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Elsa Martinelli

Elsa Martinelli

Elsa Martinelli (3 August 1932 or 30 January 1935, according to different sources) was an Italian actress and former fashion model.

Born Elisa Tia in Grosseto, Tuscany, she moved to Rome with her family and in 1953 was discovered by Roberto Capucci who introduced her to the world of fashion. She became a model and began playing small roles in films. She appeared in Claude Autant-Lara's Le Rouge et le noir (1954), but her first important film role came the following year with The Indian Fighter opposite Kirk Douglas. Douglas claims to have spotted her on a magazine cover and hired her for his production company, Bryna Productions. In 1956 she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the 6th Berlin International Film Festival for playing the title role in Mario Monicelli's Donatella.

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Italian Kings Of B (2003)

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Twisted Sex Vol. 5 (1993)

Twenty-third volume of Something Weird Videos on going series in their collection of American and European sexploitation trailers from the 1950s to the 1970s. ...

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Once Upon a Crime (1992)

On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress ...

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I Am an ESP (1985)

Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that make the miracle cry out to everyone. ...

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Astuzia per Astuzia (1979)

A double murder upsets the tranquility of a hotel where a famous and witty lawyer is staying. The case involves him and pushes him to investigate the two crimes until the conclusion which he will reach thanks to the help of his driver. ...

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The Red Carnation (1976)

Our hero is the 18-year-old Alessio Mainardi, who receives a token red carnation from a girl named Giovanna and becomes a symbol of love, desire, and even has political overtones as a symbol of the struggle for political freedom in opposition to Fascism. ...

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The Lion's Share (1971)

A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist. ...

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Conquest (1971)

La Araucana is a Chilean film based on an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. ...

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OSS 117 Takes a Vacation (1970)

OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double. ...

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L'amica (1969)

The beautiful but neglected wife of a brilliant architect from Milan, betrayed by her husband and mocked by her friend who manages the amorous adventures that she dreams of having, decides to take vengeance of the two, seducing her friend's husband and her ...

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Katmandu (1969)

A rebellious socially-conscious man travels to Nepal to find his dead-beat dad. There, he meets Jane, a beautiful hippie girl hooked on drugs. He's forced to steal artefacts for his father's slimy employer to earn money to help Jane. ...

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One on Top of the Other (1969)

A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife. ...

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Misdeal (1969)

A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a man who is supposedly exiled in the Amazone. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin ...

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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (1969)

A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days. ...

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Candy (1968)

A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life. ...

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Madigan's Millions (1968)

When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His ...

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The Belle Starr Story (1968)

Dominated by men in her youth, Belle Starr now out-shoots and out-gambles them as she makes her way around the West. One man who's her equal is Larry Blackie with whom she has an on-again, off-again relationship. Together they become involved in a robbery ...

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Manon 70 (1968)

Manon is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings. ...

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The Movie Orgy (1968)

Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and ...

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Woman Times Seven (1967)

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective reveale ...

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The Oldest Profession (1967)

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages. ...

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Maroc 7 (1967)

The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue. ...

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Every Man Is My Enemy (1967)

When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him... ...

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How I Learned to Love Women (1966)

An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women. ...

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Pop Age (1966)

Report on the young people of the yéyé period and pop music. Jerk at the Palladium, Beatles, press clippings, questions about the impact of fashion (long hair and accoutrements) and modernity, youth, change, freedom. ...

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The 10th Victim (1965)

In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It ...

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L'Or du duc (1965)

A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold. ...

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Diamonds Are Brittle (1965)

Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a schoolteacher, dreams of one day living the high life, and his best friend Roger, a little-known inventor, is equally despairing. After careful consideration, a so ...

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Hail! Mafia (1965)

A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend. ...

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Marco the Magnificent (1965)

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder. ...

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All About Loving (1964)

Serge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes Sophie to her dentist, Raoul, who tries to seduce her too. ...

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Rampage (1963)

In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna. ...

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The V.I.P.s (1963)

Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials. ...

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The Invincible Swordsman (1963)

Lovers are united by a political and royal coup within the court of King Louis XIII. ...

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Scorched Skin (1962)

The love affair between Andrea, laborer from the italian northern area called Bassa Lombarda and apulian single mother, Rosaria, is grafted on the background of the inconveniences of poor commuters who must go to work in Milan by train. ...

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The Trial (1962)

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed. ...

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Hatari! (1962)

A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses. ...

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The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962)

An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results. ...

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The Menace (1961)

Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent ...

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Love in Rome (1960)

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another. ...

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Captain Blood (1960)

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Il carro armato dell'8 settembre (1960)

Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks. ...

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Blood and Roses (1960)

The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village. ...

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I piaceri del sabato notte (1960)

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution. ...

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The Big Night (1959)

The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day, beginning with arms theft, leading to an encounter with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat ...

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Wild Cats on the Beach (1959)

Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. The famous American actress Rita is in search of her umpteenth husband. Leopoldo a ...

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Prisoner of the Volga (1959)

A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890. ...

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The Mine (1958)

Elsa Martinelli plays a resident of a seaside village who falls in love with rootless stranger Antonio Ciffariello. The stranger soon learns that he'll have to fight over Elsa's affections with hotheaded villager Luis Pena. Meanwhile, a fisherman who illeg ...

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Manuela (1957)

James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he's sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful nativ ...

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Four Girls in Town (1957)

Four young starlets, from various parts of the world, are called to Hollywood to test for the lead in a major film. Each is romantically pursued by the director, composer, playboy, and actor. Which one of an international quartette of beauties will replace ...

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Donatella (1956)

Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who ...

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Rice Girl (1956)

The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds out that she is his illegitimate daughter of whom he knew nothing. He tries to secretly help Elena, who has ...

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The Indian Fighter (1955)

A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter. ...

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Le Rouge et le Noir (1954)

It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control. ...

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