Lea Massari

Lea Massari

1933-06-30 Roma, Lazio, Italy 56 Credits

Biography

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). ...

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Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca

Archaeology of a Set: Return to Lisca Bianca

2017

as Anna (archive footage) (uncredited)

Acting
Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

2017

as Self (archive footage)

8.0
Acting
Il était une fois Sergio Leone

Il était une fois Sergio Leone

2014

as Self

Acting
Journey of Love

Journey of Love

1990

as Zaira

Acting

An older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way.

Una donna spezzata

1988

Acting

Una donna spezzata

1988

Writer

Writing
Secrets Secrets

Secrets Secrets

1985

as Marta

6.9
Acting

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...

The Seventh Target

The Seventh Target

1984

as Nelly

5.8
Acting

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...

Return to Lisca Bianca Island

Return to Lisca Bianca Island

1983

as Anna (voice) (archive footage)

4.9
Acting

Twenty-three years after L'Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca Island. The rarefied atmosphere of Anna's (Lea Massari's) ...

Sarah

Sarah

1983

as Carla Angelli

5.3
Acting

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.

La Flambeuse

La Flambeuse

1981

as Louise

1.0
Acting

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...

Le divorcement

Le divorcement

1979

as Rosa

6.0
Acting

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 ...

Christ Stopped at Eboli

Christ Stopped at Eboli

1979

as Luisa Levi

7.1
Acting

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...

The Meetings of Anna

The Meetings of Anna

1978

as Anna's mother

7.2
Acting

On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to the...

Sale rêveur

1978

as Joséphe

Acting

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...

Edipo Re

Edipo Re

1977

as Iocasta

Acting
A Dog Called... Vengeance

A Dog Called... Vengeance

1977

as Muriel

5.6
Acting

A political prisoner in a South American dictatorship escapes and is pursued throughout the country by a bloodthirsty dog.

Faces of Love

Faces of Love

1977

as Cecilia

5.8
Acting

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...

Violette & Francois

Violette & Francois

1977

as Cécile Levene

6.1
Acting

Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal.

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

1977

6.6
Acting

Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.

Stream Line

Stream Line

1976

as Amanda Treves

Acting

Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrus...

The Probability Factor

The Probability Factor

1976

as Gloria

3.6
Acting

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...

Chi dice donna, dice donna

Chi dice donna, dice donna

1976

as Gilbert

5.7
Acting

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...

The Night Caller

The Night Caller

1975

as Norah Elmer

7.2
Acting

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...

Allonsanfan

Allonsanfan

1974

as Charlotte

6.8
Acting

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing inc...

Bloody Murder

Bloody Murder

1974

as Helene Noblet

5.2
Acting

Hélène, an antique dealer and her husband Georges, a respected doctor, live in a beautiful property and gives everyone the image of conjugal happiness...

Impossible Object

Impossible Object

1973

as Hippolyta

4.9
Acting

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...

The Son

The Son

1973

as Maria

5.1
Acting

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...

The Silent One

The Silent One

1973

as Maria

7.2
Acting

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 ...

The Woman in Blue

The Woman in Blue

1973

as Aurélie

5.2
Acting

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...

Indian Summer

Indian Summer

1972

as Monica

7.5
Acting

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...

And Hope to Die

And Hope to Die

1972

as Sugar

6.3
Acting

A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.

Paolo e Francesca

Paolo e Francesca

1971

Acting
Devil's Ransom

Devil's Ransom

1971

as Britt

6.0
Acting

A rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him.

Murmur of the Heart

Murmur of the Heart

1971

as Clara Chevalier

7.0
Acting

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...

Céleste

Céleste

1970

as Hélène

Acting

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 ...

The Things of Life

The Things of Life

1970

as Catherine Bérard

7.1
Acting

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...

I Want Him Dead

I Want Him Dead

1968

as Aloma

6.1
Acting

After his sister is kidnapped and murdered, a gunslinger's plans for vengeance involve assassinating two generals to prolong the Civil War.

Volver a vivir

Volver a vivir

1968

as María

Acting

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 ...

Garden of Delights

Garden of Delights

1967

5.6
Acting

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 Misanthrope

1967

as Célimène

Acting

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...

Made in Italy

Made in Italy

1965

as Monica (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 3")

6.0
Acting

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

The Camp Followers

The Camp Followers

1965

as Toula

6.8
Acting

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...

The Unvanquished

The Unvanquished

1964

as Dominique Servet

6.6
Acting

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...

Weeping for a Bandit

Weeping for a Bandit

1964

as María Jerónima

5.1
Acting

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 ...

Conquered City

Conquered City

1962

as Lelia Mendores

4.3
Acting

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...

The Four Days of Naples

The Four Days of Naples

1962

as Maria

7.5
Acting

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...

Paris Pick-Up

Paris Pick-Up

1962

as Marthe Dravet

6.0
Acting

On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.

A Difficult Life

A Difficult Life

1961

as Elena Pavinato

8.1
Acting

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...

Dreams Die at Dawn

Dreams Die at Dawn

1961

as Anna Miklos

Acting

Five Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes

1961

as Diala

6.0
Acting

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patrio...

From a Roman Balcony

From a Roman Balcony

1960

as Freya

6.5
Acting

The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia.

L'Avventura

L'Avventura

1960

as Anna

7.5
Acting

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,...

Resurrection

Resurrection

1958

as Maria Pawlowa

6.0
Acting

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...

I sogni nel cassetto

I sogni nel cassetto

1957

as Lucia Moretti

7.5
Acting

The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy.

Forbidden

Forbidden

1955

as Agnese Barras

6.5
Acting

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.