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Luchino Visconti

Highest Rated: 100% Obsession (1943)

Lowest Rated: 33% Ludwig (1973)

Birthday: Nov 2, 1906

Birthplace: Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Luchino Visconti occupies a unique place in the history of world cinema; he is the most Italian of internationalists, the most operatic of realists, and the most aristocratic of Marxists. Although one of the progenitors of the Italian neorealist movement, Visconti, with his love of spectacle and historical panorama, would seem to have more in common with Orson Welles or even Erich von Stroheim than with Rossellini or De Sica. Directors as diverse as Bertolucci, Scorsese, Coppola and Fassbinder have named him as a major influence.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 84% Obsession Watchlist 100% 84% Sandra Watchlist 98% 88% The Leopard Watchlist 91% 94% Rocco and His Brothers Watchlist 89% 88% White Nights Watchlist 88% 73% Senso Watchlist 83% 81% The Damned Watchlist 83% 83% Conversation Piece Watchlist 82% 87% La Terra Trema Watchlist 80% 88% Bellissima Watchlist

Filmography

Movies TV Shows
The Innocent 79% 82% 1976 Director Conversation Piece 83% 83% 1974 Director Ludwig 33% 89% 1973 Director, Writer Death in Venice 70% 80% 1971 Director, Writer, Producer The Damned 83% 81% 1969 Director, Writer The Witches 22% 1967 Director The Stranger 46% 71% 1967 Director Sandra 100% 84% 1965 Director The Leopard 98% 88% 1963 Director, Screenwriter Boccaccio '70 50% 78% 1962 Director Rocco and His Brothers 91% 94% 1960 Director White Nights 89% 88% 1957 Director, Writer Senso 88% 73% 1954 Director We the Women 1953 Director Notes on a News Item 1953 Director Bellissima 80% 88% 1951 Director La Terra Trema 82% 87% 1948 Director The Earth Trembles 1948 Director Obsession 100% 84% 1943 Director, Screenwriter
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