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Michelangelo Antonioni has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2000s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by La Notte.
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A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti

Vittoria is a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from her writer boyfriend, Riccardo, Vittoria meets Piero, a lively stockbroker, on the hectic floor of the Roman stock exchange. Though Vittoria and Piero begin a relationship, it is not one without difficulties, and their commitment to one another is tested during an eclipse.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Alain Delon, Monica Vitti, Francisco Rabal

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 suffers from guilt and tension.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Monica Vitti, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lea Massari

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.
Dir. Federico Fellini · With Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles

A sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Steve Cochran, Alida Valli, Dorian Gray

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti

David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story. When he discovers the body of a stranger who looks similar to him, Locke assumes the dead man's identity. However, he soon finds out that the man was an arms dealer, leading Locke into dangerous situations. Aided by a beautiful woman, Locke attempts to avoid both the police and criminals out to get him.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Jack Nicholson, Maria Schneider, Jenny Runacre

Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix

A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bosè, Gino Rossi

Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives, connecting through a single narrative thread.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni · With Fanny Ardant, Chiara Caselli, Irène Jacob
A three-part anthology about love and sexuality: a menage-a-trois between a couple and a young woman on the coast of Tuscany; an advertising executive under enormous pressure at work, who, during visits to his psychiatrist, is pulled to delve into the possible reasons why his stress seems to manifest itself in a recurring erotic dream; a story of unrequited love about a beautiful, 1960s high-end call girl in an impossible affair with her young tailor.
Dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, Wong Kar-Wai · With Gong Li, Chang Chen, Tien Feng