Luchino Visconti

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

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella

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

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Antonio Arcidiacono, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Venera Bonaccorso

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

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani

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

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Dirk Bogarde, Björn Andrésen, Romolo Valli

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

Dir. Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti · With Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Rina Morelli