List of the best Michelangelo Antonioni movies: L'Avventura(1960), The Passenger(1975), Il Grido(1957), Blow-Up(1966), Red Desert(1964), The Lady Without Camelias(1953), Zabriskie Point(1970), Love in the City(1953), The Mystery of Oberwald(1980), Eros(2004), Story of a Love Affair(1950), Beyond the Clouds(1995) ... ...
Crime, Drama
Italy|France
1960
145 Minutes
Director
Monica Vitti Gabriele Ferzetti Léa Massari Dominique Blanchar Lelio Luttazzi James Addams Esmeralda Ruspoli Dorothy De Poliolo Giovanni Petrucci Renato Pinciroli Giovanni Danesi
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A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
Drama
Italy|France|Spain
1975
119 Minutes
Director
Jack Nicholson Maria Schneider Jenny Runacre Ian Hendry Steven Berkoff
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A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of coopting the identity of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.
Drama
Italy|USA
1957
115 Minutes
Director
Steve Cochran Alida Valli Betsy Blair Dorian Gray Lynn Shaw Gabriella Pallotta Mirna Girardi Guerrino Campanili Gaetano Matteucci Pietro Corvelatti Pina Boldrini
A man wanders aimlessly, away from his town, away from the woman he loved, emotionally and socially inactive.
Crime, Drama
UK|Italy
1966
111 Minutes
Director
David Hemmings Vanessa Redgrave Sarah Miles Jane Birkin Gillian Hills Peter Bowles John Castle Harry Hutchinson Susan Brodrick Mary Khal Ronan O'Casey
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A fashion photographer unknowingly captures a death on film after following two lovers in a park.
Drama
Italy|France
1964
116 Minutes
Director
Monica Vitti Richard Harris Carlo Chionetti Xenia Valderi Rita Renoir Aldo Grotti Valerio Bartoleschi Giuliano Missirini Lili Rheims Emanuela Mino Carboni
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In an industrial area, Giuliana, an unstable woman, attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
Drama
Italy
1953
115 Minutes
Director
Lucía Bosé Gino Cervi Andrea Checchi Ivan Desny Alain Cuny Monica Clay Oscar Andriani Anna Carena Del Fabbro Enrico Glori Elio Steiner
A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films.
Drama
USA
1970
112 Minutes
Director
Mark Frechette Daria Halprin Rod Taylor Paul Fix G.D. Spradlin Kathleen Cleaver
At Zabriskie Point, which overlooks the Grand Canyon's lowest point, two perfect strangers meet; an undergraduate dreamer and a young hippie student who start off an unrestrained romance, making love on the dusty terrain.
Documentary
Italy
1953
90 Minutes
Director
Ugo Tognazzi Carlo Lizzani Federico Fellini Francesco Maselli Maresa Gallo Silvio Lillo
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
Drama
Italy|West Germany
1980
129 Minutes
Director
Monica Vitti Franco Branciaroli Paolo Bonacelli Elisabetta Pozzi Luigi Diberti Amad Saha Alan
One long decade after the assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and anarchist poet, and strikes a three-day pact; however, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?
Romance, Drama
USA|Italy|Hong Kong|France|Luxembourg|UK
2004
109 Minutes
Gong Li Michelangelo Antonioni Chang Chen Feng Tien Robert Downey Jr. Alan Arkin Ele Keats Christopher Buchholz Regina Nemni Luisa Ranieri
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Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.
Romance
1950
98 Minutes
Director
Lucía Bosé Massimo Girotti Ferdinando Sarmi Marika Rowsky Anita Farra Carlo Gazzabini Nardo Rimediotti Renato Burrini
The uncertainty of passion between two lovers (Lucía Bosé, Massimo Girotti) intensifies as the pace of their plot to commit murder quickens.
Drama
1995
113 Minutes
Director
John Malkovich Kim Rossi-Stuart Ines Sastre Sophie Marceau Fanny Ardant Peter Weller Chiara Caselli Irène Jacob Vincent Perez Jean Reno
The observations of a filmmaker (John Malkovich) separate four vignettes about tormented love affairs.
Drama
1955
105 Minutes
Director
Eleonora Rossi Drago Valentina Cortesa Gabriele Ferzetti Franco Fabrizi Yvonne Furneaux Madeleine Fischer Anna Maria Pancani Ettore Manni
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While working at a boutique, a woman (Eleonora Rossi Drago) makes new friends who have complicated relationships.