Monica Vitti
Birthday: 1931-11-03
Place of Birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Biography: Monica Vitti (3 November 1931 – 2 February 2022) was an Italian actress best known for her starring roles in films directed by Michelangelo Antonioni during the early-to-mid 1960s. After working with Antonioni, Vitti changed focus and began making comedies, working with director Mario Monicelli on many films. She appeared with Marcello Mastroianni, Alain Delon, Richard Harris, Terence Stamp, Michael Caine, and Dirk Bogarde.
Movies
L'Eclisse
This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literar...
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The Phantom of Liberty
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incid...
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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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Cinéma et Réalité
In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini tal...
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Red Desert
In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic acci...
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La Notte
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in M...
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Modesty Blaise
Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of he...
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Help Me, My Love
Giovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis w...
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Duck in Orange Sauce
When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly ac...
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Il Cilindro
The comedy, centered on five characters (Rita, Rodolfo, Agostino, Bettina, and Don Attilio - "o viec...
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1960
By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates ...
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Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators...
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Tigers in Lipstick
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 ...
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The Dolls
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by R...
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Blonde in Black Leather
Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure....
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Stardust
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town ...
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, d...
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The Girl with a Pistol
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder h...
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A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love tr...
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I Know That You Know That I Know
The investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple....
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Midnight Pleasures
Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, reveal...
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The Pacifist
A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being...
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The Couples
Three episodes. Episode 1 - The Refrigerator (Monicelli). A married couple of two poor emigrant work...
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The Mystery of Oberwald
A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates, leadin...
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An Almost Perfect Affair
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer a...
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The Tango of Jealousy
Since her husband is distracted by his passion for horse racing, Lucia decides to make him jealous b...
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Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents....
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The Four Truths
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all ...
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My Loves
Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though sh...
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The Superwitness
A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witne...
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The Third
A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police st...
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Hotel Room
A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel roo...
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Keep It To Yourself!
Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up am...
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Teresa the Thief
Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is na...
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Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, ac...
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The Queens
Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a...
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Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi
For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fa...
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A Thousand and One Monica
There is no shortage of words to define the actress, screenwriter and director Monica Vitti: Intense...
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The Scarlet Lady
Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder....
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La Tosca
Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Ange...
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I Married You for Fun
Pietro is a young bourgeois lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty girl who was a little unscrewed, a...
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Flirt
After a 22 years marriage, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and it a...
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I Don't Understand You Anymore
On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the ma...
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Orders are Orders
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that...
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State Reasons
Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions...
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On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off t...
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Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian C...
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L'altra metà del cielo
Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna....
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Autoritratto Auschwitz. L'occhio è per così dire l'evoluzione biologica di una lagrima
In the film we find some scrap of slow motion they see a Monica Vitti trying to cry, a meeting betwe...
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Unfaithfully Yours
An omnibus of two different stories: In the first a divorced couple (actress wife and director husba...
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Secret Scandal
Marguerite receives as a gift from a filmmaker friend: a very modern, automatic camera, complete wit...
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Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting mark...
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A Mink Coat
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever...
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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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The Flying Saucer
An exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed saucer a...
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That's How We Women Are
The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist....
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Bellissime
Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women dur...
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Dear Antonioni
A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay....
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry....
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Francesca is Mine
A middle-aged antiquarian's husband leaves her to go live with her best friend....
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High Infidelity
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemm...
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Antonioni: Documents and Testimonials
A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment o...
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Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and...
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of ...
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Sweet and Sour
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywh...
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Exterior Day
Inspired by a famous exchange of letters between Michelangelo Antonioni and Mark Rothko, Esterno gio...
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Couples mythiques du cinéma: Monica Vitti et Michelangelo Antonioni
Before they met, they had not found success in the film industry. Michelangelo Antonioni did not dir...
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Michelangelo Antonioni: The Eye That Changed Cinema
A look back at the life and works of Michelangelo Antonioni....
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