Direction: Luchino Visconti

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Luchino Visconti. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

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...

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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

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

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