Senso

Watch Trailer Watch Movie

Senso

"A passionate doomed love affair among the corrupt aristocracy"

1954

2h 3m

7.2(239 votes)

Romance

Drama

War

Overview

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

Links & Resources

IMDbView

Social & External

IMDb

Production Companies

Videos & Trailers

2 videos

Cast & Crew

31 members

Acting

Farley Granger

Il Tenente Franz Mahler

Acting

Alida Valli

La Contessa Livia Serpieri

Acting

Massimo Girotti

Il Marchese Roberto Ussoni

Acting

Heinz Moog

Il Conte Serpieri

Acting

Rina Morelli

Laura, la Governante

Acting

Christian Marquand

Un Ufficiale Boemo

Acting

Sergio Fantoni

Luca

Acting

Tino Bianchi

Il Capitano Meucci

Acting

Ernst Nadherny

Il Comandante della Piazza di Verona

Acting

Tonio Selwart

Il Colonello Kleist

Acting

Marcella Mariani

Clara, la Prostituta

No Image

Editing

Franco Arcalli

Un Soldato (uncredited)

Acting

Aldo Bajocchi

Un Soldato (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Ottone Candiani

Un Soldato (uncredited)

No Image

Directing

Nando Cicero

Un Soldato (uncredited)

Acting

Claudio Coppetti

Un Soldato (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Cristoforo De Hartungen

Il Generale Hauptmann (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Tony Di Mitri

Un Soldato (uncredited)

Acting

Eugenio Incisivo

Un Soldato (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Marianne Leibl

La Moglie del Generale Hauptmann (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Ugo Mari

Officer in Verona's Austrian Headquartes (uncredited)

No Image

Directing

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Un Soldato (uncredited)

Acting

Spartaco Nale

Un Soldato (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Ivy Nicholson

Una Patriota (uncredited)

Acting

Mimmo Palmara

Un Soldato (uncredited)

Acting

Winni Riva

La Cameriera (uncredited)

Acting

Carlo Sabatini

Un Soldato (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Goliarda Sapienza

Una Patriota al Teatro (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Renato Terra

Un Soldato (uncredited)

Acting

Gustl Untersulzner

Un Soldato (uncredited)

No Image

Acting

Mário Valente

Un Soldato (uncredited)

No Image

Similar Movies

7.1

1979

Tess

A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.

Movie

6.8

2004

The Merchant of Venice

Venice, 1596. Bassanio begs his friend Antonio, a prosperous merchant, to lend him a large sum of money so that he can woo Portia, a very wealthy heiress; but Antonio has invested his fortune abroad, so they turn to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, and ask him for a loan.

Movie

7.3

1987

Pelle the Conqueror

In the late 19th century, two Swedish emigrants, Lasse Karlsson and his son Pelle, arrive on the Danish island of Bornholm hoping to find work on a farm and save enough money to travel to the United States of America.

Movie

6.8

1984

Romancing the Stone

Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.

Movie

7.6

1982

Fitzcarraldo

Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.

Movie

6.5

1981

The Postman Always Rings Twice

The sensuous wife of a lunch wagon proprietor and a rootless drifter begin a sordidly steamy affair and conspire to murder her Greek husband.

Movie

7.5

1970

Little Big Man

Jack Crabb, looking back from extreme old age, tells of his life being raised by Indians and fighting with General Custer.

Movie

7.1

2000

Quills

A nobleman with a literary flair, the Marquis de Sade lives in a madhouse where a beautiful laundry maid smuggles his erotic stories to a printer, defying orders from the asylum's resident priest. The titillating passages whip all of France into a sexual frenzy, until a fiercely conservative doctor tries to put an end to the fun.

Movie

6.7

1952

Moulin Rouge

In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.

Movie

6.8

1980

Heaven's Gate

Harvard graduate James Averill serves as the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyoming, standing at the center of a conflict between impoverished immigrants and affluent cattle farmers. Politically connected ranchers enlist mercenary Nathan Champion—who is also vying for the affections of local madam Ella Watson—to combat the immigrant uprising. As tensions escalate, both Averill and Champion start to question their decisions.

Movie

6.1

2003

Ned Kelly

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ned Kelly and exaggerates what happened. With the biggest ever award available, Kelly and his gang set into the wild, to remain hidden from everyone who seeks them. Even if it means having his family arrested, the members of the Kelly Gang stay hidden and plan a way to get their names cleared.

Movie

7.2

1991

Once Upon a Time in China

Set in late 19th century Canton, this martial arts film depicts the stance taken by the legendary martial arts hero Wong Fei-Hung against foreign forces' plundering of China.

