Laura Antonelli
Also Known As: Laura Antonaz, لورا آنتونلی
Biography: Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991, and she is best known for the movie Malizia. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens ... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance." Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics, she graduated as a gymnastics instructor. She moved to Rome, where she became a secondary-school gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry, who helped her find modelling jobs. Antonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited. Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Other roles followed; her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!. She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series. Antonelli's final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991), following which she retired. She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia. Antonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced. From 1972 to 1980, she was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 27 April 1991, cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonelli's home. She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest. She spent ten years appealing the conviction, which was eventually overturned. In 2006, the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108,000 euros. Antonelli died on 22 June 2015, aged 73, from a heart attack. Source: Article "Laura Antonelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pola, Croatia
Birthday: November 28, 1941
Deathday: June 22, 2015
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Gender: Female
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
Overview: Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.
Genres: Adventure Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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The Innocent
Overview: Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-18
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The Eroticist
Overview: Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-16
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Wifemistress
Overview: A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his wife blossom socially in his absence; then the plot thickens.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-27
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Malicious
Overview: A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-29
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Department Store
Overview: A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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The Divine Nymph
Overview: In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-16
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Bali
Overview: The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-29
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Viuuulentemente mia
Overview: Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to prison.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-21
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Tigers in Lipstick
Overview: 8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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Scoundrel in White
Overview: Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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Secret Fantasy
Overview: Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-22
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Rimini Rimini
Overview: Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Lovers and Other Relatives
Overview: Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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A Man Called Sledge
Overview: James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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Hypochondriac
Overview: During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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The Miser
Overview: Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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The Venetian Woman
Overview: Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-04-04
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Till Marriage Do Us Part
Overview: The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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Black Journal
Overview: A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs
Overview: The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of every country; to that end, he creates in his secret lab a bevy of bodacious girl bombs; full-length, life-size robots that explode when embraced.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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Stuff for the Rich
Overview: 3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-11-13
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Slices of Life
Overview: A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-06
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Senza malizia
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-07-05
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The Trap
Overview: A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
Genres: Horror Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Venus in Furs
Overview: Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful Wanda writhing naked amongst furs. His disturbing peeping tomism triggers off a whirlpool of emotions due to a childhood episode which punishes voyeurism with pain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-25
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I'm Getting a Yacht
Overview: A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-12-23
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How Funny Can Sex Be?
Overview: How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-19
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Simona
Overview: While at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with George. Her relationship with George was one of open sexual discoveries which eventually led to revenge and murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-22
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Holy Cow
Overview: When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-23
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Sesso e volentieri
Overview: Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-14
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Passion of Love
Overview: In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house, there is a strange young woman - Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-16
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Without Apparent Motive
Overview: A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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The Archangel
Overview: Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-07-02
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Chaste and Pure
Overview: Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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Time of Indifference
Overview: A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-21
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Malizia 2000
Overview: The teenage son of an architect falls for an older woman, an attractive housewife of his father's client.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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The Sexual Revolution
Overview: Fourteen people of different ages - seven men and seven women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to carry out an experiment inspired by the theories of an Austrian psychoanalyst. The creator - Professor Emilio Missiroli - wants to show that only a thousand breaking taboos' that stifle the sexual life can liberate man from his existential malaise. Every night, so, for a whole week, men and women of the group will couple through a draw, without giving any importance to their feelings, thus demonstrating that these can and should do without. Based on Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-21
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Il turno
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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Gradiva
Overview: After unearthing an ancient bas-relief sculpture of the gradiva or ‘woman who walks’ a young archaeologist begins to dream of the figure eluding him, while also pursuing a mysterious woman who eludes him in his waking life. Based on the novella by Wilhelm Jensen.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Magnificent Cuckold
Overview: Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-19
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Le sedicenni
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-24
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Overview: A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Detective Belli
Overview: A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-06
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