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1. Reflets de Cannes (1952– )
Documentary
The first show of the French television about movies; the only one dedicated to the Cannes Film Festival. Features interviews and backstage footage devoted to the event, the gala evenings, the competing films, and everyday life in Cannes.
Stars: François Chalais, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Achard, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 135
2. Otros pueblos (1983– )
60 min | Documentary
There are much worlds...and all they have in this one.
Stars: Luis Pancorbo, Julio Caro Baroja, Octavio Paz, Monica Vitti
Votes: 6
3.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Dear Antonioni
(1997)
93 min | Documentary
Using a star-studded array of interviewees and taking its cue from a letter from the philosopher and critic Roland Barthes, this acclaimed Arena documentary offers a captivating portrait of an intriguing director.
Director: Gianni Massironi | Stars: Michelangelo Antonioni, Christine Boisson, Alain Cuny, Tonino Guerra
Votes: 61
4. Étoiles et toiles (1982–1986)
Documentary
Stars: Frédéric Mitterrand, Jean-Luc Godard, Clint Eastwood, Raoul Coutard
Votes: 107
5. La Notte (1961)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki
Votes: 24,088 | Gross: $0.04M
6. Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Crime
A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Totò
Votes: 11,536
7. The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
R | 104 min | Comedy
A series of surreal sequences that critique morality and society in a stream of consciousness style.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli, Monica Vitti
Votes: 17,204 | Gross: $0.01M
8. V.I.P.-Schaukel (1971– )
Documentary
V.I.P.-Schaukel is a 45 minute documentary-family-news-talk show starring Margret Dünser as Host. The series premiered on Sun May 09, 1971 on ZDF and Folge 37 - Final Show last aired on Fri May 09, 1980.
Stars: Margret Dünser, Carroll Righter, Prince Philip, Rhonda Fleming
Votes: 186
9. L'Eclisse (1962)
Not Rated | 126 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal, Lilla Brignone
Votes: 22,119
10. L'Avventura (1960)
Not Rated | 144 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar
Votes: 32,670
11. Arena (1975– )
60 min | Documentary
Wide-ranging arts program.
Stars: Gavin Millar, Kenneth Tynan, John Walters, Jonathan Miller
Votes: 320
12. The Cinema Machine (1978– )
45 min | Documentary
A critique of cineastes and cinephiles, including a once famous actress reduced to poverty and a man who fails miserably at running a film society with no money.
Stars: Marco Bellocchio, Silvano Agosti, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli
Votes: 14
13. Accattone (1961)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini | Stars: Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini, Paola Guidi
Votes: 10,174
14. Il Grido (1957)
Not Rated | 116 min | Drama
A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Gabriella Pallotta, Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray
Votes: 5,452
15. Le notti bianche (1962 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Vittorio Cottafavi | Stars: Monica Vitti, Giulio Bosetti, Alberto Marescalchi, Manlio Busoni
Votes: 11
16. Red Desert (1964)
Not Rated | 117 min | Drama
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.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi
Votes: 17,674
17. Il cilindro (1978 TV Movie)
92 min | Comedy
Two impoverished couples invent a stratagem to make a living: beautiful Rita (Monica Vitti) pretends to be a prostitute and upon advance payment takes the customers to her room. When she ... See full summary »
Director: Eduardo De Filippo | Stars: Monica Vitti, Vincenzo Salemme, Luca De Filippo, Eduardo De Filippo
Votes: 19
18. The Pizza Triangle (1970)
R | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini, Manuel Zarzo
Votes: 2,253
19. Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials (1965 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary
Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi | Stars: Robert Gadouas, Francesco Aguiari, Michelangelo Antonioni, Silvio Ceccato
Votes: 151
20. Cinéma cinémas (1982–1991)
Documentary
A ten episode Tv series on cinephilia, in which contributors to both American and French films are interviewed.
Stars: Michel Boujut, Jean-Claude Dauphin, Jean-François Stévenin, Jean-Luc Godard
Votes: 64
21. Teresa the Thief (1973)
111 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Carlo Di Palma | Stars: Monica Vitti, Stefano Satta Flores, Isa Danieli, Carlo Delle Piane
Votes: 172
22. Ti ho sposato per allegria (1967)
X | 100 min | Comedy
Pietro is a bourgeois young lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty but slightly unbalanced girl he met at a party full of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Monica Vitti, Giorgio Albertazzi, Maria Grazia Buccella, Rossella Como
Votes: 83
23. Io so che tu sai che io so (1982)
112 min | Comedy, Drama
A bank clerk rethinks his life after he learns the results of the surveillance of his family.
Director: Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Isabella De Bernardi, Salvatore Jacono
Votes: 552
24. La Tosca (1973)
104 min | Drama, Musical
To the St. Andrew's Church in Rome comes a fugitive - Cesare Angelotti, former consul, who was sentenced to death for taking a part in a conspiracy against tyranny that rules the country. ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Magni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Gigi Proietti, Umberto Orsini, Vittorio Gassman
Votes: 191
25. Michelangelo Antonioni: Lo sguardo che ha cambiato il cinema (2001 Video)
56 min | Documentary
Documentary about the filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, his life and works.
Director: Sandro Lai | Stars: Enrica Antonioni, Michelangelo Antonioni, Lello Bersani, Maurizio Costanzo
Votes: 51
26. Les fables de La Fontaine (1966– )
26 min
Stars: Eduard Marks, Michel Serrault, Henri-Jacques Huet, Paulette Arnoux
Votes: 14
27. The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
M | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Sicilian woman "dishonored" by her lover goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave, Anthony Booth
Votes: 1,728
28. Ninì Tirabusciò, la donna che inventò la mossa (1970)
94 min | Comedy
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing.
