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Tag Archives: Stefania Sandrelli
The Last Kiss AKA L’ultimo bacio (2001) Gabriele Muccino, Stefano Accorsi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Stefania Sandrelli
Carlo’s life is thrown into a tailspin when his longtime girlfriend Giulia Read More »
Mignon Has Come to Stay AKA Mignon è partita (1988) Francesca Archibugi, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean-Pierre Duriez, Leonardo Ruta
A French teenage girl is forced to move in with her less well off Italian relatives. Read More »
We All Loved Each Other So Much AKA C’eravamo tanto amati (1974) Ettore Scola, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war Read More »
Love Deal AKA Tatiana, la muñeca rusa (1995) Santiago San Miguel, Ornella Muti, Karra Elejalde, Stefania Sandrelli
Joaquín is a prestigious executive who travels to Russia with the intention Read More »
A Tale of Ham and Passion (1992) Bigas Luna, Penélope Cruz, Stefania Sandrelli, Anna Galiena
Jose Luis is an executive at his parents underwear factory where his girlfriend Sylvia works on the shop floor. Read More »
Somewhere Beyond Love (1974) Luigi Comencini, Giuliano Gemma, Stefania Sandrelli, Brizio Montinaro
In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. Read More »
I Knew Her Well (1965) Antonio Pietrangeli, Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business. Read More »
Seduced and Abandoned (1964) Pietro Germi, Saro Urzì, Stefania Sandrelli, Aldo Puglisi
Agnese, a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister Matilde’s fiancé. Read More »
Les magiciens / Death Rite (1976) Claude Chabrol, Franco Nero, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean Rochefort, Drama, Thriller
While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Read More »
Il diavolo nel cervello / Devil in the Brain (1972) Sergio Sollima, Stefania Sandrelli, Keir Dullea, Micheline Presle, Mystery, Thriller
A child suspected of killing his father is imprisoned in a mental hospital. A doctor finds him mentally healthy and begins to suspect another explanation. Read More »
L’immorale / The Climax (1967) Pietro Germi, Ugo Tognazzi, Stefania Sandrelli, Renée Longarini, Comedy
Sergio Masini, a violin player, is going to be the father of a sixth child… by his second mistress, Marisa. Read More »
Divorzio all’italiana / Divorce Italian Style (1961) Pietro Germi, Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
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Il conformista / The Conformist (1970) Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin, Drama
This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there. Look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power. At the border of Italy and France, where Marcello and his bride have to change trains, his bosses give him a gun with a silencer. In a flashback to 1917, we learn why sex and violence are linked in Marcello’s mind.
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L’attenzione / Attention (1987) Giovanni Soldati, Stefania Sandrelli, Ben Cross, Amanda Sandrelli, Drama, Romance, Erotic
This is a story of love and lust shaded with overtones of incest and lesbianism. Livia is a woman trying to regain the affections of her husband Alberto, whose journalism career takes him away for months at a time – on purpose. What she does not know is that he has an undeniable attraction for their daughter Monica. Livia’s own sexual eccentricities lead her to hire young women to have sex with Alberto while she listens in hiding. When Monica wants to get into the act too, the real truth about her parentage is revealed.
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