Marcello Giorda

Acting

Marcello Giorda

Born — Died

1890-01-19 — 1960-04-21

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 17 titles

The Great War poster
8.1

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

The Great War

1959

An American in Rome poster
7.1

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.

An American in Rome

1954

The Law poster
5.9

A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.

The Law

1959

The Sword and the Cross poster
5.4

Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.

The Sword and the Cross

1956

The Doll that Took the Town poster
5.0

A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.

The Doll that Took the Town

1957

The Seducer poster
6.5

Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.

The Seducer

1954

The Black Chapel poster
7.3

1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.

The Black Chapel

1959

La campana di San Giusto poster
NR

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.

La campana di San Giusto

1954

Il tallone di Achille poster
9.0

Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.

Il tallone di Achille

1952

A Parisian in Rome poster
8.3

The story follows Riccardo, an Austrian pianist studying in Rome and engaged to local woman Fiorella, who has a brief encounter with French tourist Germaine, igniting a love triangle involving misunderstandings, a false arrest, and romantic schemes. Starring Barbara Laage as Germaine, Alberto Sordi as Alberto, Anna Maria Ferrero as Fiorella, and Erwin Strahl as Riccardo, the film blends humor with lighthearted drama set against the backdrop of Rome's iconic landmarks. Paul Hörbiger plays Professor Roth, serving as a stern mentor to the protagonist Riccardo and delivering comic relief via his rigid academic counsel amid the story's chaotic love triangle.

A Parisian in Rome

1954

Il marito poster
6.4

Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple. Alberto is also experiencing financial problems and hopes for the help of a rich widow who is however interested in his sexual favours. Naturally Elena puts obstacles in his way and everything goes wrong. Alberto decides to change job then and becomes a sweets sales representative. Disillusioned with marital life he also changes his attitude towards women: he tells every woman he meets he is single.

Il marito

1958

No artwork available
NR

Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.

Il prigioniero del re

1954

Processo contro ignoti poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Processo contro ignoti

1952

Traviata 53 poster
6.9

An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.

Traviata 53

1953

Vacations in Majorca poster
5.9

Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.

Vacations in Majorca

1959

Flucht in die Dolomiten poster
5.7

No synopsis available yet.

Flucht in die Dolomiten

1955

Ha da venì... don Calogero! poster
8.0

A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.

Ha da venì... don Calogero!

1952

1940s · 14 titles

Fra' Diavolo poster
6.7

The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.

Fra' Diavolo

1942

Rigoletto poster
6.0

This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.

Rigoletto

1946

La monaca di Monza poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La monaca di Monza

1947

The Revenge of Baccarat poster
7.0

In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomplices have the Count's fortune handed over to them. But their trickery is discovered by an intriguer, Baccarat, who finds the real Count of Chamery, a young painter without fortune, in love with Carmen de Montevecchio. Rocambole, who stops at nothing, kills Sir William, gets rid of Armand and makes Carmen love him. But Baccarat is determined not to let him continue his villainies.

The Revenge of Baccarat

1948

Il nemico poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il nemico

1943

Beatrice Cenci poster
5.4

Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.

Beatrice Cenci

1941

Rocambole poster
7.0

In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him.

Rocambole

1948

Albergo Luna, camera 34 poster
10.0

A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a man who invites her out for a drink. She accepts the invitation, stunned by the bunch of banknotes in his wallet. The man takes her to his room at the hotel Luna and seduces her. Before leaving, she robs him of his money and then walks hastily home, but in the meantime her mother has died. She meets a young maestro, who wants her to sing his songs. She seems to begin a happy, though hard, life together with the young maestro who wishes to marry her. The wicked man suddenly reappears and menaces to reveal their old encounter and that she is a thief, but he is later killed. The unfortunate lady is suspected of the crime, but at the end she is cleared of it and she can happily marry her maestro

Albergo Luna, camera 34

1946

Il fabbro del convento poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il fabbro del convento

1945

Don Pasquale poster
8.0

In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.

Don Pasquale

1940

La mano della morta poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La mano della morta

1949

Torna a Sorrento poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Torna a Sorrento

1945

L'angelo bianco poster
8.0

A young woman who has been seduced and abandoned is led to believe by her former in-laws that their son, whom they sent to an orphanage, is dead. She takes her vows and returns to her homeland after years of missionary work. She learns that her former lover has been killed in a duel and barely has time to see her dying son before he passes away.

L'angelo bianco

1943

Rita da Cascia poster
10.0

Biographical film about Saint Rita da Cascia, who lived in Umbria in the 14th century.

Rita da Cascia

1943