Monica VittiFilmography

Born:: November 3, 1931 in Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Maria Louisa Ceciarelli
Biography:: The high priestess of frosty sensuality, Italian actress Monica Vitti was trained at Rome's National Academy of Dramatic Arts. Upon her graduation, she immediately launched her professional stage career; in 1954, she made her first film, Ettore Scola's Ridere Ridere Ridere. Most of Vitti's...Read More

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Scandalo Segreto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Vitti, Elliott Gould, Gino Pernice, Catherine Spaak

Synopsis: This film marks actress Monica Vitti's directing debut. In the story, Magherita (Monica) has been married to her husband Paolo (Gino Pernice) for a long time, and doesn't appear to listen to her or notice what she does. A movie director friend of hers (lliott Gould) gives her a video-camera with Read More

1990
Francesca E Mia

9/26/86
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

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

9/13/86
Flirt

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Monica Vitti, Jean-Luc Bideau

Synopsis: This is an off-beat story about a ménage à trois that is really a marriage between the traditional two, with one a little schizoid, adding up to three. Laura (Monica Vitti) has been married for 22 years to Giovanni (Jean Luc Bideau) and now his behavior seems to imply that she has a competitor Read More

11/17/83
Io So Che Tu Sai Che Io So

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Ivana Monti

Synopsis: Fabio Bonetti (Alberto Sordi) is a normal bank employee, enjoying the security of a peaceful home with a loving wife and pretty teenage daughter -- until he comes across some film surreptitiously taken by a private investigator that reveals his wife Flavia (Monica Vitti) in a whole new light. The Read More

9/17/82
Il Tango Della Gelosia

Actors: Monica Vitti, Diego Abatantuono, Philippe Leroy, Jenny Tamburi

Synopsis: In this light comedy based on a play by Aldo de Benedetti from the 1950s, Princess Lucia (Monica Vitti) is miffed that her husband, Prince Giulio (Philippe Leroy is single-mindedly focused on his race horses to the point that he is ignoring her. She decides to find out if he really does love her Read More

10/9/81
Il Mistero di Oberwald

Actors: Monica Vitti, Franco Branciaroli, Paolo Bonacelli, Luigi Diberti

Synopsis: One of director Michelangelo Antonioni's more obscure works from the 1980s, this psychological period piece reunites the filmmaker with one of his favorite performers, Monica Vitti. Shot on video and based upon the play The Eagle Has Two Heads (Jean Cocteau made his own film version of the work in Read More

9/3/81
The Immortal Bachelor

Synopsis: Monica Vitti stars as Tina Candela, a housekeeper on trial for murdering her husband. As she recounts her testimony, the jury becomes taken with fantasies about the marriage of the accused. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

1980
Letti Selvaggi

Actors: Ursula Andress, Laura Antonelli, Sylvia Kristel, Monica Vitti, Orazio Orlando

Synopsis: In this standard but toned-down sex comedy, seven different vignettes starring female leads like Monica Vitti, Ursula Andress, Laura Antonelli, and Sylvia Kristel portray various questionable exploits headed by women with minds of their own. Antonelli, for example, plays a dynamic businesswoman Read More

3/16/79
An Almost Perfect Affair

Actors: Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone, Christian de Sica, Dick Anthony Williams

Synopsis: Inside jokes about the film industry dominate this slight tale of ambition and romance at the Cannes Film Festival. Keith Carradine plays a first-time director who has sunk two years and all his money into a movie about the execution of murderer Gary Gilmore. With his last bit of cash, he flies Read More

1979
La Raison d'Etat

Actors: Jean Yanne, Monica Vitti, Michel Bouquet, François Perier, Jean-Claude Bouillon

Synopsis: In this political drama, the dirty undercover machinations behind the international arms trade are exposed when Angela (Monica Vitti) unsuspectingly accepts some documents from a friend. She becomes the object of a hunt by French government forces, headed by Leroi (Jean Yanne).The government feels Read More

4/26/78
L'Altra Meta Del Cielo

3/4/77
Blonde in Black Leather

Synopsis: A biker chick and her housewife friend go out & about. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1977
L'Anatra all'Arancia

