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Laura Betti

Laura Betti

Italian actress
May 1, 1927 (July 31, 2004)

Fat Girl

V.O.: À ma soeur!
Fr. 2001. Mores drama by Catherine Breillat with Anaïs Reboux, Roxane Mesquida, Libero de Rienzo. A twelve-year-old girl with an unattractive physique unhappily witnesses her beautiful older sister
Runtime: 87 min.
Runtime: 108 min.

Romantic Ladies

V.O.: Dames galantes
Fr. 1990. Mores comedy by Jean-Charles Tacchella with Richard Bohringer, Isabella Rossellini, Marianne Basler. The tribulations of a knight who works to seduce the ladies of the court of King Henry III.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1987. Crime drama by Pierre Granier-Deferre with Philippe Noiret, Guy Marchand, Élizabeth Bourgine. Two cops who hate each other must investigate a series of mysterious deaths in a small seaside resort.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1987. Documentary by Agnès Varda with Jane Birkin, Philippe Léotard, Jean-Pierre Léaud. Portrait of actress Jane Birkin alternating with sketches on various themes.
Runtime: 95 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1986. Drama by Caroline Huppert with Thierry Frémont, Nicolas Navazo, Laura Betti. While suffocating in a shabby existence, a teenager conceives a curious plan to gain acceptance into a wealthy family he admires.

The Defective Detective

V.O.: Retenez-moi... ou je fais un malheur!
Fr. 1983. Comedy by Michel Gérard with Jerry Lewis, Michel Blanc, Charlotte de Turckheim. A Las Vegas police officer passing through Alsace is unknowingly caught up in the dalliances of his ex-wife's husband, also a police officer.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1982. Sentimental drama by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze with Yolande Folliot, Claude Giraud, Laura Betti. Fleeing her brutal lover, a woman takes refuge in Venice where she finds love in a famous photographer.
Runtime: 180 min.

That Night in Varennes

V.O.: La Nuit de Varennes
Fr. 1982. History by Ettore Scola with Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla. In 1791, writer Restif de la Bretonne meets various characters in a stagecoach going to Metz.
Runtime: 150 min.
Fr. 1978. Crime drama by Jacques Deray with Lino Ventura, Claudine Auger, Nicole Garcia. A French person passing through Barcelona is drawn into a mysterious affair.
Runtime: 94 min.
Fr. 1977. Dramatic comedy by Gérard Zingg with Gérard Depardieu, Robert Stephens, Laura Betti.
Runtime: 104 min.

The Gang

V.O.: Le Gang
It. 1976. Comedy by Jacques Deray with Alain Delon, Nicole Calfan, Adalberto Maria Merli. In the 1940s, the criminal exploits of Robert le Dingue and his gang, known as the ""front-wheel drive gang"".
Runtime: 100 min.

1900

V.O.: Novecento
It. 1976. Social drama by Bernardo Bertolucci with Burt Lancaster, Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu. Over the course of half a century, the friendship between a landowner and a farmhand goes through many trials.
Runtime: 315 min.
It. 1974. History by Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani with Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer. After his time in prison, an aristocrat is hunted by his former comrades from a revolutionary group.
Runtime: 111 min.

The Woman With Red Boots

V.O.: La Femme aux bottes rouges
Fr. 1974. Fantasy by Juan Luis Bunuel with Catherine Deneuve, Fernando Rey, Adalberto Maria Merli. A wealthy man invites a young novelist with apparent supernatural powers into his home.
Runtime: 93 min.

The Canterbury Tales

V.O.: I racconti di Canterbury
It. 1972. Sketches by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Laura Betti, Hugh Griffith, Franco Citti. Pilgrims on their way to the Canterbury Cathedral tell each other bawdy tales to pass the time.
Runtime: 109 min.

Viol en première page

V.O.: Sbatti il mostro in prima pagina
It. 1972. Social drama by Marco Bellocchio with Gian Maria Volonté, Laura Betti, Fabio Garriba. In the middle of an election period in Milan, the editor of a right-wing newspaper takes advantage of a news item to make the left unlikeable.
Runtime: 86 min.
Fr. 1970. Psychological drama by André Téchiné with Bulle Ogier, Marie-France Pisier, Michèle Moretti. The imaginative delusions of a young girl being treated in a psychiatric clinic.
Runtime: 85 min.

Theorem

V.O.: Teorema
It. 1968. Poetic drama by Pier Paolo Pasolini with Terence Stamp, Silvana Mangano, Massimo Girotti. A young stranger crosses paths with a bourgeois family in Milan and seduces each member.
Runtime: 98 min.

The Witches

V.O.: Le Streghe
It. 1966. Comedy by Luchino Visconti, Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Vittorio De Sica with Silvana Mangano, Totò, Alberto Sordi. The misadventures of five Italian women from different conditions.
Runtime: 121 min.

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