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Adventure in Diamonds (1940) George Fitzmaurice, George Brent, Isa Miranda, John Loder
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner Read More »
Hotel Imperial (1939) Robert Florey, Isa Miranda, Ray Milland, Reginald Owen
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man’s-land where the Russians Read More »
Zazà (1944) Renato Castellani, Isa Miranda, Antonio Centa, Aldo Silvani
A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). Read More »
Summertime (1955) David Lean, Katharine Hepburn, Rossano Brazzi, Isa Miranda
The American secretary Jane Hudson travels from Ohio to Venice. Jane is a middle-age single and lonely woman that have saved money for her dream trip. Read More »
We, the Women (1953) Gianni Franciolini, Alfredo Guarini, Ingrid Bergman, Anna Magnani, Isa Miranda
Five portraits of actresses in their “common” life, seen as women rather than movie stars. Read More »
Le mura di Malapaga / The Walls of Malapaga (1949) René Clément, Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi, Drama, Romance
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter. Read More »
Do You Know This Voice (1964) Frank Nesbitt, Dan Duryea, Isa Miranda, Gwen Watford, Crime, Drama
When a ransom bid results in the death of a child, the police have only one lead – the old lady who witnessed the kidnapper using a public phone box. Read More »
La signora di tutti / Everybody’s Woman (1934) Max Ophüls, Isa Miranda, Memo Benassi, Tatyana Pavlova, Drama
Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can’t live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
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Gli sbandati / Abandoned / The Disbanded (1955) Francesco Maselli, Lucia Bosé, Isa Miranda, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Drama
Set during WWII, the film is a drama of the Italian resistance, with all the usual clichéd characters in attendance. The central character, a bombed-out gamine who falls in love with an Italian partisan, is played by Lucia Bose, who earned a great deal of praise for her performance. Most of the film deals with the culture-clash between the citified resistance fighters and their rural hosts.
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