
Type: TV
Caro maestro is an Italian television comedy series which aired from 1996 to 1997 on Canale 5. The series follows Stefano Giusti, a bus driver who is allowed to teach at Forte dei Marmi elementary school in which he was raised. There, he meets and falls in love with Elisa, teacher and director of the school, with whom he used to date.
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Title: Norma e Felice
Character: Norma Del Becco
Released: October 15, 1995
Type: TV
Norma e Felice is an Italian television series.
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Lady Football
Title: Lady Football
Character: contessa
Released: September 28, 1983
Type: Movie
It is the story of the brilliant football player Cotechiño, hired by the Napoli team as a centre-forward. Too bad that his professional career will be strongly influenced by the frequent absence of his fiancée, for which he feels an inexplicable, almost obsessive jealousy. That's why he hires a plumber very similar to him to keep an eye on his beloved, but that won't be enough when Cotechiño is kidnapped.
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I Don't Understand You Anymore
Title: I Don't Understand You Anymore
Character: Maritza
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise.
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Love in First Class
Title: Love in First Class
Character: Signora Della Rosa
Released: August 12, 1980
Type: Movie
A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who obviously is not too often at home, has no clue about how to deal with young children, even the most basic chores a father should know to tend the restless imp thrown in his care. The crowded train traveling from Milan to Reggio, Calabria, is packed in the second class section where Carmelo and Malcom have a hard time getting a seat. When they finally do, young Malcolm decides to disappear from his compartment. He goes to the first class car, where eventually Carmelo decides to sit and pay the extra supplement. He is lucky to find more space, and the companionship of Beatrice, a woman that is bringing the skeleton of a rare animal. Carmelo finds a way to interest the lady. Their ride is certainly bumpy, complicated when he decides to leave the mischievous Malcolm at an intermediate stop.
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It's Not Me, It's Him
Title: It's Not Me, It's Him
Released: January 23, 1980
Type: Movie
Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti wants only to flee her wife to find her mistress Valerie. Misunderstandings when Vallier joined them. They must flee in the desert a jealous husband...
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Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Title: Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Character: Maria
Released: May 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scandalizes a first class compartment ..
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The Rip-Off
Title: The Rip-Off
Character: Giovanna Bronchi
Released: May 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a wealthy French businessman.
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Come ti rapisco il pupo
Title: Come ti rapisco il pupo
Character: Dada
Released: May 21, 1976
Type: Movie
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Italy is Rotten
Title: Italy is Rotten
Character: contessa Giovanna
Released: April 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
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Title: Nel mondo di Alice
Character: La duchessa
Released: September 3, 1974
Type: TV
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Poker in Bed
Title: Poker in Bed
Character: Giulia Nascimbeni
Released: August 14, 1974
Type: Movie
A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.
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The Last Italian Tango
Title: The Last Italian Tango
Character: la regista
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship.
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Hector the Mighty
Title: Hector the Mighty
Character: Cassandra
Released: January 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
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Basta guardarla
Title: Basta guardarla
Character: Pola Prima
Released: December 27, 1970
Type: Movie
Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
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On the Day of the Lord
Title: On the Day of the Lord
Character: Vedova Anticoli
Released: March 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
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RARA
Title: RARA
Released: May 30, 1969
Type: Movie
In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way.
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Listen, Let's Make Love
Title: Listen, Let's Make Love
Character: Diraghi
Released: September 13, 1968
Type: Movie
When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war.
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Soldier's Girl
Title: Soldier's Girl
Character: Bice Marinetti
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world.
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Title: Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Character: Journalist
Released: February 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
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The Maniacs
Title: The Maniacs
Character: The Wife (segment "il pezzo antico")
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
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I cuori infranti
Title: I cuori infranti
Character: Fatma Angioj (segment "La manina di Fatma")
Released: November 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.
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Gli onorevoli
Title: Gli onorevoli
Character: Bianca Sereni
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Moglie del bersagliere alla stazione
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Paris, My Love
Title: Paris, My Love
Character: Delia Nesti
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the GLBT community who quote its lines by heart. Unique as it's the only film where Franca Valeri (now 90) is the unquestioned star, in the role of Delia, a snobbish, stingy prostitute who is moving to Paris looking for greener and more lucrative pastures. An anti-neorealist, amoral, almost abstract comedy, which anticipates Almodóvar, a ferocious, though gentle, non-moralistic portrayal of the 60's boom and its broken dreams. The dialogue between Delia and her brother (played by Fiorenzo Fiorentini), when he does (or does not) tell her he is a homosexual, is memorable, a primordial coming-out, a masterpiece of allusions. But what makes it one of the first examples of a film with a "gay point of view" is the approach: perceptive, non-conformist, caustically witty. A film ahead of its times, still unbeaten.
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I motorizzati
Title: I motorizzati
Character: Velia
Released: November 30, 1962
Type: Movie
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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Questi fantasmi
Title: Questi fantasmi
Released: January 29, 1962
Type: Movie
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Leoni al sole
Title: Leoni al sole
Character: Giulia
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.
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...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Title: ...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Character: Giovanna
Released: December 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
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Mariti in pericolo
Title: Mariti in pericolo
Character: Elena
Released: November 24, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Widower
Title: The Widower
Character: Elvira Almiraghi
Released: November 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
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You're on Your Own
Title: You're on Your Own
Character: Marisa, 'Siberia'
Released: September 4, 1959
Type: Movie
In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.
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The Moralist
Title: The Moralist
Character: Virginia
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
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Non perdiamo la testa
Title: Non perdiamo la testa
Character: Beatrice Clacton
Released: April 16, 1959
Type: Movie
A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
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The Love Specialist
Title: The Love Specialist
Character: Contessa Bernardi
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.
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Husbands in the City
Title: Husbands in the City
Character: "Olivetti"
Released: December 18, 1957
Type: Movie
In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
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The Bigamist
Title: The Bigamist
Character: Isolina Fornaciari
Released: February 17, 1956
Type: Movie
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
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Piccola posta
Title: Piccola posta
Character: Lady Eva / Filomena Cangiullo
Released: December 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
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A Hero of Our Times
Title: A Hero of Our Times
Character: Vedova De Ritis
Released: September 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble..
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The Sign of Venus
Title: The Sign of Venus
Character: Cesira
Released: March 12, 1955
Type: Movie
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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Le signorine dello 04
Title: Le signorine dello 04
Character: Carla
Released: February 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.
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These Phantoms
Title: These Phantoms
Character: Armida, la moglie di Alfredo
Released: November 12, 1954
Type: Movie
A young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises.
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It Happened in the Park
Title: It Happened in the Park
Character: Elvira (segment: Concorso di bellezza)
Released: December 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
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Totó in color
Title: Totó in color
Character: Giulia Sofia
Released: April 8, 1952
Type: Movie
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
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Variety Lights
Title: Variety Lights
Character: Mitzy - hungarian designer
Released: December 6, 1950
Type: Movie
In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.