Lea MassariFilmography

Born:: Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Anna Maria Massatani
Biography:: Known for projecting an air of urbane worldliness, supporting and occasionally leading actress Lea Massari (born Anna Maria Massatani in Rome) has graced many Italian and French features. Educated throughout Europe, including Switzerland where she studied architecture, Massari made her first film...Read More

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Viaggio d'Amore

Actors: Omar Sharif, Lea Massari, Florence Guerin, Stephane Bonnet

Synopsis: Rico (Omar Sharif) has been a barber for a long time, and he has been married to his wife for four decades. It's about time that they take a vacation from the tiny village of Petrella Guidi and concentrate on themselves and their relationship. Zaira (Léa Massari), Pico's wife, surely loves him Read More

1990
La Donna Spezzata

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Lea Massari, Erland Josephson, Jean-Luc Bideau, Marisa Mantovani, Consuelo Ferrara

Synopsis: Virginia (Lea Massati) is shocked to learn her 25-year marriage to Maurizio (Erland Josephson) is plagued by his philandering betrayal in this distaff tear-jerking drama. She finds solace in her two daughters and Silvano (Jean-Luc Consuelo), her longtime admirer, a cellist in the local symphony. Read More

1988
Vengeance

Synopsis: When a group of Latin American prisoners attempt a daring escape, they must struggle to survive and avoid capture. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

1986
Segreti Segreti

Actors: Lina Sastri, Lea Massari, Giulia Boschi, Rossana Podestà, Alida Valli, Mariangela Melato

Synopsis: Giuseppe Bertolucci (younger brother of Bernardo Bertolucci) has created a movie unusual for its all-female cast of well-known Italian actresses and for a script that gives them latitude to develop their individual characters. The story is about Laura (Lina Sastri) a young terrorist who commits a Read More

3/13/85
La Septième Cible

Actors: Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Jean Poiret, Elizabeth Bourgine

Synopsis: An unsuspecting novelist is the target of international extortionists in this well-acted suspense story directed by Claude Pinoteau. Lino Ventura stars as Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him Read More

1984
Sarah

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Lea Massari, Heinz Bennent, Jean-Claude Brialy, Gabrielle Lazure

Synopsis: This self-conscious film with acting that is not quite up to par, is about an insurance investigator who meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set. The woman is still on his mind when he reaches the set, where contacts with the Read More

1983
La Flambeuse

Actors: Lea Massari, Laurent Terzieff, Gérard Blain, Evelyne Dress

1980
Christ Stopped at Eboli

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari

Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical novel by Carlo Levi, Cristo si e fermato a Eboli stars Gian-Maria Volonte as Levi, a prominent anti-fascist author and artist who, during Mussolini's regime was exiled to Eboli, a tiny village in Southern Italy. The government believed Levi's controversial views would Read More

2/23/79
Le Divorcement

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Lea Massari, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Anne Lonnberg, Maurice Baquet

Synopsis: In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed Read More

1979
Les Rendez-Vous D'Anna

Actors: Aurore Clément, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Lea Massari, Magali Noël, Helmut Griem

Synopsis: Anna (Aurore Clement) is a film director whose job takes her all over western Europe. In each place she either already has some intimate connection, or readily makes one. People seem drawn to her, but inevitably insist on sharing their inmost secrets and discontents with her, despite her obvious Read More

1978
Antonio Gramsci - I Giorni Del Carcere

Actors: Riccardo Cucciolla, Paolo Bonacelli, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer, Pier Paolo Capponi

Synopsis: The majority of Italian communists had been somewhat independent from strict adherence to the Soviet Communist Party's dictates for several decades by the 1970s. This biographical drama explores the career of Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937), one of the communists who, in the '20s and '30s began to Read More

9/22/77
Sale Reveur

Actors: Jacques Dutronc, Lea Massari, Maurice Bénichou, Greg Germain

Synopsis: Though in his 30s, Jerome (Jacques Dutronc) is still living out his adolescent fantasy of being Paul Newman from the movie Hud. He has lots of other, equally juvenile fantasies, and a fortyish mistress who indulges him in them. When he encounters a woman who looks to him like someone from the very Read More

1977
Reperages

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Delphine Seyrig, Lea Massari, Valérie Mairesse, Roger Jendly

Synopsis: In the story of Reperages, Victor (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a film director who has arranged to shoot a version of Anton Chekhov's play The Three Sisters. Casting her in the lead will enable his troubled wife, who has separated from him, to earn some money and receive some much-needed emotional Read More

1977
El Perro

Actors: Rafael Albaicin, Juan Antonio Bardem, Eduardo Calvo

Synopsis: Aristides Ungria (Jason Miller) was a political prisoner being held by a Latin American dictatorship, but he has escaped. A trained dog has been sent to hunt and kill him. While he is trudging through the jungles, he is at a relative disadvantage to the dog. Later, the dog suffers a disadvantage Read More

1977
L'Ordinateur des Pompes Funèbres

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Mireille Darc, Bernadette Lafont, Lea Massari, Bernard Fresson

Synopsis: In this black comedy, Fred (Jean-Louis Trintingnant) works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. Fred is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings Read More

