Elli Parvo

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

Film credits

1950s · 14 titles

Toto the Third Man poster
6.5

In 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

Loves of Three Queens poster
9.0

At 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

Il Grido poster
7.5

A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.

Il Grido

1957

Mi permette babbo! poster
6.9

While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.

Mi permette babbo!

1956

Twelve Hours to Live poster
6.2

After 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

The Art of Getting Along poster
6.8

In 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

Goddess Of Love poster
4.2

The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.

Goddess Of Love

1957

Il mondo dei miracoli poster
8.0

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Il mondo dei miracoli

1959

La campana di San Giusto poster
NR

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.

La campana di San Giusto

1954

L'ultimo amante poster
5.0

Maria, 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

Santo disonore poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Santo disonore

1950

Rosalba, la fanciulla di Pompei poster
6.5

Rosalba, la fanciulla di Pompei (Rosalba, the girl of Pompei) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film.

Rosalba, la fanciulla di Pompei

1952

La Luciana poster
7.0

A tale of the complicated Neapolitan lives and loves of Maria and Alberto; her smuggling father Don Gennaro and some espionage.

La Luciana

1954

Voto di marinaio poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Voto di marinaio

1953

1940s · 22 titles

Arditi civili poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arditi civili

1940

Outcry poster
6.7

A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

Outcry

1946

The Gates of Heaven poster
6.1

Episodic 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

The Mysterious Rider poster
4.7

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.

The Mysterious Rider

1948

Vertigine d'amore poster
7.0

Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres".

Vertigine d'amore

1948

No artwork available
NR

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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La donna perduta

1940

Un americano in vacanza poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un americano in vacanza

1946

The King's Jester poster
7.0

Based 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

Desire poster
5.2

Paola, 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

Ridi pagliaccio poster
10.0

When 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

Il fanciullo del West poster
10.0

Comedy Western

Il fanciullo del West

1942

L'allegro fantasma poster
5.3

The 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

The Brothers Karamazov poster
7.0

When 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

L'uomo venuto dal mare poster
8.0

An Italian drama from 1942.

L'uomo venuto dal mare

1942

I due Foscari poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I due Foscari

1942

Il ponte dei sospiri poster
9.0

Rolando, 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

Sieben Jahre Glück poster
7.0

After 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

Beatrice Cenci poster
5.4

Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.

Beatrice Cenci

1941

Miseria e Nobiltà poster
8.3

No synopsis available yet.

Miseria e Nobiltà

1940

Legge di sangue poster
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

Carmen poster
8.0

Carmen 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