Cast: Silvana Mangano

Direction Mario Monicelli

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

Plot 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...

Direction Nikita Mikhalkov

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

Plot 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...

Direction Luchino Visconti

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

Plot 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...

Direction Luchino Visconti

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

Plot 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...

Direction Luchino Visconti

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

Plot 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...

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

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

Plot 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...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

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

Plot 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...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

Plot 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,...

Direction Luigi Comencini

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

Plot 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...

Direction Carlo Lizzani

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

Plot 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...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Alberto Sordi · Fernandel · Nino Manfredi

Plot 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...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

Plot 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...

Direction Duilio Coletti

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

Plot 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...

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

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

Plot 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...

Direction Mario Camerini

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Tinto Brass

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

Plot 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...

Direction Alberto Lattuada

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

Plot 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....

Direction David Lynch

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

Plot Political ripples are caused when the Padishah Emperor hands ownership of the planet Arrakis from the House of Harkonnen and to their bitter enemies the Atreides family. Arrakis or ‘Dune’...