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Virna Lisi

Virna Lisi

Italian actress (1936-2014)
November 8, 1936 (December 18, 2014)

Va où ton coeur te porte

V.O.: Va dove ti porta il cuore
Runtime: 110 min.

Queen Margot

V.O.: La Reine Margot
Fr. 1993. History by Patrice Chéreau with Isabelle Adjani, Daniel Auteuil, Jean-Hugues Anglade. In 1572 in Paris, after the wedding of King Charles IX's sister, the papist extremists indulge in the massacre of Protestants during the night of St. Bartholomew.
Runtime: 165 min.

Merry Christmas... Happy New Year

V.O.: Buon Natale... Buon anno
It. 1989. Dramatic comedy by Luigi Comencini with Michel Serrault, Virna Lisi, Consuelo Ferrara.
Runtime: 100 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
It. 1978. Mores drama by Salvatore Samperi with Martin Halm, Virna Lisi, Michele Placido.
Runtime: 95 min.

Beyond Good and Evil

V.O.: Al di là del Bene e del Male
It. 1977. Psychological drama by Liliana Cavani with Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson, Robert Powell. The strange m
Runtime: 127 min.

White Fang

V.O.: Zanna Bianca
It. 1973. Adventures by Lucio Fulci with Franco Nero, Virna Lisi, Fernando Rey. During the Klondyke Gold Rush, a wolfhound is tamed by a young Native American and then retrieved by a smuggler.
Runtime: 101 min.

The Serpent

V.O.: Le Serpent
Fr. 1972. Spy drama by Henri Verneuil with Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde. The CIA verifies the claims of a Russian colonel seeking asylum in the United States.
Runtime: 127 min.
Fr. 1971. Psychological drama by Sergio Gobbi with Virna Lisi, Maurice Ronet, Annie Cordy. The romantic crossroads between a race car driver and the director of a beauty salon.
Runtime: 98 min.

Scandale à Rome

V.O.: Roma bene
It. 1971. Satire by Carlo Lizzani with Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy. The dishonesty of various representatives of the Roman high society.
Runtime: 99 min.
G.-B. 1970. Comedy by Rod Amateau with David Niven, Virna Lisi, Robert Vaughn. A professor, honoured with the Nobel Prize for the invention of an international language, is also the subject of a giant statue sculpted by his wife.
Runtime: 84 min.

Strange Love Affair

V.O.: Un Beau Monstre
Fr. 1970. Crime drama by Sergio Gobbi with Helmut Berger, Virna Lisi, Charles Aznavour. A young woman, who witnesses the suicide of a neighbour, meets her husband during the investigation and marries him.
Runtime: 130 min.

The Heist

V.O.: Le Temps des loups
Fr. 1969. Crime drama by Sergio Gobbi with Robert Hossein, Charles Aznavour, Virna Lisi. A police commissioner tries to stop the exploits of a gangster who happens to be a childhood friend.
Runtime: 108 min.

The Christmas Tree

V.O.: L'Arbre de Noël
Fr. 1969. Melodrama by Terence Young with William Holden, Virna Lisi, Bourvil. A widower struggles to ease the last days of his young son who is suffering from a terminal illness.
Runtime: 110 min.
It. 1968. Comedy by Mauro Bolognini with Virna Lisi, James Fox, Terry-Thomas. A young Italian aristocrat tries to save her family's home through various scams.
Runtime: 88 min.
It. 1968. Sentimental comedy by Franco Brusati with Virna Lisi, George Segal, Lila Kedrova.
Runtime: 83 min.

Anyone Can Play

V.O.: Le Dolci Signore
It. 1967. Mores comedy by Luigi Zampa with Claudine Auger, Virna Lisi, Ursula Andress. The romantic affairs of four young women who met in college.
Runtime: 85 min.

The Girl and the General

V.O.: La Ragazza e il Generale
It. 1967. War drama by Pasquale Festa Campanile with Rod Steiger, Virna Lisi, Umberto Orsini. With the help of a peasant girl, an Italian soldier tries to return to his regiment by taking an Austrian general prisoner.
Runtime: 103 min.

Better a Widow

V.O.: Meglio vedova
It. 1967. Comedy by Duccio Tessari with Peter McEnery, Virna Lisi, Gabriele Ferzetti. The tribulations of an expert from an English oil company who comes to Sicily to install a refinery.
Runtime: 90 min.

