Alida Valli : Actress Height, Weight, Age, Movies, Biography, News, Images & Videos

Baroness Alida Maria Laura Altenburger von Marckenstein-Frauenberg, better known by her stage name Alida Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's .

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Alida Valli Movies and TV Shows

• 1900 [1 January 1975 (USA)]

  This expansive period drama follows two childhood friends in northern Italy during the early 20th century. Alfredo Berlinghieri (Robert De Niro) and Olmo Dalcò (Gérard Depardieu) grow up as close companions despite their class differences. However, they drift apart as adults, Alfredo embracing his landowning heritage and Olmo championing workers' rights. As the years go by, they see the rise of fascism in their country, and eventually their values find them directly in conflict.… MORE

• A Month by the Lake [22 September 1995]

  A British spinster (Vanessa Redgrave) eyes a factory owner (Edward Fox) who is infatuated with a young American nanny (Uma Thurman) at a resort in 1937 Italy.

• Berlinguer, I Love You [6 October 1977 (Italy)]

  Berlinguer ti voglio bene is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. It is the debut film of both Bertolucci and Roberto Benigni.

• Dialogue with the Carmelites [15 October 1975 (France)]

  The final production by renowned French director Jean Renoir, this movie is a collection of short films. One tale explores the lives of two elderly homeless people over a Christmas holiday; another focuses on Emilie (Marguerite Cassan), a woman fixated on polishing the floors of her home. The final installment features a young woman who cheats on her older husband. The film also includes a musical interlude featuring a beautiful singer (Jeanne Moreau).… MORE

• Eugenia Grandet [4 January 1947 (Italy)]

  Eugenia Grandet is a 1946 Italian historical drama film directed by Mario Soldati. It is based on the 1833 novel Eugénie Grandet by Honoré de Balzac. The novel has been adapted into films on a number of occasions. The film's sets were designed by art director Gastone Medin.

• Eyes Without a Face [1960 (United Kingdom)]

  Dr. Génessier (Pierre Brasseur) is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane (Édith Scob), who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise (Alida Valli), kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.… MORE

• Fatal Frames [1996]

  In Italy, an American director (Rick Gianasi) becomes the prime suspect in a string of grisly murders which bear a striking resemblance to the way his own wife met her demise.

• Il Grido [22 June 1957 (Italy)]

  Irma decides she does not love Aldo enough to marry him any more. Distraught, he leaves his job and the region with his daughter, and sets out on the roads of Italy. Nothing seems to be able to fill the emptiness that now fills him, neither work nor the arms of the girls who cross his path, among them Elvia, his childhood sweetheart.

• Indian Summer [18 October 1972 (France)]

  Seeking refuge from his tortuous thoughts and his suicidal girlfriend (Léa Massari), a substitute high-school teacher (Alain Delon) falls in love with a student (Sonia Petrovna).

• Inferno [Steve Markle]

• Killer Nun [10 May 1979 (Italy)]

  Sister Gertrude, the head nurse at a general hospital, succumbs to morphine addiction and psychotic madness while presiding over a chaotic regime of horrific cruelty, death and depravity.

• Life Begins Anew [21 September 1945]

  Life Begins Anew is a 1945 Italian melodrama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Fosco Giachetti and Eduardo De Filippo. It was the second most popular Italian film during 1945-46 after Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City.

• Lisa and the Devil [9 May 1973 (France)]

  A travelling woman gets lost and finds herself stranded in a mansion full of demons and satanism, where it quickly becomes apparent that her life and soul is in extreme danger from the dark forces that rule over the house and its occupants.

• Luna [29 August 1979 (Italy)]

  Teenager Joe Silveri (Matthew Barry) has a troubled relationship with his mother, Caterina (Jill Clayburgh), a renowned opera singer, and her husband, Douglas Winter (Fred Gwynne). After Douglas commits suicide, Caterina moves to Rome to join an opera tour, taking Joe with her. However, Joe becomes increasingly unstable and develops a heroin addiction. Sensing her son is slipping away, Caterina attempts to form a closer bond with him, but the two soon develop an unusual relationship.… MORE

• Manon Lescaut [2 February 1940]

  Manon Lescaut is a 1940 Italian historical drama film directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Alida Valli, Vittorio De Sica and Lamberto Picasso. It is an adaptation of the Abbé Prévost's novel of the same title.

