Lea Massari

Lea Massari

Born: June 30, 1933
in Rome, Italy
Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (born 30 June 1933) is an Italian actress. When she was 22, she changed her name to Lea Massari after the death of her fiancé Leo. She studied architecture in Switzerland. Massari become a celebrity in art cinema for two roles, the missing girl Anna in Michelangelo Antonioni's L'avventura (1960), and as Clara, the mother of a sexually precocious 14 year old boy named Laurent (Benoît Ferreux) in Louis Malle's Murmur of the Heart (1971). She worked both in Italian and French Cinema. Her career includes Sergio Leone's debut Il Colosso di Rodi, and international commercial films such as Les choses de la vie. She was member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975. She won Nastro d'Argento as Best Supporting Actress for her role in Francesco Rosi's Christ Stopped at Eboli.

Movies for Lea Massari...

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Title: Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 10, 2017
Type: Movie
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Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Title: Il était une fois Sergio Leone
Character: Self
Released: October 19, 2014
Type: Movie
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Journey of Love
Title: Journey of Love
Character: Zaira
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
An older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way.
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Una donna spezzata
Title: Una donna spezzata
Released: August 6, 1988
Type: Movie
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Secrets Secrets
Title: Secrets Secrets
Character: Marta
Released: March 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating.
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The Seventh Target
Title: The Seventh Target
Character: Nelly
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
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Ritorno a Lisca Bianca
Title: Ritorno a Lisca Bianca
Character: Anna (voice) (archive footage)
Released: October 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Twenty-three years after L'Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca Island. The rarefied atmosphere of Anna's (Lea Massari's) disappearance is recalled by some audio excerpts from the original movie.
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Sarah
Title: Sarah
Character: Carla Angelli
Released: April 27, 1983
Type: Movie
An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set.
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La Flambeuse
Title: La Flambeuse
Character: Louise
Released: May 13, 1981
Type: Movie
A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and children.
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Le divorcement
Title: Le divorcement
Character: Rosa
Released: August 22, 1979
Type: Movie
In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed feelings, and the most difficult thing about the divorce, besides understanding why it is taking place at all, is deciding what will happen with the couple's numerous pets.
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
Title: Christ Stopped at Eboli
Character: Luisa Levi
Released: February 23, 1979
Type: Movie
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
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The Meetings of Anna
Title: The Meetings of Anna
Character: Anna's mother
Released: October 8, 1978
Type: Movie
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.
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Sale rêveur
Title: Sale rêveur
Character: Joséphe
Released: April 4, 1978
Type: Movie
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Edipo Re
Title: Edipo Re
Character: Iocasta
Released: December 11, 1977
Type: Movie
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A Dog Called... Vengeance
Title: A Dog Called... Vengeance
Character: Muriel
Released: December 2, 1977
Type: Movie
A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.
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Location Hunting
Title: Location Hunting
Character: Cecilia
Released: November 16, 1977
Type: Movie
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next film, an adaptation of Tshekov's "Three Sisters". He goes location scouting and stays in Bex, a Spa near Lake Leman, together with the three actresses : Julie, his ex-wife (Delphine Seyrig), the mysterious Cecilia, that his producer wants him to take (Lea Massari), and Esther (Valérie Mairesse), a teenager. They all stay in an old decaying hotel. In this isolated mansion the four of them will fight but also discover each other.
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Title: Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Released: February 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.
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Stream Line
Title: Stream Line
Character: Amanda Treves
Released: May 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi.
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The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Title: The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Character: Gloria
Released: April 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
Title: Chi dice donna, dice donna
Character: Gilbert
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant.
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Fear Over the City
Title: Fear Over the City
Character: Norah Elmer
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Anna Karenina
Released: November 10, 1974
Type: TV
A miniseries based on the novel by Leo Tolstoi.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Allonsanfan
Title: Allonsanfan
Character: Charlotte
Released: September 6, 1974
Type: Movie
After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.
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Bloody Murder
Title: Bloody Murder
Character: Helene Noblet
Released: March 6, 1974
Type: Movie
Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful property and gives everyone the image of conjugal happiness. The children, Daniel and Nadine, are busy with their studies and their loves. The bourgeois life of Hélène is troubled by the murder of her lover, Philippe, a friend of her son. She finds the body when she goes to one of their appointments. In shock, she still thinks to take away the address book of the victim where her name appears - object compromising for her marriage. The police are interested in her. A stranger blackmails her. She is caught in a gear that she can not get out of. She then suspects that all is a revenge from her husband.
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Story of a Love Story
Title: Story of a Love Story
Character: Woman
Released: May 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distinguishing between fantasy and reality leaving us to wonder whether the affair is real or just a figment of Harry's imagination.
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The Son
Title: The Son
Character: Maria
Released: March 30, 1973
Type: Movie
Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present when his father died, wishes to be present at her death. In Corsica Ange finds his brother Baptiste who married Maria, the woman he loved. He finds out that his father was killed, but nobody wants to tell him the name of the killer. And finally he finds two killers expecting him.
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The Silent One
Title: The Silent One
Character: Maria
Released: February 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?
