Lea Massari

Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca (2017)

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit (2017)

Il était une fois Sergio Leone (2014)

Journey of Love (1990)

An older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way. ...

Una donna spezzata (1988)

Secrets Secrets (1985)

Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a 'trance': moments befo ...

The Seventh Target (1984)

Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. W ...

Return to Lisca Bianca Island (1983)

Twenty-three years after L'Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca Island. The rarefied atmosphere of Anna's (Lea Massari's) disappearance is recalled by some audio excerpts from the original movie. ...

Sarah (1983)

An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set. ...

La Flambeuse (1981)

A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and children. ...

Le Divorcement (1979)

In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Th ...

Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979)

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation. ...

The Meetings of Anna (1978)

Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old faces, some of whom make personal revelations to her to little affect. ...

Sale rêveur (1978)

A young man struggling with reality and dreams finds himself caught between his fantasies and the harshness of everyday life. As he drifts through surreal encounters and romantic aspirations, he must confront the limits of his imagination and the disappoin ...

Edipo Re (1977)

A Dog Called... Vengeance (1977)

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog. ...

Faces of Love (1977)

After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next film, an adaptation of Tshekov's "Three Sisters". He goes location scouting and stays in Bex, a Spa near L ...

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)

Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life. ...

Violette & Francois (1977)

Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal. ...

The Probability Factor (1976)

Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about h ...

Chi dice donna, dice donna (1976)

Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant. ...

The Night Caller (1975)

A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investig ...

Allonsanfan (1974)

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause. ...

Bloody Murder (1974)

Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful property and gives everyone the image of conjugal happiness. The children, Daniel and Nadine, are busy with their studies and their loves. The bourgeois life of Hà ...

Impossible Object (1973)

Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of ...

The Son (1973)

Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present when his father died, wishes to be present at her death. In Corsica Ange finds his brother Baptiste who married Maria, the woman he loved. He finds out tha ...

The Silent One (1973)

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to chan ...

The Woman in Blue (1973)

Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his time trying to track her down. After roaming the streets of Paris in search of the mystery woman, he recruit ...

Indian Summer (1972)

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spen ...

And Hope to Die (1972)

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned. ...

Paolo e Francesca (1971)

Devil's Ransom (1971)

A rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him. ...

Murmur of the Heart (1971)

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a ...

Céleste (1970)

Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a regular mistress in the person of Hélène, he is a ladies man with "a girl in every port". But this comfortable situation is challenged the day he hires Cà ...

The Things of Life (1970)

The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his wa ...

I Want Him Dead (1968)

After his sister is kidnapped and murdered, a gunslinger's plans for vengeance involve assassinating two generals to prolong the Civil War. ...

Volver a vivir (1968)

A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love. ...

Garden of Delights (1967)

Charlo and Carla are on their honeymoon. She is three months pregnant. He, furious about his marriage of convenience, recalls the past and ponders on The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, dear to the Surrealists. While she is bleeding, he spe ...

The Misanthrope (1967)

Alceste hopes to be able to live his life without hypocrisy. However, he does not realize that social habits and the necessities of life do not fit the way of conceiving his existence. ...

Made in Italy (1965)

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants. ...

The Camp Followers (1965)

In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania. ...

The Unvanquished (1964)

In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Tho ...

Weeping for a Bandit (1964)

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits. ...

Conquered City (1962)

Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is c ...

The Four Days of Naples (1962)

September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the inv ...

Paris Pick-Up (1962)

On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide. ...

A Difficult Life (1961)

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment. ...

Dreams Die at Dawn (1961)

Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. ...

The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents. ...

From a Roman Balcony (1960)

The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia. ...

L'Avventura (1960)

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suf ...

Resurrection (1958)

Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he ha ...

I sogni nel cassetto (1957)

The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy. ...

Forbidden (1955)

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war. ...

Una donna spezzata (1988)