
Acting
Rossella Falk
Born — Died
1926-11-10 — 2013-05-05
Place of birth
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
22 titles
Rossella Falk was born on November 10, 1926 in Rome, Lazio, Italy as Antonia Falzacappa. She was an actress, known for 8½ (1963), Sleepless (2001) and Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971). She was married to Nicola Tufari. She died on May 5, 2013 in Rome.
Known for
6.6A 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
8.1Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
8½
1963
6.1An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
Sleepless
2001
5.3Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
Modesty Blaise
1966
8.1An English writer interested in the occult searches Rome for George Byron's lost diaries, convinced that they hide a terrible secret. During his search, mysterious events occur around him, including a murder and the enigmatic appearances of a beautiful woman...
Il segno del comando
1971
6.0A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968
Film credits
2000s · 3 titles
6.1An elderly and retired police detective and a young amateur sleuth team up to find a serial killer whom has resumed a killing spree in Turin, Italy after a 17-year hiatus.
Sleepless
2001
7.0The story of Emma, a courageous woman who left home at a very young age. Emma's first job is working in a paddy field. There she meets Paride, and a romance begins. But amid a workers strike, Paride dies, leaving Emma alone and also pregnant. From this point on Emma struggles for survival.
Signora
2004
6.3A documentary on Fellini’s lost alternate ending for 8½
The Last Sequence
2003
1990s · 1 titles
1980s · 1 titles
1970s · 8 titles
6.6A 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
6.2Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
1971
6.2A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
1972
5.4A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer, who wants to eliminate her as a potential witness. What he doesn't know is that the shock of his murder caused her to have amnesia, and she doesn't remember anything.
The Killer Is on the Phone
1972
5.2A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford University, England, in the early 1970s.
May Morning
1970
7.5Absurdism’s king of comedy, Luigi Pirandello, adapted a 1915 short story he wrote titled “Signora Frola and Signor Ponza, Her Son-in-Law” into a play two years later. Right You Are (If You Think Are) was presented in dramatic form as a “A Parable in Three Acts.” As in any instructive parable, the characterization is put fully into the service of delivering the lesson and thus creates mysteries about motivation that remain unresolved by the conclusion.
Right You Are (if you think so)
1974
Based on the novel The Lady of the Camellias by Alexandre Dumas fils.
Lady of the Camelias
1971
NRLeone, a very rational man, silently accepts that his wife Silia is cheating on him with Guido. When a well-known swordsman offends Silia, the woman asks her husband to make amends by challenging him to a duel; Leone accepts, but sends Guido in his place.
The Rules of the Game
1970
1960s · 6 titles
8.1Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
8½
1963
5.3Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
Modesty Blaise
1966
6.0A dictatorial film director hires an unknown actress to play the lead role in a planned movie biography of a late, great Hollywood star.
The Legend of Lylah Clare
1968
5.8Italy, the early 19th century. A villa is the home of a small English community, all rich and superficial people lounging about in its beautiful surroundings. Claire, George's wife, and Robert, her son, are murdered by a mysterious killer. Thinking the murderer is one of the family, distraught George devises a plan to unmask the culprit. Having met a woman, Ann, who is a dead ringer for Claire, he takes her back to the villa and announces their imminent marriage. Ann is considered an outsider and treated with contempt and hostility, while George fails to find any significant clue to the solution: everybody is to be blamed, at least morally, but the final revelation is more bitter than expected...
Run, Psycho, Run
1968
6.1A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Made in Italy
1965
6.0Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore is an Italian staged filmmaking of the play of the same name, written by Luigi Pirandello about the relationship between authors, their characters and theater practitioners. The story follows six characters: Il Padre (Romolo Valli), la Figliastra (Rossella Falk), la Madre (Elsa Albani), Il Figlio (Piero Sammataro), la bambina (Patrizia Ponzelli) and Il giovinello(Paolo Figna) that invading a essay by a theater company looking for an author.
Six Characters in Search of an Author
1965




