Monica Vitti

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

One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously... (imdb)

A young woman meets a vital young man, but the love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature. (imdb)

Cold, rain, and fog surround a plant in Ravenna. Factory waste pollutes local lakes; hulking anonymous ships pass or dock and raise quarantine flags... (imdb)

Giovanni, a sucessful writer, and his wife Lydia visit their friend Tommaso who is dying in hospital... (imdb)

Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin. (imdb)

Anthology film about marriage and betrayal in the modern world.

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. (imdb)

A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. 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?

The last work of the experimental Italian director Alberto Grifi

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)

Comedy-drama about a Sicilian woman (Vitti) who, "dishonored" by her lover, goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him. (imdb)

The four vignettes on secrets of love and secret lovers - The Telephone Call (La Telefonata), Treatise on Eugenics (Il Trattato di eugenetica), The Soup (La Minestra) and Monsignor Cupid (Monsignor Cupido) are based on stories in Boccaccio's Decameron. (Wikipédia)

A police Inspector and his inept sidekick are sent to country village to investigate reported sightings of a flying saucer. The ship has brought a crew of female aliens who get caught up in a carnival while being chased by men. (eofftv.com)

This film was made during a time when Jancso was not allowed to make films in his native Hungary. In the middle of the crowd, while covering an Italian political protest by leftists, The Journalist (Monica Vitti), a pacifist, finds herself surrounded by a quite different group of people who jostle her, remove her recording equipment from her and set her car on fire. She complains to the police about this. (All Movie)

In this romantic comedy, competition knows no bounds when it comes to the pursuit of love. At the Cannes Film Festival (where sections of the movie were filmed), filmmaker Hal Raymond (Keith Carradine) meets alluring Maria Barone (Monica Vitti), whom he discovers is the wife of movie producer Federico Barone (Raf Vallone). But that doesn't stop him from seducing her. Is this a case of true love, or professional jealousy gone awry? (Netflix)

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. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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

Comedy of manners based on a play by Aldo de Bendetti. An unhappy princess married to a man only interested in breeding race horses persuades her bodyguard, Diego to act as her lover to arouse her husband's jealousy. Problems arise when Diego's girlfriend arrives. (ftvdb)

During World War II, American USO tours gave new life to Italy's native music-hall performers, as it gave them a livelier venue for entertaining both the local population and the incoming soldiers. This Italian film, starring Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti, tells the story of two such performers, their ambitions and their struggles. (allmovie)

Anna wants to improve her marriage to sculptor Marco but ends up having an affair with her new teacher Antonio as well. While performing a careful balancing act alternating between her two lovers, she becomes pregnant and is, not unsurprisingly, unsure by whom. Therefore she goes to a weekend retreat on her own. Marco and Antonio meet, having both come to the train station to say goodbye to Anna and immediately hit it off... (imdb)

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. (imdb)

The stories of three different couples: 1- Il Frigorifero. [Monica Vitti, Enzo Jannacci] 2- La Camera. [Alberto Sordi, Rossana di Lorenzo] 3- Il Leone [Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti] (bfi)

The cruel and lustful police chief uses the jealousy of the singer Tosca to make her betray her lover who has hidden an escaped political prisoner. To save her lover, Tosca agrees to give herself to the police chief but learns too late that he has tricked her when her lover is executed. (worldcat)

Four episodes satirising Italian women, their manners and their morals. (imdb)

Story about arms trafficking between governments. (bfi)

A man who believes himself to be a liberal and understanding husband discovers tha he can't cope when his wife says she is attracted to another man. (bfi)

Film in 2 parts: 1) A divorced couple meet up to decide who shall have their joint flat. They quarrel, but decide they can't live without each other. 2) A woman, prisoner of a bigoted family, knocks down with her car a young man. Instead of damages he asks her for 30 minutes of love. (bfi)

When the wife wants to leave her husband in preference of a romantic Frenchman, the husband seemingly does not raise difficulties and invites his rival, along with his own secretary, for a weekend. His real purpose is taking her wife back through an elaborate plan. (imdb)

Comedy about self-made woman (Vitti) in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder. (imdb)

Satire set in the Middle Ages. A bride is locked in a chastity belt on her wedding night when her husband is called away to battle. (bfi)

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

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

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, the husband of Luisa. Alberto offers himself to help Paolo in solving his problem, but when the two men arrive at home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. What to do? The two men try a series of way to help Luisa.. (imdb)

Three films directed by three masters of Italian comedy. L'Equivoco directed by Luigi Comecini, Macchina d'amore directed by Nanny Loy and Il Superiore directed by Luigi Magni. (mubi)

Fabio Bonetti has been married to Livia for almost 20 years. One day a private eye investigating on their neighbors, the Vitali family, by mistake starts filming and recording Livia's life. (imdb)

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? (imdb)

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

Two impoverished couples invent a stratagem to make a living: beautiful Rita (Monica Vitti) pretends to be a prostitute and upon advance payment takes the customers to her room. When she shows the unfortunate punter the bed still inhabited by the body of her deceased husband--who is actually alive and well--people run away horrified, also thanks to the presence of Agostino (Eduardo De Filippo) and his top hat, which makes everything even more lugubrious.

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