Cinematography: Aldo Tonti

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Aldo Tonti. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


Nights of Cabiria

1957 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Giulietta Masina · François Périer · Amedeo Nazzari · Aldo Silvani

Plot Cabiria is a wide-eyed waif, a streetwalker living in a poor section of Rome where she owns her little house, has a bank account, and dreams of a miracle. We...

8.2

8K votes

8.2

8K votes

Europa '51 (The Greatest Love)

1952 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Ingrid Bergman · Alexander Knox · Ettore Giannini · Teresa Pellati

Plot An American woman (Ingrid Bergman) relocates to post-war Rome to deal with her misgivings after the death of her son.

Max

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

Ossessione

1943 · Movie · 135 min. · Italy

Direction Luchino Visconti

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

Plot "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...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

India, Mother Land

1959 · Documentary · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Rossellini

7.3

269 votes

7.3

269 votes

The Mill on the Po

1949 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

7.2

116 votes

7.2

116 votes

Woman Trouble

1948 · Movie · 80 min. · Italy

7.1

35 votes

7.1

35 votes

The Savage Innocents

1960 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Anthony Quinn · Yoko Tani · Peter O'Toole · Carlo Giustini

Plot Nicholas Ray's epic 1959 film about Eskimo life was unfairly victimized on release, censored at the UK cinema, and neglected by both TV and home video for decades. The Savage...

7.1

2K votes

7.1

2K votes

The Unfaithfuls

1953 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli · Steno

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · May Britt · Pierre Cressoy · Tina Lattanzi

Plot An industrialist has his wife tailed because he secretly hopes she is betraying him so that he can ask for a divorce and marry the model he's fallen in love...

7.0

72 votes

7.0

72 votes

Flesh Will Surrender

1947 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

6.9

63 votes

6.9

63 votes

Where Is Freedom?

1954 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Totò · Franca Faldini · Vera Molnar · Ines Florentini

Plot A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocracy of his own relatives and decides...

6.8

138 votes

6.8

138 votes

The Ape Woman

1964 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Annie Girardot · Ermelinda De Felice · Achille Majeroni

Plot A man, Antonio Focaccia (Ugo Tognazzi), meets a woman, Maria (Annie Girardot), full of hair on her body. Antonio makes Maria to become a freak to earn a lot of...

6.8

249 votes

6.8

249 votes

Brancaleone at the Crusades

1970 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Adolfo Celi · Stefania Sandrelli · Beba Loncar

Plot Following to "L'Armata Brancaleone (1966). Our medieval hero in his way to the Holy Land during the Crusades, with all the wildest shenanigans thrown in. He is joined by a...

6.8

292 votes

6.8

292 votes

Reflections in a Golden Eye

1967 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction John Huston

Cast Elizabeth Taylor · Marlon Brando · Brian Keith · Julie Harris

Plot Peculiar, overheated melodrama about sexual frustration, jealousy and madness on a Southern military base. Pretentious treatment bores some viewers, but hysterical performances, over-the-top scenario should keep Southern Gothic fans entertained.

6.8

2K votes

6.8

2K votes

Lure of the Sila

1949 · Movie · 75 min. · Italy

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...

6.7

51 votes

6.7

51 votes

Side Street Story

1950 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

Direction Eduardo De Filippo

Cast Eduardo De Filippo · Leda Gloria · Delia Scala · Gianni Musy

Plot A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950...

6.7

39 votes

6.7

39 votes

Guagilo

1948 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Adolfo Celi · Tina Pica · Mario Russo · Luigi Dermasti

Plot On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While making every effort to retrieve his baggage he finds...

6.7

30 votes

6.7

30 votes

Agostino

1962 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

6.6

52 votes

6.6

52 votes

Fortunella

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

6.6

29 votes

6.6

29 votes

Peddlin' in Society

1946 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

Direction Gennaro Righelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Vittorio De Sica · Virgilio Riento · Laura Gore

Plot Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She...

6.6

63 votes

6.6

63 votes

The Bandit

1946 · Movie · 78 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Anna Magnani · Amedeo Nazzari · Carla del Poggio · Carlo Campanini

Plot Ernesto ritorna dalla prigionia in Germania, alla fine della Seconda Guerra mondiale. E' solo, la casa distrutta, la mamma morta, la sorella scomparsa. La ritrova in un bordello, durante la...

6.4

65 votes

6.4

65 votes