Alberto Moravia

The Time of Indifference

Maria Grazia and her children Michele and Carla are left without a livelihood. Maria Grazia's money-hungry lover Leo develops a plan to take the last property from the family - the attic in which they live. Michele tries to thwart Leo's plans, but when his attempts fail, young Carla takes over.

Release Date:2021-04-27

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:26

Io sono nata viaggiando

A journey back through Dacia Maraini's and her trips around the world with her close friends cinema director Pier Paolo Pasolini and opera singer Maria Callas. An in-depth story of this fascinating woman's life. Maraini's memories come alive through personal photographs taken on the road as well as her own Super 8 films shot almost thirty years ago.

Release Date:2013-11-11

Character:Self (archive footage)

Vote Count:2

L'ennui

A philosophy teacher restless with the need to do something with his life meets a young woman suspected of driving an artist to his death. He finds the very simple Cecilia irritating but develops a sexual rapport with her. Obsessed with the need to own and tormented by her inability to respond to him, he becomes increasingly violent in a quest he can't name - a quest that slowly begins to undermine his certainties.

Release Date:1998-11-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:47

„Zavřeno pro rodinný smutek“

Release Date:1995-02-02

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

The Voyeur

At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.

Release Date:1994-01-27

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:209

Husbands and Lovers

Stefan finds that he can no longer tolerate the arrangement of his cheating wife ... he, the husband, gets her during the week and her lover gets her on the weekends. At the same time the wife finds herself increasingly drawn to the violence of her lover versus the adoration of her husband.

Release Date:1991-09-19

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:38

Suffocating Heat

On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.

Release Date:1991-08-26

Time of Indifference

A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

Release Date:1991-04-21

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:1

The Belt

Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.

Release Date:1989-04-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:2

Running Away

Remake of the famous 1960 "La Ciociara" movie.

Release Date:1989-04-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

La Romana

Release Date:1988-11-06

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Me and Him

A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.

Release Date:1988-09-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:9

The Peddler

The movie consists of three episodes that explore the lives of poor and desperate in Iran. In episode one, a very poor couple with many crippled children abandon their newly born baby in hopes that it will have a better future. In the second episode, a mentally impaired and isolated young man tries to take care of his senile mother who is almost dead. In the third episode, a cowardly and desperate peddler tries to escape from his boss.

Release Date:1987-02-02

Department:Writing

Job:Author

Vote Count:9

Attention

On the plane back to Rome, a well-known journalist indulges in an unbridled and somewhat melodramatic erotic fantasy involving his estranged wife and his stepdaughter.

Release Date:1985-02-14

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:8

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Release Date:1984-09-08

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

Inverno di malato

Girolamo, a teenager from a good family suffering from bone tuberculosis, is hospitalized in a sanatorium where he is forced to suffer the harassment of his rough roommate, sadistically backed by an Austrian nurse. To alleviate his suffering a little will be the tender friendship with Polly, a sweet English girl.

Release Date:1983-04-02

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Disobedience

Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war ends he is disappointed because things have not changed as he had hoped they wood, and he decides to let himself die. He is saved by Edith who tries to introduce him to sex. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.

Release Date:1981-07-15

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:8

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

Philo Bregstein tells us this film looks at Pasolini's life and art to explain why he died. The film traces Pasolini's life chronologically - family roots, hiding during World War II, teaching, moving to Rome, being arrested and acquitted many times, publishing poems, getting into film, being provocative, and being murdered. Interviews with Alberto Moravia, Laura Betti, Maria Antonietta Macciocch, and Bernard Bertolucci are inter-cut with readings of Pasolini's poems and with clips from four films - primarily the Gospel According to St. Matthew - to illustrate his changing ideas and points of view. Bregstein makes a case for Pasolini's being lynched.

Release Date:1981-02-28

Character:Self - writer

Vote Count:7

Desideria

All her life, an overweight girl has been ignored by her rich and attractive mother. But when the ugly duckling becomes a swan, she turns into a world-class tease, exacting her revenge by seducing her mother's boyfriend...