Director: Marcello Fondato | Stars: Monica Vitti, Gastone Moschin, Pierre Clémenti, Peppino De Filippo
Votes: 155
29. Flirt (1983)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After a 22-year marriage, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and actually it seems so, but is the lover for real?
Director: Roberto Russo | Stars: Jean-Luc Bideau, Monica Vitti, Alessandro Haber, Marina Confalone
Votes: 45
30. Ciné regards (1978–1982)
30 min | Documentary
Ciné Regards, broadcast on FR3 between 1978 and 1982, is a film news magazine produced by Anne Andreu, made up of successive sections: selection of films showing, survey, interview with ... See full summary »
Stars: Anne Andreu, Isabelle Huppert, Michel Ciment, Gérard Depardieu
Votes: 23
31. Help Me, My Love (1969)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Romantic comedy-drama about a husband (Sordi) who is jealous of his wife's (Vitti) infatuation with a Professor.
Director: Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Silvano Tranquilli, Laura Adani
Votes: 483
32. Maurizio Costanzo Show (1982–2021)
120 min | Family, Talk-Show
This program has been the longest running talk show in the history of Italian television, with the record of 25 seasons, 4,390 episodes, 8,100 hours of transmission and 32,800 guests.
Stars: Maurizio Costanzo, Franco Bracardi, Sonia Cassiani, Stefano Zecchi
Votes: 36
33. Polvere di stelle (1973)
142 min | Comedy, Musical
Mimmo Adami and Dea Dani are local professional dancers in the impoverished Italy of World War II. Their lives change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style.
Director: Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, John Phillip Law, Edoardo Faieta
Votes: 480
34. La supertestimone (1971)
104 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Franco Giraldi | Stars: Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Orazio Orlando, Véronique Vendell
Votes: 180
35. La raison d'état (1978)
95 min | Drama, Thriller
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 ... See full summary »
Director: André Cayatte | Stars: Jean Yanne, Monica Vitti, Michel Bouquet, François Périer
Votes: 176
36. High Infidelity (1964)
120 min | Comedy
Four episodes satirising modern marriages and the lack of affection which leads to infidelity.
Directors: Mario Monicelli, Elio Petri, Franco Rossi, Luciano Salce | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Fulvia Franco, John Phillip Law, Eleanor Beacour
Votes: 131
37. Duck in Orange Sauce (1975)
106 min | Comedy
When facing a request of divorce, Livio accepts, but sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover.
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Barbara Bouchet, John Richardson
Votes: 668
38. Ma tu mi vuoi bene? (1992 TV Movie)
Drama
Director: Marcello Fondato | Stars: Johnny Dorelli, Monica Vitti, Véronique Genest, Franca Tamantini
Votes: 13
39. Noi donne siamo fatte così (1971)
112 min | Comedy
The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Monica Vitti, Carlo Giuffrè, Enrico Maria Salerno, Ettore Manni
Votes: 187
40. The Mystery of Oberwald (1980)
129 min | Drama, Romance
One long decade after the assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and anarchist poet, and strikes a three-day pact; however, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Monica Vitti, Paolo Bonacelli, Franco Branciaroli, Luigi Diberti
Votes: 977
41. Sweet and Sour (1963)
93 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Jacques Baratier | Stars: Guy Bedos, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Francis Blanche, Jean-Marc Bory
Votes: 154
42. Scommettiamo che...? (1991–2003)
Game-Show
Stars: Fabrizio Frizzi, Milly Carlucci, Gianni Mazza, Adriana Volpe
Votes: 16
43. The Dolls (1965)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Comencini, Dino Risi, Franco Rossi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena
Votes: 381
44. Amori miei (1978)
100 min | Comedy, Romance
Anna wants to improve her marriage to sculptor Marco but ends up having an affair with her new teacher Antonio. While performing a careful balancing act alternating between her two lovers, ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Monica Vitti, Johnny Dorelli, Enrico Maria Salerno, Edwige Fenech
Votes: 194
45. Gli ordini sono ordini (1972)
96 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary.
Director: Franco Giraldi | Stars: Monica Vitti, Claudine Auger, Orazio Orlando, Luigi Diberti
Votes: 91
46. The Queens (1966)
110 min | Comedy
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina" chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving ... See full summary »
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Antonio Pietrangeli, Luciano Salce | Stars: Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Gastone Moschin
Votes: 387
47. The Immortal Bachelor (1975)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
When Tina is put on trial for murdering her violent and unfaithful husband, Gino, only one juror, the housewife Gabriella, believes in her innocence. Gabriella tries to find a witness who can absolve Tina.
Director: Marcello Fondato | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman, Renato Pozzetto, Monica Vitti
Votes: 440
48. Basta che non si sappia in giro!.. (1976)
100 min | Comedy
Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone.
Directors: Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy, Luigi Magni | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Monica Vitti, Johnny Dorelli, Lino Banfi
Votes: 126
49. The Scarlet Lady (1969)
PG | 90 min | Comedy
Comedy about self-made woman (Vitti) in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
Director: Jean Valère | Stars: Monica Vitti, Maurice Ronet, Robert Hossein, Claudio Brook
Votes: 193
50. The Couples (1970)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
Three ordinary couples deal with surreal situations: buying a refrigerator, celebrating the anniversary in a luxury hotel, and co-living with a lion escaped from a zoo.
Directors: Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli, Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Enzo Jannacci, Rossana Di Lorenzo
Votes: 195 | Gross: $0.29M