8.1/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale

AKA 'Il Gattopardo'. This magnificent spectacle, and one of the finest 'scope' movies ever made, is set in 1860 Sicily and focuses on an aristocrat wh... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Jean Marais

Aka 'White Nights'. Marcello Mastroianni, as a lonely city transplant, and Maria Schell, as a sheltered girl haunted by a lover's promise, meet by cha... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Silvana Mangano

Author Thomas Mann's classic is splendidly brought to the screen in this study of an artist, his loves, his homosexuality and continuous search for be... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Gastone Renzelli

A working class mother blinded by pride hatches unrealistic plans for her daughter's show business career when a famous director comes to town and sta... Read more

7.8/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Massimo Girotti, Clara Calamai, Juan Delanda

A.k.a. 'Obsession'. One of the great revelations of the cinema: Luchino Visconti's adaptation of James M. Cain's 'The Postman Always Rings Twice', abo... Read more

8.1/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Alain Delon, Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes un... Read more

8.3/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot

Considered by many critics to be Visconti's greatest work, follows a mother and her four sons as they move from rural Italy to the slums of Milan. Ala... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger

Burt Lancaster is a retired American professor who lives alone in an ornate Roman house. Into this well-ordered life comes a decadent matriarch (Silva... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Romy Schneider, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Griem

Luchino Visconti directs this opulent costume drama. From his glittering coronation in 1864 as King of Bavaria to his mysterious death in 1886, Ludwig... Read more

7.9/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Luchino Visconti's epic-saga of Sicilian fisherman remains one of the most important films of Italian neo-realism. Shot entirely on location in Sicily... Read more

7.6/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem

A gigantic allegory of the rise of Nazism through the decadent Krupp-like family; a baroque film which explores the dark cycles of violence and evil i... Read more

7.5/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli

Aka 'The Innocent'. An elegant, visually beautiful exploration of the constraints of marriage and its disintegration. Featuring a remarkable, sensuous... Read more

7.7/10

Director: Luchino Visconti

Starring: Alida Valli, Farley Granger

From the Director of 'Death in Venice' and 'The Leopard' comes this extravagantly romantic story about the tempestuous affair between an Italian count... Read more

7.2/10

Director: Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli

Starring: Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo, Romy Schneider, Tomas Milian,...

This loose modern retelling of Boccaccio's Decameron is essentially four short films from four of Italy's finest directors. Fellini, Visconti, Monicel... Read more