Screenplay: Michelangelo Antonioni

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


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 of his last book, and his wife Lydia Pontano visits the place where she lived...

Max

7.8

4K votes

7.8

4K votes

L'avventura

1960 · Movie · 145 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Gabriele Ferzetti · Monica Vitti · Lea Massari · Dominique Blanchar

Synopsis A girl mysteriously disappears on a yachting trip. While her lover and her best friend search for her across Italy, they begin an affair. Antonioni’s penetrating study of the idle upper class offers stinging observations on spiritual isolation and the...

Max

7.6

4K votes

7.6

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 meet her mother, who is addicted to the stock market, and she meets the broker...

7.5

4K votes

7.5

4K votes

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 sound tragic, but Aldo thinks that this may be a chance for them to "legitimize"...

7.4

998 votes

7.4

998 votes

The Tragic Pursuit

1947 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Massimo Girotti · Michele Riccardini · Andrea Checchi · Checco Rissone

Synopsis In the Emilia of the immedate postwar period, the life of an agricultural cooperative is threatened by some bandits that act on behalf of a landowner. Mix of actuality and pretense according to the “logic of a cinema of direct...

7.1

93 votes

7.1

93 votes

Red Desert

1964 · Movie · 117 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Monica Vitti · Richard Harris · Carlo Chionetti · Aldo Grotti

Synopsis Antonioni's first color film depicts a woman traumatized by an auto accident who finds herself permanently alienated in her urban milieu.

Max

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

The Passenger

1975 · Movie · 119 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Synopsis 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 asked to cover, takes the risky path of co-opting the...

7.0

2K votes

7.0

2K votes

Blow-Up

1966 · Movie · 108 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast David Hemmings · Vanessa Redgrave · Sarah Miles · Peter Bowles

Synopsis Blow-Up (1966) follows Thomas, a fashion photographer in swinging 1960s London, who accidentally captures a potential murder in the background of a photo shoot. Intrigued, he meticulously enlarges ("blows up") the images, uncovering details that suggest a crime. As he...

7.0

14K votes

7.0

14K 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 woman who works in the fashion industry, where she discovers a world of shallow people...

6.9

687 votes

6.9

687 votes

The White Sheik

1952 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Brunella Bovo · Leopoldo Trieste · Giulietta Masina

Synopsis Two young newlyweds from a provincial town, Wanda (Brunella Bovo) and Ivan Cavalli (Leopoldo Trieste), arrive in Rome for their honeymoon. Wanda is obsessed with the "White Sheik" (Alberto Sordi), the hero of a soap opera photo strip and sneaks...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

Story of a Love Affair

1950 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Lucía Bosé · Massimo Girotti · Ferdinando Sarmi · Franco Fabrizi

Synopsis Carloni, a middle-aged detective gets a new mission from his boss: to find out as much as he can about the past of a beautiful young woman called Paola. The orderer is her husband, a wealthy upper-class managing director who...

6.8

744 votes

6.8

744 votes

China

1972 · Documentary · 207 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Synopsis 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 first part, taken around Beijing, includes a cotton factory, older...

6.8

84 votes

6.8

84 votes

Zabriskie Point

1970 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Synopsis 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 Los Angeles desert) and dropout Mark (who's wanted by the...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

6.7

363 votes

Identification of a Woman

1982 · Movie · 128 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Tomas Milian · Daniela Silverio · Christine Boisson · Marcel Bozzuffi

Synopsis The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about womens relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie -...

6.6

261 votes

6.6

261 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

6.5

171 votes

People of the Po Valley (S)

1947 · Documentary · 10 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Synopsis A non-fiction documentary made between 1943 and 1947 about a barge trip down the Po River, looking at the relationship between individuals and their environment.

6.4

436 votes

6.4

436 votes

Beyond the Clouds

1995 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni · Wim Wenders

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

Synopsis 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 the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel.

6.1

997 votes

6.1

997 votes

Lo sguardo di Michelangelo (S)

2004 · Documentary · 15 min. · Italy

5.9

313 votes

5.9

313 votes