Biography
Giovanna Ralli (born 2 January 1935) is an Italian stage, film and television actress. Born in Rome, Ralli debuted as a child actress at 7; at 13 she made her theatrical debut, entering the stage company of Peppino De Filippo. After appearing in Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada's Variety Lights (1950), Ralli had her first film roles of weight in mid-fifties, often in comedy films. In 1959 she had a leading role in Roberto Rossellini's General Della Rovere, that won the Golden Lion at the V...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Titanus 1904
2024
as Self

Steno
2022

Marcel!
2022
as Grandmother
The young girl, an insomniac. The mother, an artist. The dog, named Marcel. The little girl loves her mother immensely, but her mother loves Marcel mo...

La voglia matta di vivere
2022
as Self

The Truth About La Dolce Vita
2020
On October 20th, 1959, producer Giuseppe Amato is alone in a screening room, watching Federico Fellini's most famous movie. The working print is more ...

Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
2020
as Self

A Golden Boy
2014
as madre di Davide
A young copywriter moves to Rome in the wake of his screenwriter father's death, where he meets a publisher who wants to release his dad's autobiograp...

Sabato, domenica e lunedì
2012
as Amelia Priore

The Immature: The Trip
2012
as Mamma Iole
Seven thirty-something friends organise a post-grad trip they were never able to take after school. They find new adventures on a Greek island, and sh...

The Immature
2011
as Iole, la mamma di Lorenzo
Six high school friends in their 40s who haven't seen each other in nearly 20 years rekindle their younger selves after a court cancels their diploma,...

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
2010
as Self

Al di là del lago
2009
as Ada

Blood of the Losers
2008
as Giulia Dogliani
I colori della vita
2005

Il pranzo della domenica
2003
as Franca Malorni
The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour...
Una famiglia per caso
2003

Once a Year, Every Year
1994
as Laura
A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it se...

Solo per Dirti Addio
1992
Stefano is found dead in his car, killed by exhaust fumes that he himself had channeled into the cabin through a hose. Everyone believes it to be a su...

Towards Evening
1990
as Pina
Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has ...

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
as Self
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Manolesta
1981
as Dott.ssa Angela De Maria
Gino Quirino aka Manolesta, a thief and a con man, lives on a barge anchored on the Tiber with Bruno, his young son. Gino ends up in the crosshairs of...

Arrivano i bersaglieri
1980
as Nunziatina
In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Al...

Pane, burro e marmellata
1977
Bruno De Santis, successful TV presenter, was left by his wife Sofia. One day he decides to call her to convince her to come back but her device is br...

Languidi baci... perfide carezze
1976
as Elena
Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi

Colpita da improvviso benessere
1976
as Elisabetta
Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist.

Chi dice donna, dice donna
1976
as La signorina X
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb a...

Sex with a Smile
1976
as Esmeralda (episodio "L'attimo fuggente")
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.

Di che segno sei?
1975
as Cristina, Leonardo lover
Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his b...

We All Loved Each Other So Much
1974
as Elide
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
1974
as Asst. DA Vittoria Stori
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered....

To Love Ophelia
1974
as Ofelia Ceciaretti
Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with ...

Cold Eyes of Fear
1971
as Anna
Against a backdrop of Swingin' 60s London a young playboy type "steals" a beautiful Italian girl from her elderly date and suggests she comes back to ...

A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State
1971
as Oslavia
A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps.

Cannon for Cordoba
1970
as Leonora
In 1912, during the Mexican Revolution, the border between Texas and Mexico is on flames due to savage raids by Mexican bandits who call themselves fr...

The Invisible Woman
1969
as Laura
Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia.

The Mercenary
1968
as Columba
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedic...

Deadfall
1968
as Fe
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.

The Caper of the Golden Bulls
1967
as Angela
Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former com...

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
1966
as Gina Romano
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival f...

The Escape
1964
as Piera Fabbri
A young married woman who is desperately unhappy is tempted into a lesbian relationship with an interior decorator.

It's a Hard Life
1964
as Anna
Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiativ...

Let's Talk About Women
1964
as Prostitute
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker ...

A Very Handy Man
1964
as Tuzza Azara
In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.

Carmen di Trastevere
1962
as Carmen
Carmen, wife of a certain Vincenzo detained for theft, chooses Antonio as a friend. When the husband is released from prison, he accepts the relations...

Warriors Five
1962
as Italia
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes wi...

The Nun of Monza
1962
as Virginia de Leyva
Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's una...

The Fabiani Affair
1962
as Camille Fabiani
The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing at the start, as always with Sicilians or Corsican ...

Pastasciutta nel deserto
1961
as Angela

The Taste of Violence
1961
as Maria
Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.

Viva l'Italia!
1961
as Rosa
The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Th...

Escape by Night
1960
as Esperia Beli
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergea...

Take Me As I Am
1960
The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Fil...

General Della Rovere
1959
as Valeria
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

The Thieves
1959
as Maddalena, moglie di Scognamiglio
An Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds hidden in jam jars--which fall int...

The Maids
1959
as Virginia
Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail....

Wild Cats on the Beach
1959
as Giovanna
Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great indu...

Un uomo facile
1959
as Lina
The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. ...

My Wife's Enemy
1959
as Luciana
Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: ...

Nel blu dipinto di blu
1959
as Assuntina
Turi, a young Sicilian, makes ends meet by doing some occasional work and singing in taverns in a popular district of Rome.

Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
1958
as Carmelina
A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.

Move and I'll Shoot
1958
as Giovanna - la figlia dell'oste
Renato Tuzzi, a primary school teacher, is a shy man, unable to be respected by the turbulent kids.

Las aeroguapas
1957
as Giovanna

The Most Wonderful Moment
1957
as Luisa Morelli
Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for...
Peccato di castità
1956
as Valentina Colasanti
Adventures of a young married couple during their honeymoon trip.

Time of Vacation
1956
as Lella
Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.

A Mink Coat
1956
as Gabriela
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.

The Bigamist
1956
as Valeria Masetti
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.

Roman Tales
1955
as Marcella
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to star...

The Hussars
1955
as Cosima
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in ...

A Hero of Our Times
1955
as Marcella
Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband wa...

The Girls of San Frediano
1955
as Mafalda Panini
Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing t...

Le signorine dello 04
1955
as Bruna
The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes h...

Prima di sera
1954
as La commessa della farmacia
A middle-aged insurer, after spending a sleepless night because of a quarrel with his wife, goes to the pharmacy to buy a sleeping pill. By mistake, t...

Madame du Barry
1954
as Cadet
The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France...

The Three Thieves
1954
as Marietta
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better th...

It Happened in the Park
1953
as Virginia (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.

Love in the City
1953
as (segment "Gli italiani si voltano")
Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.

Easy Years
1953
as Teresa
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

At the Edge of the City
1953
Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.

The She-Wolf
1953
as Agnese
A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Mar...

Fermi tutti... arrivo io!
1953
as Rina
A private detective and a girl obsessed with thriller novels investigate the murder of a rich entrepreneur.

Dad Becomes Mom
1952
as Marcella, figlia di Giuseppe
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.

La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna
1952
as Marcella, figlia di Giuseppe
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arrang...

La famiglia Passaguai
1951
as Marcella, figlia di Giuseppe
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend ...

Variety Lights
1950
as (uncredited)
In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters...

The Children Are Watching Us
1943
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of...

La maestrina
1942
as una bambina
In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young m...