Claudia Cardinale : Actress Height, Weight, Age, Movies, Biography, News, Images & Videos

Claude Joséphine Rose "Claudia" Cardinale is a Tunisian-born Italian film actress who starred in some of the most acclaimed European films of the 1960s and 1970s, mainly Italian or French, but also in many English-language films

Claudia Cardinale Movies and TV Shows

• 8½ [1963 (United Kingdom)]

  Troubled Italian filmmaker Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni) struggles with creative stasis as he attempts to get a new movie off the ground. Overwhelmed by his work and personal life, the director retreats into his thoughts, which often focus on his loves, both past and present, and frequently wander into fantastical territory. As he tries to sort out his many entanglements, romantic and otherwise, Anselmi finds his production becoming more and more autobiographical.… MORE

• A Fine Pair [27 September 1968 (Italy)]

  A detective gets involved with the daughter of an old friend. But, she actually turns out to be a jewel thief, who gets him involved in a caper in Austria.

• A Man in Love [31 July 1987 (New York)]

  While filming a biopic of Italian author Cesare Pavese in Rome, American actor Steve Elliott (Peter Coyote) falls for his British co-star, Jane Steiner (Greta Scacchi). After Steve refuses an interview with Jane's journalist father, the two actors begin a steamy affair mirroring the relationship of their characters in the film. But when Steve's wife, Susan (Jamie Lee Curtis), discovers her husband's lies, the affair damages not only Steve's family but Jane's.… MORE

• A Rose for Everyone [18 January 1967 (Italy)]

  A Rose for Everyone is a 1967 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale.

• All Roads Lead to Rome [8 March 2013 (Spain)]

  A Spanish flight headed for Mexico runs into technical difficulties. The crew decide to drug everyone in economy class and devote themselves to cheering up the small group of passengers in business class, and themselves, by all available means.

• And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen [29 May 2002 (France)]

  Weary thief Valentin has given up the jewel robberies, left his mistress and gone sailing round the world. In the back streets of Morocco, he saves singer Jane from thugs and starts to fall in love all over again.

• Austerlitz [1960 (Yugoslavia)]

  Austerlitz is a 1960 French film directed by Abel Gance and starring Jean Marais, Rossano Brazzi, Martine Carol, Jack Palance, Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio De Sica, Orson Welles, Leslie Caron and Jean-Louis Trintignant. Pierre Mondy portrays Napoleon in this film about his victory at the Battle of Austerlitz.

• Bebo's Girl [24 January 1964 (Italy)]

  A woman is bound by integrity to wait for the man she loves, a man convicted of political murder.

• Bell'Antonio [4 March 1960 (Italy)]

  In the lush city of Catania, Sicily, Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) is regarded as the ultimate lover of women, a title he holds dear. Yet not long after marrying the beautiful Barbara (Claudia Cardinale), Antonio's new obligations begin to weigh on him, and soon he is faltering in the bedroom. In short order, his impotence is the talk of the town, and Antonio is a laughingstock. As he tries to repair the damage to his marriage, Barbara considers her options for leaving.… MORE

• Big Deal on Madonna Street [30 June 1958 (Spain)]

  Best friends Peppe (Vittorio Gassman) and Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.… MORE

• Blindfold [23 December 1965]

  When top-level scientist Arthur Vincenti (Alejandro Rey) suffers a nervous collapse, his military handlers fear he may be at risk of being kidnapped by a group of international terrorists who sell their victims to the governments of communist nations. Vincenti's psychiatrist, Dr. Bartholomew Snow (Rock Hudson), and fractious sister, Vicky (Claudia Cardinale), are drawn into a web of intrigue alongside the mysterious Fitzpatrick (Guy Stockwell), who claims Vincenti may already be an enemy agent.… MORE

• Blonde in Black Leather [17 September 1975 (Italy)]

  In search of excitement, two liberated women meet a scoundrel, find a stolen motorcycle and visit a brothel.

• Blood Brothers [30 November 2007 (India)]

  Blood Brothers is a 2007 short film on HIV-AIDS directed by Vishal Bhardwaj. The film, written by Matthew Robbins, is one of the short films made on HIV AIDS on behalf of the Bill Gates foundation. Blood Brothers features Siddharth, Pavan Malhotra and Ayesha Takia in lead roles.

• Careless [8 March 1962 (Italy)]

  Senilità is a 1962 Italian film. It stars Claudia Cardinale and Anthony Franciosa, and is based on the novel Senilità by Italo Svevo.

• Cartouche [7 March 1962 (France)]

  When Louis leaves his gang and hires a crew of his own, the former leader decides to take revenge and tries to kill him. But sadly, Louis's lover sacrifices her life and he plans to avenge her murder.

