Ava Gardner — Actor (19)
The Night of the Iguana (1964) [Movie] Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Night of the Iguana
director: John Huston actor: Richard Burton / Ava Gardner
other title: La notte dell'iguana / Fanget i natten
A defrocked Episcopal clergyman leads a bus-load of middle-aged Baptist women on a tour of the Mexican coast and comes to terms with the failure haunting his life.
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
director: Carl Reiner actor: Steve Martin / Rachel Ward
other title: Il mistero del cadavere scomparso / Bogart Junior
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.
On the Beach (1959) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
On the Beach
director: Stanley Kramer actor: Gregory Peck / Ava Gardner
other title: L'ultima spiaggia / På stranden
In 1964, atomic war wipes out humanity in the northern hemisphere; one American submarine finds temporary safe haven in Australia, where life-as-usual covers growing despair. In denial about the loss of his wife and children in the holocaust, American Captain Towers meets careworn but gorgeous Moira Davidson, who begins to fall for him. The sub returns after reconnaissance a month (or less) before the end; will Towers and Moira find comfort with each other?
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
director: Albert Lewin actor: James Mason / Ava Gardner
other title: Pandora / Pandora und der Fliegende Holländer
Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.
The Little Hut (1957) [Movie] TMDB
The Little Hut
director: Mark Robson actor: Ava Gardner / Stewart Granger
other title: La capannina / Die kleine Hütte
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941) [Movie] TMDB
H.M. Pulham, Esq.
director: King Vidor actor: Hedy Lamarr / Robert Young
other title: Il molto onorevole Mr. Pulham / Cenizas de amor
A middle-aged businessman who has lived a conservative life according to the routine conventions of society, still remembers the beautiful young woman who once brought him out of his shell.
The Killers (1946) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Killers
director: Robert Siodmak actor: Edmond O'Brien / Burt Lancaster
other title: I gangsters / Den, der hævner
Two hit men walk into a diner asking for a man called "the Swede". When the killers find the Swede, he's expecting them and doesn't put up a fight. Since the Swede had a life insurance policy, an investigator, on a hunch, decides to look into the murder. As the Swede's past is laid bare, it comes to light that he was in love with a beautiful woman who may have lured him into pulling off a bank robbery overseen by another man.
The Sentinel (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Sentinel
director: Michael Winner actor: Cristina Raines / Chris Sarandon
other title: Sentinel / Hexensabbat
As a young girl, Alison Parker attempted suicide after being traumatized by her father's sexual exploits. Now an elite fashion model, she moves to a Brooklyn Heights apartment building that houses a number of bizarre, eccentric tenants. After experiencing a string of disturbing occurrences, she attempts to uncover the building's sinister secret.
The Band Wagon (1953) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB WikiData Douban
The Band Wagon
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Fred Astaire / Cyd Charisse
other title: Spettacolo di varietà / A Roda da Fortuna
A Broadway artiste turns a faded film star's comeback vehicle into an artsy flop.
La Rabbia (1963) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
La rabbia
other title: La rabbia / La Rage
Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their "salvation", and suggesting that their "innocent ferocity" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.
The Costume Designer (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Costume Designer
director: Tholen Gladden actor: Eve Arden / Joan Caulfield
This short focuses on the job of the costume designer in the production of motion pictures. The costume designer must design clothing that is correct for the film historically and geographically, and must be appropriate for the mood of the individual scene. We see famed costume designer Edith Head at work on a production. The Costume Designer was part of The Industry Film Project, a twelve-part series produced by the film studios and the Academy. Each series episode was produced to inform the public on a specific facet of the motion picture industry. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
The Blue Bird (1976) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Blue Bird
director: George Cukor actor: Patsy Kensit / Todd Lookinland
other title: Il giardino della felicità / Der blaue Vogel
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
The Ballad of Tam Lin (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Ballad of Tam Lin
director: Roddy McDowall actor: Ava Gardner / Ian McShane
other title: Sapore di donna / La viuda del diablo
Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl, he is doomed to ritual sacrifice by the sorceress.
The Barefoot Contessa (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Barefoot Contessa
director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz actor: Humphrey Bogart / Ava Gardner
other title: La contessa scalza / A Condessa Descalça
A washed-up filmmaker gets a second chance at stardom when he discovers stunning peasant Maria Vargas dancing in a Madrid nightclub. Goaded by his producer, the director convinces Maria to screen test for, and then star in, his next big picture. But as the producer's possessive nature and the realities of stardom weigh on Maria, she seeks a genuine lover with whom she can escape.
The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Bible: In the Beginning...
director: John Huston actor: Michael Parks / Ulla Bergryd
other title: La Bibbia / Bibelen
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
Mogambo (1953) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Mogambo
director: John Ford actor: Clark Gable / Ava Gardner
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
City on Fire (1979) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
City on Fire
director: Alvin Rakoff actor: Barry Newman / Susan Clark
other title: Città in fiamme / Stadt in Flammen
An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
One Touch of Venus (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
One Touch of Venus
director: William A. Seiter / Gregory La Cava actor: Robert Walker / Ava Gardner
other title: Il bacio di Venere / Venus macht Seitensprünge
A window dresser's kiss brings a statue of the Roman goddess of love to life.