4/7/76
Violette et François

Actors: Isabelle Adjani, Jacques Dutronc, Serge Reggiani, Lea Massari, Sophie Daumier

Synopsis: Violette (Isabelle Adjani) is fascinated with the shabby background and low-down ways of her boyfriend Francois (Jacques Dutronc), and despite her middle-class family's objections, she marries him. Unable to keep a job, and without any real skills, he has a hard time supporting them, especially Read More

1976
Peur Sur La Ville

Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Charles Denner, Adalberto Maria Merli, Lea Massari

Synopsis: This crime thriller is about a psychotic who makes obscene phone calls to beautiful women and then murders them. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

4/9/75
Bloody Murder

Synopsis: A woman's former lover is killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1975
Allonsanfan

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Laura Betti, Bruno Cirino

Synopsis: In Allonsanfan, the director/brother team of Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani weave a witty and occasionally melancholic tale of 19th century radicalism in Italy. Marcello Mastroianni stars as Fulvio, a middle-aged man swept up in a extremist political movement. The more he protests that he Read More

9/6/74
La Main a Couper

Actors: Michel Serrault, Michel Bouquet, Bernard Blier, Lea Massari

Synopsis: Hélène (Lea Massari) has a lovely family, and lovely children. She is not discontented with things just as they are: her young lover is attentive, her husband is pleasant -- all is just as it should be. In this French suspense film, Hélène's cozy life begins to unravel when she finds her lover is Read More

3/6/74
Impossible Object

Actors: Alan Bates, Dominique Sanda, Evans Evans, Lea Massari, Michel Auclair

Synopsis: Story of a Love Story may well be the least-known of John Frankenheimer's films. Filmed in France, the story concerns highly imaginative author Alan Bates. Though happily married, Bates enters into an affair with Dominique Sanda. Somehow, the whole experience seems unreal. Could Sanda be merely a Read More

5/24/73
Le Silencieux

Actors: Lino Ventura, Lea Massari, Suzanne Flon, Leo Genn

Synopsis: This French spy thriller makes a number of surprising variations on familiar themes. Tibere (Lino Ventura) is a Soviet nuclear scientist who comes to London with a platoon of his colleagues for a conference. When he is injured in an auto accident, he gets separated from them. The accident was a Read More

2/23/73
Le Fils

Actors: Yves Montand, Lea Massari, Marcel Bozzuffi, Germaine Delbat

Synopsis: This French drama shows what happens to the folks at home when someone who has been gone for a long time returns. Ange (Yves Montand) has been to America, but an uneasy feeling brings him back to his native island of Corsica. There he discovers his father has been killed, his mother is deathly Read More

2/22/73
The Woman In Blue

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Lea Massari, Michel Aumont, Simone Simon

Synopsis: In this French tragicomedy, once Pierre sees Auriele, he cannot rest until he finds her. Pierre is just minding his own business, when this woman walks by. He does not know who she is, where she lives, what she does or anything. Pierre, a music critic and TV commentator, uses his resources to try Read More

1/14/73
Volver a Vivir

1/7/73
La Prima Notte Di Quiete

Actors: Alain Delon

Synopsis: This gloomy Italian melodrama is set in the resort town of Rimini, the same small town as Fellini's picture I Vitelloni. The notables of the town spend their time speculating in real estate and doing a little gambling. Their interest is piqued by Daniel (Alain Delon), the magnetic new instructor Read More

10/27/72
La Course Du Lièvre à Travers les Champs

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Robert Ryan, Lea Massari, Aldo Ray, Tisa Farrow

Synopsis: 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 Read More

9/15/72
Murmur of the Heart

Actors: Lea Massari, Daniel Gélin, Michel Lonsdale, Benoit Ferreux, Marc Wincourt

Synopsis: Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem known as the Vietnam War), this controversial feature handles teen coming-of-age, sexuality and even incest with a gentleness that disappointed the prurient and shocked the Read More

4/28/71
Celeste

Actors: Debora Duarte, Jean Rochefort, Lea Massari, Raymond Gerome

Synopsis: Celeste (Debora Duarte) is the maid from Portugal working in France and is politically involved in a Marxist-Leninist group in this romantic comedy. A television journalist (Jean Rochefort) is the amorous playboy who eventually falls in love with her. Lea Massari also stars in this offbeat feature Read More

12/12/70
Les Choses de la Vie

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Romy Schneider, Lea Massari, Jean Bouise, Bobby Lapointe

Synopsis: After laboring in obscurity for several years, French filmmaker Claude Sautet finally struck a responsive chord with moviegoers in Les Choses de la Vie. The plot isn't much: the hero, businessman Michel Piccoli, must choose between his wife and his mistress, two women whom he loves with equal Read More

1/1/70
Lo Voglio Morto

6/15/68
Made in Italy

Actors: Marina Berti, Anna Magnani, Andrea Checchi, Lando Buzzanca, Virna Lisi, Giulio Bosetti, Sylva Koscina, Walter Chiari, Rossella Falk

