Cast: Silvana Mangano

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Folco Lulli

Synopsis Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. Giovanni bribes Oreste, believing to his false pledges...

Direction Nikita Mikhalkov

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Silvana Mangano · Marthe Keller · Elena Safonova

Synopsis Adapted from Anton Chekhov's short stories, this film recounts the life of a poor Italian architect named Romano who marries Elisa, a wealthy Russian aristocrat. But on one of his frequent trips to a health spa in Russia, Romano meets...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Helmut Berger · Romy Schneider · Trevor Howard · Silvana Mangano

Synopsis Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandonned by her, tormented...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Dirk Bogarde · Björn Andrésen · Silvana Mangano · Marisa Berenson

Synopsis In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, a few years before the outbreak of the Great War, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Burt Lancaster · Silvana Mangano · Helmut Berger · Claudia Marsani

Synopsis Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend and forced to rent to them an apartment on upper...

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Silvana Mangano · Vittorio Gassman · Doris Dowling · Raf Vallone

Synopsis Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Silvana Mangano · Sophia Loren · Eduardo De Filippo · Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster ; an inconstant pizza seller (Sophia Loren) loosing her husband's ring ; the funeral...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Terence Stamp · Silvana Mangano · Laura Betti · Massimo Girotti

Synopsis A strange visitor in a wealthy family. He seduces the maid, the son, the mother, the daughter and finally the father before leaving a few days after. After he's gone, none of them can continue living as they did. Who...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Silvana Mangano · Joseph Cotten · Bette Davis

Synopsis Pepino and Antonia, two Italian proles are waiting every summer, for "the old lady", a wealthy and disabled American in order to fleece her. How? By playing cards with her in a game called "lo scopino scientifico = the scientific...

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Silvana Mangano · Frank Wolff · Vivi Gioi · Françoise Prévost

Synopsis This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Alberto Sordi · Fernandel · Nino Manfredi

Synopsis One morning, over the heavens of Naples, a mysterious voice announces that the God's Last Judgement will arrive that evening, and then the story follows various denizens as they struggle to absorb it.

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Silvana Mangano · Franco Citti · Alida Valli · Carmelo Bene

Synopsis In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given...

Direction Duilio Coletti

Cast Silvana Mangano · Amedeo Nazzari · Vittorio Gassman · Jacques Sernas

Synopsis Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Franco Citti · Ninetto Davoli · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Angela Luce

Synopsis Pasolini wrote, directed and stars in this richly textured epic based on eight tales by 14th-century Italian writer Giovanni Boccaccio. Pasolini weaves the stories together into a bawdy tapestry of a medieval Italy populated by artists, priests and magicians. Appearing...

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Kirk Douglas · Silvana Mangano · Anthony Quinn · Rossana Podestà

Synopsis A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio Gassman · Nino Manfredi · Dorian Gray

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Anthony Quinn · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Jack Palance

Synopsis Barabbas, the criminal that Pontius Pilate induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the ghost of the prophet for the rest of his life.

Direction Tinto Brass

Cast Alberto Sordi · Silvana Mangano · Monica Vitti · Gianluigi Crescenzi

Synopsis The serious and somewhat slow Police Inspector and his bumbling assistant investigate reports of "strange goings-on" in a rural community. A flying saucer with more bells & whistles than Rube Goldberg ever dreamed of dispenses comely female aliens, dressed (barely)...

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Silvana Mangano · Vittorio Gassman · Raf Vallone · Jacques Dumesnil

Synopsis Anna is a nun on the verge of taking her last vows, whose sinful life as a nightclub entertainer, passion for one man and drive to marry another haunt her. Her old feelings are renewed when her former fiancee is...

Direction David Lynch

Cast Kyle MacLachlan · Francesca Annis · Jürgen Prochnow · Patrick Stewart

Synopsis In Dune (1984), a young nobleman, Paul Atreides, embarks on a transformative journey when his family assumes control of the desert planet Arrakis, the sole source of the universe's most valuable substance, "spice." Betrayed by rival factions, Paul and his...