Silvia Dionisio
Also Known As: Sylvia Dionisio
Biography: Born 28 September 1951 in Rome, daughter of a pediatrician, Silvia Dionisio made her debut in the world of cinema when she was 14 years old in the movie Darling (1965, John Schlesinger). In 1967 she won the beauty contest Miss Teenager. After a few "musicarelli" movies, where she met director Ruggero Deodato (whom she married december 5, 1971), she got her first main role in the 1970 movie "A Girl Called Jules" (La ragazza di nome Giulio). She had a son (Saverio Deodato Dionisio, later actor), then divorced in 1979. In 1975 she was the star of the movie "Ondata di piacere" (directed by her husband Deodato) which turned her in one of the most beautiful and elegant erotic icons of the period. In late 1970s she played in several action ("polizieschi") movies. She ended her cinematographic career in 1981 with the thriller "Murder Obsession". In 1983 she married the Roman surgeon Roberto Mazzarella, with whom he had a daughter. Her last public appearance was in a 1984 Campari advertising directed by Federico Fellini.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: September 28, 1951
Age: 73 years old
Gender: Female
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Blackmail Chase
Overview: A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-02
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Blood for Dracula
Overview: Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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Waves of Lust
Overview: A young couple become embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games, sex games, betrayal, spouse abuse, and murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-04
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Violent Milan
Overview: A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of the robbers managed to escape with the loot, while the other two are forced to take hostages to escape. The police started investigations but also the gang leader, the Cat, will be hunting the first two escaped with the loot to get money, and revenge for their escape.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-05
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Murder Obsession
Overview: Michael is a successful actor, but he has a scandal in his past: at a tender age he knifed his father to death. He and his girlfriend Deborah go to his mother's for the weekend, and are joined by the director and others from a recent film project, who are given a rather cool reception by the superstitious housekeeper Oliver. Soon rude things begin happening to some of the guests, and Michael fears a repeat of his nightmare past is in progress.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-02-24
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Fear in the City
Overview: The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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Crimebusters
Overview: Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-17
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Police Chief Pepe
Overview: A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-24
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Il... Belpaese
Overview: After many years working abroad, Guido comes back to Milan. His dream is to set up a clock-shop but Italy is much changed while he was abroad. Robbery and bombs are daily events and to go out for a walk in the evening is risky. He succeeds however in setting up his shop only to see it destroyed by gangsters. But he meets a girl who calls herself Mia and he falls for her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Il marito in collegio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-05-30
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Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-07
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Vacation on the Esmeralda Coast
Overview: A hotel owner, in competition with a rival owner, finds a cache of lost treasure on the bottom of the bay after trying to drown himself which turns his life upside down.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-06
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Pensiero d'amore
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Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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I prosseneti
Overview: David and his wife Gilda transform their beautiful villa in a brothel, which are home to several characters. Odile, the daughter of a woman tortured by mercenaries, meets in the villa one of the torturers and want to relive over his own body the suffering endured by the mother. An ambassador who was abandoned by his companion, imposes its new partner to take his place. An eighteen year old, very open-minded, staged an orgy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-28
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Rita the Mosquito
Overview: Rita, a vivacious co-ed is in love with her music teacher, a man who leads a double life - bespectacled professor by day and composer of rock songs by night. Will Rita win his heart?
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-30
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Riavanti… Marsch!
