Monica Vitti

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators at every latitude. On scene the artistic path and life full of unpredictable events of an actress both introverted and sunny are recalled, through excerpts from her films and television programs, testimonies of friends and colleagues, leading exponents of Italian cinema of yesterday and today, critics, writers and costume experts.

An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of the most idolized French movie stars.

By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy during the 1960s.

In the film we find some scrap of slow motion they see a Monica Vitti trying to cry, a meeting between Antonioni and Grifi, a film shot in the concentration camp of Auschwitz with a survivor who recounts those awful moments, a glimpse of Palestine today, Grifi's reflections on the prison.

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century.

A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.

While reviewing her video diary, a woman finds footage of her husband cheating on her with her female friend. In desperation, she contemplates suicide, but her male film director friend suggests that they make an actual film about her.

While reviewing her video diary, a woman finds footage of her husband cheating on her with her female friend. In desperation, she contemplates suicide, but her male film director friend suggests that they make an actual film about her.

While reviewing her video diary, a woman finds footage of her husband cheating on her with her female friend. In desperation, she contemplates suicide, but her male film director friend suggests that they make an actual film about her.

A middle-aged antiquarian's husband leaves her to go live with her best friend.

A middle-aged antiquarian's husband leaves her to go live with her best friend.

A middle-aged antiquarian's husband leaves her to go live with her best friend.

A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.

Vinte e três anos após A Aventura, Antonioni retorna à ilha de Lisca Branca. A atmosfera rarefeita do desaparecimento de Lea é relembrada por alguns excertos de áudio do filme original.

After a 22 years wedding, 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?

After a 22 years wedding, 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?

Mockumentary about the life and career of the actress Monica Vitti.

Mockumentary about the life and career of the actress Monica Vitti.

Mockumentary about the life and career of the actress Monica Vitti.

The investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple.

Um filme com duas histórias diferentes: Na primeira um par de divorciados (atriz ex esposa e diretor ex marido) rememora sua velha paixão. Na segunda, uma mulher dentista bem-sucedida é atacada por sua família pequeno-burguesa quando escreve um romance sexual. e 16 Anos.

A hunted man breaks into the castle at Oberwald to kill the Queen, but faints before doing so. He is Sebastian, the splitting image of the King who was assassinated on his wedding day. The Queen discovers that Sebastian once wrote a subversive poem that she liked, even though it was attacking her. The Queen dares Sebastian to kill her, otherwise she vows to kill him.

Lucia has been married for ten years with Julius who is fond of horses and seems to prefer his wife. Lucy tries then ingelosirlo inventing a lover who sends flowers with tickets compromising and makes mysterious phone calls. But Julius seems immune to any kind of jealousy. Then one day is hired as a bodyguard by Lucia Diego, Diego, who has a passion for Rudolph Valentino and thinks he is a great seducer, Diego has a girlfriend away, Nunzia. And things start to get more serious.

A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.

On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise.

An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune.

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a supposed extraterrestrial who is actually a young Swedish man who "works" for certain American psychologists.

Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though she loves him deeply. He therefore decides to find another husband, the university professor Antonio, who marries without the first being able to notice it. Until she gets pregnant. David di Donatello 1979 for Monica Vitti.

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. In the critical circumstances his Italian friend and partner Angela takes action and the game continues.

The comedy, centered on five characters (Rita, Rodolfo, Agostino, Bettina, and Don Attilio - "o viecchio pazzo"-), has as background the Italy of the 60s between the economic boom and the perennial unemployment crisis. The cylinder, well explained by "Agostino-Eduardo" in the comedy, is a representation of power, designed to intimidate the ignorant for its only evocative "power". It can also be seen as a sort of "Pirandellian mask", where the character of Augustine wears it to defend himself and represent something that he is not.

Don Vincenzo is a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.

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.

Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when, in a bar, she meets a stranger.

Quando a esposa quer trocar o marido publicitário por um francês romântico, o marido aparentemente não levanta dificuldades e convida seu rival para um fim de semana em sua casa de campo. Seu real objetivo é levar a esposa de volta através de um elaborado plano. Para causar ciúmes leva sua própria secretária.

Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.

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. The lone female jury member compares her life to Tina's and, believing her to be innocent, sets out on her own to find a missing witness that can prove Tina's innocence.

Uma série de situações surreais que criticam os padrões da sociedade: o homem que mostra fotos 'pornográficas' para duas crianças, o atirador que mata as pessoas do topo de um prédio, a falta de educação à mesa, os monges e sua sexualidade, e por aí vai.

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.

Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and perpetually starving, the pretty petty thief doesn't give up her quest for ill-gotten gains and soon turns to pick-pocketing. Despite her questionable thieving skills, the bumbling crook tries scheme after scheme, pilfering from strangers and dodging the law as she searches for a way to fund an adequate meal.

Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of them all has escaped from prison and the chief of police is on his tail. Angelotti is being helped by a painter, lover of "La Tosca", a famous singer. The police chief suspects the truth and tries to arouse the jealousy of "La Tosca" to catch the escapee.

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.

The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.

Comedy about a man who is sentenced to life imprisonment mainly because of a woman's testimony, but she later marries him during his sentence

Um jornalista está a preparar uma reportagem sobre juventude extremista e apaixona-se por um jovem radical que teme ser morto por seus companheiros quando ele é incapaz de cometer um assassinato político.

Three episodes. Episode 1 - The Refrigerator (Monicelli). A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s). The purchase is too expensive for their family balance sheet. To earn some money they decide to go for prostitution. The wife is not so unhappy to the perspective. Episode 2 - The Room (Sordi). To celebrate ten years of marriage a couple decides to spend a quick holiday in top luxury hotels in Sardinia. But the fashion luxury VIP world is too hard to enter; they soon will end in prison. Episode 3 - The Lion (De Sica). Two adulterous, Antonio and Giulia, are blocked by a lion, staying on the exit in the place they met. They both have to come back home, but couldn't move because of the lion’s presence. The critical situation soon drives them to their limit, revealing their real essence.

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.

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?

Giovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she knew during the concerts of chamber music she weekly attends with her mother.

Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales throughout Europe. In their travels, they come across the beautiful Christina, a girl who is being threatened by her brother, Sergio, in order to get the family fortune. But as Giovanna and Franco delve into their story, the double-crossing begins, and no one is sure who is getting tricked.

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.

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.

Modesty Blaise, uma agente secreta cuja cor de cabelo, estilo de cabelo e roupas modernas mudam em um estalar de dedos, está sendo usada pelo governo britânico como isca em um esforço para impedir um roubo de diamantes. Ela está sendo armada pelos federais, mas é sábia com a trama e chama o ajudante Willie Garvin e alguns outros amigos para enganá-los. Enquanto isso, em seu refúgio na ilha, Gabriel, o ladrão de diamantes, tem seus próprios planos para Blaise e Garvin.

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 opportunistic gypsy babysitter who uses her employer's kids for her own gain. The third episode, "Queen Elena" centers on a husband who learns a lesson about the perils of infidelity after he succumbs to the wiles of the seductive wife next door. The last vignette, "Queen Marta" centers on a wealthy woman who, when drunk, uses her butler as an outlet for her lust.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the former empress of Persia. Featuring interviews with Monica Vitti, Tonino Guerra and more.

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.

An exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed saucer and its female occupant.

Chuva, neblina, frio e poluição assolam a cidade industrial de Ravenna, na Itália. Ugo, o gerente de uma usina local, é casado com Giuliana, uma dona de casa que sofre de problemas psicológicos. Um dia, ela conhece o engenheiro Zeller, o que pode mudar sua vida. Em O Deserto Vermelho, Antonioni, no auge de sua forma, aborda os temas centrais de sua filmografia: a incomunicabilidade e a solidão do homem contemporâneo.

Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.

An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.

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.

"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.

Após brigar com o namorado, Vittoria se apaixona por Piero, um sedutor e materialista corretor da Bolsa de Valores. Apesar do real interesse de Vittoria, Piero não deseja um relacionamento sólido, por conta da sua personalidade volúvel.

Após dez anos de casamento, Lídia e Giovani passam uma noite permeada de momentos de angústia e luxúria, numa busca involuntária de respostas para a crise de seu relacionamento. Segundo filme da célebre "trilogia da incomunicabilidade", formada ainda por A Aventura e O Eclipse.

Uma mulher desaparece no meio de uma viagem de barco no Mediterrâneo. Durante a busca pela mulher, seu namorado e sua melhor amiga ficam atraídos um pelo outro. Um grupo de ricos italianos saem numa viagem de iate para uma ilha vulcânica deserta no Mediterrâneo. Quando eles estão prestes a deixar a ilha eles se dão conta de que Anna, o personagem principal até este ponto, desapareceu. Sandro, o namorado de Anna, e Claudia, a amiga de Anna, tentam sem sucesso encontrá-la. Enquanto procuravam a amiga desaparecido, Claudia e Sandro desenvolvem uma atração entre eles. Quando voltam à terra continuam a busca sem sucesso. Sandro e Claudia se tornam amantes, e quase esquecem a Anna desaparecida. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.

A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.

A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.