Cast: Virna Lisi
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Virna Lisi. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
1966 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy
Direction Pietro Germi
Cast Virna Lisi · Gastone Moschin · Nora Ricci · Alberto Lionello
Plot A citizen of the Veneto in her sixties. Three stories of "love in the country": a pseudo Don Giovanni confesses his impotence to the doctor in confidence but he becomes...
7.0
641 votes
7.0
641 votes
The 25th Hour
1967 · Movie · 130 min. · France
Direction Henri Verneuil
Cast Anthony Quinn · Virna Lisi · Grégoire Aslan · Michael Redgrave
Plot Wartime drama, with Anthony Quinn as a Romanian farmer who falls foul of a local police captain (Gregoire Aslan) who desires Quinn's wife (Virna Lisi).
7.0
1K votes
7.0
1K votes
The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1969 · Movie · 140 min. · United States
Direction Stanley Kramer
Cast Anthony Quinn · Anna Magnani · Hardy Krüger · Virna Lisi
Plot Bombolini is a fairly worthless drunk in the small Italian town of Santa Vittoria in the closing days of World War II. When word comes that the Fascist government has...
6.9
1K votes
6.9
1K votes
Made in Italy
1965 · Movie · 127 min. · Italy
Direction Nanni Loy
Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Sylva Koscina · Virna Lisi · Anna Magnani
Plot A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden - but among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants. Two bourgeois couples choose a typical Italian restaurant by its...
6.8
45 votes
6.8
45 votes
I ragazzi di via Panisperna
1989 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy
Direction Gianni Amelio
Cast Andrea Prodan · Mario Adorf · Ennio Fantastichini · Laura Morante
6.7
22 votes
6.7
22 votes
The Best Day of My Life
2002 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy
Direction Cristina Comencini
Cast Virna Lisi · Margherita Buy · Sandra Ceccarelli · Luigi Lo Cascio
Plot This is an incisive, richly detailed portrait of a prosperous Roman family. Virna Lisi plays the mother feeling sidelined by her adult children. One daughter is widowed, the other unhappily...
6.6
205 votes
6.6
205 votes
How to Murder your Wife
1965 · Movie · 118 min. · United States
Direction Richard Quine
Cast Jack Lemmon · Virna Lisi · Terry-Thomas · Eddie Mayehoff
Plot A man who has set up the perfect lifestyle for himself makes the mistake of marrying while drunk... and his fantasies of murder are used against him.
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
La reine Margot (Queen Margot)
1994 · Movie · 137 min. · France
Direction Patrice Chéreau
Cast Isabelle Adjani · Daniel Auteuil · Jean-Hugues Anglade · Vincent Pérez
Plot Paris, August, 1572 – a troubled time in the history of France, a country torn by wars and religious strife. To appease the Protestants, the queen mother, Catherine Medici, arranges...
6.4
7K votes
6.4
7K votes
Eva (Eve)
1962 · Movie · 135 min. · Italy
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Jeanne Moreau · Stanley Baker · Virna Lisi · Giorgio Albertazzi
Plot Joseph Losey's turbulent melodrama concerns a phony writer, Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), who has recently sold the film rights to his autobiography as a Welsh coal miner (actually penned by...
6.4
562 votes
6.4
562 votes
The Lady of the Lake
1965 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Bazzoni · Franco Rossellini
Cast Peter Baldwin · Salvo Randone · Valentina Cortese · Pia Lindström
Plot A young writer, Bernard (Peter Baldwin), returns to the small town where he had vacationed previously, He goes to visit Tilde (Virna Lisi), a young woman with whom he had...
6.4
271 votes
6.4
271 votes
Beyond Good and Evil
1977 · Movie · 122 min. · Italy
Direction Liliana Cavani
Cast Dominique Sanda · Erland Josephson · Robert Powell · Virna Lisi
Plot This is the second part of "The German Trilogy" directed by Liliana Cavani. In The Night Porter she described connection between perversion and fascism. This time she describes life of...
6.0
286 votes
6.0
286 votes
Balzac (TV)
1999 · Movie · 190 min. · France
Direction Josée Dayan
Cast Gérard Depardieu · Jeanne Moreau · Fanny Ardant · Virna Lisi
Plot Honoré de Balzac was a man who lived to write. His life was a hard, permanent struggle, from his cold relationship with his mother who was unable to give him...
6.0
400 votes
6.0
400 votes
Roma bene
1971 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Lizzani
Cast Nino Manfredi · Senta Berger · Virna Lisi · Irene Papas
Plot Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess...
5.8
25 votes
5.8
25 votes
The Serpent
1973 · Movie · 120 min. · France
Direction Henri Verneuil
Cast Yul Brynner · Henry Fonda · Dirk Bogarde · Philippe Noiret
Plot Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a Soviet spy. In France, Vlassov defects. He is whisked to the U.S.A., where Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) takes over the case. After polygraph tests and...
5.8
319 votes
5.8
319 votes
Time for Loving
1983 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Vanzina
Cast Christian De Sica · Jerry Calà · Karina Huff · Marina Suma
Plot It takes place in the early 1960s and involves a gang of teenagers having fun in the summertime against a backdrop of oldies.
5.6
63 votes
5.6
63 votes
Casanova '70
1965 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Monicelli
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Virna Lisi · Marisa Mell · Michèle Mercier
Plot The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
5.6
243 votes
5.6
243 votes
The Girl and the General
1967 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast Rod Steiger · Virna Lisi · Umberto Orsini · Tony Gaggia
Plot A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I. Their quest for the 1,000 Lire reward changes their lives...
5.5
21 votes
5.5
21 votes
The Doll that Took the Town
1965 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy
Direction Mauro Bolognini · Luigi Comencini · Dino Risi · Franco Rossi
Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Virna Lisi · Nino Manfredi · Alicia Brandet
Plot Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a woman so busy talking on the phone that she fails...
5.5
37 votes
5.5
37 votes
L'onore e il rispetto (TV Series)
2006 · Series · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Salvatore Samperi
Cast Gabriel Garko · Virna Lisi · Giancarlo Giannini · Manuela Arcuri
5.4
23 votes
5.4
23 votes
White Fang
1973 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy
Direction Lucio Fulci
Cast Franco Nero · Virna Lisi · Fernando Rey · John Steiner
Plot Set in 1896 in the Klondike region of Yukon, Canada, "Zanna Bianca" follows the adventures of White Fange, a wolf dog, who aids a young Indian boy, Mitsah, as well...
5.4
633 votes
5.4
633 votes