Il bell'Antonio ("Handsome Antonio") is a 1960 Italian-French drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale.

[1] It is based on the novel of the same name by Vitaliano Brancati and was adapted for the screen by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Gino Visentini, moving the novel's setting during Italy's fascist era to the present.

Owning a reputation of a successful womanizer, Antonio's parents decide that it is time for him to settle down and arrange for a marriage with notary Puglisi's daughter Barbara.

Antonio confesses to his cousin Edoardo that during his time in Rome, he was able to sleep with women whom he didn't care for, but was impotent when he met a woman for whom he had sincere feelings.

Some time later, Antonio's father dies from a heart attack during a visit to a brothel, where he wanted to prove his intact manhood.