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Synopsis: This program features a portrait of Italian film director Luchino Visconti. The cultivated Visconti brought to the screen such literary masterpieces as Thomas Mann's Death in Venice and Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard. Interviews with friends, family, and colleagues give insight into Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni
Synopsis: Rarely has any actor, and especially one with a filmography as rich as that of Marcello Mastroianni (1923-1996), been given such a lavish screen biography. But then, director Anna Maria Tató was Mastroianni's companion for the last 22 years of his life, and she clearly saw this film, made for Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jean-Yves Gautier, Leonor Silveira
Synopsis: Octogenarian film director Manoel de Oliveira travels autobiographical avenues in this portrait of a film director Manoel (Marcello Mastroianni) who is shooting on location in Portugal. During a break, one of the film's actors, Afonso, born in France but of Portuguese descent, travels to his Read More
Synopsis: This drama, set in 1938, chronicles a month in the life of the Portuguese journalist Pereira. He is first seen as a lonely, widowed, and overweight editor of the culture page of a second-rate Lisbon newspaper. Earlier in his career, he had been a news reporter. Pereira is fascinated with old Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Galiena, Marisa Paredes, Melvil Poupaud
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni plays several different roles in this off-beat, witty exploration of a man with multiple personalities from world-class filmmaker Raúl Ruiz. Mastroianni first appears as Parisian traveling salesman Mateo Strano who suddenly shows up at the home of Maria, the wife he abandoned Read More
Actors: John Malkovich, Kim Rossi Stuart, Ines Sastre, Sophie Marceau, Fanny Ardant
Synopsis: The many ways in which men are fascinated, compelled, and confused by their attraction to women are explored in this four part drama. As a filmmaker (John Malkovich) tries to sort out his plans for his next film, he considers several stories about women and the men who love them. Silvano (Kim Rossi Stuart Read More
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Henri Garcin, Julie Gayet
Synopsis: This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave, features an all-star international cast. The story is based upon the memories and insights of the 100-year old Mr. Simon Cinema. He lives in a magnificent house filled with movie Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Luisina Brando, Alejandra Podesta, Betiana Blum, Alberto Segado
Synopsis: In this oddball comedy, the village Grande Dame tries to find a suitable husband so she can take good care of her daughter, a dwarf. The story is set in an Argentine village during the 1940's. Though her daughter, Charlotte, is a little person, the highly respected Leonor wants her to have a Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Kim Basinger
Synopsis: This large, sprawling comedy directed by Robert Altman concerns a variety of romantic and personal intrigues that intersect against the backdrop of Paris's annual "Pret-a-Porter" fashion extravaganza. With 31 principal characters and a number of cameos from well known models, designers, actors and Read More
Actors: Alessandro Haber, Adriana Innocenti, Giancarlo Maestri, Beatrice Kruger, Doris Von Thury
Synopsis: This unique Italian pseudo-documentary deftly blends fact with fiction in its portrait of stage, screen, and television actor Alessandro Haber (a.k.a. Antonio Hutter). Haber, considered one of Italy's finest comic actors, has worked with some of the greatest Italian directors of all time Read More
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Marcello Mastroianni, Marcia Gay Harden
Synopsis: Todd Graff wrote the screenplay for this eccentric romantic comedy in the spirit of Moonstruck that exchanges pasta for matzo balls. The film takes place in Queens in 1969, where Pearl Berman (Shirley MacLaine) has just arrived back from the funeral of her husband. As her dysfunctional family Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Julie Andrews, Jonathan Cecil, Ian Fitzgibbon, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Synopsis: Devastated by the news of his wife's affair with the suave Dr. Piquet (Jean-Michel Cannone), Cesario Garibaldi (Marcello Mastroianni) hatches a plan with Dr. Piquet's wife, Pamela (Julie Andrews). Neither of them realized, however, that curtailing the extramarital bliss of their respective spouses Read More
Actors: Anouk Grinberg, Marcello Mastroianni, Myriam Boyer, Olivier Martinez
Synopsis: This experimental drama is something of an actor's challenge: see if you can convincingly play an age range from six to thirty six without any makeup or costume changes, just by using your gifts as a performer. In this film, the role of Victorine poses just such a challenge to Anouk Grinberg, who Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michèle Morgan, Valeria Cavalli, Marino Cenna, Roberto Nobile, Norma Martelli
Synopsis: In this sentimental, tragicomic drama, Matteo Scuro (Marcello Mastroianni) is an old widower living in Sicily. His five grown children have scattered all over Italy, and he has heard nothing but glowing reports from them about their lives and careers. One day he takes it into his head to visit Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Ilias Logothetis
