Lea Massari

A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. But during the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other (imdb)

Pierre spots "The Woman in Blue" in a shop one day and is instantly intrigued. He wonders to himself whether he should approach her but decides against it. Upon leaving the shop he again sees her in the distance and slowly his intrigue turns into obsession.

This is a jolly coming-of-age story about a 15-year-old boy named Laurent Chevalier who is growing up in bourgeois surroundings in Dijon, France.

The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans, during the second world war... (imdb)

A Greek military hero named Darios visits his uncle in Rhodes in the year 280 BC. Rhodes has just finished constructing an enormous colossus of Apollo to guard its harbor and is planning an alliance with Phoenicia which would be hostile to Greece... (imdb)

In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation. (imdb)

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old mysterious student Vanina Abati. (imdb)

Silvio is an Italian partisan, he and his companions belong to Italian resistance movement against Nazis. They are at Lake Como. He is helped by Elena. He spends three months hidden on Elena's grandfather's mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war. (Wikipedia)

Anna, a detached and diffident director, arrives in Germany to show her latest film; she checks into a hotel, invites a stranger to her bed, and abruptly tells him to leave. (imdb)

In the Second World War, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania. (imdb)

An anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them. (imdb)

In this decidedly offbeat and rather arty crime drama, a French fugitive heads for Canada and ends up joining a gang of desperate criminals who have been plotting to kidnap a crimelord's retarded daughter. Things go well until she accidentally dies. Despite the unfortunate turn of events, the crooks decide to keep on as if things were fine. (imdb)

A group of people are surrounded in a hotel by a group of rebels; one of them is trying to betray their arms cache to the rebels. (BFI)

Twenty-four years after L'Avventura, Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca Island. The rarefied atmosphere of Lea's disappearance is recalled by some audio excerpts from the original movie. (imdb)

Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him? (imdb)

Lino Ventura stars as Bastien Grimaldi, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma. (Allmovie)

The nobleman Dmitri is at court as a juror. In an accused prostitute he recognizes a maid which he had seduced years ago. He wants to help Katjuscha out of her current misery, but she is convicted by mistake and sent to a prison in Siberia. The movie is based on the novel by Leo Tolstoi.

In order to dispense with the people around him who are making his life a misery, a man uses a pocket computer to devise the most believable fatal accidents that could happen to them and then encourages them to happen. (imdb)

1961. Thomas Vlassenroot deserted the French Foreign Legion while fighting in Algeria. His lieutenant, Fraser, initiated the desertion for the two of them, Fraser believing he could do more for the French working for an underground organization. However, Thomas readily admits that he no longer has any political motivations or affiliations, and thus is hiding out from the authorities in Algiers. Fraser offers him a proposition: help him kidnap Lyonais lawyer, Dominique Servet, who is in Algiers t (imdb)

Episode film., satirising aspects of life in Italy. (bfi)

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war. (imdb)

Clayton's sister is raped and murdered. Time for lethal revenge! (imdb)

Harry (Alan Bates) is a married writer who has an affair with a woman (Dominique Sanda) whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination. (TCM.com)

Charlo and Carla are on their honeymoon. She is three months pregnant. He, furious about his marriage of convenience, recalls the past and ponders on The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, dear to the Surrealists. While she is bleeding, he spends the night with a beautiful stranger... (Cinema of the World)

Antonio Gramsci, who was sentenced to twenty years in prison by the courts fascists, relives the stages of his political career and private life: in particular the founding of the Communist Party, the futile resistance to the offensive of the Right, the marriage, the arrest, the conflict with Togliatti. Discharged from prison for health reasons, died in 1937 at a clinic in Rome. Portrait often didactic, but almost always convincing, one of the fathers of modern socialism. (mubi.com)

Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present when his father died, wishes to be present at her death. In Corsica Ange finds his brother Baptiste who married Maria, the woman he loved. He finds out that his father was killed, but nobody wants to tell him the name of the killer. And finally he finds two killers expecting him. (imdb)

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog. (imdb)

It'd just before Christmas in Paris and most are happily cruising the streets and shops but....Robert Herbin, meets a beautiful Italian woman Marthe Drévet, she hints.... (my own summary, honestly knowing or seeking more will detract from your enjoyment).

Chico Buarque is a constant presence in Brazil's art scene and makes up its citizen's popular culture. This wealth in music, poems, theater and novels has been created over the last 50 years and in this film Chico Buarque converses about his memories, shows, daily life, work methods, creative process, in summary all his trajectory. The musician's search for his German brother, whom he never got to meet, serves as one of the axis for the narrative.

José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.

A young man's sensual adventures based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.

An older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way. (imdb)

Young terrorist Laura will be the common thread that links six women's personal stories, determining their sometimes tragic destinies, and discovering silence and complicity that she does not seek. (imdb)

Arnold Samson, expert for an insurance company, is instructed by his boss to go to Spain. He must estimate the damage of a fire which has ravaged the scenery of a film during filming. Arriving on the spot, he meets a young woman at an inn, called Sarah, with whom he sympathizes. (imdb)

When hooked on gambling, a woman begins neglecting her husband and children. (imdb)

Philippe and Rosa are on the verge of divorce. Parents of 4 children, they decide to experience this breakup with lightness and humor. (allocine)

A young man, who lives on a wasteland with a group of misfits, invents a love story with an elegant young woman. (allocine)

The director Victor decides to bring Chekhov's play 'The Three Sisters' to the screen. He summons his actresses to rehearse in a city near Lake Geneva. (imdb)

Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal. (imdb)

Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi. (imdb)

The bourgeois life of Hélène Noblet, wife of the respected Dr. Noblet, is disturbed by the assassination of her lover Philippe, a friend of her son. (allocine)

The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy. (imdb)

A determined police action in Sicily forces the notorious bandit Vito Ribera to hide in mountains, then to try to leave Italy. Ribera soon realizes that he can no longer count on the protection of his powerful mafia allies. (imdb)

Budapest, night between 3d and 4th November 1956. The Red Army tanks besiege the Hungarian capital, the encirclement is complete and only awaits the order for the final attack. (imdb)

A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love. (imdb)