Cast: Lea Padovani

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Eva Vanicek · Carla del Poggio · Massimo Girotti · Lucía Bosé

Synopsis Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy morning in Rome in 1951. They crowd and push their...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Sam Wanamaker · Lea Padovani · Kathleen Ryan · Charles Goldner

Synopsis Geremio, a young Italian immigrant to New York City, works as a bricklayer and is courting an Italian girl, Annunziata, by mail. He lies to her that he owns his own home and, after they are married, has to rent...

Direction Jacques Becker

Cast Gérard Philipe · Lilli Palmer · Anouk Aimée · Lila Kedrova

Synopsis Biographic movie about the last year of the famous Italian painter Modigliani. Modigliani, a poor painter in Paris of 1919, falls in love with a daughter from a wealthy family. Her parents are against their relation and stop financial help.

Direction Vittorio De Seta

Cast Jacques Perrin · Lea Padovani · Gianni Garko · Ilaria Occhini

Synopsis Jacques Perrin was awarded Best Actor at the 1966 Venice Film Festival for his gripping portrayal of a young writer's descent into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Perrin retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to...

Direction Edward Dmytryk

Cast Maximilian Schell · Ricardo Montalban · Lea Padovani · Akim Tamiroff

Synopsis The Reluctant Saint is based on the life of Saint Joseph of Cupertino. When young Giuseppe Diesa (Maximilian Schell) is sent to work at a monastery circa 17th century Italy -- his parents believed he was mentally challenged -- he...

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Horst Buchholz · Catherine Spaak · Bette Davis · Isa Miranda

Synopsis The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Thinking he has found the image for his "empty canvas", he takes up with man-crazy nymphet Cecilia, who refuses to marry him--even after...

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Sophia Loren · Lea Padovani · Antonio Cifariello

Synopsis Marshall Antonio Carotenuto comes back to native Sorrento to take care of the local fire brigade. But since Sofia, a very nice fishmonger, occupies his native house Antonio share another home with Donna Violante, secretly fall in love with him....

Direction Franco Rossi

Cast Alberto Sordi · Lea Padovani · Lia Amanda · Jacqueline Pierreux

Direction Steno · Mario Monicelli

Cast Totò · Ave Ninchi · Alda Mangini · Peppino De Filippo

Direction Mario Chiari · Pietro Germi · Glauco Pellegrini · Antonio Pietrangeli

Cast Franco Interlenghi · Leonora Ruffo · Lea Padovani · Andrea Checchi

Direction Henry Koster

Cast Ava Gardner · Anthony Franciosa · Amedeo Nazzari · Gino Cervi

Synopsis The peasant Francisco de Goya becomes a famous painter under the influence of the Duquesa de Alba.

Direction Axel Corti

Cast Timothy Dalton · Valeria Golino · Stéphane Freiss · Margaret Tyzack

Direction Javier Setó

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Carmen Sevilla · Vicente Parra · Mario Carotenuto

Direction Piero Costa

Cast Rossano Brazzi · Lea Padovani · Maria Frau · Jacques Sernas

Synopsis The plot concerns an undercover cop who infiltrates a gang of clever criminals.

Direction W. Lee Wilder

Cast Lloyd Bridges · Lea Padovani · Aldo Fabrizi · William Tubbs

Synopsis After a prison sentence an American GI stationed in Italy discovers that his hidden loot has disappeared and goes searching for it.

Direction Emidio Greco

Cast Jean-Pierre Cassel · Audrey Matson · Lea Padovani · Alessandro Haber

Synopsis Wolfgang Cazotte, a famous, refined and charming court painter of the early 19th century, conceives an idea: to seduce Ehrengard, a young and fiery virgin, without touching her, but only causing the blush of complicity to rise to her cheeks.

Direction Domenico Paolella

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Alberto Sordi · Lea Padovani · Delia Scala

Direction Jean Delannoy

Cast Jean Marais · Marina Vlady · Jean-François Poron · Annie Ducaux

Direction Nunzio Malasomma

Cast Rossano Brazzi · Annette Bach · Roldano Lupi · Lea Padovani

Direction Armando Fizzarotti

Cast Lea Padovani · Renato Baldini · Ubaldo Lay · Beniamino Maggio

Synopsis Pietro and Carmela love each other, but she has a bad name and Pietros's father, Andrea, opposes the marriage. Carmela has a beautiful voice and she could be a singer, but she renounces singing as token of her love for...