Liliana Cavani Movies

A group of friends gathers for a birthday by the sea, only to face the looming possibility of the world ending within hours, transforming one...

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

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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...

Fausto and Elena, two deaf teenagers from different backgrounds, meet and fall in love. As they push back against prejudice and silence – both...

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,...