Synopsis: Four countries-France, Greece, Italy and Switzerland-converged upon the production of Suspended Step of Stork. The film is set on the Greek border, where a steady stream of refugees flows on a perpetual basis. Reporter Gregory Karr thinks that he's spotted a familiar face among the anonymous Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Ángela Molina, Michel Piccoli, Daniel Martin, Virginie Ledoyen
Synopsis: Although he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a wealthy exile living in Paris with his beloved wife, who has been unable to bear children. To fill this void in their lives, he feeds and clothes abandoned children, raising them in his mansion as if they Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Sandrine Bonnaire
Synopsis: Professor Brusci (Marcello Mastroianni) is a widower who has been alone for a long time. He has finally ordered his life in a way that is pleasing to him: his free time is divided between a chamber orchestra he plays with and his garden, and he works teaching Russian at a university in Rome. He is Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud, Renato Moretti, Lou Castel
Synopsis: Marcello (Marcello Mastroiano) has worked hard all his life to achieve a certain standing and success as a lawyer in Rome. He is pleased to be able to offer the fruits of his success to his son Michele (Massimo Troisi), and is perplexed and distressed that his unambitious son has no interest in Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Dorottya Udvaros, Alessandra Martines, Urbano Barberini
Synopsis: Mitzi (Hanna Schygulla) turns to Sandor (Marcello Mastroianni) for help when her husband is murdered by right-wing extremists looking for a cache of diamonds. She and her young son escape with Sandor to Italy. By the 1930s, they return to Budapest to run the successful Arizona Club, a posh Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Marina Vlady, Paolo Panelli, Pamela Villoresi
Synopsis: The celebration of and homage to the language of cinema unites not only the three central characters of this film, but is the character of the film itself. This is the story of a man whose entire life has been shaped and supported by the movies. Jordan (Marcello Mastroianni) grew up at his Read More
Actors: Federico Fellini, Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Sergio Rubini, Maurizio Mein
Synopsis: Intervista has been termed a semi-documentary: This is in fact the filmed autobiography of Italian director Federico Fellini, framed in the form of an interview conducted by a Japanese film crew. As the interview progresses Fellini's mind wanders to his earliest days (the reenacted events conflict Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Marthe Keller, Yelena Safonova, Pina Cei, Vsevolod Larionov
Synopsis: Oci Ciornie was an international co-production tailored for Marcello Mastroianni. It received good reviews in Italy and France, and Mastroianni was awarded "Best Actor" at the Cannes Film Festival. However, some in Russia felt that director Mikhalkov (who previously received wide acclaim for Read More
Synopsis: Survey of the history of Italian cinema, featuring clips from such classics as "Open City," "8-1/2," and "Seven Beauties," and interviews with illustrious stars and filmmakers, including Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Toto, Monica Vitti, Anna Magnani, Vittorio DeSica, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi, Martin Maria Blau
Synopsis: Director Federico Fellini gently lampoons the world of small-time show business in Ginger and Fred. Giulietta Masina and Marcello Mastroianni star as Amelia Bonetti and Pippo Botticella, a onetime celebrity song-and-dance team. Having risen to fame with a dancing act where they recreated the acts Read More
Actors: Theo Angelopoulos, Marcello Mastroianni, Serge Reggiani, Nadia Mourouzi
Synopsis: With no other apparent purpose than simply recording the making of The Beekeeper by director Theo Angelopoulos, this documentary is a very slight offering. Maria Hatzimichali Papliou follows the shooting schedule of the film from northern Greece to the Peloponnesus, and captures director Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani, Jenny Roussea, Dinos Iliopoulos
Synopsis: In this compelling drama, Marcello Mastroianni gives a tour-de-force interpretation of a disillusioned middle-aged man, a bee keeper who inherited the passion for his vocation from his father. After weeping silently at the end of his daughter's wedding ceremony, Spyros (Mastroianni) leaves in his Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Tiberlo Murgia, Francesco de Rosa, Giorgio Gobbi
Synopsis: The vast differences 27 years makes between Italian comedy, the city of Rome, the stars in this film, and filmmaking itself are apparent in this 1985 sequel to the 1958 I Soliti Ignoti. Clips from the earlier film highlight the changes. Returning to reprise their roles are Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman Read More
Actors: Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Isa Danieli, Maria Luisa Santella
Synopsis: Ettore Scola directed this light comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Marcello Mastroianni that Scola calls "a story about two men who have reached the age where you look back and take stock." Lemmon plays business executive Robert Traven, who returns Naples for the first time since 1946, when he had Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Flavio Bucci, Laura Morante, Laura del Sol, Caroline Berg
