Laura Antonelli

Laura Antonelli

Laura Antonelli (née Antonaz; 28 November 1941 – 22 June 2015) was an Italian film actress, who appeared in 45 films between 1964 and 1991, and she is best known for the movie Malizia. Antonelli was born Laura Antonaz in Pola, Kingdom of Italy (in Croatian, Pula), former capital of Istria. After the war, her parents fled what was then Yugoslavia, lived in Italian refugee camps and eventually settled in Naples, where her father found work as a hospital administrator. Antonelli had a childhood interest in mathematics, but as a teenager, she became proficient at gymnastics. In an interview for The New York Times, she recalled, "My parents had made me take hours of gym classes during my teens ... They felt I was ugly, clumsy, insignificant and they hoped I would at least develop some grace. I became very good, especially in rhythmical gym, which is a kind of dance." Setting aside ambitions to make a career in mathematics, she graduated as a gymnastics instructor. She moved to Rome, where she became a secondary-school gym teacher and was able to meet people in the entertainment industry, who helped her find modelling jobs. Antonelli's earliest engagements included Italian advertisements for Coca-Cola. In 1965, she made her first feature-film appearance in Le sedicenni, although her performance went uncredited. Her American debut came in 1966 in Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs. Other roles followed; her breakthrough came in 1973's Malizia. She appeared in a number of sex farces such as Till Marriage Do Us Part/Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!. She worked in more serious films, as well, including Luchino Visconti's last film, The Innocent (1976). In Wifemistress, a romance film of 1977, she played a repressed wife experiencing a sexual awakening. Later, she appeared in Passione d'Amore (1981). From 1986 she mostly worked on Italian television series. Antonelli's final film role was in the sequel Malizia 2000 (1991), following which she retired. She won the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists Award, Nastro d'Argento, in 1974 for Malizia. Antonelli was married to publisher Enrico Piacentini but they divorced. From 1972 to 1980, she was the companion of actor Jean-Paul Belmondo. On 27 April 1991, cocaine was found during a police raid on Antonelli's home. She was subsequently convicted of possession and dealing and sentenced to house arrest. She spent ten years appealing the conviction, which was eventually overturned. In 2006, the Italian court of appeals ruled in favor of Antonelli and ordered the Ministry of Justice to pay the actress 108,000 euros. Antonelli died on 22 June 2015, aged 73, from a heart attack. Source: Article "Laura Antonelli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Laura Antonelli
  • Popularity: 8.785
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1941-11-28
  • Place of Birth: Pola, Croatia
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  • Also Known As: Laura Antonaz
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Laura Antonelli Movies

  • 1971
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    The Married Couple of the Year Two

    The Married Couple of the Year Two

    6.6 1971 HD

    Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others...

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  • 1976
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    The Innocent

    The Innocent

    6.807 1976 HD

    Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of...

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  • 1972
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    The Eroticist

    The Eroticist

    5.6 1972 HD

    Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in...

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  • 1977
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    Wifemistress

    Wifemistress

    5.7 1977 HD

    A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his...

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  • 1973
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    Malicious

    Malicious

    7.3 1973 HD

    A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

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  • 1986
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    Department Store

    Department Store

    5.809 1986 HD

    A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

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  • 1975
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    The Divine Nymph

    The Divine Nymph

    5.5 1975 HD

    In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.

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  • 1970
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    Bali

    Bali

    4.3 1970 HD

    The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult...

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  • 1982
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    Viuuulentemente mia

    Viuuulentemente mia

    5.553 1982 HD

    Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia,...

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  • 1979
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    Tigers in Lipstick

    Tigers in Lipstick

    4.2 1979 HD

    8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

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  • 1972
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    Scoundrel in White

    Scoundrel in White

    5.2 1972 HD

    Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he...

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  • 1971
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    Secret Fantasy

    Secret Fantasy

    6.4 1971 HD

    Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is...

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  • 1987
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    Rimini Rimini

    Rimini Rimini

    4.8 1987 HD

    Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.

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  • 1974
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    Lovers and Other Relatives

    Lovers and Other Relatives

    5.7 1974 HD

    Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually...

