Cast: Massimo Girotti

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Eva Vanicek · Carla del Poggio · Massimo Girotti · Lucía Bosé

Synopsis Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy morning in Rome in 1951. They crowd and push their...

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Umberto Spadaro · Ave Ninchi · Delia Scala · Massimo Girotti

Synopsis Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into...

Direction Jean Grémillon

Cast Micheline Presle · Massimo Girotti · Gaby Morlay · Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis A young woman named Marie is dispatched to a small coastal island to become the local doctor, but she must first overcome the locals' reluctance and the male population's built-in misogynism. Meanwhile, she falls in love with André, a visiting...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Clara Calamai · Massimo Girotti · Juan de Landa · Dhia Cristiani

Synopsis "Ossessione", made in 1942 and banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a powerful delineation of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter who arrives by chance at a roadside restaurant and filling station, and Giovanna, the beautiful young...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Jennifer O'Neill · Laura Antonelli · Marc Porel

Synopsis L'Innocente takes place among the social class to which Visconti belonged, but in the 1890s, ten years before he was born. This was to be Visconti's swansong, and he died just as the editing was being finished. The film tells...

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Alida Valli · Farley Granger · Massimo Girotti · Rina Morelli

Synopsis In 1866, in the spring of Venice, an underground rebel movement against the Austrian occupation in Italy is getting stronger. The married Countess Livia Serpieri (Alida Valli) sees her cousin challenging the Austrian Lieutenant Franz Mahler (Farley Granger) for a...

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Massimo Girotti · Jone Salinas · Camillo Mastrocinque · Charles Vanel

Synopsis A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Anna Magnani · Massimo Girotti · Checco Rissone · Dante Maggio

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Massimo Girotti · Michele Riccardini · Andrea Checchi · Checco Rissone

Synopsis In the Emilia of the immedate postwar period, the life of an agricultural cooperative is threatened by some bandits that act on behalf of a landowner. Mix of actuality and pretense according to the “logic of a cinema of direct...

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 Bernardo Bertolucci

Cast Marlon Brando · Maria Schneider · Jean-Pierre Léaud · Massimo Girotti

Synopsis Marlon Brando plays Paul, an American expatriate whose wife has recently committed suicide. Maria Schneider is Jeanne, a young Frenchwoman engaged to be married to an earnest young filmmaker. When they meet by chance in an empty Paris apartment, Paul...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Lucía Bosé · Massimo Girotti · Ferdinando Sarmi · Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis Carloni, a middle-aged detective gets a new mission from his boss: to find out as much as he can about the past of a beautiful young woman called Paola. The orderer is her husband, a wealthy upper-class managing director who...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Alain Delon · Jeanne Moreau · Francine Bergé · Juliet Berto

Synopsis Paris, 1942. Robert Klein is a successful art dealer, profiteering from the French government’s treatment of its Jewish citizens. To escape deportation to Germany, Jews are forced to sell their treasures to unscrupulous people like Klein. Then, one day, Klein...

Direction Ferzan Ozpetek

Cast Giovanna Mezzogiorno · Massimo Girotti · Raoul Bova · Filippo Nigro

Synopsis Giovanna starts to care for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. Trapped in a decaying marriage, she begins to reflect on her life, and suddenly begins to take note of a man who lives across from her. Ferzan...

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Carla del Poggio · Massimo Girotti · Jacques Sernas · Franca Maresa

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Bernard Giraudeau · Valeria D'Obici · Laura Antonelli · Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the...

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Michel Blanc · Dominique Lavanant

Direction Daniel Tinayre

Cast Roberto Escalada · Massimo Girotti · Ana María Lynch · Eduardo Cuitiño

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Björn Andrésen · Laura Antonelli · Tina Apicella · Helmut Berger

Synopsis A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on the impact of a fabulously wealthy childhood, his writing for...

Direction Roberto Rossellini · Marcello Pagliero

Cast Massimo Girotti · Carlo Ninchi · Elli Parvo · Roswita Schmidt