Synopsis: The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal is based on Le Deux Vite di Mattia Pascal, one of Luigi Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "Truth" and "Identity" Marcello Mastrioanni is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancee, scorned by his Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Luciano Bartoli, Latou Chardons, Leopoldo Trieste
Synopsis: This Italian version of Henry IV is based on the Luigi Pirandello play rather than Shakespeare's historical work. Moreover, the Henry depicted herein is not the English king, but the 11th-century Holy Roman emperor. In addition, central character Marcello Mastroianni doesn't play emperor Henry Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Anouk Aimée, Gerard Klein, Sergio Castellitto
Synopsis: Falling a little short of either comedy or drama or whatever the intent may have been, this bland film directed by first-timer Luciano Tovoli is about an Italian general (Marcel Mastroianni) sent to Albania along with an army chaplain (Michel Piccoli) to bring back the remains of 3,000 compatriot Read More
Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert, Marcello Mastroianni
Synopsis: This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia (Hanna Schygulla). The liberated Eugenia and her spaced-out, husband (Marcello Mastroianni Read More
Actors: Sonia Braga, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonio Cantafora, Paulo Goulart, Nelson Xavier
Synopsis: Gabriela was based on Jorge Armado's novel Gabriela, Clove and Cinammon, which also served as the source of a typically steamy Brazilian TV soap opera. Set in 1925 (when the novel was first published), the film stars Marcello Mastrioanni as Nacib, a bartender in the Bahian village of Parati. When Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Eleonora Giorgi, Tom Berenger, Michel Piccoli, Cicely Brown
Synopsis: Tom Berenger seems bemused by his surroundings in the Italian Beyond Obsession. An American engineer, Berenger falls in love with Eleanora Giorgi, and as these things are wont to happen, he ends up in bed with her. But Eleanora carries a great deal of emotional baggage in the person of her Read More
Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy
Synopsis: This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee Paris during the 1791 revolution. While en route to Varennes, the couple encounter and have philosophical debates with a number of fascinating historical figures including Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Ken Marshall
Synopsis: The Italian La Pelle was released in English-speaking countries as The Skin. Set in the twilight of World War 2, the film is a compendium of bitter recollections concerning the Allied liberation of Naples. These memories were originally bundled together in book form by Curzio Malaparte, played Read More
Synopsis: Just when life was deep into a well-hewn rut for Nino Conti (Marcello Mastroianni) and the socialite he married, he runs into an old, impoverished charwoman (Romy Schneider) on a bus. She later gets in touch with him by telephone and lets him know that she is the very same Anna he had loved two Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers, Donatella Damiani, Jole Silvani
Synopsis: In this dream-sequence film, renowned Italian director Federico Fellini expounds at length on the nature, complexities, attitudes, and hang-ups of women and how this all relates to men "hunting" sexual conquests. Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni) is traveling in a compartment on a train when he Read More
Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli
Synopsis: Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards Read More
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Orazio Orlando, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Miou-Miou
Synopsis: A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a call girl tries to break into the underworld. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Turi Ferro, Mario Scarpetta, Antonella Murgia
Synopsis: After a beautiful woman's husband is murdered by the Sicilian Mafia, she is romanced by both an attorney and a local crook while maintaining her proper image. This Italian film stars Sophia Loren, Giancarlo Giannini and Marcello Mastroianni. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Francisco Rabal, Anja Pieroni, Giuliana Calandra
Synopsis: An idyllic May-December romance becomes unraveled when the much-older man begins suspecting that his tender young lover may be his own daughter, the result of an illicit affair many years before. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Gail Lawrence, Geraldine Fitzgerald
Synopsis: Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu), a young-ish misfit Frenchman and Nocello (Marcello Mastroianni), an older misfit Italian, live in a run-down section of New York City and are friends. Lafayette works for Flaxman (James Coco), an excitable antiquarian who owns and runs something called the "Roman Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Agostina Belli, Ursula Andress, Peter Ustinov, Jean-Claude Brialy
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni plays the downtrodden Bruno Baldassare, a murder-squad investigator in Rome who gets no respect from his peers, who give him the least interesting cases. His bumbling aide, Cantalamessa, gets even less respect. While a lightning strike could have caused the deaths of two Read More
Actors: Laura Antonelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Leonard Mann, Olga Karlatos
Synopsis: A comeback film of sorts for director Marco Vicario, Mogliamante stars Laura Antonelli as the wife of political activist Marcello Mastrioanni. When her husband has to go into hiding from the authorities, Laura consoles herself by going through his private papers. Curiously, discovering the length Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd
Synopsis: The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues Read More
Synopsis: In this episodic anthology, written and directed by assorted Italian filmmakers, the political and social aspects of Italian life are chronicled. In one satirical episode, The Bomb, a bogus bomb threat at a police headquarters gradually balloons into a real terrorist plot culminating with the Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Michel Piccoli
Synopsis: Set at an indeterminate time in the near future, this routine, well-acted drama by Elio Petri tackles favorite Italian topics: religion and politics. A bit of macabre fantasy is added to the mix, but the end product remains somewhat muddled. Don Gaetano (Marcello Mastroianni) is a priest who is Read More
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars as an eccentric aristocrat who befriends an organ grinder. Soon after, the street musician convinces a prostitute (Claudia Mori) to pose as the nobleman's imaginary wife. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset, Aldo Reggiani, Pino Caruso
Synopsis: In this Italian mystery, a detective journeys into the rarified world of the idle rich to look into a puzzling murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, set during the 1930s, the head shrink at an Italian insane asylum believes that insanity is caused by a virus. His intensive research has caused him to spend all his time at the hospital. He hasn't left it for eight years. A young female doctor comes and gets close to the chief Read More
Actors: Laura Antonelli, Terence Stamp, Marcello Mastroianni
Synopsis: A beautiful woman (Laura Antonelli) is engaged to one man, but has an affair with both a young nobleman (Terence Stamp) and later his cousin (Marcello Mastroianni). This Italian production, also known as Divina Creatura, appears in both subtitled and dubbed versions. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this film, an Italian hooker ends up as head gangster after her mobster boyfriend commits a murder and tries to cover it up. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli
Synopsis: Stefania Sandrelli, a bit player in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, stars in the deliberately Felliniesque comedy We All Loved Each Other So Much. Sandrelli plays the longtime object of three friends' affections. The film traces the interrelationships of those friends-Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi Read More
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
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain General George Armstrong Custer. Richard Nixon is the American president, but everyone is costumed appropriately for the previous century. Buffalo Bill (Michel Piccoli), the Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Françoise Fabian, Carla Gravina, Jean Rochefort
Synopsis: Marcello Mastrioanni stars as an aging actor whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Mastrioanni attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Mastrioanni is doomed to disillusionment and failure. Salut L'Artiste should be Read More
Actors: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner, Delia Boccardo
Synopsis: On March 24, 1944, in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome, one of the most infamous atrocities of World War II occurred -- the mass execution of 330 Italians in retaliation for the deaths of 33 Germans. The book Death in Rome contends that Pope Pius XII knew of the German plan but did nothing to stop Read More
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol
Synopsis: Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed
Synopsis: In this Italian comedy/thriller, a group of politically motivated bank robbers led by Fabrizio (Oliver Reed) escape into the countryside with industrialist Giulio (Marcello Mastroianni) and a toothsome young woman (Carol Andre) as hostages. Holed up in a rural mansion, they indulge in Read More
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Claude Melki
Synopsis: Director Jacques Demy's propensity for making a workable comedy out of the least likely material is once more put to the test in A Slightly Pregnant Man. Marcello Mastrioanni plays the title character, and, yes, he's in "the family way." The film plays the role-reversal gag to the hilt Read More
Actors: Hugh Griffith, Sydne Rome
Synopsis: One of Roman Polanski's lesser-known films, Diary of Forbidden Dreams (also known as What?) stars Sydne Rome as an attractive young hitchhiker who, as the film opens, accepts a ride from three men in a car, who later attempt to rape her. She escapes their clutches and makes her way to a mansion Read More
Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni
Synopsis: This dark offbeat comedy features Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. Mastroianni plays Giorgio, who lives on a island somewhere off the Mediterranean coast of France. He lives there with his dog, and the remains of an old German World War II airbase. He earns his living drawing cartoons. Read More
