
Acting
Elli Parvo
Born — Died
1915-10-18 — 2010-02-19
Place of birth
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
44 titles
Known for
6.5In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
Toto the Third Man
1951
9.0At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.
Loves of Three Queens
1954
7.5A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Il Grido
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arditi civili
1940
6.7A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.
Outcry
1946
6.9While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
Mi permette babbo!
1956
Film credits
1950s · 14 titles
6.5In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
Toto the Third Man
1951
9.0At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.
Loves of Three Queens
1954
7.5A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Il Grido
1957
6.9While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
Mi permette babbo!
1956
6.2After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil while alive. Defending himself against the accusation in an impassioned plea, however, he succeeds in obtaining to return to earth for a few hours to make reparation for the evil he committed and, above all, for the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's suicide attempt. The affair will lead him to make a risky but happy choice.
Twelve Hours to Live
1950
6.8In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
The Art of Getting Along
1954
4.2The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.
Goddess Of Love
1957
8.0An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
Il mondo dei miracoli
1959
NRThe adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
La campana di San Giusto
1954
5.0Maria, a prostitute, meets Cesare in a police station, a drunkard reporter. Cesare falls in love with her and wants to save her from her bleak life but the girl refuses any help.
L'ultimo amante
1955
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Santo disonore
1950
6.5Rosalba, la fanciulla di Pompei (Rosalba, the girl of Pompei) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film.
Rosalba, la fanciulla di Pompei
1952
7.0A tale of the complicated Neapolitan lives and loves of Maria and Alberto; her smuggling father Don Gennaro and some espionage.
La Luciana
1954
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Voto di marinaio
1953
1940s · 22 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Arditi civili
1940
6.7A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.
Outcry
1946
6.1Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
The Gates of Heaven
1945
4.7Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
The Mysterious Rider
1948
7.0Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres".
Vertigine d'amore
1948
Every night a howl is heard outside the insane asylum run by Professor Oder, terrifying his younger wife Silvia. Neglected by her husband she begins to fall for Adamo, a musician who is resting at the clinic to recover his health. When a patient is strangled her husband puts the blame of Adamo who he claims is a homicidal maniac. However, it turns out the professor is really insane and the night screams are his own cries of torment.
The Howl
1948
No synopsis available yet.
La donna perduta
1940
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Un americano in vacanza
1946
7.0Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
The King's Jester
1941
5.2Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
Desire
1946
10.0When she is in jail to defend her colleague, the secretary Anna Alessandri finds out that her man got engaged to another woman.
Ridi pagliaccio
1941
10.0Comedy Western
Il fanciullo del West
1942
5.3The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
L'allegro fantasma
1941
7.0When a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit.
The Brothers Karamazov
1947
8.0An Italian drama from 1942.
L'uomo venuto dal mare
1942
NRNo synopsis available yet.
I due Foscari
1942
9.0Rolando, the chief of the Venetian fleet, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in prison. After succeeding to escape he will demonstrate his innocence to the Doge's daughter he is in love with.
Il ponte dei sospiri
1940
7.0After all the mess, Kersten takes his loyal servant back in. Paul's first job is to deposit a large sum of money. But instead of taking the money to the bank straight away, Paul goes fishing with Gertie's father. When the two of them finally go to deposit the money, they are caught up in a robbery and promptly arrested as bank robbers.
Sieben Jahre Glück
1942
5.4Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
Beatrice Cenci
1941
8.3No synopsis available yet.
Miseria e Nobiltà
1940
9.0"Law of Blood" - Rosa has been engaged for years with Antonio. But Antonio is in the military service and Rosa is seduced by Alberto. Returning to the village, Antonio learns what happened during his absence.
Legge di sangue
1948
8.0Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a version of the famous opera. It was filmed in two versions, French and Italian, with the same screen cast but some different crew, and with Italian voices dubbed in on the Italian version, which have been munged together at IMDb. A third version, with English dubbed under the direction of British actor Noel Howlett, was made subsequently using one of the two (French or Italian) originals for the visual source.
Carmen
1944
1930s · 7 titles
When a young woman becomes aware of her husband's wandering attentions, she plots his retribution.
Mia moglie si diverte
1938
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Il marchese di Ruvolito
1939
No synopsis available yet.
La notte delle beffe
1939
10.0Italian film from 1937 directed by Gennaro Righelli.
Gatta ci cova
1937
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Il feroce saladino
1937
No synopsis available yet.
Jeanne Doré
1938
No synopsis available yet.
Lasciate ogni speranza
1937

