• The 1916 silent film accompanied by Mascagni's score, directed by Ugo
Falena, with Gemma Bellincioni, who had created the role of Santuzza in the opera's world premiere. • The 1953 film directed by Carmine Gallone, using actors miming to the voices of opera singers, with a young Anthony Quinn as Alfio miming to the voice of Tito Gobbi. (Released in the US in 1963 with the title Fatal Desire.) • It was filmed for Australian television in 1959. • The 1968 film directed by Åke Falck, with Fiorenza Cossotto as Santuzza, Gianfranco Cecchele as Turiddu, Giangiacomo Guelfi as Alfio and Anna di Stasio as Lucia. (La Scala, Milan conducted by Herbert von Karajan.) • The 1982 film directed by Franco Zeffirelli, using opera singers for actors with Plácido Domingo as Turiddu, Elena Obraztsova as Santuzza, Renato Bruson as Alfio and Fedora Barbieri as Lucia. Costumed excerpts from the opera are performed in Mario Lanza's popular films The Great Caruso (1951) and Because You're Mine (1952). The opera's symphonic Intermezzo has figured in the sound track of several films, most notably in the opening of Raging Bull[20] and in the finale of The Godfather Part III, which also featured a performance of the opera as a key part of the film's climax.[21]