Lea Massari
Birthday: 1933-06-30
Place of Birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Biography: Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (30 June 1933 — 23 June 2025) was an Italian actress. When she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari became a celebrity in art cinema for two roles, the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14-year-old boy named Laurent (Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971). She worked in both Italian and French Cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut Il Colosso di Rodi, and international commercial films such as Les choses de la vie. She was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. She won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli.
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Resurrection
Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in ...
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The Things of Life
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present ...
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Devil's Ransom
A rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him....
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L'Avventura
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna go...
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The Night Caller
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their l...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli....
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Murmur of the Heart
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stum...
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The Colossus of Rhodes
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to over...
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The Four Days of Naples
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally ov...
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Made in Italy
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants....
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Allonsanfan
After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempte...
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The Camp Followers
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountain...
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The Silent One
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparen...
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The Seventh Target
Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. ...
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A Difficult Life
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vit...
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And Hope to Die
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go qu...
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The Meetings of Anna
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several ind...
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Garden of Delights
Charlo and Carla are on their honeymoon. She is three months pregnant. He, furious about his marriag...
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The Probability Factor
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of ...
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I Want Him Dead
After his sister is kidnapped and murdered, a gunslinger's plans for vengeance involve assassinating...
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Paris Pick-Up
On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things t...
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The Woman in Blue
Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful w...
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A Dog Called... Vengeance
A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country ...
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The Misanthrope
Alceste hopes to be able to live his life without hypocrisy. However, he does not realize that socia...
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The Unvanquished
In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from t...
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Impossible Object
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful....
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The Son
Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present...
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Dreams Die at Dawn
Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956....
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I sogni nel cassetto
The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations du...
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From a Roman Balcony
The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales...
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become ...
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Faces of Love
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can m...
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Journey of Love
An older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way....
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Forbidden
Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village i...
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Secrets Secrets
Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thr...
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Conquered City
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered...
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of...
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Weeping for a Bandit
José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of h...
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Sale rêveur
A young man struggling with reality and dreams finds himself caught between his fantasies and the ha...
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Le Divorcement
In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the c...
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La Flambeuse
A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on g...
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Sarah
An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of...
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Céleste
Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a ...
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Indian Summer
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini...
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Bloody Murder
Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful property ...
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Return to Lisca Bianca Island
Twenty-three years after L'Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca Island. ...
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Stream Line
Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves wh...
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Volver a vivir
A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets ...
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Violette & Francois
Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, Fran...
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