Silvia Dionisio

Silvia Dionisio

Born: September 28, 1951
in Rome, Italy
Born 28 September 1951 in Rome, daughter of a pediatrician, Silvia Dionisio made her debut in the world of cinema when she was 14 years old in the movie Darling (1965, John Schlesinger).

In 1967 she won the beauty contest Miss Teenager. After a few "musicarelli" movies, where she met director Ruggero Deodato (whom she married december 5, 1971), she got her first main role in the 1970 movie "A Girl Called Jules" (La ragazza di nome Giulio). She had a son (Saverio Deodato Dionisio, later actor), then divorced in 1979.

In 1975 she was the star of the movie "Ondata di piacere" (directed by her husband Deodato) which turned her in one of the most beautiful and elegant erotic icons of the period. In late 1970s she played in several action ("polizieschi") movies. She ended her cinematographic career in 1981 with the thriller "Murder Obsession".

In 1983 she married the Roman surgeon Roberto Mazzarella, with whom he had a daughter.

Her last public appearance was in a 1984 Campari advertising directed by Federico Fellini.

Movies for Silvia Dionisio...

La sconosciuta
Title: La sconosciuta
Character: Olga
Released: February 4, 1982
Type: Movie
The story begins with the mysterious death of a foreigner in Rome. The man, who has just found traces of his wife disappeared four years earlier, is killed. His wife reappears and she is involved in an espionage affair.
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Crema, cioccolata e... Paprika
Title: Crema, cioccolata e... Paprika
Character: Bebe morreti
Released: August 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.
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Murder Obsession
Title: Murder Obsession
Character: Deborah
Released: February 24, 1981
Type: Movie
Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.
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The Women of Quiet Country
Title: The Women of Quiet Country
Character: Gloria
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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Ciao marziano
Title: Ciao marziano
Character: Maddalena
Released: February 28, 1980
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of the distant planet Gemini send to Rome the extraterrestrial Bix. His task is to transport twelve Earths to the planet so that we can find out if they are suitable for living there. Bix, who's distinguishable from humans only because he has a green face, also has supernatural powers that allow him to repair damages. On the eve of the departure for Gemini, a trap is set for him...
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The Bailiff of Greifensee
Title: The Bailiff of Greifensee
Character: Wendelgard 'Kapitän'
Released: February 23, 1980
Type: Movie
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Terror Express
Title: Terror Express
Character: Juliette
Released: January 10, 1980
Type: Movie
Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.
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Riavanti… Marsch!
Title: Riavanti… Marsch!
Character: Marina
Released: November 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile.
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The Fantastic Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Title: The Fantastic Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Character: Morella
Released: March 11, 1979
Type: Movie
Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Originally made for Italian TV.
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Lobster for Breakfast
Title: Lobster for Breakfast
Character: Matilde Tucci
Released: March 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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L'inquilina del piano di sopra
Title: L'inquilina del piano di sopra
Character: Aurora Traboccetti
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Exasperated by the great racket coming from Miss Aurora Trabocchetti's apartment, the neighbors give Professor Canestrari a mandate to deliver an ultimatum to the young woman. Too bad the teacher takes a liking to Aurora and agrees to give her private lessons. In fact, the girl aspires to marry the scion of a noble family and to try to crown her dream she must improve her culture.
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Il... Belpaese
Title: Il... Belpaese
Character: Mia
Released: December 17, 1977
Type: Movie
After many years working abroad, Guido comes back to Milan. His dream is to set up a clock-shop but Italy is much changed while he was abroad. Robbery and bombs are daily events and to go out for a walk in the evening is risky. He succeeds however in setting up his shop only to see it destroyed by gangsters. But he meets a girl who calls herself Mia and he falls for her.
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Il marito in collegio
Title: Il marito in collegio
Character: Carlotta
Released: May 30, 1977
Type: Movie
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Fear in the City
Title: Fear in the City
Character: Laura Masoni
Released: September 14, 1976
Type: Movie
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
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Crimebusters
Title: Crimebusters
Character: Anna
Released: June 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.
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I prosseneti
Title: I prosseneti
Character: Silvia
Released: April 28, 1976
Type: Movie
