She appeared in Georges Franju's horror film "Eyes Without a Face" ("Les Yeux sans visage", 1959) ("Eyes Without a Face", 1959) with Pierre Brasseur. From the 1960s, she worked in several pictures with prominent directors, such as Pier Paolo Pasolini's "Edipo re" ("Oedipus Rex"), 1967; Bernardo Bertolucci's "La strategia del ragno", 1972; "Novecento", 1976, and Dario Argento's "Suspiria", 1977. Her final movie role was in "Semana Santa" (2002), with Mira Sorvino. In Italy, she was also well known for her stage appearances in such plays as Ibsen's "Rosmersholm"; Pirandello's "Henry IV"; John Osborne's "Epitaph for George Dillon"; and Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge". At the 54th Venice International Film Festival in 1997 Alida Valli obtained the Golden Lion award for her career.