Release Date:1980-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:10

Contempt

A tv movie discussing some controversial marital topics.

Release Date:1976-09-12

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Vote Count:1

Savage Man Savage Beast

A notorious mondo film depicting unbelievable and bizarre rituals, animal killing and cruelty, and people being killed and eaten, all by either animals or humans against each other or themselves.

Release Date:1975-10-23

Character:Narrator (voice)

Vote Count:12

Alcune Afriche

Release Date:1975-08-01

Character:Self

Mondo Magic

This film is about tribes in Africa and South America who turn toward magic as a means of survival and way of life.

Release Date:1975-01-24

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:6

Apostrophes

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Release Date:1975-01-10

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Io e lui

Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredibly answers him! All his relationships and views about reality are seriously impacted by his new "friend", his penis! The "two" in fact, often have different opinions, and sometimes the personality of "it" is stronger than its owner.

Release Date:1973-09-19

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:2

Orders are Orders

Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary.

Release Date:1972-04-13

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:12

Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life

Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actors and friends.

Release Date:1971-06-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:2

Římanka

Release Date:1970-09-28

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Episode Count:2

Conjugal Love

In a well appointed villa in Bagheria, near Palermo, a couple, Silvio and Leda Pataneo, spend their days attempting to complete a novel, making love, and caring for a citrus grove that the local townfolk want to acquire. All framed against a political backdrop of class and cultural differences.

Release Date:1970-09-26

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:7

The Conformist

A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.

Release Date:1970-07-01

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:687

The Rage Within

A University professor is being blackmailed by his own daughter for having an affair with one of her friends.

Release Date:1969-12-29

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:2

The Invisible Woman

Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia.

Release Date:1969-09-04

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:9

Umano non umano

Artists and poets meet in a dreamlike space between walks and performances.

Release Date:1969-05-07

Character:Self

Vote Count:8

A Rather Complicated Girl

Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...

Release Date:1969-02-07

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:12

The Olympian

Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.

Release Date:1969-01-01

Character:Self

The Wild Eye

A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations.

Release Date:1967-08-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:9

Cinéma et Réalité

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.

Release Date:1967-01-01

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Love Meetings

Pier Paolo Pasolini sets out to interview Italians about sex, apparently their least favorite thing to talk about in public: he asks children if they know where babies come from; asks old and young women if they support gender equality; asks both sexes if a woman's virginity still matters, what do they think of homosexuality, if divorce should be legal, or if they support the recent abolition of brothels. He interviews blue-collar workers, intellectuals, college students, rural farmers, the bourgeoisie, and every other kind of people, painting a vivid portrait of a rapidly-industrializing Italy, hanging between modernity and tradition — toward both of which Pasolini shows equal distrust.

Release Date:1965-07-05

Character:Self - Writer

Vote Count:272

Time of Indifference

A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

Release Date:1964-09-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:19

Le ore nude

In this sex-charged character study, a woman's husband persuades her to share in his predilection for group sex. Later, she meets a student and has a one-day affair with him.

Release Date:1964-08-27

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:3

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

Release Date:1963-12-21

Department:Writing

Job:Short Story

Vote Count:428

The Empty Canvas

An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.

Release Date:1963-12-04

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:12

Contempt

A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb at the box office, he brings in a screenwriter to energize the script. The professional intersects with the personal when a rift develops between the writer and his wife.

Release Date:1963-10-29

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:845

Sex Can Be Difficult

A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.

Release Date:1962-12-24

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:8

Agostino

Agostino is a 13-year-old boy on vacation in Venice with his widowed mother. When a local stud seduces her, jealous Agostino joins a local group of juvenile delinquents out of protest. They force him to face his budding sexuality..

Release Date:1962-12-06

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:13

Italy Is Not a Poor Country

A documentary about Italy's underground oil and metan deposits, sponsored by Italian state-owned oil company, ENI. Pictures of the state-of-the-art oil infrastructure are mixed with others of the traditional way of living of poorer Italian regions.

