7 Movies Starring Elsa Martinelli

Donatella

Donatella

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1956-10-28

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (34 Reviews)

Director:

Mario Monicelli

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Roberto Amoroso

Sandro Continenza

Ruggero Maccari

Mario Monicelli

Piero Tellini

Fullplot:

The Big Night

The Big Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-11-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (313 Reviews)

Director:

Mauro Bolognini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pier Paolo Pasolini (novel)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay)

Jacques-Laurent Bost (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Una notte di due balordi, Scintillone e Ruggero, a cui si aggiunge in seguito un terzo, Bellabella, che dopo un furto vengono a loro volta derubati. Tentano poi di rubare un'apparecchio fotografico da una macchina; sorpresi dal proprietario, Achille, ci fanno amicizia e si recano a casa sua. Qua rubano nuovamente, duecentomila lire, e scappano. Ma litigano per il bottino. Cosè tra liti, arresti e donne continua la notte finchè all'alba Ruggeretto si ritrova con mille lire e la nausea.

The Big Night

The Big Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-11-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (313 Reviews)

Director:

Mauro Bolognini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pier Paolo Pasolini (novel)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay)

Jacques-Laurent Bost (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Una notte di due balordi, Scintillone e Ruggero, a cui si aggiunge in seguito un terzo, Bellabella, che dopo un furto vengono a loro volta derubati. Tentano poi di rubare un'apparecchio fotografico da una macchina; sorpresi dal proprietario, Achille, ci fanno amicizia e si recano a casa sua. Qua rubano nuovamente, duecentomila lire, e scappano. Ma litigano per il bottino. Cosè tra liti, arresti e donne continua la notte finchè all'alba Ruggeretto si ritrova con mille lire e la nausea.

The Big Night

The Big Night

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-11-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

95 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (313 Reviews)

Director:

Mauro Bolognini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Pier Paolo Pasolini (novel)

Pier Paolo Pasolini (screenplay)

Jacques-Laurent Bost (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Una notte di due balordi, Scintillone e Ruggero, a cui si aggiunge in seguito un terzo, Bellabella, che dopo un furto vengono a loro volta derubati. Tentano poi di rubare un'apparecchio fotografico da una macchina; sorpresi dal proprietario, Achille, ci fanno amicizia e si recano a casa sua. Qua rubano nuovamente, duecentomila lire, e scappano. Ma litigano per il bottino. Cosè tra liti, arresti e donne continua la notte finchè all'alba Ruggeretto si ritrova con mille lire e la nausea.

Hatari!

Hatari!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-06-19

Languages:

English, Swahili

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

157 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (8419 Reviews)

Director:

Howard Hawks

Cast:

Writer:

Leigh Brackett (screenplay)

Harry Kurnitz (story)

Fullplot:

John Wayne and his ensemble cast cavort over the African landscape filling orders from zoos for wild animals. Bruce Cabot plays "the Indian", a womanizing sharpshooter who is gored by a rhino in the opening scenes of the film. This becomes a running theme through the movie; their bad luck in catching rhinos, and provides the climactic ending chase. While Bruce is in the hospital, Elsa Martinelli shows up as a woman photographer from a Swiss zoo, and John wants to send her packing. She strongarms the Duke into letting her stay by promising that her zoo will buy most of their animals this season if she's allowed to go along on the hunts and take photos. Hardy Kruger, Gerard Blain, Michelle Girardon and Valentin de Vargas round out the group. They traipse over the African landscape capturing animals; Elsa also has a running gag where she collects baby elephants as the movie goes along. In the end she's acquired three of them.

The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-09-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

119 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2282 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Awaiting at London Airport for a flight to New York, Frances Andros, seen off by her tycoon husband, Paul Andros, plans to leave her spouse for the arms of an aging international playboy, Marc Champselle. Les Mangrum, a self-made Australian businessman traveling with his loyal secretary, Miss Mead, must be in New York the following day to arrange the loan that will help him repel a hostile takeover of his tractor company. Max Buba, a film mogul traveling with starlet Gloria Gritti, must get out of England immediately or face ruinous British income tax. The Duchess of Brighton has taken a job as a hostess at an American holiday resort, thinking she will be able to keep her family estate on her new income. Fog descends and blurs the future for them all, forced now to wait in the airport hotel for morning and fair weather.

The 10th Victim

The 10th Victim

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1965-12-20

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

92 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2139 Reviews)

Director:

Elio Petri

Genres:

ActionSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Sheckley (story)

Tonino Guerra (screenplay)

Giorgio Salvioni (screenplay)

Ennio Flaiano (screenplay)

Elio Petri (screenplay)

Fullplot:

A campy futuristic tale where people hunt one another for sport. In this film, Victim and Hunter run around Italy trying to score a kill in front of the movie crews they arranged so they could make commercials from the footage.

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