• Manuela's Loves [17 June 1987]

  The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a protegee.

• Oedipus Rex [7 September 1967 (Italy)]

  Based on the Greek tragedy about a man who, unaware of his true parentage, kills his father and marries his mother.

• Old-Fashioned World [10 April 1941 (Italy)]

  Piccolo mondo antico, also known as Old-Fashioned World, is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Mario Soldati and based on the 1895 novel The Little World of the Past by Antonio Fogazzaro.

• Schoolgirl Diary [6 September 1941 (Italy)]

  Schoolgirl Diary is a 1941 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli.

• Secrets Secrets [15 March 1985 (Italy)]

  Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a gang member, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives of several other women, ultimately directing all of their fates.

• Semana santa [24 April 2002 (Italy)]

  Holy Week celebrations are underway in Seville, Spain, and people parade through the city's streets. A series of gruesome murders serves as a grim counterpoint to this holiday spirit. Detective Maria Delgado (Mira Sorvino), a newcomer from Madrid, takes the case. Clues lead her to suspect the killings are connected to a sinister religious order and to events that occurred during the Spanish Civil War. But, the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she is to becoming a victim herself.… MORE

• Senso [28 January 1955 (Italy)]

  A wanton contessa (Alida Valli) loves and betrays an unscrupulous Austrian officer (Farley Granger) in 1860s Venice.

• Silent Love [1990]

• Sogni mostruosamente proibiti [29 October 1982 (Italy)]

  A writer daydreams frequently and becomes heroes from the comics. He keeps company with a beautiful woman named Dalia, and one day he meets a young woman in the grocery store who looks like her.

• Suspiria [2 November 2018 (USA)]

  Young American dancer Susie Bannion arrives in 1970s Berlin to audition for the world-renowned Helena Markos Dance Co. When she vaults to the role of lead dancer, the woman she replaces breaks down and accuses the company's female directors of witchcraft. Meanwhile, an inquisitive psychotherapist and a member of the troupe uncover dark and sinister secrets as they probe the depths of the studio's hidden underground chambers.… MORE

• Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker [7 August 1974 (France)]

  Tender Dracula, or Confessions of a Blood Drinker is a 1974 French horror-comedy film directed by Pierre Grunstein. The film stars Peter Cushing, Alida Valli and Miou-Miou.

• The Antichrist [22 November 1974 (Italy)]

  An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.

• The Cassandra Crossing [18 December 1976 (Japan)]

  Passengers on a train travelling from Geneva to Stockholm are exposed to a deadly virus. In order to contain the disease, the driver is under explicit orders not to halt.

• The Castilian [14 April 1963 (Spain)]

  The movie revolves around Fernan Gonzalez, an exiled nobleman, who sneaks back into Spain to defend his country against the Moors.

• The Flesh of the Orchid [29 January 1975 (France)]

  A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, attempts to rape her, but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man running away from two killers.

• The Gigolo [1960]

  The Gigolo is a 1960 French romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Deray. It is loosely based on the novel Le Gigolo written by Jacques Robert.

• The Happy Thieves [20 December 1961 (USA)]

  Jim Bourne steals a Velazquez painting and it is smuggled by Eve to Paris. Dr. Munoz, a fanatic art dealer, outwits Eve and steals the painting from her. Munoz blackmails Jim about exposing him.

• The Long Absence [17 May 1961 (France)]

  Therese believes her lost husband has returned but the man suffers from amnesia.

• The Long Silence [10 March 1993 (Palermo)]

  The Long Silence is a 1993 Italian-German-French political thriller-drama film directed by Margarethe von Trotta. For her performance in this film Carla Gravina was awarded Best Actress at the 1993 Montreal World Film Festival and won the Italian Golden Globe for Best Actress.

• The Lovers of Toledo [1953 (Italy)]

  A woman agrees to marry Toledo's chief of police to save her lover, an opponent of the government.

• The Miracle of the Bells [16 March 1948]

  An actress, who dies after making her first and only film, is buried in her home town as per her last wish. The local churches ring their bells for three days to create publicity for her film.

• The Night Heaven Fell [22 February 1973 (France)]

  A French heiress (Brigitte Bardot) confesses to murder and a shameless history of adultery and revenge.

• The Paper Man [5 September 1963]

  After a deaf-mute vagabond finds a large bill in a dump, he tries to buy something with it while people are trying to take it away from him.