Actors: Britta Barnes, Federico Fellini
Synopsis: Fellini's Roma is a virtually plotless autobiographical tribute to Rome, Italy, featuring narration by Fellini himself and a mixture of real-life footage and fictional set pieces. It flows from episode to episode, beginning with the director's early years arriving in Rome in 1931 during the time Read More
Synopsis: In this politically conscious Italian drama a woman's working-class husband becomes the prisoner of the Vatican after he commits political crimes. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve
Synopsis: French filmmaker Nadine Trintignant writes and directs the 1971 drama Ça N'Arrive Qu'Aux Autres (It Only Happens to Others), based on her real-life experiences with actor husband Jean-Louis Trintignant. Catherine (Catherine Deneuve) and Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) lose their baby daughter Read More
Synopsis: In this Italian film set in the U.S., Marcello Mastrioanni stars as sweet-natured Sicilian immigrant Rocco, a former boxing champion. In the story, he comes to Chicago with a friend to see a boxing match. After the match, his friend leaves him alone in the town, and Rocco grows more and more Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
Synopsis: Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in this Italian comedy. The story begins with Loren as Valerie, a woman whose suicide attempt, prompted by a romantic disappointment, is thwarted by Don Mario (Mastroianni), a priest whom she called before she lost consciousness. She immediately falls in Read More
Actors: Hercules Cortes, Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Marisa Merlini
Synopsis: The Pizza Triangle is a freewheeling satire of Italian mores, hilarious despite its outwardly morbid plotline. The murder of flower girl Monica Vitti triggers a long flashback involving Vitti, middle-aged Communist bricklayer Marcello Mastrioanni, and young pizza chef Giancarlo Giannini. The Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Galina Andreeva
Synopsis: The first Italian feature film shot in Moscow was directed by the renowned Vittorio De Sica and produced by Carlo Ponti. Sophia Loren stars as Giovanna, an Italian woman who marries Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) 12 days before the outbreak of WWII. Antonio has no desire to fight in the conflict Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Billie Whitelaw, Calvin Lockhart, Glenna Forster-Jones
Synopsis: Prince Leo (Marcello Mastroianni) is the exiled ruler from an unnamed country living on the edge of a London ghetto with his harridan mistress Margaret (Billie Whitelaw). While viewing birds through his telescope, he witnesses the struggles of his black neighbors to survive their harsh urban Read More
Actors: Faye Dunaway, Marcello Mastroianni, Caroline Mortimer, Karin Engh
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directed this sudsy romantic drama, which received punishing reviews on its initial release. Recently-divorced fashion designer Julia (Faye Dunaway) arrives in Venice from the U.S. and meets handsome race car driver Valerio (Marcello Mastroianni) at the airport. While she Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak
Synopsis: Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting. His principle romantic interest in this feature is played by Catherine Spaak. The majority of the film seems to come from previous efforts from 1964 and 1965 Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor, Maggie Blye, Francisca Tu
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni marks his English language film debut in this featherweight caper film directed by first-time director Christopher Morahan. Mastroianni plays the owner of a London boutique who also happens to be the fourth in line to succeed the Russian throne. Mastroianni, feeling that the Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Margaret Lee, Aldo Giuffré
Synopsis: A couple with marital problems hopes to find new spirit living in a haunted house in this arcical comedy. Pasquale (Vittorio Gassman) and Maria (Sophia Loren) are a couple who are married, but not at all happily; he's a chronically unemployed musician, she can't stand her husband, and they've both Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier, Georges Géret
Synopsis: The Stranger is a literal (but still very cinematic) adaptation of the novel by Albert Camus. Marcello Mastrioanni stars as Meursault, a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in Read More
Synopsis: In this Italian melodrama, a soccer referee has more passion for the game than he does for his wife. The man's father doesn't help as he dislikes both the sport and his wife. The couple continues to drift apart and ends up having several affairs. They then attend the same soccer match and end up Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Raquel Welch, Guido Alberti, Leopoldo Trieste, Tecla Scarano
Synopsis: Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito (Marcello Mastroianni) sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation. Read More
Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Nino Manfredi
Synopsis: Director Alessandro Blasetti used an all-star Italian cast for this satirical comedy that pokes fun at the selfishness of humans and uses one character to link a series of comic vignettes. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Senta Berger, Stephen Boyd, Yul Brynner, Angie Dickinson, Georges Géret
Synopsis: This exciting adventure provides an interesting look into the manufacture and trafficking of opium and heroin. The original story was written by Ian Fleming who died shortly before he was to pen the screenplay. The story is set in Iran and opens as an American undercover agent is murdered in the Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Pamela Tiffin, Virna Lisi, Luciano Salce, Raimondo Vianello
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. A police inspector is told of the bizarre behavior of a pistol-packing papa who shoots blanks at his wife to keep her intimidated. He inserts a real bullet every so often just to let her know Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Massimo Serato, Salvo Randone
Synopsis: Based on an interesting plot from a novel by Robert Sheckley, this movie features tongue-in-cheek performances by Andress and Mastroianni, which are responsible for its status as a minor cult favorite. Set in the 21st century, this science fiction movie depicts a society in which population Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michele Mercier, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Marco Ferreri
Synopsis: Since it was made in 1965, we can assume that Casanova '70 is set five years in the future. Marcello Mastroianni stars as the modern incarnation of the legendary lover. This Casanova is a NATO officer who is sexually aroused only when danger threatens. And that's about all there is to it, except Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Marilù Tolo, Pia Lindström
Synopsis: In flashback, Marcello Mastroianni recalls his wartime romance with Sophia Loren. He is so enamored with her that he finances her escape from the bordello where she lives and sets her up with a good job in the restaurant that he owns, and later finds a place for her on his mother's domestic staff. Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffré, Agostino Salvietti, Armando Trovajoli, Lino Mattera, Tina Pica
Synopsis: Each of the episodes in the three-part Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi E Domani) stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. In "Adelina-Naples," Loren and Mastroianni are married, and Loren is in trouble with the law. Each time the authorities close in, Loren eludes capture by Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot, Gabriella Giorgetti, Folco Lulli
Synopsis: The Organizer (I Compagni) takes a gritty, near-documentary approach to its subject matter: the exploitation of Italian laborers in the 19th century. Shorn of all his studio-imposed glamour, Marcello Mastrioanni plays a Genoan political refugee visiting a friend in Turin. Appalled by the horrible Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Anouk Aimée, Sandra Milo, Rossella Falk, Madeleine Le Beau
Synopsis: Fresh off of the international success of La Dolce Vita, master director Federico Fellini moved into the realm of self-reflexive autobiography with what is widely believed to be his finest and most personal work. Marcello Mastroianni delivers a brilliant performance as Fellini's alter ego Guido Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Salvo Randone
Synopsis: A touching story of brothers raised apart and then brought together under tragic circumstances, this drama by Valerio Zurlini remains true to Vasco Pratolini's novel. Told in a series of flashbacks as Enrico (Marcello Mastroianni) remembers the past, the brothers are separated after their mother Read More
Actors: Brigitte Bardot, Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Kubler, Elenore Hirt, Dirk Sanders
Synopsis: Louis Malle directed this drama about the toll fame takes upon a women pursuing a May-December romance. Jill (Brigitte Bardot) is a lovely 18-year-old girl who lives with her mother on a comfortable estate in Lake Geneva. Jill has dreams of some day becoming a ballet dancer, but her immediate Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Margherita Girelli
Synopsis: To fully appreciate the international box-office bonanza Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio All'Italiana), one must remember that back in 1962, divorce was illegal in Italy. Ferdinando Cefalú(Marcello Mastroianni) would love to unload his demanding, sex-starved, monumentally unappealing wife Read More
Actors: Micheline Presle, Andrea Checchi
Synopsis: In this amusing look at the petty deceits of everyday life, Marcello Mastroianni shines as wealthy antique dealer Nello Poletti, a man with every comfort money can buy. One day, however, Poletti is falsely accused of murdering his former mistress (Micheline Presle), who set him up in a life of Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Vittorio Gassman, Eduardo de Filippo, Belinda Lee
Synopsis: An impressive cast graces the 105 minutes of Ghosts of Rome. Don't let the title mislead you: the "ghosts" are not genuine wraiths, but instead a group of disenfranchised tenants in a contemporary Roman rooming house. When the house is condemned, the various residents seek out new lodgings Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Monica Vitti, Bernhard Wicki, Maria Pia Luzi, Rosy Mazzacurati
Synopsis: La Notte is another of Michelangelo Antonioni's cinematic interrupted journeys. Just as no one solved the central mystery in Antonioni's L'Avventura, neither does anyone truly enjoy the literary party that is La Notte's centerpiece. The party is being thrown to celebrate the publication of Read More
Actors: Simone Signoret, Gina Rovere, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva, Claudio Gora
Synopsis: Four unemployed prostitutes attempt to open a restaurant in this comedy. They look all over Rome for a restaurant they can afford. When they find a ramshackle cafe. The landlord is willing to let them have it; they can even use his name to buy the food license, but he has one condition: they must Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur, Rina Morelli, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: Directed by the comparatively unknown Mauro Bolognini, the Italian Bell' Antonio is distinguished by its screenplay, cowritten by directorial giant Pier Paolo Pasolini. Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale are happily married until she finds out he's impotent. It takes her a year to find Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Yvonne Furneaux, Anouk Aimée, Anita Ekberg, Alain Cuny, Lex Barker
Synopsis: In one of the most widely seen and acclaimed European movies of the 1960s, Federico Fellini featured Marcello Mastrioanni as gossip columnist Marcello Rubini. Having left his dreary provincial existence behind, Marcello wanders through an ultra-modern, ultra-sophisticated, ultra-decadent Rome. He Read More
Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Pierre Brasseur, Marcello Mastroianni, Melina Mercouri, Yves Montand, Raf Mattioli
Synopsis: Jules Dassin, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, directs this routine, ostensibly romantic tale that really courts an underlying theme of the misuse of power. Based on a popular French novel and set in a small Mediterranean town, the story involves a small group of men and the woman several of Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Sassard, Marisa Merlini, Gabriele Ferzetti, Nando Bruno
Synopsis: This light comedy, the first feature-length film directed by Giuseppe Orlandini, stars one of Italy's most popular screen personalities, Marcello Mastroianni as Giovanni, a young widower with a son, Libero (Franco di Trocchio) to take care of and a vexing problem on top of that. Giovanni is Read More
Actors: Sylva Koscina, Franco Fabrizi, Michèle Morgan
Synopsis: Five romantic and funny vignettes comprise this Italian anthology that is set amidst the beauty and fun of the famed French coastline. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Renato Salvatori, Rosanna Rory
Synopsis: Mario Monicelli's classic crime comedy Big Deal on Madonna Street (I Soliti Ignoti) features Vittorio Gassman and Marcello Mastroianni as a pair of thieves who head a group of criminals in a break-in attempt. Their plan involves digging an underground tunnel from an apartment that leads to a Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Marisa Merlini, Gabriella Pallotta, Lorella de Luca
Synopsis: This engaging slice of neorealism stars Marcello Mastroianni as "Il Medico" (The Doctor) and Vittorio de Sica as "Lo Stregone" (The Healer). Setting up practice in a backward, provincial village, Mastroianni finds that he can make no headway with the superstitious townsfolk so long as faith-healer Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais, Clara Calamai, Alberto Carloni, Elena Fancora, Anna Filippini, Ferdinando Gera, Giorgio Listuzzi, Leonida Montest, Corrado Pani, Marcella Rovena, Dick Sanders, Renato Terra, Maria Zanoli
Synopsis: Shy young Marcelo Mastroianni ambles across a bridge one evening, where he meets a strange but alluring girl (Maria Schell) who is awaiting her lover. This chance acquaintance is the first strand in a complex web entrapping Mastroianni in a dreamlike world of flashbacks, flashforwards and false Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Marisa Merlini
Synopsis: Though the English translation of Padre I Figli is Fathers and Son, the film bears no resemblance to the Russian novel of the same name. Set in the weeks just prior to Christmas, the story focuses on the Yuletide preparations made by five different families. The humor derives from the Read More
Synopsis: When a woman is found murdered, her lover is accused in this crime comedy. (AKA The Assassin) ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Isabelle Corey, Marcello Mastroianni, Jester Naefe, Peter Carsten
Synopsis: French leading lady Isabelle Corey stars in the Franco-German La Ragazza delle Saline. Also known variously as Girl from Salt Fields and The Girl from the Salt Mines, the film was lensed on location in the salt-flats region of the Adriatic coast. Corey plays Marina, an innocent lass blessed with Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a man survives a shipwreck and later falls in love. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a doctor and his nurse begin working on a new technique for childbirth. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Charles Boyer, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
Synopsis: Sophia Loren was twenty-one years old when she starred in this lightly spicy comedy. Antoinette (Loren) is an attractive young woman who is adjusting her stockings one day when a passing news photographer snaps her picture. To Antoinette's shock, the picture appears on the front page of one of Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Paolo Stoppa, Yvonne Sanson
Synopsis: A rich man's attempts to steal away a poor man's wife set the stage for this comic farce, set in Naples in 1860. Luca is a simple but honest man married who runs a mill and his married to Carmela (Sophia Loren), a strikingly beautiful woman. Carmela's face and figure attracts the eye of the Read More
Synopsis: A Canary Islands' princess is the love interest of a 16th century Spanish sea captain who runs into island uprisings. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Walter Bartoletti, Mario Passante
Synopsis: Can a good man tame a woman on the wrong side of the law? Paolo (Marcello Mastroianni) is a slightly clumsy cab driver who, not long after being issued a new vehicle, picks up an interesting fare -- a strikingly beautiful young woman, Lina (Sophia Loren), who is going to the beach with two of her Read More
Actors: Miriam Bru, Elisa Cegani, Andrea Checchi
Synopsis: Told in pageantlike fashion, Casa Ricordi is the story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all Italy. It was the Ricordis who, for better or worse, came up with the "royalty" concept, paying artists (and their families) for their work in perpetuity. As the family's Read More
Synopsis: This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their baby because they cannot afford to feed it. The second concerns two aristocrats who have fallen into poverty and end up reunited when they both are cast as extras in a movie. Read More
Actors: Anna Maria Ferrero, Cosetta Greco, Antonella Lualdi, Marcello Mastroianni
Synopsis: Cronaca di Poveri Amani (Chronicle of Poor Lovers) was based on the novel of the same name by Vasco Pratolini. The scene is the Vico de Corno, a well-populated alleyway in the low-rent district of Florence. Set in the 1920s, the film recalls the tinderbox political climate of the era. The Read More
Actors: Marina Vlady, Marcello Mastroianni
Synopsis: Marcello Mastrioanni and Marina Vlady star in Giorni D'Amore (Days of Love). Marcello and Marina would like to get married, but lack the necessary funds for the traditional "big" wedding. Thus they plan to escape to the countryside and "live in sin." Though their respective families are outwardly Read More
Actors: Roland Alexandre, Marcello Mastroianni, Danièle Delorme, Julien Carette
Actors: Umberto Melnati, Maria Pia Casilio, Roberto Risso, Elena Makowska, Giulio Cali
Synopsis: This film boasts clips of numerous acclaimed actors and actresses of Italy's silent cinema: Francesca Bertini, Lyda Borelli, Eleonora Duse, Antonio Gandusio, Elena Makowska (who also acts in this film), Pina Manichelli, Amleto Novelli, Bartolomeo Pagano, and Ermete Zacconi. They're glimpsed in Read More
Actors: Massimo Serato, Marcello Mastroianni, Marina Berti, Anna Maria Ferrero
Synopsis: Leopoldo Trieste's stage play Cronaca was the basis for the Italian drama Febbre di Vivere (Eager to Live). Though virtually every character in the film is tenuously connected with Italian high society, many of them can be classified as "low lifes." And none is lower than two-bit bookie Massico Read More
Actors: Amedeo Nazzari, Marcello Mastroianni
Synopsis: The original Italian title of The Barefoot Savage was Sensualita, an apt description of voluptuous leading-lady Eleanora Rossi-Drago. A newcomer to rural Italy, Rossi-Drago grows to dislike the tedium of working in the fields. She tries to seduce one of the owners of the farm where she works, and Read More
Actors: Lucia Bosé, Cosetta Greco, Ave Ninchi, Leda Gloria
Synopsis: Ragazze di Piazza di Spagna is better known by its English-language title Three Little Girls from Rome. The girls in question are Marisa, Elena and Lucia, played respectively by Lucia Bose, Cosetta Greco and Liliana Bonfatti. All three work in a fancy Roman house of fashion, and all three have Read More
Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Lucia Bosé, Ave Ninchi, Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Interlenghi
Synopsis: Parigi e Sempre Parigi (Paris is Always Paris) was the second feature-length effort from famed Italian documentary director Luciano Emmer. Whereas Emmer's first feature, Domenica d'Agosto (Sunday in August) was a warm-hearted study of the Italian middle class, Parigi concentrates on a gentle Read More
Actors: Bonar Colleano, Lana Morris, Barbara Kelly, Anne Vernon, Eva Bartok
Synopsis: Former Hollywood musical director (and erstwhile government spy) Boris Morros was one of the producers of the British Tale of Five Cities. Bonar Colleano stars as British soldier Bob Mitchell, who has picked up American habits and speech patterns while employed in the U.S. Suffering from amnesia Read More
Actors: Lea Padovani, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Marcello Mastroianni, Andrea Checchi
Synopsis: Carl Ludwig Diehl stars as famed attorney Ruska in Atto di Accusa. After murdering his wife (Lea Padovani) Ruska arranges the evidence in a manner that will implicate the wife's lover (Marcello Mastrioanni). This "perfect crime" requires the killing of another, wholly innocent victim. Eventually Read More
Synopsis: This docu-drama offers glimpses from the lives of people enjoying a carefree Sunday afternoon upon a sunny Roman beach and features the film debut of Marcello Mastroianni. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Emilio Cigoli
Synopsis: Domenica D'Agosto was the first feature-length effort from Italian documentary filmmaker Luciano Emmeri. The film keeps within the accepted guidelines of Italian neorealism, albeit with a surfeit of warmth and humor. Emmeri details a typical midsummer Sunday in a seaside resort. A cast of Read More
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