Liliana Cavani Movies

A deaf man rebels against his controlling mother by dating a high-school drop-out who shares his disability.

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than...

Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society,...

A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student...

A forty year old woman, who has been in an asylum, goes to live with her brother's family. She proves incapable of adapting herself to family life,...

The film consists largely of a series of interviews with female filmmakers from several different countries and filmmaking eras. Some, such as...

A documentary about the historic film producer, the first woman to make her mark in a predominantly male environment. A key figure in the great...

The encounter between physics and cinema and the terribly topical subject of the end of the world turned the set of Liliana Cavani's The order of...

Opera Prima is a tribute and a journey through the evolution that cinema has had in Italy. Tayu Vlietstra, a pupil of Bertolucci, carries out an...

A documentary about the trial of Philippe Pétain.

An early short film by Liliana Cavani that confronts the theme of discrimination.

A filmed record of a bizarre garden party organized to pay a fine incurred by singer Ulla for "liberating a chandelier from Harrods."

With a screenplay by Liliana Cavani, this film is based on a true story, events that happened in Alabama in 1965. A daughter of Italian immigrants,...

Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II.

Foreclosed to the future, hope is in the past. Foreclosed the space, hope is inside time. We haven't seen each other again. It was not our mouth and...

The story of a small community of cloistered nuns, devoted to Santa Chiara, in Urbino.

A documentary short.

Liliana Cavani, before becoming an established filmmaker in Italy and in the world, was a young and brilliant documentary filmmaker in Ettore...

A documentary about the Third Reich.