Actors: Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Barbara Bouchet, John Richardson

Synopsis: The English-language title for the Italian L'Anatra All'arancia was Duck in Orange Sauce. Though Ugo (Ugo Tognazzi) is comfortably married to Lisa (Monica Vitti), he nonetheless takes up with pretty (and fetchingly underdressed) American Patty (Barbara Bouchet). In retalitaiton, Lisa begins an Read More

12/20/75
A Mezzanotte Va la Ronda del Piacere

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Giannini, Monica Vitti, Renato Pozzetto

Synopsis: This satirical comedy recounts a tale of love across class boundaries; the twist is that here a middle-class juror, Gabriella Sansoni (Claudia Cardinale), learns about love from the testimony of Tina Candela (Monica Vitti), a woman on trial for murder. It seems that Tina has found ecstasy in a Read More

1975
The Phantom of Liberty

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Monica Vitti, Paul Frankeur, Paul Le Person, François Maistre, Claude Piéplu, Jean Rochefort, Marie-France Pisier, Bernard Verley, Milena Vukotic, Michel Piccoli, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau

Synopsis: One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a man sells postcards of French tourist attractions, calling them "pornographic." A sniper in Montparnasse is hailed as a hero for killing passersby. A "missing" child helps Read More

9/11/74
Polvere Di Stelle

Actors: Monica Vitti, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: 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 Read More

11/15/73
Teresa la Ladra

Actors: Isa Danieli, Monica Vitti

Synopsis: Teresa the Thief is a true story set during World War II. The eponymous Teresa, played by Monica Vitti, is an Italian woman who is determined to survive by any means. Thievery not only becomes a way of life for Teresa, but her claim to fame as well. Stefano Satto Flores and Isa Danieli costar in Read More

10/11/73
La Pacifista

Actors: Monica Vitti

Synopsis: This highly symbolic and enigmatic political drama by Hungarian director Miklos Jancso was produced by a consortium from Italy, France and West Germany. This film is considered to be an homage to Antonioni as it uses his favorite leading actress (Monica Vitti) and his cameraman Carlo di Palma. Read More

1971
Le Coppie

12/23/70
Nini Tirabuscio

Actors: Monica Vitti

Synopsis: Turn-of-the-century Naples is the setting for this show-business comedy about a theatrical nobody who starts a popular dance craze based on the Can-Can. This film continues lead actress Monica Vitti's successful transition from doing critically acclaimed (but not awfully profitable) dramas to Read More

10/29/70
Dramma della Gelosia - Tutti i Particolari in Cronaca

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

4/30/70
Amore Mio Aiutami

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Silvano Tranquilli, Laura Adani

Synopsis: This romantic situation comedy finds Giovanni (Alberto Sordi) extremely jealous when his wife Raffaella (Monica Vitti) admits her infatuation over their handsome neighbor Valerio (Silvano Tranquilli). Giovanni spies on his wife and recruits their 10-year-old son in an effort to stop his wife's Read More

10/3/69
The Scarlet Lady

Actors: Monica Vitti, Maurice Ronet, Robert Hossein, Claudio Brook

Synopsis: This dark comedy finds Lucie (Monica Vitti) planning to kill her boyfriend (Maurice Ronet), and then herself, after discovering that he has cheated her out of her inheritance and left her penniless. She decides to binge on champagne and caviar before committing suicide, but is rendered intoxicated Read More

5/14/69
La Ragazza con la Pistola

Actors: Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Carlo Giuffré, Corin Redgrave, Anthony Booth, Tiberlo Murgia

Synopsis: This wry comedy finds the beautiful Assunta (Monica Vitti) being kidnapped by Vincento (Carlo Giuffre) and taken to his remote home in the country. He plans to "dishonor her" and by doing so, win her hand in marriage. In a hilarious turn of events, Assunta willingly gives in to the amorous Read More

9/20/68
La Cintura di Castita

Actors: Tony Curtis, Monica Vitti, Nino Castelnuovo, Hugh Griffith, John Richardson

