Xenia Valderi
Also Known As: Xenia Valdameri
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Spalato, Croazia
Adult: No
Birthday: January 21, 1926
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: November 03, 2008
Popularity:
Known For:
Woman of Rome
Overview: During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-27
Popularity:
Red Desert
Overview: In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-04
Popularity:
The Swindle
Overview: Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-07
Popularity:
You'll See Me Returning
Overview: A young Italian sailor enrolled in the Italian Navy meets in Rome the Princess Liu, betrothed to a nobleman in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-07
Popularity:
The Suitcase of Dreams
Overview: In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-29
Popularity:
Il prigioniero del re
Overview: Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-07-29
Popularity:
100 Years of Love
Overview: Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-25
Popularity:
The Ballad of Husbands
Overview: Giulio and Armando, both married, attempt an escape from their respective married lives, invent a secret mission and leaves for the south.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-09
Popularity:
Il tallone di Achille
Overview: Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-18
Popularity:
Adventure in Capri
Overview: A young French girl, Yvonne, having won a competition, goes to Capri for a short break. There she meets Baron Vanvutelli, an old-fashioned old man, Mario, a Roman student, who came to spend the Sunday at Capri, along with two friends, Renato and Julius.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-14
Popularity:
Non perdiamo la testa
Overview: A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-16
Popularity:
Disperato addio
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-06
Popularity:
The Maids
Overview: Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-14
Popularity:
Violent Summer
Overview: Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-13
Popularity:
Mother's Heart
Overview: An unworthy nephew, with the help of a girl who seduces the young guardian, robs the aunt of the family jewels. He also manages to put the blame for the theft on the caretaker, engaged to a young woman who is actually the woman's natural daughter. The thief also tries to blackmail his aunt by threatening to reveal the truth after so many years, but a commissioner manages to prove the innocence of the suspect and the guilt of his nephew.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-24
Popularity:
The Age of Indiscretion
Overview: In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-23
Popularity:
Move and I'll Shoot
Overview: Renato Tuzzi, a primary school teacher, is a shy man, unable to be respected by the turbulent kids.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-13
Popularity:
The Swindlers
Overview: A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-25
Popularity: