9 Movies Starring Raf Vallone

Bitter Rice

Bitter Rice

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-09-18

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

108 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.7 (1949 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Corrado Alvaro

Giuseppe De Santis (screenplay)

Giuseppe De Santis (story)

Carlo Lizzani (screenplay)

Carlo Lizzani (story)

Carlo Musso

Ivo Perilli

Gianni Puccini (screenplay)

Gianni Puccini (story)

Fullplot:

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

Strange Deception

Strange Deception

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-05-03

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

96 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (133 Reviews)

Fullplot:

Back in his village, former war prisoner Bruno Baldi is dead set on avenging his brother who has been shot by a German firing squad after being given away by a villager. But nobody wants to give him the name of the culprit. At long last, Antonio, a joiner, reveals the informer but this comes at a cost.

Il segno di Venere

Il segno di Venere

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1955-03-12

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

101 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (250 Reviews)

Director:

Dino Risi

Cast:

Writer:

Edoardo Anton (story)

Luigi Comencini (story)

Franca Valeri (story)

Edoardo Anton (screenplay)

Ennio Flaiano (screenplay)

Franca Valeri (screenplay)

Dino Risi (screenplay)

Cesare Zavattini (scenario collaborator)

Fullplot:

The Adultress

The Adultress

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-11-06

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

102 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (772 Reviews)

Director:

Marcel Carnè

Cast:

Writer:

èmile Zola (novel)

Marcel Carnè (adaptation)

Charles Spaak (adaptation)

Charles Spaak (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Therese has a boring life. She married Camille, her cousin, a sickly haberdasher, fully dominated by his mother (who lives with them). She dreams about passion. One day comes a truckdriver, Laurent... and of course they fall in love. But they will be pursued by fate.

Guendalina

Guendalina

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1957-02-20

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

(42 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Valerio Zurlini (story)

Leonardo Benvenuti

Piero De Bernardi

Jean Blondel

Alberto Lattuada

Fullplot:

El Cid

El Cid

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-12-14

Languages:

English, Latin

Countries:

Italy, USA

Runtime:

182 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.3 (9049 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Mann

Cast:

Writer:

Fredric M. Frank (story)

Philip Yordan (screenplay)

Fredric M. Frank (screenplay)

Ben Barzman (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.

Phaedra

Phaedra

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-09-01

Languages:

English, Greek

Countries:

France, Greece, USA

Runtime:

115 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.2 (860 Reviews)

Director:

Jules Dassin

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Margarita Lymberaki (screenplay)

Jules Dassin

Margarita Lymberaki (original scenario)

Fullplot:

The powerful Greek shipowner and constructor Thanos proposes to marry Phaedra during the baptism of a ship with her name. Phaedra, who is the daughter of Thanos'greatest competitor, is a bored woman and has a son from her first marriage. Thanos gives an expensive ring to Phaedra and soon he learns that his estranged son from his first marriage, Alexis, has left the University of Economics in London to dedicate to paint. Thanos asks Phaedra to travel to London to bring Alexis to meet him in Greece. When Phaedra meets Alexis, she falls in love with her stepson and seduces him. Their doomed love affair leads the family to a tragedy.

Vu du pont

Vu du pont

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1962-01-19

Languages:

French, Italian, English

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

110 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (272 Reviews)

Director:

Sidney Lumet

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Arthur Miller (play)

Norman Rosten (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Eddie Carbone, a Brooklyn longshoreman is unhappily married to Beatrice and unconsciously in love with Catherine, the niece that they have raised from childhood. Into his house come two brothers, illegal immigrants, Marco and Rodolpho. Catherine falls in love with Rudolpho; and Eddie, tormented but unable to admit even to himself his quasi-incestuous love, reports the illegal immigrants to the authorities.

The Scarlet and the Black

The Scarlet and the Black

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-02-02

Languages:

English, German, Italian

Countries:

USA, UK, Italy

Runtime:

143 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (1725 Reviews)

Director:

Jerry London

Cast:

Writer:

J.P. Gallagher (book)

David Butler

Fullplot:

Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian Resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, but O'Flaherty's activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican. O'Flaherty continues his work in a variety of disguises. Based on a true story.

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