Synopsis: This romantic and sometimes ribald historical farce finds nobleman Guerrando (Tony Curtis) knighted in the days before the Crusades. He inherits a castle, tax-collecting rights, first choice of all the fair young maidens of the region, and a draft notice from the King. Boccadoro (Monica Vitti) is Read More

10/26/67
Ti Ho Sposato Per Allegria

9/21/67
Le Fate

Actors: Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Giovampietro, Franco Balducci, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: This melodramatic Italian and French anthology is comprised of four unrelated short films directed by four different directors. The first vignette, "Queen Sabina" (or "The Hitchhiker") chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" (aka "The Room with a Read More

11/22/66
Modesty Blaise

Actors: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, Michael Craig

Synopsis: A popular British comic strip series served as inspiration for this light-hearted espionage adventure, which if nothing else certainly shows the marks of its origins in the mid-1960s. A large departure for director Joseph Losey, better known for brooding interpretations of Harold Pinter works (The Servant Read More

1966
Bambole!

Actors: Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena

Synopsis: Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a woman so busy talking on the phone that she fails to notice that her husband is having sex with a neighbor; "Treatise on Eugenics," the chronicle of a Swedish girl's search Read More

1/27/65
Il Disco Volante

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Silvana Mangano

Synopsis: The Flying Saucer is an irreverent satire of the worldwide fascination in space travel in the early 1960s. Alberto Sordi plays four roles in this slight tale of an invasion from Mars. The Martians decide to kidnap several "typical" Earthlings to help them understand our curious planet. The Read More

12/23/64
Red Desert

Actors: Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti, Xenia Valderi, Rita Renoir

Synopsis: Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) once more combines the considerable talents of director Michelangelo Antonioni and star Monica Vitti. Cast as Giuliana, an unhappy wife, Vitti suffers from an unnamed form of depression and malaise. Her quicksilver emotional shifts disturb everyone around her, but Read More

10/29/64
Alta Infedeltà

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Fulvia Franco, Monica Vitti, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: In this comedy anthology, the sex-capades of several Italian couples are chronicled. In "The Scandal," a dull and insensitive husband is unaware that his lonely wife has been flirting with a young buck at a vacation resort. When the husband finally finds out, he gets jealous and the marriage is Read More

1/22/64
Un Château en Suède

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Monica Vitti, Jean-Claude Brialy, Curd Jürgens, Françoise Hardy

Synopsis: Nutty, Naughty Chateau is summed up in the encyclopedic book The United Artists Story as "Sex comedy drama." No more, no less. Actually, there is more: The film was originally titled Chateau en Suede, and it was directed by Roger Vadim. Based on a Francoise Sagan play, the film involves a group Read More

11/20/63
Dragées Au Poivre

Actors: Guy Bedos, Sophie Daumier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Francis Blanche, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European movie-industry input. Guy Bedos, a Brando wannabe, plays one of several young French cineastes who take to the streets to make improvisational movies. The "cinema verite" quality of Read More

9/4/63
Les Quatre Verités

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Leslie Caron, Michel Serrault, Anna Karina, Jean Poiret

Synopsis: The four "truths" are in this instance, four different romantic or dramatic vignettes in a slightly uneven compilation film. All four segments are loosely related to fables by the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. In the first fable "Death and the Woodcutter" directed by Luis Berlanga Read More

1/31/63
L'eclisse

Actors: Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Lilla Brignone, Francisco Rabal

Synopsis: In this challenging drama by Michelangelo Antonioni, his characteristic long, significant periods of silence punctuate the message that people just cannot seem to communicate with each other. Capping off Antonioni's previous two films (L'avventura and La Notte) in much the same style, this tale Read More

4/12/62
Accattone

Actors: Franco Citti, Silvana Corsini, Franca Pasut, Paolo Guidi, Adele Cambria

Synopsis: Accattone , Pier Paolo Pasolini's first feature, is also his first semidocumentary study of "the little homelands": the small, often squalid cultural pockets in the remotest provinces of Italy. Using nonprofessional actors for his leading characters, Pasolini concentrates on Franco Citti, a rural Read More

11/22/61
La Notte

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

1/24/61
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
The Girls of Don Juan

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