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Luchino Visconti
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Luchino Visconti - what members say
review by from West Midlands
Beautiful movie 24 April 2004
review by from London, England
Epic Italian costume drama with just a few moments of sparkling script 19 November 2004
Luchino Visconti - filmography
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L'Innocente
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Jennifer O'Neill, Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Based on a novel by Gabriele d'Annunzio, The Innocent (L'Innocente) is set amongst the aristocracy of 19th-century Italy. Wealthy Tullio (Giancarlo Giannini) thinks nothing of squiring his mistress (Jennifer O'Neill) in full view of his friends and the public. But when Giannini's cast-off wife (..read more »
 
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Conversation Piece
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Burt Lancaster plays an aging college professor who rents a Roman palazzo only to find the upstairs occupied by an Italian family. With his quiet life disrupted he becomes involved in a web of murder and intrigue.
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from 439 members
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Ludwig
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Silvana Mangano, Gert Frobe, Helmut Berger
Director: Luchino Visconti
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A dramatisation of the tormented Bavarian King Ludwig's brief but colourful reign, from his loves for Elisabeth of Austria and composer Richard Wagner to his ever-growing madness and subsequent death.
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from 412 members
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Death In Venice
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Luchino Visconti's striking adaptation of Thomas Mann's DEATH IN VENICE follows the sickly composer, Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde). As the film begins, Aschenbach is arriving by steam boat in Venice from Munich. He is deeply distracted, nervous, uncomfortable, and conflicted. Nonetheless, he ..read more »
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from 2,866 members
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The Damned
(1969)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger
Director: Luchino Visconti
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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. The Essenbeck family runs the German steel industry and the nervous patriarch attempts to appease the Nazis by appointing a ..read more »
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from 1,061 member
Not currently released
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The Leopard
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon
Director: Luchino Visconti
Certificate: 
Italian director Luchino Visconti delivers one of his most ambitious works with this sprawling historical drama. Based on the acclaimed novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, THE LEOPARD is set in Sicily during the 1800s, as the aristocracy found itself being suffocated by a newly democratic fervor...read more »
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from 3,963 members
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The Leopard - Blu-ray
(1963)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Italian director Luchino Visconti delivers one of his most ambitious works with this sprawling historical drama. Based on the acclaimed novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, THE LEOPARD is set in Sicily during the 1800s, as the aristocracy found itself being suffocated by a newly democratic fervor...read more »
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from 226 members
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Rocco and His Brothers
(1960)
Starring: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who come to Milan seeking a better life. Following the death of her husband, proud Rosaria (Katina Paxinou) picks up stakes and moves to the city with four of her sons: Simone (..read more »
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from 1,612 member
Not available for rental
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Senso
(1953)
Starring: Alida Valli, Farley Granger, Massimo Girotti
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Italian director Luchino Visconti dishes up his usual blend of elegance and decadence in Senso. The international cast includes French film star Alida Valli as a Italian countess married to a Venetian nobleman, and English leading man Farley Granger as an Austrian military officer. The two are ..read more »
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from 311 members
Not currently released
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Bellissima
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Director: Luchino Visconti
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When casting children's roles, director Luchino Visconti (The Leopard; Death in Venice) is said to have been besieged by clamouring mothers, each trying to attract his attention to their child with cries of "Bellissima!". In his film of the same name, Visconti turned his experiences into art, in ..read more »
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from 332 members
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La Terra Trema
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Luchino Visconti
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Luchino Visconti's pseudo-documentary look at the exploitation of Sicilian fishermen was based on Giovanni Verga's 1881 novel I Malavoglia. The townspeople of Aci Trezza, Sicily, portrayed themselves, speaking in their native dialects and fretting about economic hardship for over 160 minutes of ..read more »
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from 808 members
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Ossessione
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Vittorio Duse
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Often considered one of the first examples of Italian neorealism, Luchino Visconti's first film was this adaptation of James M. Cain's steamy novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, which would also be made twice in the U.S., first in 1946 with Lana Turner and John Garfield and then in 1981 with Jack ..read more »
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from 1,183 member
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Luchino Visconti facts
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...l score from Gustav Malher.
This is a slow pace drama in several acts from Luchino Visconti. It is not your action movie, it is more a reflective, slow pace drama that fo...
