31 Pier Angeli Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

Factory worker Tom Curtis burdened by financial stress, refuses to take part in an unnecessary factory strike organized by activist Travers and masterminded by shop steward Bert Connolly. Because of this, his life is changed forever as he is named a scab and faces reprisals from many parties. 

Rocky Graziano, who had a difficult childhood, makes a career in crime. He frequently run in prisons and detention centres, and there too he is unruly. Once out, he takes up boxing to earn quick money. He quickly realises his potential in the ring and fights odds to become a champion.

This technicolour anthology film presents three stories narrated by three passengers on board a cruiser. The relationship between a ballet choreographer and a ballerina with a heart condition is featured in the first. In the second, a boy miraculously converts into a young man and charms his governess. In the third, a failed trapeze artist along with a suicidal woman perform a daring circus act. 

This Italian drama film revolves around the innocent romance between a teenage boy and a girl, which is threatened by some of the staff in their school.

Set in 1944, this historical war drama film takes us back to the time of the Second World War, and it surrounds the allied army’s invasion of Germany through the point of view of an American intelligence officer as well as a of a German tank commander.

Unconventional teacher, Andrew Larabee, decides to travel to ancient ruins in Sussex to unearth a statue. This will allow him to marry his fiancée Letitia. He finds a traveling circus on the site and becomes a part of their comedic act. Then he falls in love with circus performer, Selena, and must decide what he wants from life. 

While stationed in Italy during WWII, American soldier Phillip Cass meets and marries Italian Teresa Russo. When his bride arrives in America, the newlyweds share apartment with Phillip’s family, which challenges the bond between the couple. Besides, Phillip’s overbearing and possessive mother refuses to make things easier for Teresa. Consequently, the couple drifts apart, but arrival of a baby brings back happiness. 

Flame and the Flesh is a drama film which tells the story of a woman Madeline, who gets evicted from her apartment, as she is unable to pay the rent. A musician named Ciccio Duvario takes pity on her, and invites her home, but due to her manipulative nature, she starts taking advantage of his kindness.

A seaplane develops a problem and is forced to make an emergency water-landing near a Pacific island. The plane’s desperate passengers brave the waters to reach the deserted island. As they find tethered farm-animals, and a lead-lined bunker with measuring instruments and cameras set for filming, the passengers realize that they are at the site of a nuclear bomb testing, to be detonated soon. 

Captain Jeff meets the only surviving daughter of a family that saved him many years ago. She works as a nightclub hostess and despises Americans. Regardless, they begin dating, but soon it seems that she is part of an underground Nazi group.

Yearly, rancher Chuck Rodwell travels to Las Vegas for gambling, but invariably ends up losing. Maria Corvier is the ballet-dancer at ‘Sand’s’ where Chuck discovers that she is lucky for him as he wins whenever he holds her hands. Aspiring for stardom, Maria is indifferent initially; but gradually they fall in love. Will they continue to hold hands up to the altar?  

A professional art thief steals a religious painting from an Italian museum. He tries to cheat his partner by claiming the painting was destroyed in an accident. His partner gets suspicious and meanwhile the police plan to trap the duo, but they are busy with their mind games. 

When Rip Reardon gets to know about his wife being dead, he suspects foul play. He tries to convince Inspector Colonel that she has been murdered whereas Colonel feels that she committed suicide.

Giancarlo and Ernesto are two brothers who have crossed illegally from Italy into France. They are trying to evade the police, as Giancarlo had killed a man in order to protect a woman. Eventually, they decide to get work as grape pickers and are hired by a man named Louis Morel. However, things get complicated when Ernesto falls for Louis’s wife.  

The lives of three couples change when a feud occurs between two villages in Mexico.