Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti (3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early-to-mid 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many films. She appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, Michael Caine, and Dirk Bogarde.
L'Eclisse
as VittoriaThis romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful...
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The Phantom of Liberty
as Mme FoucaultThis Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short...
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La Notte
as Valentina GherardiniA day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship...
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Red Desert
as GiulianaIn an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic...
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Modesty Blaise
as Modesty BlaiseModesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap...
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L'Avventura
as ClaudiaClaudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When...
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The Girl with a Pistol
as Assunta PatanèA Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to...
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Help Me, My Love
as Raffaella MacchiavelliGiovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into...
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A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
as AdelaideConstruction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This...
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Stardust
as Dea DaniThe lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their...
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Duck in Orange Sauce
as LisaWhen his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio...
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The Mystery of Oberwald
as The QueenA man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates,...
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An Almost Perfect Affair
as MariaAn idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian...
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The Queens
as Sabina ("Fata Sabina")Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey...
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Tigers in Lipstick
as Maria / The Prostitute8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's...
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The Dolls
as Giovanna (segment "La Minestra")This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written...
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I Know That You Know That I Know
as LiviaThe investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple.
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Sweet and Sour
as ElleGerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows...
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I Don't Understand You Anymore
as Luisa MalpieriOn entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and...
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The Tango of Jealousy
as LuciaSince her husband is distracted by his passion for horse racing, Lucia decides to make him...
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High Infidelity
as GloriaFour different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their...
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The Pacifist
as BarbaraA journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears...
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau
as ÉléonoreAn old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds...
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Teresa the Thief
as TeresaTeresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she...
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We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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Keep It To Yourself!
as Amanda / LiaThree episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked...
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Midnight Pleasures
as Tina CandelaTina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship,...
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Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
as Maria Sarti aka Ninì TirabusciòComedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì...
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
as SelfA film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the...
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L'altra metà del cielo
as Susanna MaccalusoDon Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.
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The Flying Saucer
as DoloresAn exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed...
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Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
as Archive footageNecessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of...
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Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
as Maria TeresaA series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
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My Loves
as Anna Lisa BianchiAnnalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even...
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Blonde in Black Leather
as MieleTwo racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.
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La Tosca
as Floria ToscaRome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant....
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Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
as GiovannaGiovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting...
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Orders are Orders
as GiorgiaGiorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice...
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A Mink Coat
as Luisa PanettiA newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives...
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Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
as SelfA behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his...
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I Married You for Fun
as GiulianaPietro is a young bourgeois lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty girl who was a little...
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Hotel Room
as FlaminiaA couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel...
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That's How We Women Are
as la suonatrice di piatti, Zoe, Annunziata, Teresa, Alberta, Eliana, Katherine, Erika, Palmira, Agata, Laura, FulviaThe film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.
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Unfaithfully Yours
as Renata Adorni / Grazia SirianiAn omnibus of two different stories: In the first a divorced couple (actress wife and director...
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1960
as Self (archive footage)By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores...
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Secret Scandal
as MargheritaMarguerite receives as a gift from a filmmaker friend: a very modern, automatic camera, complete...
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The Four Truths
as Madeleine (segment "Le lièvre et le tortue")"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments,...
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Flirt
as LauraAfter a 22 years marriage, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and...
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The Couples
as Adele / GiuliaThree episodes. Episode 1 - The Refrigerator (Monicelli). A married couple of two poor emigrant...
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State Reasons
as Angela RavelliProfessor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon...
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The Scarlet Lady
as EvaComedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
as Self - Actress (archive footage)An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one...
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Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi
as Valentina Contarini (segment "Un incontro molto ravvicinato")For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini...
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Bellissime
as (archive footage)Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women...
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Cinéma et Réalité
as SelfIn this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini...
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On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
as BoccadoroA chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone...
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The Superwitness
as Isolina PantòA pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single...
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Francesca is Mine
as FrancescaA middle-aged antiquarian's husband leaves her to go live with her best friend.
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The Third
as Ofelia GranelliA clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a...
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Return to Lisca Bianca Island
as Claudia (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 Claudia (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dear Antonioni
as SelfA documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.
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Il Cilindro
as RitaThe comedy, centered on five characters (Rita, Rodolfo, Agostino, Bettina, and Don Attilio - "o...
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Exterior Day
as uncreditedInspired by a famous exchange of letters between Michelangelo Antonioni and Mark Rothko, Esterno...
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Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
as Archive imagesIn the film we find some scrap of slow motion they see a Monica Vitti trying to cry, a meeting...
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Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
as Mimì BluetteMimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds...
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as SelfA documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
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A Thousand and One Monica
as uncreditedThere is no shortage of words to define the actress, screenwriter and director Monica Vitti:...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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