Release Date:1960-12-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Two Women

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

Release Date:1960-12-22

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:537

From a Roman Balcony

The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.

Release Date:1960-10-29

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:16

The Passionate Thief

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

Release Date:1960-10-12

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:50

The Dolphins

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.

Release Date:1960-10-05

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:13

Le Bel Âge

Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.

Release Date:1960-02-10

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:6

Second Look: Fellini

A four-part documentary series about the Italian director Federico Fellini. Episode 1: His Childhood, His Beginnings; Episode 2: His First Films; Episode 3: His Films with Giulietta Masina; Episode 4: "La dolce vita" and Neorealism.

Release Date:1960-01-01

Character:Self

Love on the Riviera

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.

Release Date:1958-11-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:15

Roman Tales

Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?

Release Date:1955-12-21

Department:Writing

Job:Co-Writer

Vote Count:19

Woman of the River

When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge. She rejects his offer to protect her. Gino finds Nives, mourning the drowning death of their son. He surrenders himself to the police and then walks at Nives' side in the funeral procession.

Release Date:1954-12-29

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:9

Too Bad She's Bad

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.

Release Date:1954-12-28

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:66

Woman of Rome

During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.

Release Date:1954-10-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:19

The Anatomy of Love

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

Release Date:1954-03-16

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:14

The She-Wolf

A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Maricchia's marriage, but ultimately falls to her own passion, leading to family disruption.

Release Date:1953-09-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:6

The Wayward Wife

The ever-growing popularity of Gina Lollobrigida was a decided box-office asset when the Italian La Provinciale was distributed to the U.S. as The Wayward Wife. Lollobrigida acquits herself quite nicely in the tensely dramatic role of a much-put-upon small-town girl named Cemma. Seduced by a lad who turns out to be a relative, Cemma is tossed out of her home. Seeking security, she impulsively marries bookish science professor Franco Vagnuzzi (Gabriele Ferzetti). Bored by her marriage, Cemma doesn't realize the true value of her loving husband until it's almost too late. The original 118-minute run time was reduced for U.S. release.

Release Date:1953-02-18

Department:Writing

Job:Novel

Vote Count:15

Sensualità

Refugee Franca Gabre comes to the Po Valley with intent to use her obvious attributes and man-swaying talents to gain some security. She targets farm-owning brothers Riccardo and Carlo Sartori and uses the latter in an attempt to reach Riccardo, the older brother.

Release Date:1952-06-28

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Last Meeting

The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.

Release Date:1951-10-24

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:3

Blame the Sun

This short film is the only cinematographic experience of Alberto Moravia. It shows some typical themes of the writer: the bourgeois setting, the taste for detail, the eros and the violence that scratch indifference.

Release Date:1951-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3

La freccia nel fianco

Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times only to stop for good in September of the same year. It only resumed after the war, in the spring of 1945, but with Mario Costa as the director instead of Lattuada. It was eventually released in September 1945 with only Lattuada billed as the director. Similarly, the film was started with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Brunello, but when the shooting resumed in 1945 he was replaced by Leonardo Cortese

Release Date:1945-09-08

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

Agostino

A 13 year-old boy idolises his widowed mother, until a young local man becomes her lover.

Department:Writing

Job:Original Story

Monastero di Santa Chiara

Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara.

Release Date:1949-03-19

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Obsession

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Release Date:1944-04-08

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:250

Zazà

A glamorous female singer Zazà (Isa Miranda) has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne (Antonio Centa). But when Zazà impatiently comes to him in Paris she finds out that he is married and even has a daughter. He wants to escape from his relatives with Zazà, but, disillusioned and exhausted, she rejects his proposition and insists on his coming back to his family.

Release Date:1944-03-08

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

The Sin of Rogelia Sánchez

Rogelia, the orphan of an Asturian miner who died in a work-related accident, marries Máximo, a man as robust as jealous, drunk and violent. But when her husband is jailed, the woman will take advantage to escape with the doctor of the village so as to see the world and perhaps to form a family.

Release Date:1939-05-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:3