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  • 1970
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    A Man Called Sledge

    A Man Called Sledge

    6.1 1970 HD

    James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get...

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  • 1979
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    Hypochondriac

    Hypochondriac

    6.1 1979 HD

    During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only...

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  • 1990
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    The Miser

    The Miser

    6.3 1990 HD

    Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two...

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  • 1986
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    The Venetian Woman

    The Venetian Woman

    5.1 1986 HD

    Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are...

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  • 1974
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    Till Marriage Do Us Part

    Till Marriage Do Us Part

    5.9 1974 HD

    The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her...

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  • 1977
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    Black Journal

    Black Journal

    5.3 1977 HD

    A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow...

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  • 1966
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    Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

    Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs

    5.1 1966 HD

    The scheming mad scientist Dr. Goldfoot (Vincent Price) plots another mad scheme to take over the world by killing off the major military leaders of...

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  • 1987
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    Stuff for the Rich

    Stuff for the Rich

    5.215 1987 HD

    3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an...

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  • 1985
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    Slices of Life

    Slices of Life

    5.4 1985 HD

    A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"

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  • 2023
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    Senza malizia

    Senza malizia

    1 2023 HD

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  • 1985
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    The Trap

    The Trap

    3.8 1985 HD

    A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.

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  • 1969
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    Venus in Furs

    Venus in Furs

    5.4 1969 HD

    Based on the infamous novel by Leopold Sacher-Masoch this fine film follows the perverted passions of a young couple as Severin watches the beautiful...

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  • 1980
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    I'm Getting a Yacht

    I'm Getting a Yacht

    5 1980 HD

    A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and...

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  • 1973
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    How Funny Can Sex Be?

    How Funny Can Sex Be?

    5.8 1973 HD

    How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.

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  • 1974
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    Simona

    Simona

    3.8 1974 HD

    While at a bullfight Simona begins flashing back to a torrid sexual relationship she had with George. Her relationship with George was one of open...

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  • 1982
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    Holy Cow

    Holy Cow

    5.7 1982 HD

    When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.

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  • 1982
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    Sesso e volentieri

    Sesso e volentieri

    4.2 1982 HD

    Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

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  • 1981
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    Passion of Love

    Passion of Love

    6.8 1981 HD

    In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the...

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  • 1971
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    Without Apparent Motive

    Without Apparent Motive

    5.8 1971 HD

    A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all...

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  • 1969
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    The Archangel

    The Archangel

    6 1969 HD

    Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder...

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  • 1981
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    Chaste and Pure

    Chaste and Pure

    4.2 1981 HD

    Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter...

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  • 1991
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    Time of Indifference

    Time of Indifference

    2 1991 HD

    A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

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  • 1991
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    Malizia 2000

    Malizia 2000

    5.6 1991 HD

    The teenage son of an architect falls for an older woman, an attractive housewife of his father's client.

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  • 1968
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    The Sexual Revolution

    The Sexual Revolution

    5.5 1968 HD

    Fourteen people of different ages - seven men and seven women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to carry out an experiment inspired by the...

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  • 1981
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    Il turno

    Il turno

    1 1981 HD

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  • 1970
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    Gradiva

    Gradiva

    5.2 1970 HD

    After unearthing an ancient bas-relief sculpture of the gradiva or ‘woman who walks’ a young archaeologist begins to dream of the figure...

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  • 1964
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    The Magnificent Cuckold

    The Magnificent Cuckold

    6.5 1964 HD

    Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he...

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  • 1965
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    Le sedicenni

    Le sedicenni

    1 1965 HD

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  • 1966
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    Pardon, Are You for or Against?

    Pardon, Are You for or Against?

    6 1966 HD

    A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a...

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  • 1969
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    Detective Belli

    Detective Belli

    5.7 1969 HD

    A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.

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  • 1989
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    Julia Forever

    Julia Forever

    1 1989 HD

    Italy, 1940: Carmen de Blasco is married to a fascist, but falls in love with a friend of her father Ubaldo, the young partisan Armando Zani. At the...

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