Arguably one of the most significant provocations in film history, Antonioni’s existentialist masterwork, about a young woman’s disappearance on a Mediterranean yacht trip, helped to launch modern art cinema as we know it.

In this beguiling second entry in Antonioni’s celebrated trilogy, Marcello Mastroianni and Jeanne Moreau star as a Milanese couple whose marriage is imperiled—not least of all by Monica Vitti’s watchful, alluring temptress.

The culminating installment of the trilogy begun by L’avventura and La notte, L’eclisse finds Monica Vitti once again teaming up with Antonioni for arguably his most audacious and open film to date, about the curiously cool courtship between a translator and a stockbroker.

A seminal eco-psychological nightmare, Red Desert stars Monica Vitti as an industrialist’s wife who stumbles through the toxic wasteland in which she lives under the influence of an obscure, debilitating anxiety.

A delightful diversion after her string of weighty collaborations with Antonioni, this late-’60s romantic comedy stars Monica Vitti as a slightly whacky girl who meets cute with a bourgeois lawyer at a bohemian bacchanal and rapidly marries him.

A fascinating, genre-inflected tale of revenge inspired by Sicilian traditions, Mario Monicelli’s drama stars Monica Vitti as Assunta, a young woman who falls in love, only for her lover to unsuccessfully attempt to kidnap and forcibly marry Assunta’s sister.

Monica Vitti and director/costar Alberto Sordi team up in this charming romantic comedy, playing a happily married couple—in no small part due to their open relationship—who abruptly find themselves in crisis when she becomes infatuated with a professor.

In Ettore Scola’s modernistic, comic tale of three-way love, Monica Vitti stars as the fiancée to Marcello Mastroianni’s Communist construction worker, but their relationship becomes complicated with the introduction of Giancarlo Giannini’s hunky pizza chef.

This darkly comic portrait of the heart’s irrationality stars Monica Vitti as Isolina, a woman who falls in love with a pimp (Ugo Tognazzi) who is convicted of murdering the girlfriend whose body he profited from following Isolina’s eye-witness testimony.

Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti renewed their irresistible partnership for this humorous and charming WWII-set love letter to Italian theater, about two down-on-their-luck dancers trying to figure out how to entertain their new audience: American soldiers.

Legendary cinematographer Carlo Di Palma made his directorial debut with this fascinating cross between melodrama and comic picaresque, starring Monica Vitti as a desperate war widow who develops a taste for kleptomania.

One of Luis Buñuel’s most celebrated late-career films endures as a deliriously provocative, audaciously subversive all-star ensemble piece and a landmark work of cinematic surrealism.

One of the few television films that Antonioni directed, his third-to-final feature finds the modernist master adapting none other than Jean Cocteau. Monica Vitti stars as a reclusive 19th-century queen who falls in love with her would-be assassin.

In Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti’s final collaboration, Sordi stars as a bank clerk whose complacent attitude about his life is challenged when a private investigator accidentally records his wife (Vitti) and he learns how little he actually knows about what his wife and daughter do when he’s not around.