Anita Todesco

Acting

Anita Todesco

Born — Died

1932-06-14 — 2015-07-15

Place of birth

Prato, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 31 titles

The Thief of Baghdad poster
5.5

When Karim impersonates a prince Osman, he steals the heart of Amina the Sultans daughter. The real prince intends to get Amina back by giving her a love potion. But his plan backfires and Amina becomes deathly ill. Karim must make it through 7 doors to retrieve the only thing that can save his love-a mystical blue rose. A timeless, enchanting story!

The Thief of Baghdad

1961

Ursus and the Tartar Princess poster
5.5

Peplum movie from 1961

Ursus and the Tartar Princess

1961

La donna degli altri è sempre più bella poster
5.4

Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.

La donna degli altri è sempre più bella

1963

Made in Italy poster
6.1

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Made in Italy

1965

The Fury of Achilles poster
5.3

In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.

The Fury of Achilles

1962

Fire Over Rome poster
8.0

Marcus Valerius, a young consul, is assigned the mission to assist Menecrate, the leader of the Pretorian Guard, in the arrest and execution of as many Christians as possible. While raiding the Catacombs he has the surprise to find among the Christians the woman he loves, Giulia, who has been converted secretly to the banned religion. He helps her to escape and trouble soon follows. Stripped of his rank and arrested for defending the rebels he is condemned to fight as a gladiator...

Fire Over Rome

1965

Gli italiani e le donne poster
7.5

A group of vignettes about men, mostly married, scheming to get women and the funny ways the schemes play out.

Gli italiani e le donne

1962

Ten Italians for One German poster
7.3

A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.

Ten Italians for One German

1961

Il Tramontana poster
NR

Flavio is sixteen years old, he is part of a poor family and for his liveliness he bears the nickname of the Tramontana. The parents emigrate to Switzerland, but they can't take it with them and entrust the boy to the monks. Father Biagio entices Flavio to conventual life. But the distance from the family causes a crisis. The boy secretly leaves the convent and returns to the village to his house, but finds it empty and closed, then returns in his footsteps.

Il Tramontana

1964

Seven Guns for Timothy poster
5.2

The greenhorn Timothy Benson is the heir of a mine, in which also the bandit Rodriguez is interested. Timothy's foreman Corky and his 5 friends are his only hope and they teach him the lessons of self-reliance. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

Seven Guns for Timothy

1966

Twist, lolite e vitelloni poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Twist, lolite e vitelloni

1962

2 samurai per 100 geishe poster
5.2

Two Sicilian cousins ​​are forced to go to Japan to collect an inheritance. Once they arrive they realize they will have to adapt to the local customs. The tour will turn into a long series of troubles: the Sicilian cousins, to obtain the inheritance, will have to turn into real samurai.

2 samurai per 100 geishe

1962

Oh! Those Most Secret Agents poster
5.3

Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments.

Oh! Those Most Secret Agents

1964

Assignment: Outer Space poster
3.9

Interplanetary News reporter Ray Peterson is assigned aboard a space station in the 21st Century.

Assignment: Outer Space

1960

The Seventh Sword poster
6.0

In this costume adventure, a dashing swordsman helps protect Philip III of Spain from the traitors trying to overthrow him.

The Seventh Sword

1962

The Embalmer poster
4.6

A mad killer is loose in Venice's catacombs. He attacks the beautiful women, releasing them into the underworld, kill them and then stop them and add them to his "collection".

The Embalmer

1965

Adultero lui, adultera lei poster
6.0

Lina, a young woman now tired of the constant betrayals from her husband, decides to cheat on him with a mutual friend, Piero.

Adultero lui, adultera lei

1963

Revolt of the Mercenaries poster
7.7

Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince Stefano. This is the only way she has found to thwart the plans of Count Keller, her aggressive neighbor, who wants to grab her land.

Revolt of the Mercenaries

1961

Che femmina!! E... che dollari! poster
5.0

An American millionaire has just died. His sole legatee is a youthful indiscretion, a girl who is currently living in Italy. Two private eye detective agencies, in competition with each other, investigate. Combining business with pleasure, they search sunny Italy, but they only have one clue to find their heiress: she has three moles on the buttock. One of the private eyes falls in love with a gypsy who sings in nightclubs.

Che femmina!! E... che dollari!

1960

Morgan, the Pirate poster
5.9

A Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.

Morgan, the Pirate

1960

The Saracens poster
9.0

Marco Trevisan returns to his hometown hoping to be greeted with a welcome party but is instead attacked and captured by Turkish pirates led by the brutal Rabanek.

The Saracens

1963

The Sword of Vengeance poster
5.5

No synopsis available yet.

The Sword of Vengeance

1961

Scandali al mare poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Scandali al mare

1961

Viaggio di nozze all'italiana poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viaggio di nozze all'italiana

1966

La notte dell'innominato poster
7.0

On the night of Lucia's kidnapping, the Unnamed revisits his life. Many years earlier a caravan of Andalusian gypsies arrived at the gates of Milan. Among these were Esteban with his mother, his fiancée Maria Dolores, and the latter's sister, Carmencita who, in love with Esteban, resorts to every means to hinder the wedding. In a scuffle she caused, her sister was killed by thugs. The gypsies' wagons are destroyed and the few survivors, including Esteban and his mother, are forced to flee. Carmencita becomes the governor's wife and Esteban a bandit who steals Spanish wheat and gold to give to the people. On Carmencita's whim, Esteban's mother, arrested and accused of witchcraft, dies. Esteban continues his life as a bandit and becomes the terrible Unnamed, who will finally reach his conversion thanks to Lucia and Cardinal Federico.

La notte dell'innominato

1962

Venus in the Sun poster
5.1

Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.

Venus in the Sun

1964

A Ticket to Die poster
9.5

Jordan is an ex-secret agent who, after many years of service, gets the boot for "health reasons". So he plans to sell a secret and highly sought after formula - if he can locate all three pieces of paper that the formula is written on, that is. His former superiors believe that he is close to getting the formula all for himself, so they send one of his old friends to convince him to cooperate with them again.

A Ticket to Die

1966

Killer Without a Face poster
5.0

A woman is chased onto the ramparts of a castle by a gun-toting figure. She stumbles and falls to her death. Barbara, the mentally unbalanced owner of the castle, is the main suspect. However, there is no proof against her and the murders continued. But not everything is quite as it seems. The film is set in the Balsorano Castle and is shot in expressionistic black-and-white.

Killer Without a Face

1968

Le magnifiche 7 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le magnifiche 7

1961

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Napoleone a Firenze

1963

Zorikan The Barbarian poster
9.0

A warrior of the Crusades helps in the Christians' fight against Islamic invaders.

Zorikan The Barbarian

1964