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Directed by Luchino Visconti
Perhaps surprisingly (given the Italian neo-realist movement's predilection for films centring on poverty and working-class life), Luchino Visconti, himself writer-director of the very first neo-realist movie, Obsessione, was born into virtual royalty in Milan in 1906. Subsequent to travelling to France - where he worked with Jean Renoir - and H... show more > Recommended Films directed by Luchino Visconti
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The Leopard1963, Luchino Visconti, DVD A sumptuous masterpiece and a true epic based around an aristocratic Sicilian family threatened by political turmoil. Now restored to its full-length widescreen grandeur, it can truly be appreciated for the masterful work it is. An absolute visual...
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Ludwig1972, Luchino Visconti, DVD From his glittering coronation in 1864 as King of Bavaria to his mysterious death, Ludwig II epitomised the doomed 19th century romantic hero. Tormented by an unrequited love for his cousin, obsessed with the music of Richard Wagner, Ludwig retrea...
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 Death In Venice1971, Luchino Visconti, DVD One man becomes so obsessed by the beauty of a young boy in Venice that he cannot bear to leave, even when the city is affected by a plague. Based on the novel by Thomas Mann.
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Ossessione1942, Luchino Visconti, DVD Visconti's adaptation of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice translates laconic American passion to the flatlands of the Po Valley where it becomes unrestrained desire, steeped 'in the air of death and sperm' as co-screenwriter de Santi...
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 The Damned1969, Luchino Visconti, DVD An incisive view of a powerful German family under the rise of Nazism. Decadent and baroque.
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Senso1954, Luchino Visconti, DVD aka The Wanton Countess. A romance, in the grand style, between a Venetian noblewoman and an officer of the invading Austrian army in the 19th century. The director here chooses deliberately to let plot sometimes be overwhelmed by decor, until the...
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 La Terra Trema1948, Luchino Visconti, DVD Aka The Earth Trembles. Visconti's rarely screened masterpiece of uncompromising realism has the lives of Sicilian fishermen at its heart and focuses on the Valestro family's struggle to escape poverty by buying their own boat, only to be exploite...
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 Conversation Piece1974, Luchino Visconti, DVD Aka Gruppo di Famiglia in un Interno. A retired American professor lives in an ornate Roman house. His well-ordered life is disrupted by the entrance of a decadent matriach and nubile daughter who rent the upstairs apartment. Their intrigues provo...
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 L'Innocente1976, Luchino Visconti, DVD Visconti's last great film is a melodrama with a typically understated power, in which a man who involves himself with casual affairs leaves his wife for his latest mistress, but wants her back when she becomes pregnant by another man. Typical of ...
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Bellissima (Masters of Cinema)1951, Luchino Visconti, DVD A satire on the motivations and machinations at work in the film industry, with the famous Cinecittą studios as a backdrop. Maddalena (Anna Magnani) is a screenstruck mother convinced of her daughter's star potential. Dreaming of a better life for...
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 Ossessione1942, Luchino Visconti, VHSPAL Visconti's adaptation of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice translates laconic American passion to the flatlands of the Po Valley where it becomes unrestrained desire, steeped 'in the air of death and sperm' as co-screenwriter de Santi...
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Rocco and His Brothers (Masters of Cinema)1960, Luchino Visconti, DVD Visconti's epic study of family, sex, and betrayal. Alongside Fellini's La Dolce Vita and Antonioni's L'Avventura, Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers ushered Italian cinema into a new era, one unafraid to confront head-on the hypocrisies of the rul...
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 Le Notti Bianche1957, Luchino Visconti, DVD Dostoevsky is expertly translated to the seedier byways of contemporary Venice in Visconti's brooding anti-romance, in which a bashful clerk tries to persuade his beloved to forget the lodger who promised to return for her.
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