Lea Massari
Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (born 30 June 1933) is an Italian actress. When she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari become a celebrity in art cinema for two roles, the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14 year old boy named Laurent (Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971). She worked both in Italian and French Cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut Il Colosso di Rodi, and international commercial films such as Les choses de la vie. She was member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. She won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli.
Murmur of the Heart
as Clara ChevalierThis loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he...
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The Colossus of Rhodes
as DialaWhile on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to...
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The Things of Life
as Catherine BérardThe mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
as Luisa LeviIn the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near...
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L'Avventura
as AnnaClaudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When...
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A Difficult Life
as Elena PavinatoSilvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his...
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The Night Caller
as Norah ElmerA serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about...
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Indian Summer
as MonicaIn Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of...
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The Four Days of Naples
as MariaSeptember 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is...
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The Silent One
as MariaWho is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist...
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And Hope to Die
as SugarA crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't...
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The Meetings of Anna
as Anna's motherOn a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several...
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The Unvanquished
as Dominique ServetIn this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter...
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The Son
as MariaAnge leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not...
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Allonsanfan
as CharlotteAfter the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an...
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The Seventh Target
as NellyBastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take...
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Made in Italy
as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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A Dog Called... Vengeance
as MurielA political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the...
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I sogni nel cassetto
as Lucia MorettiThe difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his...
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I Want Him Dead
as AlomaAfter his sister is kidnapped and murdered, a gunslinger's plans for vengeance involve...
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Bloody Murder
as Helene NobletHélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful...
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
as uncreditedAntonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the...
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The Camp Followers
as ToulaIn WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the...
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The Woman in Blue
as AurélieLeading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a...
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Paris Pick-Up
as Marthe DravetOn Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of...
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Forbidden
as Agnese BarrasDon Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little...
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From a Roman Balcony
as FreyaThe ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman...
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La Flambeuse
as LouiseA woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked...
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Secrets Secrets
as MartaYoung terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a...
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The Undertaker Parlor Computer
as GloriaFred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials...
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Weeping for a Bandit
as María JerónimaJosé María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period...
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Conquered City
as Lelia MendoresFilmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed),...
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Faces of Love
as CeciliaAfter 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he...
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Devil's Ransom
as BrittA rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him.
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Story of a Love Story
as WomanHarry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is...
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Resurrection
as Maria PawlowaYoung Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead...
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Garden of Delights
as uncreditedCharlo and Carla are on their honeymoon. She is three months pregnant. He, furious about his...
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Sarah
as Carla AngelliAn insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the...
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Dreams Die at Dawn
as Anna MiklosFive Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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Volver a vivir
as MaríaA former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he...
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
as GilbertFilm in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who...
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Céleste
as uncreditedGeorges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides...
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Stream Line
as Amanda TrevesRome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo...
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Return to Lisca Bianca Island
as Anna (voice) (archive footage)Twenty-three years after L'Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca...
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Archeologia del set: Ritorno a Lisca Bianca
as Anna (archive footage) (uncredited)
Le divorcement
as RosaIn this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to...
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Journey of Love
as ZairaAn older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way.
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Midi Première
as SelfMidi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre...
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The Brothers Karamazov
as Agrafena AleksàndrovnaItalian adaptation of Dostoevskys famous novel.
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Anna Karenina
as Anna KareninaA miniseries based on the novel by Leo Tolstoi.
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