Best Claudia Cardinale movies

Claudia Cardinale as: Aisha
Genre: Action, War
Release: 1966
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.

Original Title: Un balcon sur la mer
Claudia Cardinale as: La mère de Marc
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2010
Happily married with a daughter, Marc is a successful real estate agent in Aix-en-Provence. One day, he has an appointment with a woman to view a traditional country house. A few hours later, Marc finally puts a name to her face. It's Cathy, the girl he was in love with growing up in Oran, Algeria, in the last days of the French colonial regime. Marc hurries to her hotel. They spend the night together. Then she's gone again. And Marc's mother tells him Cathy never left Algeria. She was killed with her father in a bombing just before independence...
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jean Dujardin movies?

Claudia Cardinale as: Toni Alfredo
Genre: Drama, Western
Release: 1964
Circus owner Matt Masters is beset by disasters as he attempts a European tour of his circus. At the same time, he is caught in an emotional bind between his adopted daughter and her mother.

Original Title: Cartouche
Claudia Cardinale as: Венера
Genre: Action, Comedy, Romance
Release: 1962
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.

Original Title: Bello, onesto, emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata
Claudia Cardinale as: Carmela
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1971
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.

Original Title: Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa...
Claudia Cardinale as: Sandra Dawson
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Release: 1965
Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to pay homage to her father who died in Auschwitz where she was still a little child. In Volterra, Andrew meets for the first time Gianni, Sandra's brother. He soon realizes that Sandra and Gianni have a secret since their childhood. (IMDb)

Claudia Cardinale as: The Princess Dala
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 1963
The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for Switzerland, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...
Did you know that this movie is also one of best David Niven movies?

Original Title: Le fil
Claudia Cardinale as: Sara
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2009
Malik has a lot on his plate when he returns home to Tunisia after living in France. He's processing his father's death, he can't come out to his mother, and his childhood anxieties have resurfaced. But all of Malik's problems seem to fade away when he falls for Bilal, the dreamy houseboy at his mother's bourgeois estate.

Original Title: La ragazza con la valigia
Claudia Cardinale as: Aida Zepponi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 1961
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?

Original Title: Il giorno della civetta
Claudia Cardinale as: Rosa Nicolosi
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1968
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Franco Nero movies?

Claudia Cardinale as: Mrs. Maria Grant
Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Release: 1966
The Professionals is a 1966 American Western film directed by Richard Brooks. A kidnap-rescue adventure set in about 1917, it features a small group of experts heading into Mexico to free the Mexican-born wife of a wealthy Texan from several hundred bandits. The film is based on the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O'Rourke.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jack Palance movies?

Original Title: Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
Claudia Cardinale as: Carmelina Nicosia
Genre: Comedy
Release: 1959
The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Renato Salvatori movies?

Original Title: Il bell'Antonio
Claudia Cardinale as: Barbara Puglisi
Genre: Drama
Release: 1960
Problems arise for Antonio Magnano when he is unable to consummate his marriage to the beautiful Barbara Puglisi and his virility is called into question. Despite the fact that he loves his beautiful wife and they have otherwise been happily married for a year, his problem becomes a source of contention for all concerned.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Marcello Mastroianni movies?

Original Title: Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno
Claudia Cardinale as: Professor's wife
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1974
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Dominique Sanda movies?

Original Title: Mein liebster Feind
Claudia Cardinale as: Herself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 1999
A film that describes the love-hate relationship between Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski, the deep trust between the director and the actor, and their independently and simultaneously hatched plans to murder one another.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Klaus Kinski movies?

Original Title: La Scoumoune
Claudia Cardinale as: Georgia Saratov
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 1972
For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Jean-Paul Belmondo movies?

Claudia Cardinale as: Molly
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Release: 1982
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Original Title: Nell'anno del Signore
Claudia Cardinale as: Giuditta Di Castro
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Release: 1969
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada. The two, Montanari (Hossein) and Targhini (Verley) fail to kill him and decide to escape from Rome. But they are arrested and sentenced to death. Cornacchia will spend his last chance to save them.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Alberto Sordi movies?

Original Title: Il gattopardo
Claudia Cardinale as: Angelica Sedara/Bertiana
Genre: Drama
Release: 1963
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Giuliano Gemma movies?

Claudia Cardinale as: Molly / Herself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 1982
German director Werner Herzog begins work on his 1982 epic "Fitzcarraldo" but soon runs into serious setbacks, from casting problems to his own stubborn refusal to use special effects. After having to reshoot much of the film because the lead actor was recast, his crew must then haul an old-fashioned steamboat over a mountain using manpower alone. With a resolve bordering on insanity, Herzog struggles to realize his vision, vowing to see the film completed -- even if it leads to his undoing.

Original Title: Rocco e i suoi fratelli
Claudia Cardinale as: Ginetta
Genre: Crime, Drama
Release: 1960
When a widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her sons become romantic rivals, with deadly results.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Alain Delon movies?

Original Title: C'era una volta il West
Claudia Cardinale as: Jill McBain
Genre: Western
Release: 1968
A widow whose land and life are in danger as the railroad is getting closer and closer to taking them over. A mysterious harmonica player joins forces with a desperado to protect the woman and her land.
Did you know that this movie is also one of best Henry Fonda movies?

Claudia Cardinale as: Claudia
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Release: 1963
Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

Original Title: I soliti ignoti
Claudia Cardinale as: Carmelina
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 1958
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Claudia Cardinale as: Herself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey, written and directed by award-winning film-maker Mark Cousins, is the story of international cinema told through the history of cinematic innovation. Five years in the making, The Story of Film: An Odyssey covers six continents and 12 decades, showing how film-makers are influenced both by the historical events of their times, and by each other. It provides a worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made; an epic tale that starts in nickelodeons and ends as a multi-billion-dollar globalised digital industry. Described as a love letter to the movies, Cousins visits the key sites in the history of cinema; from Hollywood to Mumbai; from Hitchcock s London to the village where Pather Panchali was shot, and features interviews with legendary filmmakers and actors including Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Gus van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Towne, Jane Campion and Claudia Cardinale.