Anita Ekberg

Anita Ekberg
Date of Birth: 29 Sep 1931
Country: Sweden
Total Credits at Criticker: 42 (Actor)
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La Dolce vita
Marcello is a young playboy journalist who spends his days between celebrities and rich people, seeking for ephemeral joy in parties and sex... (imdb)
Artists and Models
Eugene and Rick are two struggling artists who share apartment. However, Rick has problems with that... (imdb)
+2
Hollywood or Bust
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too. Trying to steal the car, Steve tells Malcolm that he lives in Hollywood, next to Anita Ekberg's. When Malcom hears that, they both set out for Hollywood and the adventure begins... (imdb)
Boccaccio \
Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron... (imdb)
War and Peace
Spruced up adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's epic novel about the life of a Russian family during the War of 1812. The historical and personal events are seen mostly through the eyes of Natasha, who is 16 years old at the start of the movie. Contains many panoramic shots of battle in action. (imdb)
+4
Woman Times Seven
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband. (imdb)
Blood Alley
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, is "shanghaied" into transporting the whole village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer. (imdb)
+2
Fangs of the Living Dead
A beautiful virgin inherits a castle, but when she arrives at it, she finds that the inhabitants include a strange nobleman and a bevy of beautiful women she suspects may be vampires. (imdb)
+3
4 for Texas
Frank Sinatra plays a tough guy who hooks up with fellow rat packer Dean Martin to open a casino in this western. (imdb)
A Candidate for a Killing
A man is hired to impersonate a millionaire that is his lookalike and is involved in very dangerous businesses. (imdb)
Zarak
An Afghan Outlaw finally saves a British Officer at the cost of his own life. (imdb)
Intervista
Intervista has been termed a semi-documentary: This is in fact the filmed autobiography of Italian director Federico Fellini, framed in the form of an interview conducted by a Japanese film crew. As the interview progresses Fellini's mind wanders to his earliest days (the reenacted events conflict with several of the "official" stories of his life). (Allmovie)
The Mongols
Genghis Khan and his Mongol army invade Poland and lay siege to the city of Cracow. The Polish king tries to make peace in order to save his city, and Genghis Khan seems amenable to that. However, his son Ogotai is itching for war, and his mistress eggs him on to defy his father and take the city. (imdb)
Man in the Vault
A locksmith gets caught up in a bank robbery. (imdb)
Killer Nun
A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, whilst presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patients around her. (imdb)
+6
French Sex Murders
The film, which mainly takes place in a Paris brothel, revolves around murders of prostitutes, investigated by a cynical and Bogart-ish police inspector. (imdb.com)
+5
Screaming Mimi
The tale of terror centers on an exotic dancer (Anita Ekberg) who is terrorized by a knife-wielding homicidal maniac.
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars
Lester and Orville accidentally launch a rocket which is supposed to fly to Mars. Instead it goes to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. They are then forced by bank robber Mugsy and his pal Harry to fly to Venus where they find a civilization made up entirely of women, men having been banished. (imdb)
Way... Way Out
The Americans and Russians each have a two-person base on the Moon The Americans have had to keep replacing their astronaut teams because they quickly go crazy; they have been using only male astronauts on the unspoken assumption that this would avoid any possibility of impropriety. The Russians, as godless Communists, are under no such constraints, and their male-female team has remained well-adjusted... (imdb)
+2
The Golden Blade
Harum is a fearless man of the people who comes to Bagdad to avenge the murder of his father and meets Krairuzan, a princess disguised as a commoner, working against a plot by a band of evil schemers trying to do away with her father, the Caliph. She gives Harum a golden sword which makes him invincible. Harum uses the sword in the name of justice and is doing quite well until a duplicate sword is placed in his scabbard during one of his off-guard moments, and he winds up in chains. (imdb)
Back from Eternity
A South American plane loaded with an assortment of characters crash lands in a remote jungle area in the middle of a storm. The passengers then discover they are in an area inhabited by vicious cannibals and must escape before they are found. (imdb)
Cicciabomba
A heavyset Italian woman, Miris, wins a trip to New York City, slims down with a beautiful baroness she meets and comes back to Italy to get revenge on the boy who tormented her in this zany early-1980s Italian comedy. With new found looks and confidence, Miris is set to overcome her previous suicidal thoughts and launch a fresh life. (netflix.com)
The Alphabet Murders
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials. The first victim is A.A. the second B.B. and so on. Poirot is assisted in his investigations by Captain Hastings and Inspector Japp. (imdb)
The Cobra
A secret service chief is on the trail of the Cobra, head of a criminal organization smuggling pure opium from China to the US. (imdb)
Le nain rouge
Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her. (imdb)
Call Me Bwana
A wisecracking fraud fights off enemy agents to retrieve a space capsule that crashed in Africa. (TCM.com)
Paris Holiday
Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring. (imdb)
Pickup Alley
U.S. narcotics agent Charles Sturgis trails international dope smuggler Frank McNally by following his reluctant accomplice, Gina Broger, through the "pickup alleys" of New York, London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and Athens. When Gina is finally arrested by Interpol, she helps Sturgis trace McNally and his $3,000,000 consignment back to New York. (imdb)
Bámbola
Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homosexual brother, Flavio, open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another one of her boyfriends, Settimio. While visiting Settimio in jail, she meets a sadistic man named Furio, and they begin a relationship. (imdb)
Valerie
An obsessively jealous man is put on trial for the attempted murder of his wife and the slaying of her parents.