The 25th Hour

V.O.: La 25ème Heure
Fr. 1966. War drama by Henri Verneuil with Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Serge Reggiani. Denounced as a Jew, a Romanian peasant is separated from his wife during the war.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1966. Comedy by Norman Panama with Tony Curtis, Virna Lisi, George C. Scott. A senior American officer tries to win back his now married ex-girlfriend.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1966. Crime drama by Jack Donohue with Frank Sinatra, Virna Lisi, Tony Franciosa. Adventurers try to salvage a submarine to use it for piracy.
Runtime: 105 min.
It. 1966. Satire by Pietro Germi with Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello. In a small Italian town, the amorous shenanigans of various petty bourgeois put their reputation at risk.
Runtime: 115 min.

Une Vierge pour le prince

V.O.: Una vergine per il principe
It. 1966. Comedy by Pasquale Festa Campanile with Vittorio Gassman, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy. During the Renaissance, an Italian prince had to prove his virility.
Runtime: 97 min.

Les Poupées

V.O.: Le Bambole
It. 1965. Sketches by Dino Risi, Luigi Comencini, Franco Rossi, Mauro Bolognini with Virna Lisi, Elke Sommer, Gina Lollobrigida. The love affairs of some women.
Runtime: 105 min.
It. 1965. Comedy by Mario Monicelli with Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Michèle Mercier. An Italian officer, working for NATO, is looking for difficult love affairs.
Runtime: 113 min.
Fr. 1964. Adventures by Christian-Jaque with Alain Delon, Virna Lisi, Adolfo Marsillach. To avoid being unmasked, a vigilante is replaced by his twin brother.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1964. Mores comedy by Richard Quine with Jack Lemmon, Virna Lisi, Terry-Thomas. A comic book writer finds that his married life is getting in the way of his inspiration.
Runtime: 118 min.
Fr. 1964. Spy drama by Maurice Labro with Dominique Paturel, Virna Lisi, Jacques Balutin. Coplan is looking for a reactor stolen by spies.
Runtime: 110 min.

The Shortest Day

V.O.: Il Giorno piu corto
It. 1963. Comedy by Sergio Corbucci with Walter Pidgeon, Stewart Granger, Virna Lisi. The course of World War I changes when two Italian conscripts accidentally destroy a formidable weapon of the German forces.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1962. Psychological drama by Joseph Losey with Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi. A writer falls in love with a fickle woman who plays cat and mouse with him.
Runtime: 115 min.

Duel of the Titans

V.O.: Romolo e Remo
It. 1961. Adventures by Sergio Corbucci with Steve Reeves, Virna Lisi, Gordon Scott. The story of the founding of Rome by the brothers Romulus and Remus.
Runtime: 89 min.

Un de la réserve

V.O.: Un Militare e mezzo
It. 1960. Comedy by Steno with Renato Rascel, Aldo Fabrizi, Virna Lisi. After a thirty-year stay in the United States, an Italian person in his fifties finds himself forcibly conscripted by the army to do his military service.
Runtime: 95 min.

Seule contre Borgia

V.O.: Caterina Sforza, la leonessa di Romagna
It. 1959. History by Giorgio Walter Chili with Virna Lisi, Sergio Fantoni, Erno Crisa. In the fifteenth century, the life of Caterina Sforza.
Runtime: 88 min.

Le Maître de forges

V.O.: Il Padrone delle ferriere
It. 1959. Sentimental drama by Anton Giulio Majano with Antonio Vilar, Virna Lisi, Terence Hill. Out of spite, a woman marries a man she soon learns to love.
Runtime: 109 min.

Sous les griffes du tyran

V.O.: Il Conte di Matera
It. 1958. Adventures by Luigi Capuano with Virna Lisi, Otello Toso, Paul Muller.
Runtime: 86 min.

Seul survivra, un

V.O.: Vite perdute
Runtime: 85 min.

Les Dix-huit ans

V.O.: Le Diciottenni
It. 1956. Dramatic comedy by Mario Mattoli with Virna Lisi, Marisa Allasio, Antonio de Teffe.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1955. Comedy by Alex Joffé with Bernard Blier, Bourvil, Giovanna Ralli.
Runtime: 102 min.

Le Voiturier du mont Cenis

V.O.: Il Vetturale del Moncenisio
It. 1954. Melodrama by Guido Brignone with Roldano Lupi, Elisa Cegani, Virna Lisi.
Runtime: 90 min.

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