Adriana Russo

Acting

Adriana Russo

Born

1954-02-04 (72)

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

48 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 11 titles

The Miser poster
6.3

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.

The Miser

1990

Anni ribelli poster
4.2

Buenos Aires, 1955. One of a family of Sicilian immigrants, the adolescent Laura is on the threshold of adulthood. Her father Francesco Lojacono, is a humble tailor whose relationship with his daughter is one of extreme conflict. As Laura becomes increasingly emancipated in Argentinian (and therefore American) fashion, her father feels personally betrayed.

Anni ribelli

1996

Ladri si diventa poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ladri si diventa

1998

Lettera da Parigi poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lettera da Parigi

1993

Tre passi nel delitto - Villa Maltraversi poster
8.0

The body of one of the Villa owners is found lifeless in the tub. The accusations are immediately turned against the plumber.

Tre passi nel delitto - Villa Maltraversi

1993

Ladri si nasce poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Ladri si nasce

1997

Vacanze sulla neve poster
5.0

The love story between a singer and a beautician is disrupted when an old flame shows up.

Vacanze sulla neve

1999

Segreto di Stato poster
7.5

A bomb blows up in Milan and five people die. After only three hours Ravida, the chief of the Secret Service, knows the name of the killer and that of his chief.

Segreto di Stato

1995

Stressati poster
4.0

Two thirtysomething friends on the verge of a nervous breakdown can no longer cope with the stress created by their wives, jobs, mobile phones, and struggle for survival.

Stressati

1997

Strepitosamente... flop poster
10.0

A group of young people, at the beginning of the nineties, grappling with the insertion into life and the world of work, between dreams, illusions and amusing "rip-offs". An excuse to present, in a bitter-sweet comedy, a polite overview of the society of the time, with the fashions, the tics and the delusions of the time. But, after so many years, have things really changed for the new generations?

Strepitosamente... flop

1991

Belle da morire poster
6.5

Edward Sacchi is a wealthy and apparently content married man but underneath he is driven by a desire to seduce and discard women. One of his conquests, Lucy, falls in love with him and when spurned, commits suicide. Edward is shocked but continues as before. Each of his lovers are subsequently murdered and he is arrested. However, his wife saves him by arranging an appointment with the real killer...

Belle da morire

1992

1980s · 19 titles

Honey poster
4.9

A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.

Honey

1981

Delizia poster
4.6

Italian fashion model living in New York decides to sell a villa located in the central Italian countryside and to make it back to their homeland.

Delizia

1986

The Murder Secret poster
5.4

A family of 4 makes a long drive to Aunt Martha's house to visit her for the first time in years. Only she isn't there. Just the caretaker and his message that she will appear the next day...if they survive the night.

The Murder Secret

1988

Love in First Class poster
4.2

A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who obviously is not too often at home, has no clue about how to deal with young children, even the most basic chores a father should know to tend the restless imp thrown in his care. The crowded train traveling from Milan to Reggio, Calabria, is packed in the second class section where Carmelo and Malcom have a hard time getting a seat. When they finally do, young Malcolm decides to disappear from his compartment. He goes to the first class car, where eventually Carmelo decides to sit and pay the extra supplement. He is lucky to find more space, and the companionship of Beatrice, a woman that is bringing the skeleton of a rare animal. Carmelo finds a way to interest the lady. Their ride is certainly bumpy, complicated when he decides to leave the mischievous Malcolm at an intermediate stop.

Love in First Class

1980

Don't Play with Tigers poster
5.7

A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial.

Don't Play with Tigers

1982

Pizza Connection poster
5.7

An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.

Pizza Connection

1985

Give Me Five poster
5.8

Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest.

Give Me Five

1980

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio poster
5.9

The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs. The title translates as "Eye, Evil Eye, Parsley and Fennel".

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio

1983

Nightmare in Venice poster
4.0

A brilliant surgeon and millionaire, married to a beautiful woman, and highly regarded in the society of Venice, wants more from life and searches for new sensations. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.

Nightmare in Venice

1989

Vieni avanti cretino poster
6.9

Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.

Vieni avanti cretino

1982

Giggi il bullo poster
5.5

Giggi is a city boy convinced that "in life you must always hit first". And, good or bad, he gains a certain popularity between beatings, dates and blows taken.

Giggi il bullo

1982

Crime on the Highway poster
6.0

Undercover cop Nico Giraldi is once again transformed, now as a trucker in a criminal gang.

Crime on the Highway

1982

Holy Cow poster
5.6

When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.

Holy Cow

1982

Hot Spirits poster
4.2

Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what?

Hot Spirits

1981

Pierino il fichissimo poster
4.1

The innkeeper Carmelo subdues a good deal in the sale of his two-Arab tavern.

Pierino il fichissimo

1981

Fatty Girl Goes to New York poster
6.0

An overweight high school student is relentlessly bullied due to weight. Out of the blue, she wins a trip to New York, where she sheds 80+ pounds and then returns home to take revenge on her tormentors.

Fatty Girl Goes to New York

1982

Manolesta poster
6.5

Gino Quirino aka Manolesta, a thief and a con man, lives on a barge anchored on the Tiber with Bruno, his young son. Gino ends up in the crosshairs of the social worker Dr. Angela De Maria, and he is forced to find an honest job.

Manolesta

1981

L'esercito più pazzo del mondo poster
4.2

In an unnamed village there is a barracks where improbable soldiers have been recruited, who are up to all sorts of things. From a completely wrong flag-raising to a kidnapping, we certainly won't get bored: the two kidnappers ask for an escape route to the Caribbean, where they can move with the blackmail money, but things don't go as planned.

L'esercito più pazzo del mondo

1981

No artwork available
9.0

Man and woman wish to make room for the best feelings that move them and to guide their lives together in mutual love.

Canto d'Amore

1982

1970s · 7 titles

Ugly, Dirty and Bad poster
7.5

Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him.

Ugly, Dirty and Bad

1976

A Whisper in the Dark poster
5.9

Martino is a young child who claims to have an invisible friend called Luca. His parents assume it is just a game, but strange things start to happen.

A Whisper in the Dark

1976

Seven Dangerous Women poster
4.0

Seven female friends decide to play an erotic game. They try to seduce as many aristocrats and middle-class men as possible.

Seven Dangerous Women

1979

The Face with Two Left Feet poster
6.3

Gianni, a hotel cook, is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ at the nightclub "John's Fever" but he can't dance. When one of the cook's coworkers draws a mustache and beard on a poster of John Travolta everyone somehow finally notices that Gianni looks exactly like Travolta and the game is on.

The Face with Two Left Feet

1979

Hot Potato poster
6.3

A factory worker known for his tough attitude and for fighting for workers' rights starts losing credibility when friends and co-workers see him helping a young gay man.

Hot Potato

1979

Riavanti… Marsch! poster
4.4

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.

Riavanti… Marsch!

1979

La giacca verde poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La giacca verde

1979

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