Monica Vitti

When a young socialite vanishes, her lover and her best friend search for her. But soon the woman's mysterious disappearance becomes only the background for a striking examination of modern human relationships.

A young wife and mother struggles to cope with her ultra-modern environment.

A young woman named Vittoria has recently ended a love story with an older man. After meeting Piero, a stock market trader, the two start seeing each other and wander through the deserted, modernist suburbs of Rome. Their affair, however, will soon reveal itself to be a doomed one.

A wealthy American and a Secret Service agent venture into Alaskan territory to find proof of flying saucers before the Soviets do.

A bride skips out on her upcoming marriage and falls into an affair with a man whose wife makes his life a nightmare.

Over the course of one day and night, a novelist and his distressed wife lament over the disintegration of their relationship. Antonioni’s muse Monica Vitti smoulders as seductive socialite.

Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.