Screenplay: Cesare Pavese

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Cesare Pavese. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


7.5

204 votes

Artemis' Knee

2008 · Movie · 26 min. · Italy

Direction Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andrea Bacci · Dario Marconcini

Plot For "Le Genou d'Artemide", Jean-Marie Straub once again chose a dialogue by Cesare Pavese. And not just any dialogue, but one that tears open a painful, mystical abyss between love...

7.1

82 votes

7.1

82 votes

These Encounters of Theirs

2006 · Movie · 68 min. · Italy

Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Angela Nugara · Vittorio Vigneri · Grazia Orsi · Romano Guelfi

Plot This movie is the sequel of Straub and Huillet's Dalla nube alla resistenza and like its prequel is inspired by Cesare Pavese's book Dialoghi con Leucò.

7.0

101 votes

7.0

101 votes

The Girlfriends

1955 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Plot 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 woman who works in the...

6.9

687 votes

6.9

687 votes

Le Streghe, femmes entre elles (S)

2009 · Movie · 21 min. · France

6.6

53 votes

6.6

53 votes

The Inconsolable (S)

2011 · Movie · 15 min. · France

Direction Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Andrea Bacci · Giovanna Daddi

Plot L'Inconsolable is a reflection on the myth of Orpheus, a continuation of the mise en scène of Cesare Pavese’s literary work Dialogues with Leucò, which Straub began with the 1978...

6.5

73 votes

6.5

73 votes

Socialist Realism

1973 · Movie · 270 min. · Chile

6.4

21 votes

6.4

21 votes

La madre (S)

2012 · Movie · 20 min. · Italy

Direction Jean-Marie Straub

Cast Giovanna Daddi · Dario Marconcini

Plot La madre is based on the short story with the same title from Dialoghi con Leucò (1947) by Cesare Pavese. After having killed someone, Meleagros is killed in turn –...

6.1

32 votes

6.1

32 votes

Beautiful Summer

2023 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Laura Luchetti

Cast Deva Cassel · Yile Yara Vianello · Nicolas Maupas · Andrea Bosca

Plot Turín, 1938. Ginia is sixteen years old, and the future seems to offer endless possibilities. But her present is overshadowed by World War II. Like everyone, Ginia wants to fall...

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Aujourd'hui, rien

2017 · Movie · 72 min. · France

Direction Christophe Pellet

Cast Pierre Emö · Sergio Daniel Ramirez · Yuming Hey · Cyrille Pernet

Plot The writers Cesare Pavese and Jean-Luc Lagarce had a tragic destiny. The first committed suicide after a sentimental disappointment and the second died of AIDS. Sex holds a central place...

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Il diavolo sulle colline

1985 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

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Dialogues with Leucò

2023 · Movie · 100 min. · Portugal

Direction Tiago Guedes

Cast João Pedro Mamede · Maria do Céu Ribeiro · Isabel Abreu · Beatriz Maia

Plot Dialogues with Leuco are short dialogues between divine or heroic figures from Greek-Roman mythology. Each dialogue deals with destiny, life and death, sacrifice, suffering, memory and desire, time and place.

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Adiós David

1979 · Movie · 63 min. · Mexico

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