Cinematography: Gianni Di Venanzo

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


Eight and a Half (8½)

1963 · Movie · 140 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Anouk Aimée · Sandra Milo

Synopsis Guido Anselmi (Marcello Mastroianni), a filmmaker who is at a crisis point in his life and his work, struggles to make a new movie. This...

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8.0

20K votes

8.0

20K votes

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Marcello Mastroianni · Renato Salvatori · Totò

Synopsis It tells the story of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.

7.8

4K votes

7.8

4K votes

La notte (The Night)

1961 · Movie · 122 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Jeanne Moreau · Monica Vitti · Bernhard Wicki

Synopsis In Milan, after visiting dear friend Tommaso Garani that is terminal in a hospital, the writer Giovanni Pontano goes to a party for the release...

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7.8

4K votes

7.8

4K votes

L'eclisse (The Eclipse)

1962 · Movie · 126 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Alain Delon · Monica Vitti · Francisco Rabal · Louis Seigner

Synopsis In the suburbs of Rome, the translator Vittoria breaks her engagement with her boyfriend, the writer Ricardo, after a troubled night. Vittoria goes downtown to...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

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The Cry

1957 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Steve Cochran · Alida Valli · Betsy Blair · Gabriella Pallotta

Synopsis After a seven-year relationship with a refinery mechanic named Aldo (Steve Cochran), Irma (Alida Valli) learns that her husband died in Australia. The news may...

7.4

998 votes

7.4

998 votes

Hands Over the City

1963 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Rod Steiger · Salvo Randone · Guido Alberti · Marcello Cannavale

Synopsis Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner...

7.2

557 votes

7.2

557 votes

7.2

2K votes

Abandoned

1955 · Movie · 75 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Maselli

Cast Lucía Bosé · Isa Miranda · Jean-Pierre Mocky · Goliarda Sapienza

Synopsis Set during WWII, the film is a drama of the Italian resistance, with all the usual clichéd characters in attendance. The central character, a bombed-out...

7.1

56 votes

7.1

56 votes

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Juliet of the Spirits

1965 · Movie · 148 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Giulietta Masina · Sandra Milo · Mario Pisu · Valentina Cortese

Synopsis Juliet lives in a beautiful house by the ocean. Her sisters, and especially her Mother overshadow her with their beauty. She is a spiritual, superstitious...

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7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

The Basilisks

1963 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Antonio Petruzzi · Stefano Satta Flores · Sergio Ferrarino · Luigi Barbieri

Synopsis The neorealistic story follows the uneventful lives of Francesco, Sergio and Antonio, three young men, who live in a small, poverty-stricken village. Since all three...

7.0

45 votes

7.0

45 votes

The Dauphins

1960 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

7.0

56 votes

7.0

56 votes

7.0

671 votes

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Chronicle of Poor Lovers

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Anna-Maria Ferrero · Cosetta Greco · Antonella Lualdi · Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis In 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Here he becomes friends with Maciste, his...

7.0

97 votes

7.0

97 votes

The Girlfriends

1955 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Eleonora Rossi Drago · Gabriele Ferzetti · Franco Fabrizi · Valentina Cortese

Synopsis An early drama from director Antonioni, LE AMICHE is an allegory about the changing roles of women in society. Clelia (Rossi-Drago) is a beautiful young...

6.9

687 votes

6.9

687 votes

Time of Indifference

1964 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Maselli

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Rod Steiger · Shelley Winters · Tomas Milian

Synopsis A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

6.8

75 votes

6.8

75 votes

Bebo's Girl

1963 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Claudia Cardinale · George Chakiris · Marc Michel · Dany París

Synopsis Set in a small Italian village in the 1940s, La Ragazza di Bube tells the story of a woman (Claudia Cardinale) who falls in love...

6.6

76 votes

6.6

76 votes

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The Challenge

1958 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Elsa Valentino Ascoli · Tina Castigliano · Paquale Cennamo · Decimo Cristiani

Synopsis Vito Polara is a young Neapolitan with very few scruples. His ambition is to make a fortune in whatever way possible. For some time, he...

6.6

98 votes

6.6

98 votes

The Magliari

1959 · Movie · 111 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Alberto Sordi · Renato Salvatori · Belinda Lee · Nino Vingelli

Synopsis Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his...

6.6

114 votes

6.6

114 votes

6.6

31 votes

Love in the City

1953 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni · Federico Fellini · Alberto Lattuada · Carlo Lizzani

Cast Rita Josa · Rosanna Carta · Enrico Pelliccia · Donatella Marrosu

Synopsis A daring new film experience... Made without fear...without taboos!

6.5

230 votes

6.5

230 votes

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