Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti (3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early-to-mid 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with... Read full bio →
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Final Cut: Hölgyeim és uraim
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: the LOVE between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
Io so che tu sai che io so
The investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple.
La raison d'état
Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions between the French government, in the face of its high official Leroi, and two African countries. Before making the public statement, Marrot finds himself under surveillance.
L'anatra all'arancia
When the wife wants to leave her husband in preference of a romantic Frenchman, the husband seemingly does not raise difficulties and invites his rival, along with his own secretary, for a weekend. His real purpose is taking her wife back through an elaborate plan.
A mezzanotte va la ronda del piacere
Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight.
Le fantôme de la liberté
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s.
C'eravamo tanto amati
Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.
Teresa la ladra
Teresa Numa in Nardecchia, motherless daughter of a heartless Lazio peasant, becomes a war widow and single mother constantly looking for new jobs--and often forced to steal in order to live.
Polvere di stelle
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.
Noi donne siamo fatte così
The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.
La supertestimone
Comedy about a man (Tognazzi) who is sentenced to life imprisonment mainly because of a woman's (Vitti) testimony, but she later marries him during his sentence
La pacifista
Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.
Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca)
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?
La ragazza con la pistola
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
Ti ho sposato per allegria
Pietro is a young bourgeois lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty girl who was a little unscrewed, and met at a party of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.
Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them.
Il deserto rosso
In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
Dragées au poivre
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
Château en Suède
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
L'eclisse
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
La notte
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
L'avventura
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. But during the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
Il grido
A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.
Una pelliccia di visone
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.