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  • La Reine Margot
  • La Reine Margot review by philjb from Worcs
    Rated - 3 stars Fascinating and spectacular film. 25 May 2005
    ...as the ravishing and not so innocent eponym. However, acting honours must go to Virna Lisi as the scheming Catherine de Medici who absolutely drips with evil. Most Ang...  
  • How To Murder Your Wife
  • How To Murder Your Wife review by A customer from Cardiff Boy
    Rated - 5 stars A great example of its time 5 February 2005
    ...as, and heaps of glamour and indeed talent from an exceptional supporting cast. Virna Lisi is the eye-candy, and a script by George Axelrod - it's a classic all round. No...  

Virna Lisi - filmography


  • The Best Day Of My Life on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Margherita Buy,  Virna Lisi,  Sandra Ceccarelli
    Director: Cristina Comencini
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Follows the life and troubles of Irene and her wayward family: her middle child seems to be straying from her husband; her eldest daughter lives as a hermit after the death of her husband; and her son, unbeknown to her, feels detached from the family due to his homosexuality.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 703 members
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  • The Secret of Santa Vittoria on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Anthony Quinn,  Anna Magnani,  Virna Lisi
    Director: Stanley Kramer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 surrendered, he climbs a water tower to tear down the flag. He can't get down and someone gets the crowd to chant his name to give ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 50 members
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  • The 25th Hour (1967)
    Starring: Anthony Quinn,  Virna Lisi,  Grégoire Aslan
    Director: Henri Verneuil
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis invade his country. Because local police chief ..read more »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 3 members
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  • How To Murder Your Wife on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Jack Lemmon,  Virna Lisi
    Director: Richard Quine
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Cartoonist Stanley Ford, a confirmed bachelor, attends a party one evening... and is bewitched by a blonde Italian knockout who pops out of a cake. Then he does a very stupid thing. He marries her on the spot. Though his new wife is a happy homemaker, a man's man like Stanley has no stomach for ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 632 members
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Virna Lisi facts

5 most recent films

The Best Day Of My Life - 3.0 stars
La Reine Margot - 3.5 stars
I Love N.Y. - 1.5 stars
The Secret of Santa Vittoria - 3.5 stars
The 25th Hour - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Secret of Santa Vittoria - 3.5 stars
La Reine Margot - 3.5 stars
How To Murder Your Wife - 3.5 stars
The Best Day Of My Life - 3.0 stars
Eva - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

I Love N.Y. - 1.5 stars
The 25th Hour - 2.5 stars
Casanova '70 - 2.5 stars
Eva - 3.0 stars
The Best Day Of My Life - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Anthony Quinn - 2 times - show films
Michael Redgrave - 1 times - show films
Checco Rissone - 1 times - show films
John Armstead - 1 times - show films
Guido Alberti - 1 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Henri Verneuil - 1 times - show films
Cristina Comencini - 1 times - show films
Alan Smithee - 1 times - show films
Stanley Kramer - 1 times - show films
Patrice Chereau - 1 times - show films