Lea Massari
Anna Maria Massetani better known as Lea Massari (30 June 1933 — 23 June 2025) was 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 became 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 in both 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 a 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.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.1548 |
| Birthday | 1933-06-30 |
| Place of Birth | Roma, Lazio, Italy |
| Also Known As | Léa Massari, Anna Maria Massatani, Леа Массари, |
1958
Resurrection
8/2
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 p...
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Resurrection
1970
The Things of Life
7.074/265
The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memo...
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The Things of Life
1971
Devil's Ransom
7/3
A rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him.
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Devil's Ransom
1960
L'Avventura
7.527/752
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,...
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L'Avventura
1975
The Night Caller
7.213/279
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...
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The Night Caller
1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
7.147/95
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...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
1971
Murmur of the Heart
7.012/212
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 adolesce...
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Murmur of the Heart
1961
The Colossus of Rhodes
5.9/213
While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patrio...
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The Colossus of Rhodes
1962
The Four Days of Naples
7.5/53
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in con...
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The Four Days of Naples
1965
Made in Italy
6.132/19
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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Made in Italy
1974
Allonsanfan
6.857/42
After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing inc...
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Allonsanfan
1965
The Camp Followers
6.7/40
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...
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The Camp Followers
1984
The Seventh Target
5.947/57
Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough c...
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The Seventh Target
1973
The Silent One
7.265/51
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...
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The Silent One
1961
A Difficult Life
8.034/132
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentence...
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A Difficult Life
1972
And Hope to Die
6.417/24
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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And Hope to Die
2017
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
8/1
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Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit
1978
The Meetings of Anna
6.956/68
Detached filmmaker Anna Silver arrives in Germany to show her latest film; over the course of some days, she encounters a variety of new and old faces...
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The Meetings of Anna
1967
Garden of Delights
5.917/18
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...
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Garden of Delights
1976
The Probability Factor
3.846/13
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 table...
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The Probability Factor
1968
I Want Him Dead
6.31/21
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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I Want Him Dead
1962
Paris Pick-Up
6.5/10
On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.
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Paris Pick-Up
1973
The Woman in Blue
5.389/9
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 ti...
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The Woman in Blue
1977
A Dog Called... Vengeance
5.472/18
A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.
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A Dog Called... Vengeance
1967
The Misanthrope
0/0
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 th...
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The Misanthrope
1964
The Unvanquished
6.618/38
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 au...
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The Unvanquished
1973
Impossible Object
4.8/10
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 distin...
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Impossible Object
1973
The Son
5.5/5
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...
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The Son
1961
Dreams Die at Dawn
10/1
Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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Dreams Die at Dawn
1957
I sogni nel cassetto
8/3
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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I sogni nel cassetto
1960
From a Roman Balcony
6.588/17
The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.
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From a Roman Balcony
1976
Chi dice donna, dice donna
6.25/4
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb a...
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
1977
Faces of Love
6.071/7
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 f...
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Faces of Love
1990
Journey of Love
10/1
An older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way.
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Journey of Love
1955
Forbidden
7/3
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.
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Forbidden
1985
Secrets Secrets
7.25/8
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 w...
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Secrets Secrets
1962
Conquered City
5.5/4
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 i...
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Conquered City
1977
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
6.875/8
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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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1964
Weeping for a Bandit
5.778/9
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...
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Weeping for a Bandit
1977
Edipo Re
0/0
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Edipo Re
1971
Paolo e Francesca
10/1
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Paolo e Francesca
1978
Sale rêveur
9/1
A young man struggling with reality and dreams finds himself caught between his fantasies and the harshness of everyday life. As he drifts through sur...
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Sale rêveur
1979
Le Divorcement
8/2
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...
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Le Divorcement
1981
La Flambeuse
4/2
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 chil...
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La Flambeuse
1983
Sarah
6/4
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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Sarah
1970
Céleste
7/1
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...
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Céleste
1972
Indian Summer
7.571/156
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 loca...
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Indian Summer
1974
Bloody Murder
5.2/10
Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful property and gives everyone the image of conjugal happiness...
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Bloody Murder
1983
Return to Lisca Bianca Island
4.9/4
Twenty-three years after L'Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca Island. The rarefied atmosphere of Anna's (Lea Massari's)...
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Return to Lisca Bianca Island
2014
Il était une fois Sergio Leone
0/0
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Il était une fois Sergio Leone
1976
Stream Line
7/1
Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrus...
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Stream Line
1968
Volver a vivir
9/1
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...
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Volver a vivir
1988
Una donna spezzata
9/1
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Una donna spezzata
1977
Violette & Francois
6.192/13
Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal.
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Violette & Francois
Morte di un bandito
10/1
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