Alberto Moravia

This story opens in 1938 in Rome, where Marcello has just taken a job working for Mussollini and is courting a beautiful young woman who will make him even more of a conformist. Marcello is going to Paris on his honeymoon and his bosses have an assignment for him there: to look up an old professor who fled Italy when the fascists came into power.

A French writer, Paul Javal, recently married to the beautiful Camille, is approached by Jerry Prokosch, a brash American film producer, to adapt the story of Ulysses into a screenplay for a movie to be directed by a German filmmaker named Fritz Lang.

Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second world war. They travel to the village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village, the mother does everything to protect Rosetta. However, on one occasion they both get raped by soldiers hiding in a church... (imdb)

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract. (imdb)

Consisting of three separate stories, the director explores "Man" as a theme: birth, life and death. (imdb)

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... (imdb)

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. (imdb)

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

A man is destroyed by his love for a promiscuous young lady

Racconti Romani is a fast-paced comedy based on short stories related in the first person by men of the Roman working class. (worldcat)

James Russo stars as an American teacher in Rome who falls for the beautiful Bianca and enters into a torrid affair made even more frenzied when she buys him an expensive leather belt... she wants to be whipped... Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

Three young people for political and other reasons set out to destroy the social status and reputation of a middle-aged university professor. Based on Alberto Moravia's short story. (bfi)

Gemma, daughter of a lodger, is in love with her half-brother, but since she cannot marry him she ends up marrying a teacher. She doesn't love him and betrays him but is blackmailed by a Romanian countess who forces her to become a prostitute. She's desperate but in the end she asks her husband for help. She has learned to love him in the meantime. (imdb)

Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, the film narrates the coming of age of a young boy, Agostino, who is on vacation with his attractive and eligible mother. Mother and son enjoy a close relationship, but trouble soon begins when another man begins to gain her attention. Jealously emerges as Agostino struggles to comes to terms with his feelings for his mother.

Film based on the novel by Alberto Moravia, about the morbid passion of a woman who is prepared to sacrifice the innocence of her daughter to preserve her relationship with her husband. (bfi)

Count Anikoff, a Russian officer, challenges his best friend, Sergei, to a duel when he finds him courting the young woman he, too, is in love with. Sergei can't bring himself to kill his friend. He fires only after taking the bullet out of his pistol. Now, it is the Count's turn to fire... (imdb)

During a hunting trip a small group of men tell their version of a romance and then the distaff side relives the same experiences from their point of view. The realities of insecurity and love lost, show up in most instances. Some men in a bookstore lose out when a new goodlooking bookkeeper is hired whom the women can't resist. A poet just seems to suffer through his unfortunate relationships and a quartet of women discover they cant shuffle around four different men between them with impunity.

The daughter of a prostitute who could not maintain it, Desideria was sold to the rich bourgeois Viola who has given her a good education but little affection. (imdb)

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.

based on the novel by Alberto Moravia. (imdb)

A young man's sensual adventures based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.

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.

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.