Jole Silvani

Acting

Jole Silvani

Born 1910-12-09 · Trieste, Austria-Hungary [now Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy]

Acting credits

Luna poster
6.3

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Luna

1979

City of Women poster
7.0

The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.

City of Women

1980

Sotto Sotto poster
3.9

Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manically for the rival, who he never suspects is a woman.

Sotto Sotto

1984

Movie Rush poster
4.8

A young aspiring director steals a silent movie camera to make his movie.

Movie Rush

1976

The White Sheik poster
7.2

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.

The White Sheik

1952

Flavia the Heretic poster
5.9

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.

Flavia the Heretic

1974

Nothing Left to Do But Cry poster
7.7

Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.

Nothing Left to Do But Cry

1984

A Man in Love poster
4.5

An American film-star and an unknown British actress meet on set in Rome. She is angry when he refuses to speak to her journalist father, but later they have a passionate relationship.

A Man in Love

1987

Dial: Help poster
4.7

A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriously. An investigator determines to track down the cause.

Dial: Help

1988

The Wild Oat poster
6.9

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.

The Wild Oat

1953

La famiglia Passaguai poster
6.6

When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.

La famiglia Passaguai

1951

Fracchia The Human Beast poster
6.7

The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life!

Fracchia The Human Beast

1981

The Big Operator poster
4.6

The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.

The Big Operator

1976

I pappagalli poster
5.9

Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.

I pappagalli

1955

A Simple Heart poster
7.0

Set in a rural area of France in the 19th century, this simple tale tells the story of a servant girl whose life seems marked by grand tragedy, but whose heart is simple and uncomplicated enough not only to endure, but even to attain serenity in the face of her manifold frustrations. Her only friend, to whom she pours out all her troubles, is an old parrot. When the parrot dies, she reverently has it stuffed and continues telling it her woes. This drama is based on a story by Gustave Flaubert.

A Simple Heart

1977

My Dear Nephews poster
7.0

1936. In a village in the Bassa Padana, a beautiful and shapely forty-year-old girl is aunt of some boys in the middle of their sexual maturity.

My Dear Nephews

1974

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno poster
6.9

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno

1984

The Executioner of Hearts poster
5.1

While filming on location in Tahiti, a small-time actor seizes an opportunity to make it big, but the attention may be more than he bargained for.

The Executioner of Hearts

1983

One Can Say It Without Getting Angry poster
8.0

Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Italian immigrant, who will change her mind.

One Can Say It Without Getting Angry

1978