Liliana Cavani Movies

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

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

After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The tale unfolds in three parts: dark...

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...

A documentary film: two generations reflect on World War II, twenty years after peace was declared in Europe.

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

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,...

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,...

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,...

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

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

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

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...

A documentary about the Third Reich.

A documentary about the urban housing crisis in three Italian cities, Turin, Naples, and Rome, during the 1960s.

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

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

A documentary short.