Cast: Alida Valli

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Alida Valli. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


1900 (Novecento)

1976 · Movie · 314 min. · Italy

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Robert De Niro · Dominique Sanda · Stefania Sandrelli

Plot In 1901, in the north of Italy, the same day Giuseppe Verdi died, the sons of a landlord and a farm worker are born. They will be inseparable friends, although...

8.2

19K votes

8.2

19K votes

The Third Man

1949 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Joseph Cotten · Alida Valli · Trevor Howard · Orson Welles

Plot Holly Martins, a pulp novelist who has come to post-WWII Vienna with the promise of work from his friend, Harry Lime. When he finds that Lime has just been killed...

8.2

43K votes

8.2

43K votes

The Paper Man

1963 · Movie · 110 min. · Mexico

Direction Ismael Rodríguez

Cast Ignacio López Tarso · Alida Valli · Susana Cabrera · Guillermo Orea

Plot A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries to buy something with it, others try to con him into...

7.4

245 votes

7.4

245 votes

Eyes Without a Face

1960 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction Georges Franju

Cast Pierre Brasseur · Alida Valli · Juliette Mayniel · Edith Scob

Plot A brilliant surgeon, Dr. Génessier, helped by his assistant Louise, kidnaps nice young women. He removes their faces and tries to graft them onto the head on his beloved daughter...

Max

7.4

5K votes

7.4

5K votes

The Cry

1957 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Steve Cochran · Alida Valli · Betsy Blair · Gabriella Pallotta

Plot After a seven-year relationship with a refinery mechanic named Aldo (Steve Cochran), Irma (Alida Valli) learns that her husband died in Australia. The news may sound tragic, but Aldo thinks...

7.4

998 votes

7.4

998 votes

Senso (The Wanton Countess)

1954 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Alida Valli · Farley Granger · Massimo Girotti · Rina Morelli

Plot In 1866, in the spring of Venice, an underground rebel movement against the Austrian occupation in Italy is getting stronger. The married Countess Livia Serpieri (Alida Valli) sees her cousin...

Max

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

Such a Long Absence (The Long Absence)

1961 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Henri Colpi

Cast Alida Valli · Georges Wilson · Charles Blavette · Amédée

Plot 1961: Cannes Film Festival (Golden Palm - ex aequo with "Viridiana").

7.0

360 votes

7.0

360 votes

The Wide Blue Road

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Yves Montand · Alida Valli · Francisco Rabal · Peter Carsten

Plot The nearly forgotten first feature by director Gillo Pontecorvo is an engaging artifact that whips up some strong suspense, in which a poor Italian fisherman named Squarcio (Yves Montand) supports...

6.8

189 votes

6.8

189 votes

Oedipus Rex

1967 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Silvana Mangano · Franco Citti · Alida Valli · Carmelo Bene

Plot In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken...

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

La luna

1979 · Movie · 142 min. · Italy

Direction Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Jill Clayburgh · Matthew Barry · Veronica Lazar · Renato Salvatori

Plot Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Paradine Case

1947 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction Alfred Hitchcock

Cast Gregory Peck · Ann Todd · Charles Laughton · Charles Coburn

Plot Keane (Gregory Peck) is a handsome, young lawyer who falls in love with a beautiful client named Paradine (Alida Valli), a woman accused of murdering her blind husband. Although he's...

6.8

5K votes

6.8

5K votes

The Professor

1972 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

6.7

395 votes

6.7

395 votes

Suspiria

1977 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Dario Argento

Cast Jessica Harper · Stefania Casini · Flavio Bucci · Udo Kier

Plot A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the...

6.6

10K votes

6.6

10K votes

Zoo zéro

1979 · Movie · 101 min. · France

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

Walk Softly, Stranger

1950 · Movie · 81 min. · United States

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Joseph Cotten · Alida Valli · Spring Byington · Paul Stewart

Plot A charming, smooth-talking gambler calling himself Chris Hale arrives in Ashton, home of the Corelli shoe factory. Claiming to have lived there as a boy, he soon ingratiates himself with...

6.5

226 votes

6.5

226 votes

The Spider's Stratagem

1970 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy

6.5

675 votes

6.5

675 votes

We, the Women

1953 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Alfredo Guarini · Gianni Franciolini · Roberto Rossellini · Luigi Zampa

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Anna Magnani · Isa Miranda · Alida Valli

Plot Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars. The first episode (of Alfredo Guarini) is the chronicle of a contest for aspirant actresses:...

6.4

187 votes

6.4

187 votes

Berlinguer: I Love You

1977 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe Bertolucci

Cast Roberto Benigni · Alida Valli · Carlo Monni · Mario Pachi

Plot Mario Cioni (Roberto Benigni), is a hapless young man who lives with a tormented and antagonistic relationship with his mother. When he is told his mother has died, he returns...

6.1

82 votes

6.1

82 votes

Ophélia

1963 · Movie · 105 min. · France

Direction Claude Chabrol

Cast Alida Valli · Claude Cerval · André Jocelyn · Juliette Mayniel

Plot It is the grim story of a young man who gets Shakespearean-style revenge against the uncle who married the young fellow's mother...

6.0

43 votes

6.0

43 votes