Alessandra Cardini

Costume & Make-Up

Alessandra Cardini

Born

1950-03-14 (76)

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Costume & Make-Up

Credits

18 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 14 titles

The Designated Victim poster
6.2

Stefano Augenti, an ambitious advertising executive, meets a curious hippie named Count Mateo Tiepolo and they form a strange bond. Seeking an escape from his unhappy marriage, Augenti is lured by the Count into a bizarre plot to kill each other's relatives.

The Designated Victim

1971

Rome, Armed to the Teeth poster
6.6

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

Rome, Armed to the Teeth

1976

The Story of Romance and Knife poster
5.7

The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.

The Story of Romance and Knife

1971

The Grand Duel poster
6.0

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

The Grand Duel

1972

Messalina, Messalina! poster
4.2

Adventure comedy directed by Bruno Corbucci.

Messalina, Messalina!

1977

When Women Were Called Virgins poster
5.7

When women were called Madonna is a film of 1972 directed by Aldo Grimaldi . The film is one of the first Italian erotic comedies in which a licentious bursting Edwige Fenech struggles with the nagging demands of three suitors.

When Women Were Called Virgins

1972

Ante Up poster
5.2

In Luino, on Lake Maggiore, during the fascist twenty years, a group of friends belonging to the bourgeoisie spend the nights in the underground gambling den of the Metropolitan Hotel between poker games, gossip, manly goliards and escapades to the house of tolerance.

Ante Up

1974

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli poster
6.2

Rome, early 1900s. Gigi, a young populace, falls in love with the rich Mara and, to satisfy the woman's desires, begins to steal.

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

1973

Brothers Till We Die poster
6.9

Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before looking up his friend Monezza who the police later interrogate for his involvement with vincenzo. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is getting revenge on his gang by killing them off one at the time in his various brutal ways.

Brothers Till We Die

1977

Story of Fear and a Knife poster
6.9

A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.

Story of Fear and a Knife

1972

From Maid to Lady poster
4.2

Rubina arrives in Rome from the high mountain in search of her boyfriend Carlo, who refuses to keep her word of marriage, in view of which she falsely accuses him of having raped her and the boy is imprisoned. Rubina is placed as a maid in David's house. David who has a bizarre family runs a boutique with his son Leo. She soon becomes a clerk in the store, where she conquers everyone, and marries Leo. She will have various sexual experiences. But she gets pregnant by her boyfriend who has since been released from prison.

From Maid to Lady

1979

Down the Ancient Stairs poster
5.5

A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him?

Down the Ancient Stairs

1975

Destruction Force poster
5.8

A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies...

Destruction Force

1977

Long Live The Orgonauts! poster
2.0

In the distant future, a spaceship inhabited by a group of young descendants of a "subversive" minority who escaped the destruction of the Earth, recovers a capsule in which the hibernating body of a reactionary warmonger has been preserved, who after having caused war and death, it has abandoned the now unlivable Earth. The visual experimentation aimed at the liberation of the gaze is intertwined with psychedelic visions on the one hand and with the orgone theory of Reichian memory on the other.

Long Live The Orgonauts!

1970