Alida Valli
Birthday: 1921-05-31
Place of Birth: Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]
Biography: Alida Valli (May 31, 1921 – April 22, 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria.
Movies
The Third Man
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o...
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I Was to Blame
A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his...
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1900
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...
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Season of Peace in Paris
A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual at...
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Lisa and the Devil
Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelt...
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Luna
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with...
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Eyes Without a Face
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daug...
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The Sweet Sounds of Life
Sofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting teacher...
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The Paradine Case
In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused o...
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The Cassandra Crossing
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off t...
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Towards Zero
Verso l'ora zero is an Italian television film from 1980. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel T...
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Fatal Frames
Alex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella...
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Il Grido
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal....
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Killer Nun
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of les...
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The Spider's Stratagem
A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the ...
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Oedipus Rex
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and t...
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Senso
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affa...
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The Miracle of the Bells
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she ...
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Inferno
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house....
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Manuela's Loves
The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a...
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Indian Summer
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini...
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Ophélia
A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies....
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The Night Heaven Fell
Ursula finishes her studies and returns to her aunt Florentine and uncle, Ribera who is the count. S...
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Homage at Siesta Time
The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungl...
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We, the Women
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars....
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Flesh of the Orchid
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her...
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Eye in the Labyrinth
Julie is disturbed by the disappearance of her psychiatrist boyfriend Luca following a bizarre dream...
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Berlinguer: I Love You
A young poet falls in love with a sophisticated woman who hates poetry. But the poet wants to win he...
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Three Cornered Hat
A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the...
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The White Tower
Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak....
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The Antichrist
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a mal...
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Walk Softly, Stranger
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter....
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a...
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The Perfect Crime
The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to...
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The Dialogue of the Carmelites
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seek...
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The Paper Man
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries t...
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The Wide Blue Road
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Lik...
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Tender Dracula
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire ro...
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Zitti e mosca
In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about ...
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The Castilian
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual m...
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The Killer Strikes at Dawn
A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professi...
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It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadis...
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That House in the Outskirts
A young girl's husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three mo...
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Schoolgirl Diary
In a girls' school, Maria, a student, is accused of having an affair with the young professor Marini...
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Piccolo mondo antico
Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmo...
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Dirty World
Senator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against immorality. ...
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Miracles Only Happen Once
1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each...
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Last Meeting
The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to...
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This Angry Age
Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of a...
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The Stranger's Hand
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major...
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The Happy Thieves
A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from ...
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Beyond Love
Set in the Papal States in the first half of the 19th century, it tells the story of the Roman noble...
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The House of Exorcism
A re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly filmed...
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The Lovers of Toledo
Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the ...
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We the Living, Part Two
After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Pete...
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Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein
Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites t...
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Secrets Secrets
Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thr...
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The Sweet Sounds of Life
Sofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting teacher...
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I pagliacci
Movie adaptation of the Leoncavalo's famous opera. A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by...
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A Month by the Lake
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This ye...
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Illa - Punto d'osservazione
Illa, a brilliant and somewhat immature girl, involuntarily witnesses a ferocious shootout during a ...
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I'll Love You Forever
Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she c...
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Apparizione
One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to...
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The World Condemns Them
Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an e...
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Eugenia Grandet
Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Sa...
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Il peccato degli anni verdi
Released from a boarding school of nuns in Como, the seventeen-year-old Milanese Elena Giordani mana...
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Il canto della vita
During the German occupation, the only heir of a rich owner of the Roman countryside, in order to es...
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The Gigolo
Agathe Perrin, a wealthy widow in her forties, lives with her ailing father in an estate on the shor...
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...
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La Fille du torrent
Widowed at the age of twenty, Madame Boissière is a real mother hen, excessively brooding over her t...
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Black Humor
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze ar...
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To Our Late Husband
The widow of a thief learns that the chateau she lives in has a fortune in gold hidden somewhere....
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A Simple Heart
Set in a rural area of France in the 19th century, this simple tale tells the story of a servant gir...
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Angel of Death
The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the a...
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Disorder
Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the wo...
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L'uomo dai calzoni corti
Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never m...
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Black Humor
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze ar...
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La bocca
A young restorer is commissioned a job at an old villa which belongs to an aging countess....
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Forbidden Dreams
Paolo Coniglio is a naive and clumsy employee in a comics publishing house, bullied by his manager a...
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Signed, Arsène Lupin
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings com...
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The Long Absence
Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A t...
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The Game of Solitaire
A psychiatrist takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stab...
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Probably Love
Sofia is a young student in an acting class who learns some of the secrets of the trade from three g...
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Zoo zéro
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approac...
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The Fall of the Rebel Angels
Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is h...
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The Long Silence
Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line ...
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Suspiria 25th Anniversary
Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre can...
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The Other Woman
The troubling attraction of a young decorator, Agnès, on a small Spanish island, for a man everyone ...
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Manon Lescaut
Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally fo...
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Suspiria
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a fr...
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The Final Scoop
Marco, a television journalist, reads "red lies" on his teletext system in order to gather material ...
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The Sons of Medea
The sons of Medea are an Italian "teledramma", broadcast live on 9 June 1959 on the National Program...
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Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...
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We the Living, Part One
At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. S...
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Luce nelle tenebre
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notori...
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Il trovatello
A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind....
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Cher Victor
A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up house...
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Stasera niente di nuovo
A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a...
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L'amor mio non muore!
A young man with no solid income is rejected by a wealthy industrialist when he dares to ask for his...
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