Serena Grandi

Serena Grandi
Date of Birth: 23 Mar 1958
Country: Italy
Biography: Serena Grandi (born 23 March 1958, in Bologna) is an Italian actress, famous as an icon and sex symbol in Italian cinema of the 1980s and 1990s. Known for her junoesque body and voluptuous measurements, she was considered one of the main pin-up girls of Italy. Some films credited her as Vanessa Steiger. Horror film buffs know her for her two gory opuses, Antropophagus (1980) and Delirium (1987).(Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 24 (Actor)
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Antropophagus: The Grim Reaper
Tourists take a boat to a remote island, where they find that most of the people have disappeared, and something is stalking them. They find a hidden room in the big mansion on a hill, and an ancient diary, which gives them clues to the source of the terror. (imdb)
Monella
Lola is engaged to Masetto, but simply will not commit until they sleep together, because she suspects the only reason he keeps her a virgin is to ensure that she was faithful to him until to wedding. Constantly annoyed by Masetto's fits of jelous rage, Lola decides to break up with him and soon develops an attraction to her mother's pornographer boyfriend, but she simply can't get over her love for Masetto.
Miranda
Miranda is a beautiful woman who runs a local tavern. After the loss of her husband in WWII, she tries out a variety of men. Over the course of four seasons she meets four men: in Winter the rich old council; in Spring there is the young chauffeur; in Summer the American G.I.; and in Autumn, the servant of the Tavern. Now she has to make a decision, who would be the best lover as well husband.
Delirium: Photo of Gioia
This spaghetti horror's storyline revolves around a former hooker (Grandi) running a successful men's magazine. An obsessed admirer systematically slaughters her models (occasionally increasing the magazine's output) and supplies the mistress with pictures of their disfigured corpses taken in front of her semi-nude posters visible in the background. Is she going to be the psycho's next victim? (imdb)
La Strana storia di Olga O.
A distressed former dancer called Olga is tortured by a dream in which she finds her mother covered in blood and shoots her father in the face. It later transpires that her father committed suicide and Olga blames herself for it. Her past continues to haunt her when she moves back to her old town; and that isn't the only thing haunting her, as she begins to receive threatening phone calls... (imdb)
Rimini Rimini
Summer in Rimini, where a lot of crazy things are a bound to happen.
Il papà di Giovanna
World War II Bologna-set drama chronicling a father's love for his troubled daughter. When young Giovanna (Neri) kills one of her friends in a fit of rage she is committed to a mental hospital. At the cost of his wife, Giovanna's father promises to remain as close to her as possible. (list.co.uk)
Graffiante desiderio
Luigi is engaged to Cinzia, he has a good job and his life runs quietly. But unexpectedly his cousin Sonia knocks at his door. She lived in Venezuela with her parents but they have disappeared and she came back to Italy. She is very young and beautiful and once she loved Luigi. What is he to do? (imdb)
Lady of the Night
Simona is tired of her husband Marco neglecting her, so she has a series of sexual liaisons with strangers, leading to their separation. Marco moves on to their nubile young neighbor leaving Simona to engage in increasingly lurid trysts.
Roba da ricchi
3 episodes set in Montecarlo. 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 insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts. Written by Salvatore Santangelo (imdb)
La compagna di viaggio
Sex-comedy set around an attempt to rob the mail van on the Rome-Paris express.
Teste di quoio
A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage. (imdb)
In nome del popolo sovrano
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome. (imdb)
Pierino la Peste alla riscossa
Further adventures of Pierino. (bfi)
Acapulco, prima spiaggia... a sinistra
Film about two friends and their summer holidays, which they look forward to despite being unemployed. (bfi)
Un ragazzo e una ragazza
Story of a love affair from 1979 to the present day, between two students at Milan University. (bfi)
Desiring Julia
Story of unrequited love, and the loss of youth and beauty. (bfi)
L\
The film describes the sexual awakening and adventures of teen-aged Roger during the time of the outbreak of WWI. (imdb)
Tu Mi Turbi
Short stories are connected by two things: love and disturbing. People fall in love after huge fights, and someone is always on their road.
Delitto passionale
When Peter's wife, a famous writer, is murdered in a hotel where she spent the night with her lover, the police begin investigating. Peter and his wife didn't get on well and she was thinking of divorcing him. Peter too had a lover, Milena. They had a handicapped daughter... Inspector Ivan Zanova investigates. (imdb)
Tranquille donne di campagna
Italy, late thirties. The regime of Mussolini are sent Italian volunteers to the civil war in Spain. On the background of a peaceful village landscapes, behind the walls of the old farmhouses Florianna creating its own dictatorship: everything is run by her brother Guido, who requires unquestioning obedience to his will. He believes all women around is his property, and, as a rooster in the hen house, he constantly confirm this action. His young son Alberto is his problem - all is not similar to
Una sconfinata giovinezza
Lino Settembre and his wife Chicca lead a tranquil married life without any serious problems. They are satisfied with their careers. He's the sports editor at the Messenger and she's a professor of medieval languages at the Universita' Gregoriana. (imdb)
Teresa
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
Saint Tropez, Saint Tropez
Four stories of love are interwoven on the beautiful, coastal paradise of Saint Tropez. (imdb)