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

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...

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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

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