
Acting
Lilla Brignone
Born — Died
1913-08-23 — 1984-03-24
Place of birth
Roma, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
39 titles
Known for
7.6Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
L'Eclisse
1962
7.3A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.
Malicious
1973
5.5Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.
Lovers and Other Relatives
1974
7.2A look at Alessandro Manzoni's novel and the tormented love story of Renzo and Lucia during the troubled years of Spanish rule in 17th-century Lombardy.
I promessi sposi
1967
6.8Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
3.6When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
Angels of Darkness
1954
Film credits
1980s · 1 titles
1970s · 7 titles
7.3A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.
Malicious
1973
5.5Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.
Lovers and Other Relatives
1974
6.8Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
The Desert of the Tartars
1976
5.3Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and the judge to have Augusto committed to a mental institution. While there, he falls in love with Serafina Vitali, a young woman who was also put away.
Oh, Serafina!
1976
7.0Matteo is a communist intellectual, the son of a wealthy bourgeois, who found himself blind from an eye after the war. One day in the streets of Rome he meets Amelia, a child suffocated by the bourgeois environment.
Planet Venus
1972
6.5A classical pianist falls in love with a friend's young daughter.
For Love
1976
6.7The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Camorra
1972
1960s · 15 titles
7.6Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
L'Eclisse
1962
7.4A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
Baby Doll
1968
6.4Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
The Shortest Day
1963
6.0A unique 1960s documentary on the traditional dirge sung by women in Griko, an ancient dialect of Salento, so old that it originates from the ancient Greeks who once colonized that part of southern Italy.
Stendali (Still They Toll)
1960
6.3A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
Sex Can Be Difficult
1962
5.9Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes up a reclusive existence in a luxurious villa. After quickly succumbing to the charms of a local man, she lets him move into the villa and the two are later joined by his sister, which soon leads to complications.
Paranoia
1969
6.7In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.
Rocambole
1963
7.5In the 1960s, Silvana, a beautiful girl from the countryside, decides to spend the night in Rome after missing the last bus home. Without a place to stay, she seeks refuge in an under-construction attic. There, she meets a young man, leading to a short-lived romance. He opens her eyes to the wonders of the economic boom shaping the capital in those years. Despite the chaos of buses, protests, and big stores, Silvana chooses to make Rome her home.
The Attic
1963
5.3Coriolanus leads the plebians in a revolt against Roman oppression.
Thunder of Battle
1964
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Un marito in condominio
1963
7.2An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
Ghosts of Rome
1961
6.5The nun tells the priest about her past and then a long flashback begins...
Letters of a Novice
1960
7.0Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.
The Nun of Monza
1962
8.3Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are two poor farmers who are in love, but they are hampered by the wickedness of the powerful Don Rodrigo, who secretly loves Lucia. The two run away from Lake Como where they live, and take refuge inland.
The Betrothed
1964
No synopsis available yet.
Caio Gracco
1968
1950s · 8 titles
3.6When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
Angels of Darkness
1954
7.2Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?
Violent Summer
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Il borghese gentiluomo
1959
Elena receives anonymous phone calls and fears they concern her son. Young Sandro's attitude has changed recently and she is certain he is hiding something from her. Her main fear is that he is having a romantic relationship with a girl of lower social standing, which could distract him from his studies, which Elena is struggling to maintain after the loss of her husband.
La frattura
1956
5.7The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds out that she is his illegitimate daughter of whom he knew nothing. He tries to secretly help Elena, who has fallen in love with the car mechanic Gianni. But that only creates mistrust. When Guerrini's worthless nephew harasses the girl, the situation is dramatically worse.
Rice Girl
1956
8.0The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy.
I sogni nel cassetto
1957
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Cannon Serenade
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Abbiamo vinto!
1951
1940s · 3 titles
1930s · 4 titles
NRAn old teacher got married with a young girl, the school caretaker's daughter, to save her from the dishonour caused by a guy. However he wants her to stay with her beloved guy....
Think It Over Jack
1936
10.0A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.
30 Seconds of Love
1936
8.0Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.
Destiny Unknown
1935
8.0Early, proto giallo set in a boarding house for girls.
The Serpent's Fang
1935

