Liliana Cavani

The Order of Time (2023)

A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one fleeting, endless night into a life-altering experience. ...

Francesco (2014)

Depicts various periods in the life of Saint Francesco: Youth and the first conversion in 1206, the process that inflicts his father, the birth of the historical nucleus of Fraternitas and the departure for the Holy Land up to the writing of rules and deat ...

Clarisse (2012)

The story of a small community of cloistered nuns, devoted to Santa Chiara, in Urbino. ...

Verdi: La Traviata (2007)

Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society, organises a grand party that is attended, amongst others, by the young Alfredo Germont. He confesses his fee ...

Macbeth (2006)

Part of Tutto Verdi series - Macbeth (2006) Parma. Macbeth is one of the most multi-layered, profound and demanding roles that Verdi ever wrote for a baritone and the Italian singer Leo Nucci is arguably the most distinguished in his field. The role has r ...

De Gasperi: The Man of Hope (2005)

In August 1954, Alcide De Gasperi, now at the end of his personal and political career, left the Christian Democrats' headquarters in Rome and visited his daughter, Lucia, a nun. He revealed to her that he had definitively retired from active politics and ...

Ripley's Game (2002)

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a stu ...

Verdi, Un Ballo in Maschera - Salvatore Licitra, Maria Guleghina, Riccardo Muti, Teatro alla Scala (2001)

Conducted by Riccardo Muti, the master of the Scala in Milan for twenty years, the Verdian melodrama unfolds before our eyes. This Cavani's approach is ageless and excellence is pre-eminent: to start with, the role of Riccardo is played by the wonderful Sa ...

Manon Lescaut (1998)

TDK presents a recording of Puccini's heart-breaking opera from one of the best opera houses of the world featuring star tenor José Cura and remarkable soprano Maria Guleghina as the two inseparable lovers. Riccardo Muti, music director of La Scala at the ...

Cavalleria rusticana (1996)

A staging of the opera by Mascagni. ...

Where Are You? I’m Here (1993)

Fausto and Elena, two deaf teenagers from different backgrounds, meet and fall in love. As they push back against prejudice and silence – both societal and familial – their bond becomes a source of strength. Together, they navigate a world that misunde ...

Francesco (1989)

The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the po ...

The Berlin Affair (1985)

What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love. A beautiful Japanese girl becomes the object of obsession in a devious relationship between the wife of a German diplomat and her husband. ...

Beyond the Door (1982)

A young woman trapped in a web of dark family secrets finds herself in a dangerous triangle of love, jealousy, and deception, where the truth hides in her past. ...

Beyond Good and Evil (1977)

The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois. ...

Milarepa (1974)

After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The tale unfolds in three parts: dark vengeance, spiritual discipline, and ultimate transcendence, reflecting a journey of inner transformation. ...

The Night Porter (1974)

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. ...

The Guest (1971)

A forty year old woman, who has been in an asylum, goes to live with her brother's family. She proves incapable of adapting herself to family life, takes refuge in the country alone with her memories, and is later returned to the asylum. ...

The Year of the Cannibals (1969)

On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates th ...

Intolerance: il caso Liuzzo (1969)

With a screenplay by Liliana Cavani, this film is based on a true story, events that happened in Alabama in 1965. A daughter of Italian immigrants, Liuzzo participated in the march led by Martin Luther King. As she returned home, she was accosted and murde ...

Galileo (1968)

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe. ...

Francis of Assisi (1966)

A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student protests. Praised and condemned, the film sparked controversy for its bold, dissenting portrayal of faith. ...

Il giorno della pace (1965)

A documentary film: two generations reflect on World War II, twenty years after peace was declared in Europe. ...

Women of the Resistance (1965)

Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II. ...

Philippe Pétain: Processo a Vichy (1965)

A documentary about the trial of Philippe Pétain. ...

Gesù mio fratello (1965)

A documentary about the life and spirituality of Charles de Foucauld, a French priest who lived in the Sahara and was assassinated in 1916. ...

La casa in Italia (1964)

A documentary about the urban housing crisis in three Italian cities, Turin, Naples, and Rome, during the 1960s. ...

Età di Stalin (1964)

A documentary about Josef Stalin. ...

La storia del Terzo Reich (1962)

A documentary about the Third Reich. ...

La battaglia (1962)

An early short film by Liliana Cavani that confronts the theme of discrimination. ...

Incontro di notte (1961)

An early short film by Liliana Cavani that confronts the theme of discrimination. ...

Assalto al consumatore (1961)

A documentary short. ...

L'uomo della burocrazia (1961)

A documentary short. ...

Gente di teatro (1961)

A documentary short. ...

La vita militare (1961)

A documentary short. ...

Ennio (2022)

A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores. ...

A Man Falling (2021)

Foreclosed to the future, hope is in the past. Foreclosed the space, hope is inside time. We haven't seen each other again. It was not our mouth and nose that were covered with a mask, but our eyes. We couldn't see each other during the pandemic. The mask ...

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto (2021)

A documentary about the historic film producer, the first woman to make her mark in a predominantly male environment. A key figure in the great season of Italian auteur cinema between the late 1960s and the 1970s, Marina Cicogna worked with great directors ...

Opera Prima (2021)

Opera Prima is a tribute and a journey through the evolution that cinema has had in Italy. Tayu Vlietstra, a pupil of Bertolucci, carries out an investigation on the first work of six of the most authoritative and beloved Italian directors. The result is ...

La TV di Liliana Cavani. Un romanzo di formazione (2020)

Liliana Cavani, before becoming an established filmmaker in Italy and in the world, was a young and brilliant documentary filmmaker in Ettore Bernabei's Rai. Just graduated from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia, in just five years, from 1961 to 19 ...

Partigiane 2.0 - La libertà ha sempre vent'anni (2020)

Fascism on a Thread: The Strange Story of Nazisploitation Cinema (2019)

Feature length documentary on the cult sub-genre featuring interviews with Dyanne 'Ilsa' Thorne, Malissa 'Elsa' Longo, filmmakers Sergio Garrone, Mariano Caiano, Rino Di Silvestro, Liliana Cavani, Bruno Mattei, and many more. ...

Dante Ferretti: Production Designer (2010)

The Documentary Dante Ferretti – Production Designer retraces the life and the career of Dante Ferretti, the famous Italian Artist and Production Designer. ...

What Do You Know About Me (2009)

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. ...

Great Directors (2009)

Features conversations with ten of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles. The film documents Ismai ...

Marcello, una vita dolce (2006)

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of o ...

Filming Desire: A Journey Through Women’s Cinema (2000)

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as Agnès Varda and Catherine Breillat (both from France), have been making films for decades in a conscious effort ...

Ulla's Fete (1974)

A filmed record of a bizarre garden party organized to pay a fine incurred by singer Ulla for "liberating a chandelier from Harrods. ...