• The Paradine Case [December 1947 (USA)]

  Attorney Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine (Alida Valli), who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer is drawn to the enigmatic beauty, and he begins to cast about for a way to exonerate his client. Keane puts Andre Latour (Louis Jourdan), the Paradine household servant, on the stand, suggesting he is the killer. But Keane soon loses his way in the courtroom, and his half-baked plan sets off a stunning chain of events.… MORE

• The Perfect Crime [24 November 1978 (Italy)]

  Freak fatal accidents even the odds as executives vie for their corporation's top spot.

• The Spider's Stratagem [25 October 1970 (Italy)]

  In Italy, Athos Magnani (Giulio Brogi) is the son of an anti-fascist hero who was assassinated three decades earlier. When the dead man's former mistress (Alida Valli) calls him back to his father's hometown, Athos has a number of perplexing, surreal encounters with her and the men who were his father's allies long ago. But were they really allies? As he tries to unravel the mystery of his father's murder, the son is forced to reckon with the nature of compromised ideals.… MORE

• The Stranger's Hand [20 January 1954 (Italy)]

  Young Roger Court (Richard O'Sullivan) arrives in Venice expecting to meet his father, Maj. Court (Trevor Howard), an influential British diplomat, little realizing that his father has been kidnapped by foreign agents and is being held as the drugged hostage of Dr. Vivaldi (Eduardo Ciannelli). Unable to find his father and distrusting the police, Roger latches on to hotel worker Roberta (Alida Valli) and her friend Joe (Richard Basehart), who are preoccupied with problems of their own.… MORE

• The Sweet Sounds of Life [10 September 1999 (Italy)]

  Il dolce rumore della vita is a 1999 Italian romance-drama film directed by Giuseppe Bertolucci. It premiered at the 56th Venice International Film Festival, and entered the competition at the 1999 Mar del Plata Film Festival, in which Bertolucci was awarded as best director.

• The Third Man [31 August 1949 (United Kingdom)]

  A man's investigation of a friend's death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.

• The Two Sergeants [1936]

  The Two Sergeants is a 1936 Italian historical film directed by Enrico Guazzoni and starring Evi Maltagliati, Gino Cervi and Mino Doro. It was based on the play The Two Sergeants by Theodore d'Aubigny, which has been made into films several times. It is set in the Napoleonic Wars.

• The White Tower [24 June 1950 (USA)]

  In the Swiss Alps, Carla (Alida Valli) is preparing to scale the White Tower, a mountain her father died trying to climb. Although local guides warn her against doing so, an undaunted Carla assembles a crew of climbers who, much like her, accept the challenge for their own very personal reasons -- including a French author (Claude Rains), a British naturalist (Cedric Hardwicke), a former Nazi (Lloyd Bridges) and Martin, an American pilot (Glenn Ford) who is romantically pursuing Carla.… MORE

• The Wide Blue Road [22 November 1957 (Italy)]

  A provincial fisherman (Yves Montand) angers other villagers by using dynamite illegally to expedite his catch.

• This Angry Age [31 October 1957 (Italy)]

  Despite the protests of her children, a woman remains determined to hang on to a rice plantation in Southeast Asia.

• Walk Softly, Stranger [1950]

  Small-time crook Chris Hale (Joseph Cotten) makes his way to Ashton, Ohio, where he finagles his way into a room at a boarding house. Hoping to change his ways, he gets a job with the father of the beautiful but paralyzed Elaine Corelli (Valli), with whom he quickly falls in love. Despite his desire to leave it behind, he cannot escape his shady past, which arrives in the form of a paranoid former cohort. With old rivals after him, Hale must mend fences if he wants a normal life with Elaine.… MORE

• We the Living [14 September 1942]

  In the midst of the Russian Revolution, Kira (Alida Valli), the daughter of a bourgeois factory owner, strives to forge a path of her own. While pursuing her goal to become an engineer, this brazen rebel becomes romantically involved with Leo (Rossano Brazzi), a wild at heart aristocrat, and Andrei (Fosco Giachetti), an idealistic communist. This torrid love triangle leads to tragedy all around, as each character clashes with the constraints of their communist-controlled society.… MORE

• We, the Women [22 October 1953 (Italy)]

  Five directors contribute to an episodic look at the personal and professional lives of several actresses.