Isabel Sarli

Acting

Isabel Sarli

Born 1935-07-09 · Concordia, Entre Ríos, Argentina

Hilda Isabel Gorrindo Sarli, nicknamed Coca, (9 July 1935 - 25 June 2019) was a retired Argentine actress and glamour model, known for starring in several sexploitation films by Armando Bó, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. She began her career as a model and beauty queen, becoming Miss Argentina and reaching the semi-finalis of Miss Universe 1955. She was discovered by Bó in 1956 and made her acting debut the following year with Thunder Among the Leaves, in which a controversial nude scene featuring Sarli made it the first film to feature full frontal nudity in Argentine cinema. As the muse and protagonist of Bó's films, Sarli became the quintessential sex symbol of her country and a popular figure worldwide. With Bó's death in 1981, Sarli virtually retired from acting. Since the 1990s, her films have been revalued for its camp and kitsch content and are recognised as cult classics.

Acting credits

The Insatiable Widow poster
3.9

Isabel Sarli as a nymphomaniac wife who can't remain faithful to her husband so he seeks help from a psychologist to find out why his wife is always cheating on him with both men and women.

The Insatiable Widow

1984

Fever poster
3.4

Sandra, lovelessly married to a landowner who owns racehorses, meets José María, a lumberjack, and they quickly fall in love. After some time, Sandra's husband learns of the relationship.

Fever

1971

The Female: Seventy Times Seven poster
6.1

Cora is a Mexican prostitute with typically inconsiderate johns. She is troubled by a hole in the ceiling. The hole triggers flashbacks regarding how she got to where she is; she hooked up with a gringo and got involved in digging a well. A horse thief given up for dead gives them a hand.

The Female: Seventy Times Seven

1962

Thunder Among the Leaves poster
5.6

Deep in the jungle, a drifter attempts to inspire revolt against his cruel boss’s slave labor practices, made more difficult by the arrival of the boss’s beautiful wife.

Thunder Among the Leaves

1958

Arroz con leche poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

Arroz con leche

2009

El sexo y el amor poster
3.0

After an accident that leaves him paralyzed, a man drives his wife towards infidelity.

El sexo y el amor

1974

The Hot Days poster
4.6

The story is about a woman traveling to the islands of the Parana River Delta to claim rightful inheritance, and begins to relate to fruit growers in the region.

The Hot Days

1966

Intimacies of a Prostitute poster
6.9

A woman from the country moves into to the big city of Buenos Aires to start a new life. Things are not going very easy and she soon finds herself working as a prostitute.

Intimacies of a Prostitute

1974

Ardent Summer poster
6.3

Barbara is a sexy stripper, but she is dedicated to her husband. When a rich and above-the-law land-owner orders the murder of her husband to get her, she plans, and conducts, deadly revenge. She starts by intriguing between the rich man and his sons, who also had abused her, so that he has two of them killed, and then she sets out against the actual killers, shooting them herself, and leaving the old lecher and his older son to the last. The final confrontation has some surprises, though.

Ardent Summer

1973

Carne poster
6.3

A woman who works in a meat packing plant is continuously preyed upon by lecherous men.

Carne

1968

Tropical Ecstasy poster
4.8

A woman who makes her living as a prostitute must decide her fate between two totally different men.

Tropical Ecstasy

1970

A Madcap Widow poster
3.5

The attractive, exuberant and beautiful Flor Tetis Soutien de Gambeta (Isabel Sarli), an ostentatious woman who kills men, has just been widowed for the eighth time. All her fortune was fading little by little and she now she is about to be ruined. But suddenly he sees her good luck reappear: A little canillita (newspaper seller), Pepe Mangiabróccoli (Pepe Marrone), with a good heart, who suddenly becomes a millionaire by earning the prode and falls in love with her.

A Madcap Widow

1980

Bewitched poster
4.8

Ansise is a former Indian whose only dream is to become a mother. The idea of motherhood gradually turns into an obsession for her. Unfortunately, she has married an impotent man. But she tries to get pregnant anyway. She even tries to work as a prostitute and goes to a local witch. But the real problem is that an evil entity called Pombero has fallen with love with her, killing all the men crossing her way.

Bewitched

1976

Lujuria tropical poster
4.0

The story of a sensual woman torn between two loves, in the setting of the beautiful Venezuelan beaches.

Lujuria tropical

1964

Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary poster
7.8

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was released, director Ofelio Linares Montt shot Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field, which turned out to be both a horror film and a political statement. It was a success in the US, but could not be shown in Argentina due to Juan Carlos Onganía's dictatorship, and was eventually lost. Writer and researcher Luciano Saracino embarks on the search for the origins of this cursed work.

Zombies in the Sugar Cane Field: The Documentary

2019

The Shoemaker's Wife poster
5.6

After the death of the village pharmacist, his widow Lina only inherits debts that he must face. Valentin, the old shoemaker, is the main creditor and the exuberant Lina must pay him what he owes, whatever it costs.

The Shoemaker's Wife

1965

A Butterfly in the Night poster
5.3

A prostitute in Paris is taken home to her native Argentina by an in love rich landlord.

A Butterfly in the Night

1976

The Virgin Goddess poster
5.6

Reworking of H. Ridder Haggard's SHE with softcore sex star Sarli as the white "goddess" who lives among the tribes of South Africa and can enjoy eternal life as long as she remains a virgin. Enter adventurer Bo and the trouble begins.

The Virgin Goddess

1974

The Endless Film poster
5.6

Based on the remains of never-completed Argentine features from the archives of the film museum in Buenos Aires. The film is, as it were, a parallel film history: an essay like a cinematographic Frankenstein, that blows new life into images that once seemed unsuccessful and pointless.

The Endless Film

2018

Fuego poster
5.6

Laura is a young woman living in a mansion with her maid Andrea. She meets and falls in love with Carlos, a man of high society who sees in her a vivaciousness he so longs to have in his life. But little does he know what troubles lie in store for him. Laura suffers from a dangerous case of nymphomania, desiring any man she lays her eyes on.

Fuego

1969

La mujer de mi padre poster
5.4

Jose, a mountain rancher in northern Argentina, meets and begins an affair with Eva, a beautful but mysterious woman who is the mistress of Simon, a local gangster from a nearby village, which complicates things more when Jose's son Mario returns and also begins a romantic relationship with Eva which brings out jealousy in Jose.

La mujer de mi padre

1968

La diosa impura poster
5.0

After a series of doublecrosses involving stolen diamonds, a gangster's babe in Argentina flees to Mexico; she's kept by a druggy, decadent painter and then falls in love with his brother.

La diosa impura

1963

Nude in the Sand poster
4.5

When Alicia is left alone with her little son, she finds herself harassed by society. She travels to Panama, where she starts a chain of extortions from men she has first seduced.

Nude in the Sand

1969

The Children of the War poster
5.5

Based on the lives of four boys, all of different social classes and psychological makeup, this film tries to reflect through them the political history of Argentina during the years leading up to the Malvinas War.

The Children of the War

1984