Screenplay: Cesare Pavese
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Cesare Pavese. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
From the Clouds to the Resistance
1979 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy
Direction Danièle Huillet · Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Olimpia Carlisi · Guido Lombardi · Gino Felici · Lori Pelosini
7.5
204 votes
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
Direction Jean-Marie Straub
Cast Giovanna Daddi · Giovanna Giuliani
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
Direction Raoul Ruiz
Cast Marcial Edwards · Javier Maldonado · Juan Carlos Moraga · Nemesio Antúnez
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
Direction Vittorio Cottafavi
Cast Alessandro Fontana · Roberto Accornero · Matteo Corvino · Urbano Barberini
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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
Direction Rafael Montero
Cast Abel Woolrich · Fernando Balzaretti · Blanca Guerra · Maria Sarfati
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