• Circus World [25 June 1964 (USA)]

  When Matt Masters (John Wayne) takes his ailing circus on a tour of Europe, it's not simply to put its finances back into order. He's also there on a romantic quest to find his old flame Lili Alfredo (Rita Hayworth), whose daughter Toni (Claudia Cardinale) he raised. But both missions are put in jeopardy when the ship ferrying his circus across the Atlantic sinks. But the show must go on -- and Masters pulls out all the stops to make the tour a success and reunite with Lili.… MORE

• Don't Make Waves [20 June 1967 (USA)]

  A naive tourist meets a thrill-seeking Southern Californian woman who leads him astray.

• Effie Gray [10 October 2014 (United Kingdom)]

  When Effie Gray becomes the wife of distinguished writer John Ruskin, it soon becomes apparent that Ruskin regards her as a muse rather than a wife, and the stifling atmosphere of their home soon takes a toll on Effie's health.

• Escape to Athena [16 February 1979 (Finland)]

  A ragtag group of prisoners -- Italian chef Bruno (Sonny Bono), British archeology professor Blake (David Niven), American soldier Nat (Richard Roundtree) and Greek prostitute Eleana (Claudia Cardinale) -- befriend each other in a Greek POW camp run by Otto Hecht (Roger Moore), an art-loving Nazi officer. With the help of local resistance fighters, the inmates plot to escape and steal valuable artifacts from a heavily guarded monastery that's used as a storehouse.… MORE

• Fiasco in Milan [19 December 1959 (Italy)]

  Mishaps thwart a gang leader and his henchmen trying to steal a suitcase of money from a soccer pool.

• Fitzcarraldo [4 March 1982 (West Germany)]

  Opera-loving European Brian Fitzgerald (Klaus Kinski) lives in a small Peruvian city. Better known as Fitzcarraldo, this foreigner is obsessed with building an opera house in his town and decides that to make his dream a reality he needs to make a killing in the rubber business. In order to become a successful rubber baron, Fitzcarraldo hatches an elaborate plan that calls for a particularly impressive feat -- bringing a massive boat over a mountain with the help of a band of natives.… MORE

• Girl with a Suitcase [9 February 1961 (Italy)]

  When aspiring singer Aida (Claudia Cardinale) meets smooth-talking playboy Marcello (Corrado Pani), she believes his big line about advancing her career. When he dumps her weeks later, she's shell-shocked, and turns up on his front door for want of anywhere else to go. There she meets Marcello's teenage brother, Lorenzo (Jacques Perrin), who falls in love with her on the spot. He steals money in order to set her up in a nice hotel and begins courting her in earnest.… MORE

• Goha [6 May 1959 (France)]

  A naive young man (Omar Sharif) is taken advantage of by his family until he falls in love with the young wife of the village elder.

• L'udienza [31 March 1972 (Italy)]

  A young Italian man (Enzo Jannacci) upsets Vatican officials by trying to meet the pope.

• Libera, My Love [21 March 1975 (Italy)]

  A strong-willed woman (Claudia Cardinale) risks everything to support the cause of anti-fascism in World War II Italy.

• Lost Command [19 October 1966 (West Germany)]

  After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy (Anthony Quinn) is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier (Alain Delon), who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras (Maurice Ronet), who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess (Michèle Morgan) if he's made a general.… MORE

• Mafia [17 February 1968 (Italy)]

  A Sicilian crime kingpin uses his considerable influence to stifle an Italian police captain's murder investigation.

• My Best Fiend [7 October 1999 (Germany)]

  Werner Herzog, an iconic filmmaker of German cinema, steps before the camera in this revelatory documentary, in which he focuses on his complicated relationship with his longtime friend and collaborator actor Klaus Kinski. In a lively retrospective of Kinski's life and work, Herzog explores their deep-seated fraternal bond while also confronting the bitter rivalry that raged on during their five film partnerships, during which each vied for dominance.… MORE

• Once Upon a Time in the West [21 December 1968 (Italy)]

  There's a single piece of land around Flagstone with water on it, and rail baron Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti) aims to have it, knowing the new railroad will have to stop there. He sends his henchman Frank (Henry Fonda) to scare the land's owner, McBain (Frank Wolff), but Frank kills him instead and pins it on a known bandit, Cheyenne (Jason Robards). Meanwhile, a mysterious gunslinger with a score to settle (Charles Bronson) and McBain's new wife, Jill (Claudia Cardinale), arrive in town.… MORE

• Rocco and His Brothers [6 October 1960 (Italy)]

  A widow moves to Milano with her 4 sons. There, one of her son, Simone, starts an affair with Nadia, a prostitute. A feud ensues, when the other son, Rocco, also begins a relationship with Nadia.

• Rogue City [30 October 2020]

  Rogue City is a 2020 French action film directed and written by Olivier Marchal and starring Lannick Gautry, Stanislas Merhar and Kaaris. It was released on Netflix on 30 October 2020.

• Sandra [16 September 1965 (Italy)]

  The daughter of a Jewish man killed by Nazis returns to her Italian hometown suspicious of her mother and stepfather.

• Son of the Pink Panther [23 November 1989 (West Bengal)]

  Uma, a young speech-impaired Brahmin girl, faces many struggles when her horoscope predicts that she would be widowed early in life. To counter her bad luck, she is married off to a tree.

• The Adventures of Gerard [3 July 1970 (West Germany)]

  Ettienne Gerard, a swashbuckling, womanising colonel in Napoleon's cavalry, fights and loves his way to glory during the French occupation of Spain.

• The Artist and the Model [28 September 2012 (Spain)]

  Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort), a famous sculptor, sees Mercè (Aida Folch) in the village and brings her home to sketch her.

• The Conspirators [24 October 1944 (USA)]

  A leader of the Dutch underground finds danger in Lisbon and love in a mysterious woman during World War II.

• The Facts of Murder [24 October 1959 (Italy)]

  Inspector Ciccio Ingravallo (Pietro Germi) is assigned to investigate a robbery, but soon circumstances lead to a much bigger case. The lovely Liliana Banducci (Eleonora Rossi Drago), who lives near the scene of the crime, turns up dead, leading Ingravallo to question her husband, Remo (Claudio Gora), and their servant, Assuntina (Claudia Cardinale), among others. The astute Italian inspector must discover both the motive behind the killing and the culprit.… MORE

• The Hell with Heroes [28 August 1968 (USA)]

  A black marketeer's (Harry Guardino) mistress (Claudia Cardinale) falls for a World War II veteran (Rod Taylor) flying freight in Africa.

• The Immortal Bachelor [19 February 1975 (Italy)]

  An Italian cleaning woman (Monica Vitti) impresses the jury while on trial for killing her philandering husband (Giancarlo Giannini).

• The Legend of Frenchie King [17 November 1957 (USA)]

  Due to an urgent need of money, Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.

• The Leopard [27 March 1963 (Rome)]

  As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi (Alain Delon), to marry Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.… MORE

• The Lovemakers [13 June 1961 (France)]

  A wealthy family patriarch dies, leaving shares of his valuable farm to different members of his family. His son, Ferdinando (Paul Frankeur), seeks to buy all the shares in order to regain control of the farm. Amerigo (Jean-Paul Belmondo), Ferdinando's nephew, refuses to sell, and moves to Florence, Italy, instead. But, when he falls in love with a prostitute (Claudia Cardinale) and spends all his money supporting her, Amerigo may be forced to sell and face disgrace.… MORE

• The Magnificent Cuckold [21 October 1964 (Italy)]

  Andrea Artusi (Ugo Tognazzi) is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale), 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.… MORE

• The Pink Panther [18 December 1963 (Italy)]

  A clumsy detective is on the trail of a notorious jewel thief planning to steal a diamond called 'The Pink Panther'. His hunt leads him to the most unusual suspect.

• The Professionals [2 November 1966 (USA)]

  Four soldiers of fortune are hired by a wealthy rancher to rescue his beautiful young wife who has been kidnapped by a villainous Mexican bandit. When they finally find her, after fighting their way across deserts and mountains, they discover she is not being held against her will. This causes friction within the band as to whether they should honor their agreement.… MORE

• The Red Tent [23 December 1969 (Italy)]

  In his apartment in Rome in the 1960s, the elderly and guilt-stricken Gen. Umberto Nobile (Peter Finch) recalls the tragic airship expedition he led to the Arctic 40 years earlier and the equally catastrophic rescue effort that followed. The story is told through flashbacks to the original voyage and a present-day trial of Nobile by the angry ghosts of the men who died in the debacle, including the stern specter of the legendary explorer Roald Amundsen (Sean Connery).… MORE

• The Salamander [25 April 1981 (United Kingdom)]

  An industrialist (Anthony Quinn) and a colonel (Franco Nero) tie a general's death to a fascist plot in Italy.

• The Skin [25 November 1981 (Italy)]

  Many of the ravaged people of post-World War II Naples, Italy, betray and swindle their liberators.

• The String [12 May 2010 (France)]

  Tall, quiet Malik, a 30-year-old Parisian architect, returns to his homeland after the death of his father. He's greeted warmly by his over-bearing, petulant mother and is immediately confronted with her expectation that he stay and get married.

• Time of Indifference [25 September 1964 (Italy)]

  A matriarch, her daughter (Claudia Cardinale) and a family friend (Shelley Winters) are courted to ruin by a schemer (Rod Steiger) in late 1920s Italy.

• Upstairs and Downstairs [27 August 1959]

  British newlyweds (Michael Craig, Anne Heywood) discover hiring suitable servants is harder than they think.