Best Gina Lollobrigida movies
We present our ranking of the best Gina Lollobrigida movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Gina Lollobrigida.
TOP 13: Box Office 3D - Il film dei film
Gina Lollobrigida as: Se stessa
Genre: Comedy
Release: 2011
An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast and Furious" and "The Da Vinci Code".
TOP 12: Never So Few
Gina Lollobrigida as: Carla Vesari
Genre: War
Release: 1959
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.
TOP 11: Death Laid an Egg
Original Title: La morte ha fatto l'uovo
Gina Lollobrigida as: Anna
Genre: Thriller
Release: 1968
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
TOP 10: Woman of Straw
Gina Lollobrigida as: Maria Marcello
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1964
Anthony Richmond schemes to get the fortune of his tyrannical, wheelchair-using tycoon uncle Charles Richmond by persuading Maria, a nurse he employs, to marry him.
TOP 9: Solomon and Sheba
Gina Lollobrigida as: Sheba
Genre: History, Romance
Release: 1959
Under the rule of King David, Israel is united and prosperous although surrounded by enemies including Egypt and its allies. The aging King David favors his younger son, Solomon, as his successor, but David's elder son Prince Adonijah, a warrior, declares himself King. When David learns of this, he publicly announces Solomon to be his successor. Adonijah and Joab, his general, withdraw in rage. Israel prospers under King Solomon's wise and benevolent rule and is seen as a threat to more tyrannical monarchs in the region. The Pharaoh of Egypt agrees to cede a Red Sea port to the Queen of Sheba in a plot to undermine Solomon's rule. Sheba is to seduce Solomon and introduce Sheban pagan worship into Jerusalem. Meanwhile, Prince Adonijah, now banished, also conspires with Pharaoh and is given an army to defeat Solomon. The film is a highly fictionalized dramatization of events depicted in The Bible -- First Kings chapter 10 and Second Chronicles chapter 9.
TOP 8: Beat the Devil
Gina Lollobrigida as: Maria Dannreuther
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Release: 1953
The script, which was written on a day-to-day basis as the film was being shot, concerns the adventures of a motley crew of swindlers and ne'er-do-wells trying to lay claim to land rich in uranium deposits in Kenya as they wait in a small Italian port to travel aboard an ill-fated tramp steamer en route to Mombasa.
TOP 7: Trapeze
Gina Lollobrigida as: Lola
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1956
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
TOP 6: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Original Title: Notre-Dame de Paris
Gina Lollobrigida as: Esmeralda
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 1956
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
TOP 5: Fan-Fan the Tulip
Original Title: Fanfan la Tulipe
Gina Lollobrigida as: Adeline
Genre: Romance, Adventure, Comedy, War
Release: 1952
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.
TOP 4: Come September
Gina Lollobrigida as: Lisa Helena Fellini
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1961
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
TOP 3: Bread, Love and Dreams
Original Title: Pane, amore e fantasia
Gina Lollobrigida as: La Bersagliera
Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Release: 1953
Marshal Antonio Carotenuto is sent to a remote Italian mountain village named Sagliena. He's anxious to marry, and selects young Gina Lollobrigida as his bride; but she is already in love with his shy subordinate Roberto Risso. Mistaking her headstrong behavior as promiscuity, Carotenuto makes advances towards her, but she spurns him. Forsaking the girl to the arms of Risso, the Marshal decides to settle for village midwife Marisa Merlini. Things become more complicated when Annarella, the midwife, starts demonstrating her love to Antonio. She is hiding a secret and the Marshal soon will be in a difficult situation.
TOP 2: Frisky
Original Title: Pane, amore e gelosia
Gina Lollobrigida as: Bersagliera
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Release: 1954
"Bread, Love and Jealousy" (Italian: Pane, Amore e Gelosia), known as "Frisky" in the US, is a 1954 Italian romantic comedy film directed by Luigi Comencini. The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town. The film is the second part of the Italian trilogy, preceded by "Bread, Love and Dreams" and followed by "Scandal in Sorrento". It is usually considered one of the most famous examples of Pink neorealism.
TOP 1: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Original Title: Le avventure di Pinocchio
Gina Lollobrigida as: Fata
Genre: Family, Drama
Release: 1972
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.