Overview: Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Overview: A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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A Girl Called Jules
Overview: After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama.Dionisio is perfect in the title role and this remains her best film, Valerii turns up along the way too. Just when the film hits a period of auto pilot John Steiner turns up in the final reel for a climax that is quite unforgettable. A bit difficult to trace but well worth the effort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-25
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Erotomania
Overview: Rodolfo Persichetti has reached the maximum of his career and at the same time the minimum of his sexual capacities. A famous psychiatrist helps him in regaining his lost virility by mean of a new therapy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-30
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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Overview: Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
Genres: Romance Drama History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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Long Live Robin Hood
Overview: Also known as The Scalawag Bunch - This bunch is none other than the Merry Men of Sherwood Forest and their feisty leader, Robin Hood. This is a '70s Italian-Spanish-French version of the often-played Robin Hood story, sometimes known as Archer of Fire.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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Sgarro alla camorra
Overview: Andrea leaves the prison in advance through Cecere who wants to use him for his shady dealings. Tidied a boat, would be given to the fishing with his friend Peter, but first must do justice.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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My Friends
Overview: Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-24
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Terror Express
Overview: Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-10
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The Women of Quiet Country
Overview: In the late thirties of Italy, In the background of peaceful village landscapes, Guido requires unquestioning obedience to his will in his house. Alberto dreams of breaking free from the dictatorial care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-24
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Holiday Hookers
Overview: Madame is running a high class escort (and prostitution) service. She wants to quit the business as soon as she makes enough money to make her dreams come true. However, the relationship with her girls is deteriorating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Eat It - Mangiala
Overview: An industrialist tries to find an advertising gimmick for his canned meat product "Eat it!". In the fields he finds a savage individual who has reduced himself to two functions only: eating huge amounts of food and making love. So he uses this savage man for his advertising purposes by making the public believe that his meat is an aphrodisiac. Some time later the strange being loses his "gifts". The industrialist tries to replace him, but the incredible amounts of meat he eats turns him into a cow! (Digitmovies)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Cream, Chocolate and... Paprika
Overview: Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-08-15
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La sconosciuta
Overview: The story begins with the mysterious death of a foreigner in Rome. The man, who has just found traces of his wife disappeared four years earlier, is killed. His wife reappears and she is involved in an espionage affair.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-02-04
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The Bailiff of Greifensee
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-02-23
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Ciao marziano
Overview: The inhabitants of the distant planet Gemini send to Rome the extraterrestrial Bix. His task is to transport twelve Earths to the planet so that we can find out if they are suitable for living there. Bix, who's distinguishable from humans only because he has a green face, also has supernatural powers that allow him to repair damages. On the eve of the departure for Gemini, a trap is set for him...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-28
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Transplant of a Brain
Overview: An affluent judge with an incurable brain disease with only months to live decides to become the guinea pig for a new brain transplant technique. The operation is a success, but the unfortunate brain donor was a young man with unfinished business, and soon the memories and desires of this young man overwhelm the judge.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-23
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Darling
Overview: The swinging London, early sixties. Beautiful but shallow, Diana Scott is a professional advertising model, a failed actress, a vocationally bored woman, who toys with the affections of several men while gaining fame and fortune.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-03
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The Fantastic Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Overview: Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Originally made for Italian TV.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-11
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Kiss of a Dead Woman
Overview: The Countess Clara is in love with Andrea Valverde but agrees to marry the Count Guido when he learns that Andrew is his brother from his mother's side.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-02
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Lobster for Breakfast
Overview: Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old school mate and hapless salesman who shows up to beg Mario to buy toilets so he won't lose his job. Mario signs an order in exchange for Enrico's posing as Monique's husband. Carla invites them to stay overnight and join a business dinner party catered by Enrico's wife, Matilde. Enrico spends the evening trying to avoid her, Mario spends it chasing the willing Monique, and Carla wants to close a deal. Can this farce end happily?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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A Common Sense of Modesty
Overview: The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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The Married Priest
Overview: A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-11-01
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Overview: Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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The Sicilian Checkmate
Overview: Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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L'inquilina del piano di sopra
Overview: Exasperated by the great racket coming from Miss Aurora Trabocchetti's apartment, the neighbors give Professor Canestrari a mandate to deliver an ultimatum to the young woman. Too bad the teacher takes a liking to Aurora and agrees to give her private lessons. In fact, the girl aspires to marry the scion of a noble family and to try to crown her dream she must improve her culture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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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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The Exchange Student
Overview: Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Tears of Love
Overview: An English singer thinks his Italian wife has cheated on him and goes back to England. He is then involved in drug trafficking and ends up in jail. Luckily enough after a while the real culprit is revealed and he can go back to Italy and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-07
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Naked You Die
Overview: A woman is strangled in the bath by a black-gloved killer who disposes of her body in a large trunk. The trunk is delivered to St. Hilda College, an exclusive finishing school. Betty-Anne, one of the female students, is strangled in the school cellar. The police, led by Inspector Durand, are called in to investigate. Suspects include La Floret, the voyeuristic gardener; Di Brazzi, the new swimming instructor; Mrs. Clay, the summer school French mistress; an old professor who collects birds; and a philandering young teacher called Richard. The murders continue but Jill, a keen amateur detective, helps the police identify the unlikely killer...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-20
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Noi siam come le lucciole
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-10
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Strip First, Then We Talk
Overview: An employee discovers the infidelity of the girlfriend and will try to take revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-12
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Italiani! È severamente proibito servirsi della toilette durante le fermate
Overview: University protester, follower of Marx, Mao and Marcuse, Benito loves Patrizia, employed in a beauty institute, but she refuses to have more intimate relationships with her until the total revolution has triumphed. During a party, a bearded anarchist, nicknamed Garibaldi, proposes a change to Patrizia: her virginity for a car. The girl makes the boyfriend believe that he accepted the proposal. Promising to "fight the system from the inside" and since time passes and nothing happens, Benito allows himself to be "integrated" by the system.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-30
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The Fascist Jew
Overview: Oberdan Rossi is half Jewish and a fascist. After coming back from the Ethiopian war, he becomes disillusioned and works as a journalist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-02
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