David and his wife Gilda transform their beautiful villa in a brothel, which are home to several characters. Odile, the daughter of a woman tortured by mercenaries, meets in the villa one of the torturers and want to relive over his own body the suffering endured by the mother. An ambassador who was abandoned by his companion, imposes its new partner to take his place. An eighteen year old, very open-minded, staged an orgy.
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Blackmail Chase
Title: Blackmail Chase
Character: Moira Shelton
Released: April 2, 1976
Type: Movie
A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Title: Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Character: Sonia
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
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A Common Sense of Modesty
Title: A Common Sense of Modesty
Character: Orchidea
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: Movie
The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.
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Violent Milan
Title: Violent Milan
Character: Leila
Released: March 5, 1976
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of the robbers managed to escape with the loot, while the other two are forced to take hostages to escape. The police started investigations but also the gang leader, the Cat, will be hunting the first two escaped with the loot to get money, and revenge for their escape.
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Noi siam come le lucciole
Title: Noi siam come le lucciole
Character: Lara
Released: January 10, 1976
Type: Movie
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Holiday Hookers
Title: Holiday Hookers
Character: Rosana
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Madame is running a high class escort (and prostitution) service. She wants to quit the business as soon as she makes enough money to make her dreams come true. However, the relationship with her girls is deteriorating.
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My Friends
Title: My Friends
Character: Titti
Released: October 24, 1975
Type: Movie
Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.
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Waves of Lust
Title: Waves of Lust
Character: Barbara
Released: August 4, 1975
Type: Movie
A young couple become embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, sex games, betrayal, spouse abuse, and murder.
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Strip First, Then We Talk
Title: Strip First, Then We Talk
Character: Cristina
Released: April 12, 1975
Type: Movie
An employee discovers the infidelity of the girlfriend and will try to take revenge.
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Blood for Dracula
Title: Blood for Dracula
Character: Perla
Released: August 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
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Kiss of a Dead Woman
Title: Kiss of a Dead Woman
Character: Carla Serra Trabia
Released: February 2, 1974
Type: Movie
The Countess Clara is in love with Andrea Valverde but agrees to marry the Count Guido when he learns that Andrew is his brother from his mother's side.
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Erotomania
Title: Erotomania
Character: Claretta
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Rodolfo Persichetti has reached the maximum of his career and at the same time the minimum of his sexual capacities. A famous psychiatrist helps him in regaining his lost virility by mean of a new therapy.
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Sgarro alla camorra
Title: Sgarro alla camorra
Character: Gisella Gargiulo
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Andrea leaves the prison in advance through Cecere who wants to use him for his shady dealings. Tidied a boat, would be given to the fishing with his friend Peter, but first must do justice.
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The Sicilian Checkmate
Title: The Sicilian Checkmate
Character: Giacalone's daughter
Released: February 3, 1972
Type: Movie
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
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Long Live Robin Hood
Title: Long Live Robin Hood
Character: Lady Marianne di Manson
Released: March 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Also known as The Scalawag Bunch - This bunch is none other than the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest and their feisty leader, Robin Hood. This is a '70s Italian-Spanish-French version of the often-played Robin Hood story, sometimes known as Archer of Fire.
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Transplant of a Brain
Title: Transplant of a Brain
Character: Mariela
Released: December 23, 1970
Type: Movie
An affluent judge with an incurable brain disease with only months to live decides to become the guinea pig for a new brain transplant technique. The operation is a success, but the unfortunate brain donor was a young man with unfinished business, and soon the memories and desires of this young man overwhelm the judge.
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The Married Priest
Title: The Married Priest
Character: Liliana Bellini
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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Tears of love
Title: Tears of love
Character: Paola
Released: August 7, 1970
Type: Movie
