Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

The Innocent

1976

Italian

7.4

♡ 14

79%

Luchino Visconti Director

Didier Haudepin as Federico Hermil

Giuliana Farnese as Party Guest

Marie Dubois as The Princess

Giancarlo Giannini as Tullio Hermil

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.

The Damned

1969

Italian

7.4

♡ 13

83%

Luchino Visconti Director

Charlotte Rampling as Elisabeth Thallman

Umberto Orsini as Herbert Thallman

Michele Scalera as Innkeeper

Helmut Berger as Martin Von Essenbeck

In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.

La Terra Trema

1948

Italian

7.8

♡ 9

82%

Luchino Visconti Director

Luchino Visconti as Narrator

Antonio Pietrangeli as Narrator

Nicola Castorino as Nicola

Antonio Arcidiacono as Ntoni

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.

Conversation Piece

1974

Italian

7.3

♡ 13

82%

Luchino Visconti Director

Valentino Macchi as

Vittorio Fanfoni as

Burt Lancaster as Il Professore

Helmut Berger as Konrad Huebel

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.

Alla ricerca di Tadzio

1970

Italian

6.4

♡ 2

Action

Documentary

Luchino Visconti Director

Luchino Visconti as Self

Björn Andrésen as Self

Sergio Garfagnoli as Self

An account of Italian film director Luchino Visconti's travels in search for a young actor to portray the role of Tadzio in his 1971 adaptation of Thomas Mann's novella Death in Venice (1912).

Death in Venice

1971

Italian

7.3

♡ 27

70%

Luchino Visconti Director

Giancarlo Giannini as Alfred

Marisa Berenson as Frau von Aschenbach

Nicoletta Elmi as Little Girl at Table

Björn Andrésen as Tadzio

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.

Rocco and His Brothers

1960

Italian

8.2

♡ 28

91%

parent child relationship

Luchino Visconti Director

Paolo Stoppa as Cerri

Claudia Cardinale as Ginetta

Annie Girardot as Nadia

Alain Delon as Rocco Parondi

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Senso

1954

Italian

7.4

♡ 8

88%

Luchino Visconti Director

Massimo Girotti as Il marchese Roberto Ussoni

Farley Granger as Il tenente Franz Mahler

Alida Valli as La contessa Livia Serpieri

Tony Di Mitri as Un soldato

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

The Leopard

1963

Italian

7.9

♡ 39

98%

Luchino Visconti Director

Terence Hill as Count Cavriaghi

Paolo Stoppa as Don Calogero Sedara

Burt Lancaster as Prince Don Fabrizio Salina

Alain Delon as Tancredi Falconeri

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

Ludwig

1973

English

7.5

♡ 8

33%

Luchino Visconti Director

Umberto Orsini as Count Von Holnstein

Helmut Berger as Ludwig

Kurt Großkurth as Minister of Finance

Trevor Howard as Richard Wagner

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 with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.