Cinematography: Alfio Contini

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


Il sorpasso (The Easy Life)

1962 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Catherine Spaak · Claudio Gora

Plot 'Il sorpasso' starts on a summer's day in Rome where Roberto (Jean-Louis Trintignant), a withdrawn young scholar who encounters Bruno (Vittorio Gassman), a middle-aged man driving a stylish convertible. This...

7.7

3K votes

7.7

3K votes

March on Rome

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ugo Tognazzi · Roger Hanin · Mario Brega

Plot March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a comedy aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two...

7.2

231 votes

7.2

231 votes

15 from Rome

1963 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ugo Tognazzi · Lando Buzzanca · Marino Masé

Plot The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

7.0

614 votes

7.0

614 votes

Zabriskie Point

1970 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Mark Frechette · Daria Halprin · Rod Taylor · Paul Fix

Plot An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

Galileo

1968 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

6.5

142 votes

6.5

142 votes

The Night Porter

1974 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Liliana Cavani

Cast Charlotte Rampling · Dirk Bogarde · Philippe Leroy · Gabriele Ferzetti

Plot Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel, meet again and fall back into their sado-masochistic relationship.

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6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

The Thursday

1964 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

6.3

21 votes

6.3

21 votes

6.3

294 votes

The Gaucho

1965 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Amedeo Nazzari · Silvana Pampanini · Nino Manfredi

Plot Gassman plays Mario Ravicchio, a financially-strapped press agent who accompanies an Italian production company on its trip to Buenos Aires to present a film at a festival there. He spends...

6.2

145 votes

6.2

145 votes

Beyond the Clouds

1995 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni · Wim Wenders

Cast Fanny Ardant · Chiara Caselli · Irène Jacob · John Malkovich

Plot Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as...

6.1

997 votes

6.1

997 votes

Ripley's Game

2002 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Liliana Cavani

Cast John Malkovich · Dougray Scott · Ray Winstone · Lena Headey

Plot Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Terry, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a...

6.1

5K votes

6.1

5K votes

Francesca and Nunziata (TV)

2001 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Sophia Loren · Giancarlo Giannini · Claudia Gerini · Raoul Bova

Plot At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca (Sophia Loren), adopts a poor little girl named Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls in love Federico (Raoul...

6.0

72 votes

6.0

72 votes

The Trojan Women

1971 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Mihalis Kakogiannis

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Vanessa Redgrave · Geneviève Bujold · Irene Papas

Plot After the fall of Troy to the Greek invading army, the Trojan women weep over their lost city, families, and honour, as they are taken away as Greek slaves.

5.9

331 votes

5.9

331 votes

The Girl from Trieste

1982 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy

5.6

34 votes

5.6

34 votes

The Priest's Wife

1970 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · Venantino Venantini · Gino Cavalieri

Plot Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the...

5.6

130 votes

5.6

130 votes

Sodom and Gomorrah

1962 · Movie · 154 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Stewart Granger · Pier Angeli · Stanley Baker · Rossana Podestà

Plot Sex, torture and betrayal in Biblical Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot, leader of the Hebrews, believes his people can co-exist with the Sodomites, a disastrous decision.

5.6

797 votes

5.6

797 votes

Lady Liberty

1971 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Sophia Loren · William Devane · Gigi Proietti · Beeson Carroll

Plot Maddalena (Sophia Loren) and Michel (Gigi Proietti) fall in love in Italy in the 1960s, while working at a meat factory in Emilia stormed by the workers' protest, but their...

5.4

320 votes

5.4

320 votes

Keller (Teenage Wasteland)

2005 · Movie · 92 min. · Austria

Direction Eva Urthaler

Cast Ludwig Trepte · Sergej Moya · Elisabetta Rocchetti · Georg Friedrich

Plot Sebastian and Paul, both sixteen, spend most of their time drinking, stealing, wandering around and fighting in the suburban wastelands. To have their own place to meet, well out of...

5.4

31 votes

5.4

31 votes

The Libertine

1968 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Pasquale Festa Campanile

Cast Catherine Spaak · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Gigi Proietti · Luigi Pistilli

Plot A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to used the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.

5.2

30 votes

5.2

30 votes

5.2

164 votes