Alida Valli
Date of birth: 1921-05-31
Place of birth: Pola, Istria, Italy [now Pula, Istria, Croatia]
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Valli, Alida Maria Laura von Altenburger, Alida Altenburger, Алида Валли, Alida Maria Altenburger
Biography
Alida Valli (May 31, 1921 – April 22, 2006), sometimes simply credited as Valli, was an Italian actress who appeared in more than 100 films, including Mario Soldati's Piccolo mondo antico, Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case, Ayn Rand's We the Living, Carol Reed's The Third Man, Michelangelo Antonioni's Il Grido, Luchino Visconti's Senso, and Dario Argento's Suspiria.
Movie Credits
The Third Man
1949-08-31
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest o
I Was to Blame
1937-04-01
A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his
1900
1976-08-28
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh
Season of Peace in Paris
1981-07-01
A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual at
Lisa and the Devil
1973-05-08
Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelt
Luna
1979-08-29
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with
Eyes Without a Face
1960-01-11
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daug
The Sweet Sounds of Life
1999-09-10
Sofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting teacher
The Paradine Case
1947-12-31
In London, barrister Anthony Keane takes the case of Maddalena Paradine, a beautiful woman accused o
The Cassandra Crossing
1976-12-18
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off t
Towards Zero
1980-05-13
Verso l'ora zero is an Italian television film from 1980. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel T
Il Grido
1957-09-26
A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Fatal Frames
1996-02-15
Alex Ritt, a music video director comes to Italy to direct a video for pop sensation Stefania Stella
Killer Nun
1979-05-09
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of les
The Spider's Stratagem
1970-09-17
A young man returns to his countryside hometown to investigate the unclear circumstances behind the
Oedipus Rex
1967-09-07
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and t
Senso
1954-03-25
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affa
The Miracle of the Bells
1948-03-27
The body of a young actress is brought to her home town by the man who loved her. He knows that she
Inferno
1980-02-07
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Manuela's Loves
1987-06-17
The survivor of a concentration camp finds out that her lover, a lesbian, is having an affair with a
Indian Summer
1972-10-18
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini
Ophélia
1963-02-06
A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
The Night Heaven Fell
1958-04-05
Ursula finishes her studies and returns to her aunt Florentine and uncle, Ribera who is the count. S
Homage at Siesta Time
1962-01-21
The widows of four missionaries condemned by the Indians to die at the stake, go to the Amazon jungl
We, the Women
1953-10-27
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
Flesh of the Orchid
1975-01-29
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her
Eye in the Labyrinth
1972-03-24
Julie is disturbed by the disappearance of her psychiatrist boyfriend Luca following a bizarre dream
Berlinguer: I Love You
1977-10-06
A young poet falls in love with a sophisticated woman who hates poetry. But the poet wants to win he
Three Cornered Hat
1935-02-01
A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the
The White Tower
1950-06-24
Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak.
The Antichrist
1974-11-22
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a mal
Walk Softly, Stranger
1950-10-14
A petty crook moves to an Ohio town and courts a factory owner's disabled daughter.
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012-02-04
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, a
The Perfect Crime
1978-11-24
The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960-06-01
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seek
The Paper Man
1963-10-05
A deaf and mute vagabond finds a large denomination bill in a Mexico City dump, and while he tries t
The Wide Blue Road
1957-11-22
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Lik
Tender Dracula
1974-08-07
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire ro
Zitti e mosca
1991-09-21
In a small Tuscan village that's waiting for the local festival to commence, amidst confusion about
The Castilian
1963-03-07
Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual m
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
1970-04-08
A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professi
It's Nothing Mama, Just a Game
1974-05-29
A young Hacienda-owner abuses women due to his traumatic youth while his mother covers for his sadis
That House in the Outskirts
1980-10-19
A young girl's husband rents a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the last three mo
Schoolgirl Diary
1941-09-06
In a girls' school, Maria, a student, is accused of having an affair with the young professor Marini
Piccolo mondo antico
1941-04-10
Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmo
Dirty World
1978-08-08
Senator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against immorality.
Miracles Only Happen Once
1951-05-10
1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each
Last Meeting
1951-10-24
The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to
This Angry Age
1957-10-31
Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of a
The Stranger's Hand
1954-01-20
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major
The Happy Thieves
1961-12-20
A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from
Beyond Love
1940-01-10
Set in the Papal States in the first half of the 19th century, it tells the story of the Roman noble
The House of Exorcism
1975-04-02
A re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly filmed
The Lovers of Toledo
1953-01-28
Toledo, 1825. To save her fiancé, an opponent of the regime, the beautiful Inès agrees to marry the
We the Living, Part Two
1942-09-15
After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Pete
Vino Santo – Es lebe die Liebe, es lebe der Wein
2001-01-01
Half-Italian Gioia loves Max, but leaves her son's son to cheat her as a fiancé. When Mama invites t
Secrets Secrets
1985-03-15
Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thr
The Za-Bum Circus
1949-03-11
Anthology comedy/romance film
The Sweet Sounds of Life
1999-09-10
Sofia, a budding young theater actress, unwittingly discovers that Bruno, her beloved acting teacher
I pagliacci
1943-01-23
Movie adaptation of the Leoncavalo's famous opera. A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by
A Month by the Lake
1995-09-11
For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This ye
Illa - Punto d'osservazione
1981-06-26
Illa, a brilliant and somewhat immature girl, involuntarily witnesses a ferocious shootout during a
I'll Love You Forever
1943-11-05
Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she c
Apparizione
1943-12-23
One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to
The World Condemns Them
1953-03-07
Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an e
Lycanthropus, the Son of the Night
1979-01-01
Italian horror movie from 1979.
Catene invisibili
1942-04-01
Eugenia Grandet
1946-09-10
Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Sa
Il peccato degli anni verdi
1960-12-21
Released from a boarding school of nuns in Como, the seventeen-year-old Milanese Elena Giordani mana
Il canto della vita
1945-12-15
During the German occupation, the only heir of a rich owner of the Roman countryside, in order to es
Life Begins Anew
1945-09-21
A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
The Gigolo
1960-10-18
Agathe Perrin, a wealthy widow in her forties, lives with her ailing father in an estate on the shor
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021-05-16
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f
La Fille du torrent
1962-03-14
Widowed at the age of twenty, Madame Boissière is a real mother hen, excessively brooding over her t
Black Humor
1965-04-12
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze ar
To Our Late Husband
1988-02-24
The widow of a thief learns that the chateau she lives in has a fortune in gold hidden somewhere.
Il feroce saladino
1937-09-23
Mille lire al mese
1939-01-01
You Love Me, I Love You
1939-11-15
Ballo al castello
1939-12-30
La casa del peccato
1938-12-14
A Simple Heart
1977-05-13
Set in a rural area of France in the 19th century, this simple tale tells the story of a servant gir
Angel of Death
2002-06-09
The most spectacular Easter celebration in the World. Hosts of hooded Penitents parade through the a
Disorder
1962-03-16
Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the wo
L'uomo dai calzoni corti
1958-06-23
Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never m
Black Humor
1965-04-12
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze ar
La bocca
1991-03-22
A young restorer is commissioned a job at an old villa which belongs to an aging countess.
Forbidden Dreams
1982-10-29
Paolo Coniglio is a naive and clumsy employee in a comics publishing house, bullied by his manager a
Signed, Arsène Lupin
1959-11-11
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings com
The Long Absence
1961-05-17
Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A t
The Game of Solitaire
1976-11-24
A psychiatrist takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stab
Probably Love
2001-08-30
Sofia is a young student in an acting class who learns some of the secrets of the trade from three g
Zoo zéro
1979-05-09
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approac
The Fall of the Rebel Angels
1981-09-09
Who is the mysterious stranger Cecilia met on the street? Why is he suspicious of everyone? She is h
The Long Silence
1993-03-19
Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line
L'amante segreta
1941-09-27
Suspiria 25th Anniversary
2001-09-11
Documentary about the shooting of 'Suspiria' that details everything that lovers of horror genre can
Aspern
1982-06-11
A publisher seeks information on a writer who died long ago.
The Bailiff of Greifensee
1980-02-23
The Other Woman
1964-09-04
The troubling attraction of a young decorator, Agnès, on a small Spanish island, for a man everyone
Manon Lescaut
1940-02-02
Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally fo
Suspiria
1977-02-01
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a fr
The Final Scoop
1994-06-10
Marco, a television journalist, reads "red lies" on his teletext system in order to gather material
The Sons of Medea
1959-09-06
The sons of Medea are an Italian "teledramma", broadcast live on 9 June 1959 on the National Program
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017-06-14
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o
We the Living, Part One
1942-09-14
At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. S
Luce nelle tenebre
1941-07-12
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notori
Al otro lado de la ciudad
1962-07-02
Il trovatello
1938-10-01
A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
Cher Victor
1975-06-06
A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up house
Le due orfanelle
1942-08-16
Stasera niente di nuovo
1942-03-05
A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a
L'amor mio non muore!
1938-11-01
A young man with no solid income is rejected by a wealthy industrialist when he dares to ask for his
La prima donna che passa
1940-10-26
Come diventai Alida Valli
2008-10-23
Taverna rossa
1940-02-08