Alberto Moravia

Writing

Alberto Moravia

Born 1907-11-28 · Rome, Italy

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alberto Moravia (Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto moˈraːvja]; November 28, 1907 – September 26, 1990), born Alberto Pincherle, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti (1929) and for the anti-fascist novel Il Conformista (The Conformist), the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo (A Ghost at Noon or Contempt), filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris (Contempt 1963); La Noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio de Sica as Two Women (1960). Cedric Kahn's L'Ennui (1998) is another version of La Noia.

Acting credits

Mario Schifano tutto poster
NR

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Mario Schifano tutto

2001

Love Meetings poster
8.2

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.

Love Meetings

1965

Cinéma et Réalité poster
6.5

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.

Cinéma et Réalité

1967

Savage Man Savage Beast poster
6.0

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.

Savage Man Savage Beast

1975

Umano Non Umano poster
6.2

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

Umano Non Umano

1969

castelporziano ostia dei poeti poster
7.5

The film recounts the "First International Festival of Poets" held on the beach at Castelporziano in 1979, intertwining the event with symbolic and disturbing events in Italy in the late 1970s, such as the proximity to the site of Pasolini's murder and an oil spill offshore coinciding with the event.

castelporziano ostia dei poeti

2025

Suffocating Heat poster
8.0

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.

Suffocating Heat

1991

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer poster
6.5

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

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

1984

Monastero di Santa Chiara poster
7.0

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.

Monastero di Santa Chiara

1949

Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life poster
5.7

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

Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Film Maker's Life

1971

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die poster
5.7

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.

Whoever Says the Truth Shall Die

1981

The Olympian poster
6.0

Portrait of novelist Alberto Moravia filmed in Rome.

The Olympian

1969

Io sono nata viaggiando poster
4.2

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.

Io sono nata viaggiando

2013

Behind the camera

The Sin of Rogelia Sánchez poster
5.3

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.

The Sin of Rogelia Sánchez

1939

La freccia nel fianco poster
6.5

A married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past.

La freccia nel fianco

1945

Woman of Rome poster
6.1

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.

Woman of Rome

1954

3xƐ poster
NR

3xƐ is a free adaptation of Arrivederci, a short story by Alberto Moravia. The film explores the representation of time through cinema, where the present is constantly interrupted by fragments of memory and imagined futures. Rather than unfolding as a linear narrative, time is refracted through light, reflections, and layered images, allowing different worlds and temporalities to coexist within one another.

3xƐ

2018

Blame the Sun poster
6.6

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.

Blame the Sun

1951

Blame the Sun poster
6.6

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.

Blame the Sun

1951

Obsession poster
7.5

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

Obsession

1943

Running Away poster
7.2

Remake of the famous 1960 "La Ciociara" movie.

Running Away

1989

Mondo Magic poster
5.9

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

Mondo Magic

1975

Zazà poster
4.5

A glamorous female singer Zazà has an affair with a passerby engineer Dufresne. 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.

Zazà

1944

Love on the Riviera poster
5.4

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.

Love on the Riviera

1958

The Wild Eye poster
6.0

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

The Wild Eye

1967

From a Roman Balcony poster
6.6

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

From a Roman Balcony

1960

The Dolphins poster
6.6

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.

The Dolphins

1960

The She-Wolf poster
6.4

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.

The She-Wolf

1953

Sensualità poster
10.0

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.

Sensualità

1952

Last Meeting poster
6.9

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.

Last Meeting

1951

Italy Is Not a Poor Country poster
9.0

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.

Italy Is Not a Poor Country

1960

Inverno di malato poster
NR

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.

Inverno di malato

1983