Connection
Obsession is a italien film of genre Drama directed by Giuseppe De Santis released in USA on 16 may 1943 with Massimo Girotti
Obsession (1944)
Ossessione
If you like this film, let us know!
Add to a movie listOssessione (English: Obsession) is an Italian 1943 film based on the novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, by James M. Cain. Luchino Visconti’s first feature film, it is considered by many to be the first Italian neorealist film, though there is some debate about whether such a categorization is accurate.
Synopsis
The film is the story of a wandering tramp who has an affair with the wife of a restaurant owner. The two then conspire to murder her husband and attempt to live happily ever after. The catch is built into the title of the book, however, and the long arm of the law rings again to disrupt the couple’s already guilt-wracked life, ironically convicting the tramp for an accidental death despite his being absolved of guilt in the actual murder.Actors
Massimo Girotti
(Gino Costa)
Clara Calamai
(Giovanna Bragana)
Dhia Cristiani
(Anita)
Michele Riccardini
(Don Remigio)
Juan de Landa
(Giuseppe Bragana)
Comments
Leave comment :
Suggestions of similar film to Obsession
There are 86 films with the same actors, 46 films with the same director, 72977 with the same cinematographic genres (including 1121 with exactly the same 3 genres than Obsession), 7308 films with the same themes, to have finally 70 suggestions of similar films.If you liked Obsession, you will probably like those similar films :
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
, 2h49Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Sports films, Rape in fiction, Martial arts films, Boxing films, Le boxe anglaise
Actors Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale, Annie Girardot, Katína Paxinoú, Alessandra Panaro
Rating81%
After the death of his father, Rocco Parondi (Alain Delon), one of the five sons of a poor rural Italian family travels north from Lucania to join his older brother Vincenzo in Milan by the matriarch Rosaria(Katina Paxinou). She is the "hand to which the five fingers belong" as she states in the film and she has a powerful influence on her sons. Presented in five distinct sections, the film weaves the story of the five brothers Vincenzo, Simone, Rocco, Ciro and Luca Parondi as each of them adapt to their new lives in the city.
Conversation Piece (1974)
, 2hDirected by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Peinture, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Burt Lancaster, Helmut Berger, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Claudia Cardinale, Claudia Marsani
Rating73%
Retired American professor (Burt Lancaster) lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa (Silvana Mangano) and her companions: her lover (Helmut Berger), her daughter (Claudia Marsani) and her daughter's boyfriend (Stefano Patrizi) and is forced to rent to them an apartment on an upper floor of his home. From this point on, his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Death in Venice (1971)
, 2h10Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Fantasy, Historical, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Films about viral outbreaks, LGBT-related films, Disaster films, LGBT-related film
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Silvana Mangano, Romolo Valli, Mark Burns, Nora Ricci, Björn Andrésen
Rating73%
The protagonist, Gustav von Aschenbach, travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Boccaccio '70 (1962)
, 2h30Directed by Vittorio De Sica, Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Fantastic, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren, Peppino De Filippo, Polidor, Tomás Milián
Rating69%
In Renzo e Luciana, a young couple tries to hide their marriage and the wife’s supposed pregnancy from the draconian book-keeper of their employer, who has banned female employees from getting married and having children but does not mind a few cheap thrills at their expense himself.
Sandra (1965)
, 1h45Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War
Themes Films about families, Films about religion, Films about sexuality, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Michael Craig, Claudia Cardinale, Jean Sorel, Renzo Ricci, Fred Williams, Marie Bell
Rating70%
Visconti's retelling of the Electra story starts with Sandra/Electra (Claudia Cardinale) returning to her ancestral home in Italy - and reviving an intimate involvement with her brother (Sorel) which troubles her naive husband (Michael Craig) - on the eve of an official ceremony commemorating the death of her Jewish father in a Nazi concentration camp. As ever with Visconti, he is ambivalently drawn to the decadent society he is ostensibly criticising; and Armando Nannuzzi's camera lovingly caresses the creaking old mansion, set in a landscape of crumbling ruins, where the incestuous siblings determine to wreak revenge on the mother (Bell) and stepfather (Ricci) who supposedly denounced their father.
