Venice in movies

YEAR	TITLE	IMAGE	DESCRIPTION
2004	The Merchant of Venice		Movie directed by Michael Radford Starring: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins. Based on the Shakespeare play More about the movie...
2003	The Italian Job		Movie directed by F. Gary Gray Starring: Charlize Theron and Donald Sutherland Based on a 1969 Michael Caine film of the same name
2002	Senso '45		Movie directed by Tinto Brass Starring: Anna Galiena and Gabriel Garko
2000	Pane e tulipani (Bread and tulips)		Movie directed by Silvio Soldini, Starring: Bruno Ganz, Lucia Maglietta, Antonio Catania. A nice and amusing story. A bit for "sake of", a bit for choice, Rosalba, young housewife, during a bus trip after she found herself alone and... forgotten in a highway café by her family. Offended, she finds herself hitch-hiking direct for Venice. Her adventure in Venice begins...
1999	The Talented Mr. Ripley		Movie directed by Anthony Minghella, Starring: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett In late 1950's New York, Tom Ripley, a young underachiever, is sent to Europe to retrieve a rich and spoiled millionaire playboy, named Dickie Greenleaf. But when the errand fails, Ripley kills the playboy and begins to assume his life...
1999	The Story of Us		Movie directed by Rob Rainer Starring: Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tim Matheson
1996	Everyone Says I Love You		Movie directed by Woody Allen Starring: Woody Allen, Alan Alda, Goldie Hawn, Drew Barrymore, Julia Roberts. Musical comedy set in New York and Venice, in the calli and along the Grand Canal
1995	Blame it on the Bellboy		Movie directed by Mark Herman Starring: Dudley Moore, Richard Griffiths, Bronson Pinchot. Comedy. Mistaken addresses and identities
1991	The Comfort of Strangers		Movie directed by Paul Schrader Starring: Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett. Dramatic. (adapted from a novel by Ian McEwan) An English couple spends an holiday in Venice to sort out their relationship. One evening, they lose their way looking for a restaurant, and a stranger invites them to accompany him. He plies them with wine and grotesque stories from his childhood. They leave disoriented, physically ill, and morally repelled. But, next day, when the stranger sees them in the piazza, they accept an invitation to his sumptuous flat.
1984	Nudo di Donna		Movie directed by Nino Manfredi Starring: Nino Manfredi, Eleonora Giorgi. Comedy. The story takes place during the Carnival of Venice
1982	Identificazione di una donna		Movie directed by M. Antonioni Starring: Tomas Milian, Christine Boisson, Daniela Silverio, Marcel Bozzuffi, Veronica Lazar, Lara Wendel. Dramatic The movie director Niccolo has just been left by his wife. This gives him the idea of making a movie about womens relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie - but also in his own life...
1973	Don't Look Now		Movie directed by Nicolas Roeg Starring: Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland. (based on a Daphne de Maurier novel) The mother of a drowned child and her husband are in Venice. Mum meets a pair of sisters (one a psychic to claims to be in communication with her daughter), but...
1971	Death in Venice		Movie directed by Luchino Visconti Starring Dirk Bogarde, Romolo Valli. Dramatic. A CLASSIC - Based on the Thomas Mann novel; meticulous in recreating a Venetian atmosphere. Avant-garde composer Gustave Aschenbach (loosely based on Gustav Mahler) travels to the Venetian shore in search of repose. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy on vacation with his family. The onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them and represents the corruption compromising all ideals.
1955	Summertime		Movie directed by David Lean Starring: Katherine Hepburn Interiors shot in Pensione Accademia Villa Maravegie
1954	Senso		Movie directed by Luchino Visconti Starring: Alida Valli and Farley Granger. Dramatic. A CLASSIC - Venice at the times of Austrian occupation, 1866, in the last days. A performance of Il Trovatore ends up in confusion due to an anti-Austrian demonstration, organised by Count Ussoni. His cousin Countess Serpieri falls in love with vile Austrian Lieutenant Franz Mahler, but the times are changing...
1952	Othello		Movie directed by Orson Welles, Starring: Orson Welles and Suzanne Cloutier. A CLASSIC