Cinematography: Luciano Tovoli

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


Oceans

2009 · Documentary · 100 min. · France

Direction Jacques Perrin · Jacques Cluzaud

Cast Jacques Perrin · Lancelot Perrin

Plot Threading your way at 10 knots through a shoal of tuna on the hunt, accompanying dolphins in their joyous rush, swimming with a great while shark, shoulder to fin... It's...

8.0

13K votes

8.0

13K votes

Bandits of Orgosolo

1961 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Seta

Cast Vittorina Pisano · Michele Cossu · Peppeddu Cuccu

Plot In the harsh granite mountains of the center of the island of Sardinia in the Mediterranean Sea, an old people live at the town of Orgòsolo. Between the rocks and...

7.5

285 votes

7.5

285 votes

We Won't Grow Old Together

1972 · Movie · 103 min. · France

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Marlène Jobert · Jean Yanne · Christine Fabréga · Patricia Perangeli

Plot The film delves deeply into the last days of an affair between a married man and a young woman who have been together for six years.

7.2

628 votes

7.2

628 votes

What Time Is It?

1989 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Massimo Troisi · Anne Parillaud · Renato Moretti

Plot A father and his son who lived seperated for some time meet each other one day and try to talk their problems over and understand their diametrical differences.

7.2

425 votes

7.2

425 votes

Splendor

1989 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Massimo Troisi · Marina Vlady · Paolo Panelli

Plot Jordan (Marcello Mastroianni) owns a cinema in Italy, named Splendor. Chantal (Marina Vlady) is his wife and cashier. Luigi (Massimo Troisi) is the projectionist. This film is about the cinema...

7.1

566 votes

7.1

566 votes

The Dinner Game

1998 · Movie · 77 min. · France

Direction Francis Veber

Cast Thierry Lhermitte · Jacques Villeret · Francis Huster · Daniel Prévost

Plot Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ...

7.1

49K votes

7.1

49K votes

The Passenger

1975 · Movie · 119 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Jack Nicholson · Maria Schneider · Jenny Runacre · Ambroise Bia

Plot David Locke (Jack Nicholson) is a frustrated and disillusioned war correspondent and TV journalist who is in Africa to cover a Civil War, unable to find the war he's been...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Bianco, rosso e Verdone

1981 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

6.9

150 votes

6.9

150 votes

Bread and Chocolate

1974 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Franco Brusati

Cast Nino Manfredi · Johnny Dorelli · Anna Karina · Paolo Turco

Plot Italian immigrant tries to become a member of Swiss society but fails as a waiter and even as a chicken plucker.

6.9

139 votes

6.9

139 votes

Voyage in Time (TV)

1983 · Documentary · 62 min. · Italy

Direction Andrei Tarkovsky · Tonino Guerra

Cast Andrei Tarkovsky · Tonino Guerra

Plot Andrei Tarkovsky, accompanied by his Italian script-writer, Tonino Guerra, travels through Italy in order to find the locations for "Nostalghia". During this journey, Guerra constantly induces Tarkovsky to reflect on...

6.8

419 votes

6.8

419 votes

Bianca

1983 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Moretti

Cast Nanni Moretti · Laura Morante · Roberto Vezzosi · Remo Remotti

Plot Michele (Nanni Moretti) is a mathematics professor who just started a new job in a school with some peculiar teaching methods. After a woman in his neighborhood is murdered, Michele...

6.8

381 votes

6.8

381 votes

China

1972 · Documentary · 207 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Plot A documentary on China, concentrating mainly on the faces of the people, filmed in the areas they were allowed to visit. The 220 minute version consists of three parts. The...

6.8

84 votes

6.8

84 votes

How Strange to be Named Federico: Scola narrates Fellini

2013 · Documentary · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Federico Fellini · Vittorio Viviani · Sergio Rubini · Antonella Attili

Plot The film is a reminiscence/portrait of Federico Fellini, put together by Ettore Scola on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the director’s death. In addition to the richness of...

6.7

373 votes

6.7

373 votes

Police

1985 · Movie · 109 min. · France

Direction Maurice Pialat

Cast Gérard Depardieu · Sophie Marceau · Richard Anconina · Pascale Rocard

Plot A moody, jaded police detective, while investigating a drug ring, falls for a mysterious woman and is drawn into a shady and dangerous scheme.

6.6

381 votes

6.6

381 votes

Suspiria

1977 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Dario Argento

Cast Jessica Harper · Stefania Casini · Flavio Bucci · Udo Kier

Plot A young American dancer travels to Europe to join a famous ballet school. As she arrives, the camera turns to another young woman, who appears to be fleeing from the...

6.6

10K votes

6.6

10K votes

The Closet

2001 · Movie · 84 min. · France

Direction Francis Veber

Cast Daniel Auteuil · Gérard Depardieu · Thierry Lhermitte · Michèle Laroque

Plot François Pignon, a very bland sort of man who works as an accountant in a rubber factory, is about to be fired. His new neighbour comes up with an idea...

6.5

8K votes

6.5

8K votes

The Voyage of Captain Fracassa

1990 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Vincent Pérez · Emmanuelle Béart · Massimo Troisi · Ornella Muti

Plot In the Eighteenth Century, the "Traveling Company of Scenic Arts" composed of Tyrant, Lady Leonarde, Serafina, Isabella, Leandre, Zerbina, Matamore and Pulcinella gets lost while traveling to Paris in bad...

6.4

147 votes

6.4

147 votes

The Desert of the Tartars

1976 · Movie · 140 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Giuliano Gemma · Helmut Griem · Philippe Noiret

Plot As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders of a desert and of a range of high mountains. The mission of the garrison...

6.4

586 votes

6.4

586 votes

Reversal of Fortune

1990 · Movie · 111 min. · United States

Direction Barbet Schroeder

Cast Jeremy Irons · Glenn Close · Ron Silver · Annabella Sciorra

Plot Dershowitz (Ron Silver) is hired by Claus von Bülow (Jeremy Irons) to defend him against charges that he attempted to murder his wife, Sunny (Glenn Close), who lies in a...

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

Dirty Weekend

1973 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Oliver Reed · Carole André · Lionel Stander

Plot A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes