Luchino Visconti

A history of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886.

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish ...

Documentary on Luchino Visconti’s travels and auditions in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his adaptation of ...

As Garibaldi’s troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social ...

An anthology of four adult tales: a young couple tries to hide their marriage and the wife’s supposed pregnancy from their place of employment; a ...

When a widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her sons become romantic rivals, with deadly results.

Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover’s promise, meet by chance on a canal ...

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

Five portraits of actresses in their “common” life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

Bellissima is a satire of the film industry, and centers on a mother and daughter after the latter attends an audition.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate ...

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.