Elsa Martinelli
Also Known As: Elsa Tia
Biography: 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. From the mid 1950s through the late 1960s, she divided her time between Europe and the USA appearing films such as Four Girls in Town (1957) with George Nader, Manuela (1957) with Trevor Howard, Prisoner of the Volga (1959) with John Derek, Hatari! (1962) with John Wayne, The Pigeon That Took Rome (1962) with Charlton Heston, The Trial with Anthony Perkins, The V.I.P.s (1963) with Orson Welles, Rampage (1963) with Robert Mitchum, and Woman Times Seven (1967) with Lex Barker. In Candy (1968), her co-stars were Charles Aznavour, Marlon Brando, Richard Burton, James Coburn, Walter Matthau and Ringo Starr. Since the late 1960s, she has worked in Europe in mostly foreign language productions. Her last English language role was as Carla the Agent in 1992s Once Upon a Crime. Her most recent appearance was in the 2005 European television series Orgoglio as the Duchessa di Monteforte. Martinelli was first married to Count Franco Mancinelli Scotti di San Vito, by whom she has a daughter, Cristiana Mancinelli (born 1958), also an actress. She later was married to the Paris Match photographer and 1970s furniture designer Willy Rizzo. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elsa Martinelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: January 30, 1935
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: July 08, 2017
Popularity:
Known For:
The Trial
Overview: Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-21
Popularity:
Madigan's Millions
Overview: 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 criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-30
Popularity:
The Movie Orgy
Overview: 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 societal ills attacking American cities.
Genres: Comedy Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
Popularity:
OSS 117 Takes a Vacation
Overview: OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-04
Popularity:
Hatari!
Overview: A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-19
Popularity:
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
Overview: A group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-24
Popularity:
Woman Times Seven
Overview: 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 revealed as a jealous husband's spy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-29
Popularity:
The V.I.P.s
Overview: Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
Popularity:
The 10th Victim
Overview: 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 includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-02
Popularity:
The Big Night
Overview: The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty crimes all day begin with arms theft, and culminating with a night with three streetwalkers. After their pleasure, the boys try to cheat the hookers, but they ladies are smarter than that and have stolen their cash ahead of time. It's back to the city for the boys, where they continue their destructive games...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-12
Popularity:
Captain Blood
Overview: Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-03
Popularity:
Love in Rome
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-24
Popularity:
The Indian Fighter
Overview: A scout leading a wagon train through hostile Indian country gets involved with a Sioux chief's daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-21
Popularity:
Blood and Roses
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-14
Popularity:
I Am an ESP
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-12-24
Popularity:
The Oldest Profession
Overview: A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-07
Popularity:
The Belle Starr Story
Overview: 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 which goes awry....
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-15
Popularity:
Manon 70
Overview: Manon is an amoral, free spirit who uses sex to surround herself in relatively luxurious surroundings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-21
Popularity:
Rampage
Overview: 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.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-09
Popularity:
Four Girls in Town
Overview: 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 Universal's glamour star in an upcoming Biblical epic?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-16
Popularity:
Once Upon a Crime
Overview: 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 is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is determined to track them all down.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-06
Popularity:
Rice Girl
Overview: 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 fallen in love with the car mechanic Gianni. But that only creates mistrust. When Guerrini's worthless nephew harasses the girl, the situation is dramatically worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-01-27
Popularity:
Maroc 7
Overview: The lady of a top fashion magazine doubles as a jewel thief and becomes involved in Moroccan intrigue.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-22
Popularity:
The Pigeon That Took Rome
Overview: An American Infantry officer assigned to a cloak-and-dagger role in Rome uses homing pigeons for outside contact, with humorous results.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-19
Popularity:
L'amica
Overview: 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 young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
Popularity:
Twisted Sex Vol. 5
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-10-01
Popularity:
Hail! Mafia
Overview: A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-10
Popularity:
All About Loving
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-28
Popularity:
Donatella
Overview: 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 offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-03
Popularity:
Le Rouge et le Noir
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-29
Popularity:
Il tempo delle mimose
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-01-01
Popularity:
Every Man Is My Enemy
Overview: When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
Popularity:
How I Learned to Love Women
Overview: An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-02
Popularity:
Marco the Magnificent
Overview: Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-06
Popularity:
Diamonds Are Brittle
Overview: 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 solution emerges: a cleverly organized hold-up will enable them to live in luxury for the rest of their lives. Bernard soon makes the acquaintance of Bettina and her mother, Madame Ralton, professionals in the "heist" business.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-17
Popularity:
Prisoner of the Volga
Overview: A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-26
Popularity:
Misdeal
Overview: 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. An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-30
Popularity:
Candy
Overview: A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-17
Popularity:
The Mine
Overview: 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 illegally uses dynamite nearly causes tragedy to the entire community.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-02-06
Popularity:
The Invincible Swordsman
Overview: Lovers are united by a political and royal coup within the court of King Louis XIII.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-01
Popularity:
Conquest
Overview: 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. It is considered the national epic of the Kingdom of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-08-02
Popularity:
Manuela
Overview: 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 native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-18
Popularity:
Astuzia per Astuzia
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-30
Popularity:
Scorched Skin
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-18
Popularity:
The Menace
Overview: 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 group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable damage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-01
Popularity:
L'or du duc
Overview: 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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
Popularity:
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Overview: Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-24
Popularity:
Katmandu
Overview: 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.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-26
Popularity:
I piaceri del sabato notte
Overview: Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-05-04
Popularity:
The Red Carnation
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
Popularity:
Wild Cats on the Beach
Overview: 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 and Angelina from Sicily are on vacation in Rome where they meet the street smart Nicola.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-05
Popularity:
The Lion's Share
Overview: A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-08
Popularity:
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-06
Popularity:
Tunisi top secret
Overview:
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-21
Popularity:
One on Top of the Other
Overview: A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-15
Popularity:
Pop Age
Overview: 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.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
Popularity:
Italian Kings Of B
Overview: Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
Popularity:
Se vincessi cento milioni
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-01
Popularity:
Il segreto di Otello
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-02-05
Popularity: