Silvia Monti

Acting

Silvia Monti

Born

1946-01-23 (80)

Place of birth

Strá, Venice, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

21 titles

Silvia Monti (born as Silvia Cornacchia on 23 January 1946 in Venice), is an Italian actress. She is mostly known for the female lead role, Sofia Scannapieco, mafioso Frankie Scannapieco's sister, in the 1969 Gérard Oury caper film Le Cerveau (aka The Brain). In the movie she has a spectacular scene where she gets down from a balcony using a rope on a song by Caterina Caselli, Cento Giorni. She stopped her career in 1974 and is currently married to Carlo De Benedetti. Source: Article "Silvia Monti" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Blackie the Pirate poster
5.8

Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to find this ship and its gold. His counter player is the vice roy of the Spanish kolony. When they visit one of the pirate settlements, they find three other pirate captains over there. One of them sells goods and prisoners from his latest capture. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the vice roy, and Blackie buys her. However, one of the pirate captains, Skull, knows also who she is, and tries to make a deal. Blackie refuses, and Skull makes a deal with the other two pirate captains to plot against Blackie.

Blackie the Pirate

1971

The Fifth Cord poster
6.6

A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.

The Fifth Cord

1971

The Brain poster
7.3

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.

The Brain

1969

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin poster
6.5

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

1971

Fraulein Doktor poster
5.4

A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.

Fraulein Doktor

1969

The Sicilian Connection poster
6.2

A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.

The Sicilian Connection

1972

Film credits

1970s · 15 titles

Blackie the Pirate poster
5.8

Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to find this ship and its gold. His counter player is the vice roy of the Spanish kolony. When they visit one of the pirate settlements, they find three other pirate captains over there. One of them sells goods and prisoners from his latest capture. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the vice roy, and Blackie buys her. However, one of the pirate captains, Skull, knows also who she is, and tries to make a deal. Blackie refuses, and Skull makes a deal with the other two pirate captains to plot against Blackie.

Blackie the Pirate

1971

The Fifth Cord poster
6.6

A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.

The Fifth Cord

1971

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin poster
6.5

Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.

A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

1971

The Sicilian Connection poster
6.2

A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.

The Sicilian Connection

1972

Queens of Evil poster
5.9

A young hippie kills a man, and seeks refuge at the lakeside house of three beautiful sisters, who seem to be hiding a dark secret.

Queens of Evil

1970

¡Qué cosas tiene el amor! poster
7.0

The Loinaz siblings live off petty theft in refined environments. When they find out that Peret is going to shoot a movie in Marbella, the whole family moves their headquarters to Marbella.

¡Qué cosas tiene el amor!

1973

Lady Caroline Lamb poster
5.9

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

Lady Caroline Lamb

1972

The Last Desperate Hours poster
5.4

Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one.

The Last Desperate Hours

1974

The Bloody Hands of the Law poster
7.2

When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.

The Bloody Hands of the Law

1973

While There's War There's Hope poster
7.0

Alberto Sordi directs and interprets a corrosive comedy, another "story of an Italian" that makes you smile and reflect. An arms dealer is exposed and would like to return to an honest business. But his family does not intend to give up that bloody money.

While There's War There's Hope

1974

The Household poster
6.1

A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses.

The Household

1974

It Was I poster
6.0

A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala.

It Was I

1973

Judge Roy Bean poster
6.5

In a small western town the ineffable judge Roy Bean metes out justice in his own special way. A cargo of gold is ambushed by the outlaw Black Bird who fails in the attempt and then rides into town.

Judge Roy Bean

1971

Master of Love poster
4.0

The wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies.

Master of Love

1972

Suppose... I Break Your Neck poster
6.5

The Italo-American playboy Rocky is an international thief, followed step by step by an FBI Inspector, who manages to keep a "loot" also "claimed" by an international boss belonging to the Sicilian Mafia.

Suppose... I Break Your Neck

1973

1960s · 4 titles