Movie

6.6

1997

Suicide Kings

Carlo, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Carlo plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.

Movie

7.0

1961

Black Gravel

Tensions rise when a U.S. military base is built in a small village in post-war Germany.

Movie

6.0

1979

Caligula

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

Movie

7.3

1992

Glengarry Glen Ross

Times are tough at Premiere Properties. Shelley "the machine" Levene and Dave Moss are veteran salesmen, but only Ricky Roma is on a hot streak. The new Glengarry sales leads could turn everything around, but the front office is holding them back until these "losers" prove themselves. Then someone decides to take matters into his own hands, stealing the Glengarry leads and leaving everyone wondering who did it.

Movie

7.1

1956

Moby Dick

In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a strict disciplinarian who exhorts his men to find Moby Dick, the great white whale. Ahab lost his leg to that creature and is desperate for revenge. As the crew soon learns, he will stop at nothing to gain satisfaction.

Movie

5.8

1962

The Steppe

Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from peasant stock, and one day his family decides it would be best for him to go live with his uncle in the city. The only problem is that the city is all the way across the Russian steppes, and at this time in history, that arduous journey could only be undertaken by horse and carriage. Reminiscent of the American pioneer wagon trains heading West, the tale lacks any attacks from hostile forces but is filled with charming vignettes. In one part of the journey, the boy comes across some fishermen along a river, harpooning their catch for the day. In another segment, he is entertained when some folk dancers do a lively show. But in general, it is too long and unmomentous a journey to hold attention well for nearly two hours.

Movie

6.7

1978

The First Great Train Robbery

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.

Movie

6.8

2017

The Man Who Invented Christmas

In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts his career at a crossroads, until the moment when, struggling with inspiration and confronting reality with his childhood memories, a new character is born in the depths of his troubled mind; an old, lonely, embittered man, so vivid, so human, that a whole world grows around him, a story so inspiring that changed the meaning of Christmas forever.

Movie

Recommended Movies

7.3

1971

Death in Venice

Composer 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.

Movie

7.8

1952

Bellissima

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

Movie

7.5

1957

Le Notti Bianche

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Movie

7.5

1944

Obsession

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Movie

6.5

2004

Five Times Two

As young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the milestone moments in their relationship: Gilles revealing his unfaithfulness at a tense dinner party; Marion giving birth to their premature son while Gilles is elsewhere; Gilles and Marion's joyous wedding; and, finally, the fateful moment when they meet as acquaintances at an Italian beach resort, and their love affair begins.

Movie

6.9

1962

Boccaccio '70

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

Movie

6.5

1957

Forty Guns

An authoritarian rancher rules an Arizona county with her private posse of hired guns. When a new Marshall arrives to set things straight, the cattle queen finds herself falling for the avowedly non-violent lawman. Both have itchy-fingered brothers, a female gunman enters the picture, and things go desperately wrong.

Movie

7.6

2017

Wait for Your Laugh

The life and career of comedian Rose Marie is documented through interviews with friends and colleagues as well as never-before-seen home movies shot by the actress herself.

Movie

6.1

1970

The People Next Door

A married couple struggle with the realities of their imperfect marriage as they fight to save and rehabilitate their teenage daughter from a life of drug addiction and ultimate committal to a mental ward.

Movie

5.4

1975

Playing with Fire

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.

Movie

7.3

1974

Conversation Piece

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. 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.

Movie

6.8

2017

Outrage Coda

Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.

Movie

7.0

2018

Long Day's Journey into Night

Luo Hongwu returns to Kaili, the hometown from which he fled many years ago. He begins the search for the woman he loved and whom he has never been able to forget.

Movie

7.5

1934

L'Atalante

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.

Movie

7.8

1955

Rififi

Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.

Movie

7.0

1954

Animal Farm

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. However this revolution eats their own children and they cannot avoid corruption.

Movie

8.0

1960

Rocco and His Brothers

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Movie

7.5

1987

Au Revoir les Enfants

Au revoir les enfants tells a heartbreaking story of friendship and devastating loss concerning two boys living in Nazi-occupied France. At a provincial Catholic boarding school, the precocious youths enjoy true camaraderie—until a secret is revealed. Based on events from writer-director Malle’s own childhood, the film is a subtle, precisely observed tale of courage, cowardice, and tragic awakening.

Movie

7.9

1952

Umberto D.

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

Movie

6.9

2020

The Hater

A duplicitous young man finds success in the dark world of social media smear tactics — but his virtual vitriol soon has violent real-life consequences.

Movie