Liliana Cavani Movies

Opera Prima is a tribute and a journey through the evolution that cinema has had in Italy. Tayu Vlietstra, a pupil of Bertolucci, carries out an...

Depicts various periods in the life of Saint Francesco: Youth and the first conversion in 1206, the process that inflicts his father, the birth of...

A documentary about the historic film producer, the first woman to make her mark in a predominantly male environment. A key figure in the great...

The encounter between physics and cinema and the terribly topical subject of the end of the world turned the set of Liliana Cavani's The order of...

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.

After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The tale unfolds in three parts: dark...

The story of a small community of cloistered nuns, devoted to Santa Chiara, in Urbino.

A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student...

A documentary film: two generations reflect on World War II, twenty years after peace was declared in Europe.

An early short film by Liliana Cavani that confronts the theme of discrimination.

Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II.

Foreclosed to the future, hope is in the past. Foreclosed the space, hope is inside time. We haven't seen each other again. It was not our mouth and...

A forty year old woman, who has been in an asylum, goes to live with her brother's family. She proves incapable of adapting herself to family life,...

Live from La Scala Saturday 07 July 2007. In this live performance of Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Violetta, a courtesan much wooed by Parisian society,...

A documentary about the trial of Philippe Pétain.

A filmed record of a bizarre garden party organized to pay a fine incurred by singer Ulla for "liberating a chandelier from Harrods."

In depth commentary and history behind the creation of The Night Porter by Liliana Cavani

With a screenplay by Liliana Cavani, this film is based on a true story, events that happened in Alabama in 1965. A daughter of Italian immigrants,...