An English singer thinks his Italian wife has cheated on him and goes back to England. He is then involved in drug trafficking and ends up in jail. Luckily enough after a while the real culprit is revealed and he can go back to Italy and his wife.
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A Girl Called Jules
Title: A Girl Called Jules
Character: Jules
Released: July 25, 1970
Type: Movie
After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama.Dionisio is perfect in the title role and this remains her best film, Valerii turns up along the way too. Just when the film hits a period of auto pilot John Steiner turns up in the final reel for a climax that is quite unforgettable. A bit difficult to trace but well worth the effort.
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Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Title: Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Character: Lisa Prandi
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...
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Pensiero d'amore
Title: Pensiero d'amore
Character: Paola Meniconi
Released: December 5, 1969
Type: Movie
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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Title: Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Character: Mariolina
Released: October 30, 1969
Type: Movie
Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
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Police Chief Pepe
Title: Police Chief Pepe
Character: Silvia
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
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Detective Belli
Title: Detective Belli
Character: Gabriella (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1969
Type: Movie
A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.
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Italiani! È severamente proibito servirsi della toilette durante le fermate
Title: Italiani! È severamente proibito servirsi della toilette durante le fermate
Character: Patrizia
Released: May 30, 1969
Type: Movie
University protester, follower of Marx, Mao and Marcuse, Benito loves Patrizia, employed in a beauty institute, but she refuses to have more intimate relationships with her until the total revolution has triumphed. During a party, a bearded anarchist, nicknamed Garibaldi, proposes a change to Patrizia: her virginity for a car. The girl makes the boyfriend believe that he accepted the proposal. Promising to "fight the system from the inside" and since time passes and nothing happens, Benito allows himself to be "integrated" by the system.
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Vacation on the Esmeralda Coast
Title: Vacation on the Esmeralda Coast
Character: Gianna, Grassu's daughter
Released: December 6, 1968
Type: Movie
A hotel owner, in competition with a rival owner, finds a cache of lost treasure on the bottom of the bay after trying to drown himself which turns his life upside down.
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The Young, the Evil and the Savage
Title: The Young, the Evil and the Savage
Character: Margaret
Released: February 20, 1968
Type: Movie
A woman is strangled in the bath by a black-gloved killer who disposes of her body in a large trunk. The trunk is delivered to St. Hilda College, an exclusive finishing school. Betty-Anne, one of the female students, is strangled in the school cellar. The police, led by Inspector Durand, are called in to investigate. Suspects include La Floret, the voyeuristic gardener; Di Brazzi, the new swimming instructor; Mrs. Clay, the summer school French mistress; an old professor who collects birds; and a philandering young teacher called Richard. The murders continue but Jill, a keen amateur detective, helps the police identify the unlikely killer...
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Eat It - Mangiala
Title: Eat It - Mangiala
Character: Daughter of Farmer #1
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
An industrialist tries to find an advertising gimmick for his canned meat product "Eat it!". In the fields he finds a savage individual who has reduced himself to two functions only: eating huge amounts of food and making love. So he uses this savage man for his advertising purposes by making the public believe that his meat is an aphrodisiac. Some time later the strange being loses his "gifts". The industrialist tries to replace him, but the incredible amounts of meat he eats turns him into a cow! (Digitmovies)
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The Exchange Student
Title: The Exchange Student
Character: Une vacancière avec le chien
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
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Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
Title: Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
Character: Stefania
Released: September 7, 1967
Type: Movie
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Rita the Mosquito
Title: Rita the Mosquito
Character: Collettina
Released: September 30, 1966
Type: Movie
Rita, a vivacious co-ed is in love with her music teacher, a man who leads a double life - bespectacled professor by day and composer of rock songs by night. Will Rita win his heart?
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Darling
Title: Darling
Character: Prince Cesare della Romita's Daughter (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1965
Type: Movie
The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.