Synopsis: Made in Italy is a multistoried film, set...in Italy, of course. An all-star cast appears in brief seriocomic vignettes about rich and poor, tourist and native. Director Nanni Loy exhibits the realistic and somewhat earthy technique he'd used on his earlier documentaries, with heavy emphasis on Read More

12/22/65
Le Soldatesse

Actors: Mario Adorf, Anna Karina, Marie Laforêt, Lea Massari, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Prostitutes from Athens are transported by truck for the pleasure of the occupying Italian Army in this World War II drama. The 15 women are driven by a young lieutenant who gives a ride to a fascist major. Tension mounts between the two soldiers as the truck is attacked, and some of the women are Read More

11/4/65
L'Insoumis

Actors: Lea Massari, Alain Delon, Maurice Garrel, Georges Géret, Guy Laroche

Synopsis: In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas (Alain Delon) is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique (Lea Massari), who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Thomas is wounded Read More

9/25/64
Llanto Por un Bandido

Actors: Francisco Rabal, Lea Massari, Philippe Leroy, Lino Ventura

Synopsis: El Tempranillo (Francisco Rabal) returns from the Napoleonic wars with a desire to continue fighting. He turns to banditry rather than live in poverty in his native Spain. Though his wife (Lea Massari) pleads for him to change his dangerous way of life, he refuses. When she is killed, the bandit Read More

5/22/64
Le Quattro Giornate di Napoli

Actors: Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffré, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli

Synopsis: This gripping, Oscar-nominated war drama is set in the fall of 1943 during the Nazi occupation of Italy when all the Neapolitan males from five to sixty are forced to work in slave camps. Tired of the cruelty and oppression, the people rise up and launch such a violent melee that they frighten the Read More

11/16/62
Paris Pick-Up

Actors: Robert Hossein, Lea Massari, Maurice Biraud, Robert Dalban

Synopsis: In this standard murder mystery with a twist, an attractive woman, Marta (Lea Massari), picks up a man who has just been released from jail. The former prisoner is anxious for company but does not want to violate the conditions of his release (he cannot go into Paris). Marta and her daughter take Read More

5/4/62
Una Vita Difficile

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: In this slow-starting but effective drama, comedian Alberto Sordi changes hats to play Silvio Magnozzi, a man so dedicated to his high moral standards that he loses out on most of the things he wants in life -including his wife. He watches while others march up the ladder of success way ahead of Read More

1962
La Città Prigioniera

Actors: David Niven, Lea Massari, Ben Gazzara, Daniela Rocca, Martin Balsam

Synopsis: Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing Read More

1962
I Sogni Muoiono all'Alba

Actors: Lea Massari, Aroldo Tieri, Gianni Santuccio, Ivo Garrani

Synopsis: Set in the mid-'50s during the Hungarian revolution, this theatrically staged, verbose drama by director Indro Montanelli looks at all the conflicting viewpoints of several journalists staying in the same hotel. They are there to cover the events of the uprising but their interactions bring Read More

1962
Il Colosso di Rodi

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Conrado SanMartin, Jorge Rigaud, Angel Aranda

Synopsis: Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort was this colorful sword-and-sandal epic set in ancient Greece. Rory Calhoun stars as Dario, a captain in the Greek army who must travel to the island of Rhodes to destroy the huge bronze statue of Colossus, which hurls molten lead at its attackers. Read More

8/25/61
La Giornata Balorda

Actors: Jean Sorel, Lea Massari, Jean Valerie, Isabelle Corey, Rik Battaglia

Synopsis: An uneven mix of right-on situations and two-dimensional characters or worse, La Giornata Balorda is all the more interesting because it was banned in Italy -- not because of sexual or anti-religious content, but because of its depiction of Italian society. David (Jean Sorel) is a poverty-stricken Read More

1961
L'Avventura

Actors: Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci

Synopsis: This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and established its director, Michelangelo Antonioni, as a major international talent. The plot concerns a yachting trip by a small group of jaded socialites, including Sandro (Gabriele Ferzetti), an aging Read More

6/29/60
Auferstehung

Actors: Myriam Bru, Horst Buchholz, Lea Massari, Gabrielle Dorziat

12/11/58
Dreams in a Drawer

Actors: Lea Massari, Cosetta Greco, Sergio Tofano

Synopsis: I Sogni nel Cassetto was released in the U.S. as Dreams in a Drawer. The hero and heroine are students in a Northern Italian university. Though he barely knows her, the immature Mario (Enrico Pagani) proposes marriage to the equally childlike Lucia (Lea Masari). Both boy and girl are forced to Read More

1957
Proibito

Synopsis: Outside pressures affect a recently ordained priest in his new parish. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1955
Du Sang Dans Le Soleil

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Amedeo Nazzari, Lea Massari

1955
Proibito

Actors: Mel Ferrer, Amedeo Nazzari, Lea Massari, Henri Vilbert, Germaine Kerjean

Synopsis: Proibito (Forbidden) is based on Grazia Deledda's Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Mother. Mel Ferrer stars as Don Pablo, a priest who returns to his provincial home in Sardegna. Here he discovers to his dismay that a centuries-old feud between two families is still raging. Don Pablo hopes to bring Read More

12/30/54

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