Direction: Luchino Visconti
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Luchino Visconti. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 20
Rocco and His Brothers
1960 · Movie · 170 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Alain Delon · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Katina Paxinou
Plot It is the story of a poor family torn apart by lust and greed. Rocco (Alain Delon), a soft-spoken, idealistic young man who must deal with turmoil and competition when...
8.2
10K votes
8.2
10K votes
The Earth Trembles
1948 · Movie · 152 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Maria Micale · Sebastiano Valastro · Antonio Arcidiacono · Giuseppe Arcidiacono
Plot In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
8.0
2K votes
8.0
2K votes
The Leopard
1963 · Movie · 186 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Burt Lancaster · Claudia Cardinale · Alain Delon · Paolo Stoppa
Plot Set in 1860s Sicily, it portrays the decline of an aristocratic family under the crushing weight of political change. The film traces the waning of the noble home of Fabrizio...
7.8
16K votes
7.8
16K votes
Bellissima
1951 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Anna Magnani · Walter Chiari · Tina Apicella · Gastone Renzelli
7.6
2K votes
7.6
2K votes
The Damned
1969 · Movie · 164 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Ingrid Thulin · Helmut Griem · Helmut Berger
Plot A family's decline coincides with Hitler's rise to power in the 1930s and serves as an allegory for German society as a whole in this intoxicating work from Luchino Visconti....
7.5
5K votes
7.5
5K votes
White Nights
1957 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Maria Schell · Marcello Mastroianni · Jean Marais · Marcella Rovena
Plot Luchino Visconti's utterly gorgeous 1957 picture, adapted from the Dostoyevsky story, is a rich, visually stunning masterpiece from the acclaimed filmmaker. "Le Notti Bianche" stars Marcello Mastroianni (in an early...
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
Ludwig II
1972 · Movie · 264 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Helmut Berger · Romy Schneider · Trevor Howard · Silvana Mangano
Plot Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love...
7.5
2K votes
7.5
2K votes
Death in Venice
1971 · Movie · 127 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Dirk Bogarde · Björn Andrésen · Silvana Mangano · Marisa Berenson
Plot In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, a few years before the outbreak of the Great War, avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to a...
7.4
22K votes
7.4
22K votes
Ossessione
1943 · Movie · 135 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Clara Calamai · Massimo Girotti · Juan de Landa · Dhia Cristiani
Plot "Ossessione", made in 1942 and banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a powerful delineation of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter who arrives by chance at a...
7.4
1K votes
7.4
1K votes
Conversation Piece
1974 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Burt Lancaster · Silvana Mangano · Helmut Berger · Claudia Marsani
Plot Retired professor of American origin lives solitary life in luxurious palazzo in Rome He is confronted by vulgar Italian marchesa and her companions: her lover, her daughter and daughter's boyfriend...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
The Innocent
1976 · Movie · 123 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Jennifer O'Neill · Laura Antonelli · Marc Porel
Plot L'Innocente takes place among the social class to which Visconti belonged, but in the 1890s, ten years before he was born. This was to be Visconti's swansong, and he died...
7.4
2K votes
7.4
2K votes
Senso (The Wanton Countess)
1954 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Alida Valli · Farley Granger · Massimo Girotti · Rina Morelli
Plot In 1866, in the spring of Venice, an underground rebel movement against the Austrian occupation in Italy is getting stronger. The married Countess Livia Serpieri (Alida Valli) sees her cousin...
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Boccaccio '70
1962 · Movie · 210 min. · Italy
Direction Vittorio De Sica · Federico Fellini · Mario Monicelli · Luchino Visconti
Cast Anita Ekberg · Sophia Loren · Romy Schneider · Peppino De Filippo
Plot An anthology of three adult tales by three leading Italian directors--a billboard photo of a scantily clad, sexy woman comes to life to torment the local censor; a lottery is...
6.9
2K votes
6.9
2K votes
The Stranger
1967 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Anna Karina · Georges Wilson · Bernard Blier
Plot Lo Straniero (The Stranger) (1967), Visconti's adaptation of Albert Camus's novel "L'Etranger", received mixed press on first release and has rarely been seen since. A man, a pied noir living...
6.8
869 votes
6.8
869 votes
Sandra of a Thousand Delights
1965 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jean Sorel · Michael Craig · Renzo Ricci
Plot Sandra comes back to Volterra, in Tuscany, the little town where she spent her childhood. She is with her American husband, Andrew. She wishes to pay homage to her father...
6.8
514 votes
6.8
514 votes
Days of Glory
1945 · Documentary · 71 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Serandrei · Marcello Pagliero · Giuseppe de Santis · Luchino Visconti
6.6
31 votes
6.6
31 votes
We, the Women
1953 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Alfredo Guarini · Gianni Franciolini · Roberto Rossellini · Luigi Zampa
Cast Ingrid Bergman · Anna Magnani · Isa Miranda · Alida Valli
Plot Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars. The first episode (of Alfredo Guarini) is the chronicle of a contest for aspirant actresses:...
6.4
187 votes
6.4
187 votes
In The Search of Tadzio
1970 · Documentary · 29 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Luchino Visconti · Björn Andrésen
Plot Documentary on Luchino Visconti's travels and auditions in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella "Death in Venice", finally...
5.9
76 votes
5.9
76 votes
The Witches
1967 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti · Mauro Bolognini · Franco Rossi · Vittorio De Sica
Cast Silvana Mangano · Clint Eastwood · Alberto Sordi · Totò
5.6
373 votes
5.6
373 votes
Appunti su un fatto di cronaca (S)
1953 · Documentary · 5 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Plot A 12-year-old girl, Annarella Bracci, was raped and killed in the popular borough of Primavalle, Rome, one of the age-old cross-roads of Italy, at the time it was going through...
5.3
66 votes
5.3
66 votes