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The Woman in Blue
Title: The Woman in Blue
Character: Aurélie
Released: January 14, 1973
Type: Movie
Leading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a beautiful woman dressed in blue and soon spends all of his time trying to track her down. After roaming the streets of Paris in search of the mystery woman, he recruits an old friend to help find her.
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Indian Summer
Title: Indian Summer
Character: Monica
Released: October 18, 1972
Type: Movie
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.
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And Hope to Die
Title: And Hope to Die
Character: Sugar
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Paolo e Francesca
Title: Paolo e Francesca
Released: November 2, 1971
Type: Movie
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Devil's Ransom
Title: Devil's Ransom
Character: Britt
Released: June 18, 1971
Type: Movie
A rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him.
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Murmur of the Heart
Title: Murmur of the Heart
Character: Clara Chevalier
Released: April 27, 1971
Type: Movie
This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
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Céleste
Title: Céleste
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a regular mistress in the person of Hélène, he is a ladies man with "a girl in every port". But this comfortable situation is challenged the day he hires Céleste as his housemaid. A Portuguese immigrant, she soon appears to be a Marxist-Leninist activist, engaged in political groups working against the regime of Salazar, the dictator of Portugal. Geoges and Céleste fall in love with each other, which brings adventure in the reporter's hitherto superficial life, upset by a breakup with Hélène, the interference of the French Secret Service and a touch of terrorism.
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The Things of Life
Title: The Things of Life
Character: Catherine Bérard
Released: March 13, 1970
Type: Movie
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
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Title: The Brothers Karamazov
Character: Agrafena Aleksàndrovna
Released: November 16, 1969
Type: TV
Italian adaptation of Dostoevskys famous novel.
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I Want Him Dead
Title: I Want Him Dead
Character: Aloma
Released: June 15, 1968
Type: Movie
After his sister is kidnapped and murdered, a gunslinger's plans for vengeance involve assassinating two generals to prolong the Civil War.
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Volver a vivir
Title: Volver a vivir
Character: María
Released: February 12, 1968
Type: Movie
A former soccer player is morally and mentally destroied by the death of his wife. But when he gets the chance to train a team he regains his life by making victories and also finding another love.
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Garden of Delights
Title: Garden of Delights
Released: December 29, 1967
Type: Movie
Charlo and Carla are on their honeymoon. She is three months pregnant. He, furious about his marriage of convenience, recalls the past and ponders on The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch, dear to the Surrealists. While she is bleeding, he spends the night with a beautiful stranger...
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The Misanthrope
Title: The Misanthrope
Character: Célimène
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Alceste hopes to be able to live his life without hypocrisy. However, he does not realize that social habits and the necessities of life do not fit the way of conceiving his existence.
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Made in Italy
Title: Made in Italy
Character: Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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The Camp Followers
Title: The Camp Followers
Character: Toula
Released: July 17, 1965
Type: Movie
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
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The Unvanquished
Title: The Unvanquished
Character: Dominique Servet
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: Movie
In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Thomas is wounded but manages to escape after killing the guard who inflicted the injury. Dominique gives Thomas money to escape to France after he secures her freedom, but he is caught between the Foreign Legion and the terrorists seeking revenge.
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Weeping for a Bandit
Title: Weeping for a Bandit
Character: María Jerónima
Released: August 31, 1964
Type: Movie
José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.
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Conquered City
Title: Conquered City
Character: Lelia Mendores
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing days of the War. British Major David Niven has been ordered to prevent a cache of weapons hidden in the hotel from falling into the hands of renegade troops. He cannot allow himself to trust anyone--not even the most innocent-looking (or attractive) of guests. Originally titled La Citta Prigioniera. Conquered City was released in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. as Captive City.
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The Four Days of Naples
Title: The Four Days of Naples
Character: Maria
Released: November 16, 1962
Type: Movie
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, most people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon realize Germans are still in control—and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, the Neapolitan civilians spontaneously rise up en masse against their occupants—and overwhelming odds, driving them from the city after four days of fighting.
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Paris Pick-Up
Title: Paris Pick-Up
Character: Marthe Dravet
Released: May 4, 1962
Type: Movie
On a Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful Italian married woman who has got a lot of things to hide.
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A Difficult Life
Title: A Difficult Life
Character: Elena Pavinato
Released: December 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
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Dreams Die at Dawn
Title: Dreams Die at Dawn
Character: Anna Miklos
Released: December 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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The Colossus of Rhodes
Title: The Colossus of Rhodes
Character: Diala
Released: June 15, 1961
Type: Movie
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
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From a Roman Balcony
Title: From a Roman Balcony
Character: Freya
Released: October 29, 1960
Type: Movie
The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.
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L'Avventura
Title: L'Avventura
Character: Anna
Released: September 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
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Resurrection
Title: Resurrection
Character: Maria Pawlowa
Released: October 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.
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I sogni nel cassetto
Title: I sogni nel cassetto
Character: Lucia Moretti
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy.
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Forbidden
Title: Forbidden
Character: Agnese Barras
Released: September 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.