Gold of the Amazon Women
An adventurer searches for the fabled Golden Cities of El Dorado and allies himself with a tribe of Amazon women against a murderous villain who is also after the treasure. (imdb)
The Glass Sphinx
In a remote part of Egypt, Prof. Karl Nichols, a renowned archeologist, is searching for the legendary tomb of the Glass Sphinx, which is said to possess a mysterious elixir capable of sustaining life indefinitely. (TCM)
The Man Inside
A bookkeeper for a jeweler steals a priceless jewel and flees across Europe. A detective tracking her across the continent soon discovers that he's not the only one looking for her and begins to suspect that there's more to the case than just an ordinary jewel theft. (imdb)
The Conjugal Debt
Romolo, a lazy man who is bored with his marriage, leaves his wife and sets out to lead the life of a vagabond with his friend Orazio and a voluptuous nymphomaniac named Candida.
Il conte Max
Years before, a millionaire destroyed the wealthy nobleman Count Max's fortune. In the present, Alfredo (Christian De Sica), a restless young mechanic who resembles the count, has fallen in love with a model and wants some new adventure in his life. In return for his agreement to get revenge on the Count's old foe, he gets lessons in how to behave like the count himself. (Rovi)
Daisy Chain
An episodic film, telling four erotic tales: Angela isn't sexually satisfied by her husband, so she simulates sleep-walking to visit her neighbor across the street every night; when his bathtub runs over, shy Peter gets to meet his sensuous neighbor Lolita; at a high-school reunion his former students pull a prank on Prof. Hellberg and make him believe he cheated on his wife while being drunk; Sybill has a good time during a break at the opera with the famous conductor Cramer. (imdb)
Deadly Trackers
Jeff sets out to murder each one of the five outlaws who robbed, raped and killed his poor sister. He lays a fragment of her poncho on each of his victims' dead bodies as a mark of his revenge in a gripping, exciting tale. (spaghetti-western.net)
Come imparai ad amare le donne
The romantic adventures of a young man and his eventual happy marriage. (bfi)
Anonima Cocottes
Robotti, a bank employee, discovers someone has been embezzling money at his branch, and when he refuses to take a bribe to stay quiet, he is fired. After he falls in love, he abandons his moral code to make a fortune in the stock market.
Sign of the Gladiator
Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops... But she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio. (imdb)
Terras fönster 5
The fifth edition of "Terras fönster" reporting from Oslo 900 years. Two episodes with Povel Ramel that sings and spits together with Martin Ljung and Brita Borg. Miss Sweden 1951, Anita Ekberg, visits Stockholm, inaugurates Children's Day in Humlegården. Art, the sculptor Einar Luter card in his studio, and fashion. Report from the factory community Harg in Nyköping municipality, with Lars Johansson, who played a guard post in Nyköping's guest ban, and his wife Marianne.
I huvudet på Bo
Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Stockholm and international adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also explores the personal costs of his artistic vision and how his pursuit of life and authenticity affected both himself and those around him. (imdb)