The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
, 2h4Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Ugo Tognazzi, Claudia Cardinale, Gian Maria Volonté, Salvo Randone, Michèle Girardon, Paul Guers
Rating67%
The Magnificent Cuckold is about a hat tycoon who is ecstatically, if not hungrily, in love with his youthful wife. It is all blissful, that is, until our man, middle-aged and somewhat of a square among his blasé, upper-class friends to whom cuckoldry is a common practice, is seduced by one of them. At this point doubts and suspicions, like conscience, begin to plague him. If he could succumb to extramarital confections, why not his gorgeous mate? Quickly his love for his spouse degenerates beyond obsessive, into the realm of maniacal. He becomes madly concerned that his wife is cheating on him --even though she is not being unfaithful. When he looks at her it becomes obvious to him that she is a very attractive woman. And, all the men around her must be dying to be with her. Gnawed by jealously, he will imagine variations on nabbing her and her lover red-handed.
Adua and Her Friends (1960)
, 1h46Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Erotic thriller films
Actors Simone Signoret, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva, Claudio Gora, Ivo Garrani, Gianrico Tedeschi
Rating75%
In 1958 the Merlin law made brothels illegal in Italy. Adua, Lolita, Marilina and Millie are four prostitutes whose brothel in Rome is shut down. Under Adua's leadership, they pool their savings, 500,000 lire apiece, to open a restaurant on the outskirts of Rome. They buy a run-down building, and hire workmen to fix it up, but when they apply to open the restaurant, their permit is rejected because of their history of prostitution. One of Adua's former customers, Ercoli, agrees to buy the building, use his connections, and get the permit in his name, but he expects them to run the restaurant as a front and work as a brothel on the upper floors, in return for a rent of 1 million lire a month.
The Damned (1969)
, 2h36Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Themes Films about families, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Rape in fiction, LGBT-related films, Films about pedophilia, Transgender in film, Political films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini
Rating73%
The film centers on the Essenbecks, a wealthy industrialist family who have begun doing business with the Nazi Party. On the night of the Reichstag fire, the family's conservative patriarch, Baron Joachim von Essenbeck, who represents the old aristocratic Germany and detests Hitler, is murdered. Herbert Thalmann, the family firm's vice president, who openly opposes the Nazis, is framed for the crime. He escapes the grasp of the Gestapo, but his wife Elizabeth and their children do not.
Ludwig (1973)
, 4h45Directed by Luchino Visconti
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Biography, Historical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Films about classical music and musicians, Musical films, Political films, LGBT-related films, Films about royalty, LGBT-related film
Actors Helmut Berger, Trevor Howard, Silvana Mangano, Sonia Petrovna, Romy Schneider, Gert Fröbe
Rating74%
Évocation de la vie de Louis II de Bavière, depuis son couronnement à l'âge de dix-huit ans et demi jusqu'à son internement et sa mort à quarante. On y découvre la complicité presque amoureuse qui le lie à sa cousine Sissi (la jeune impératrice d'Autriche-Hongrie) qui est à deux doigts de parvenir à lui faire épouser sa sœur Sophie malgré le peu d'attirance qu'il a pour celle-ci, son entichement déraisonnable pour la musique de Richard Wagner, dont il devient le très généreux mécène au point de lui faire construire un opéra, les circonstances qui l'amènent à céder aux penchants qui lui seront funestes : son goût du rêve, du post-romantisme, des garçons (son palefrenier devenant son chambellan et homme de confiance très intime), des châteaux de contes de fées, pour l'édification desquels il dépense des fortunes et dans lesquels il fuira les dures réalités de son temps (à savoir : l'irrésistible unification allemande autour de la Prusse de Bismarck qui vassalise tous les autres royaumes ou principautés germaniques, Bavière y compris) en s'imaginant, entouré d'une garde rapprochée de serviteurs, qu'il est encore vrai roi en son royaume. Jusqu'à ce que le gouvernement effectif de Munich l'extirpe de son rêve et l'interne au château de Berg… où il meurt dès le lendemain de son arrivée en tentant, dans des circonstances jamais vraiment élucidées, de s'évader.
Facing Windows (2003)
, 1h40Directed by Ferzan Özpetek
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Massimo Girotti, Raoul Bova, Filippo Nigro, Serra Yılmaz, Flavio Insinna
Rating71%
Giovanna (played by Giovanna Mezzogiorno) and her husband Filippo (Filippo Nigro) have settled into life. They both have jobs that make them unhappy. She works as an accountant. He works the graveyard shift because he is too weak to ask his boss for a daytime slot. They argue about money, sex, time and work... There is a subtle sense that this is a marriage whose love is dwindling fast. Perhaps they are only going through the motions for the sake of their kids