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Crew: Book Author
Actors: Anthony Quinn
Synopsis: Set in a non-descript Midwestern town during the 1950s, this fable chronicles the last days in the life of local Mafioso Don Antonio Barracano (Anthony Quinn). During preparations for his 75th birthday celebration, he muses upon his life. While he thinks, his wife Armida continues her campaign to Read More
Crew: Play Author
Actors: Laurence Olivier
Synopsis: Italian director Pier Pasolini tells four of the Chaucer tales in this graphic and satirical picture that chronicles the 14th-century's social, sexual, and religious standards in England. In Pasolini's Trilogy of Life, this second entry follows The Decameron and precedes The Arabian Nights. Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Adorf, Margaret Lee, Aldo Giuffré
Synopsis: A couple with marital problems hopes to find new spirit living in a haunted house in this arcical comedy. Pasquale (Vittorio Gassman) and Maria (Sophia Loren) are a couple who are married, but not at all happily; he's a chronically unemployed musician, she can't stand her husband, and they've both Read More
Crew: Director, Play Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Raquel Welch, Guido Alberti, Leopoldo Trieste, Tecla Scarano
Synopsis: Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito (Marcello Mastroianni) sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation. Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Pamela Tiffin, Virna Lisi, Luciano Salce, Raimondo Vianello
Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. A police inspector is told of the bizarre behavior of a pistol-packing papa who shoots blanks at his wife to keep her intimidated. He inserts a real bullet every so often just to let her know Read More
Crew: Play Author, Screenwriter
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Marilù Tolo, Pia Lindström
Synopsis: In flashback, Marcello Mastroianni recalls his wartime romance with Sophia Loren. He is so enamored with her that he finances her escape from the bordello where she lives and sets her up with a good job in the restaurant that he owns, and later finds a place for her on his mother's domestic staff. Read More
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffré, Agostino Salvietti, Armando Trovajoli, Lino Mattera, Tina Pica
Synopsis: Each of the episodes in the three-part Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi E Domani) stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. In "Adelina-Naples," Loren and Mastroianni are married, and Loren is in trouble with the law. Each time the authorities close in, Loren eludes capture by Read More
Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Vittorio Gassman, Eduardo de Filippo, Belinda Lee
Synopsis: An impressive cast graces the 105 minutes of Ghosts of Rome. Don't let the title mislead you: the "ghosts" are not genuine wraiths, but instead a group of disenfranchised tenants in a contemporary Roman rooming house. When the house is condemned, the various residents seek out new lodgings Read More
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Martin Balsam, Serge Reggiani, Nino Castelnuovo, Mario Feliciani
Synopsis: In this war drama, a band of Italian soldiers, elated to hear that the war is finally over, promptly desert and head for home. Only two soldiers remain loyal to the army and they promptly begin heading back to the main forces. En route they are enticed by partisan soldiers who want the two to join Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler, Rossana Podestà, Carlos Thompson, Rik Battaglia
Synopsis: In her second film for Universal-International, Esther Williams stars as Laura, a high-priced fashion model. While working in Rome, Laura succumbs to the charms of international playboy Wally (Carlos Thompson), agreeing to join him on a chartered plane flight across the Mediterranean. When the Read More
Actors: Totò, Pasquale Cennamo, Lianella Carell, Sophia Loren, Giacomo Furia, Vittorio De Sica, Silvana Mangano
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica, Cesare Zavattini, and Giuseppe Marotta wrote this anthology of tales depicting various aspects of Neapolitan life, with the emphasis of poignancy and comedy: "The Racketeer" features Toto with a gangster as his unwanted house guest; "Pizza On Credit" gave Sophia Loren one of her Read More
Synopsis: This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their baby because they cannot afford to feed it. The second concerns two aristocrats who have fallen into poverty and end up reunited when they both are cast as extras in a movie. Read More
Synopsis: This romantic Italian anthology film is comprised of six episodes that deal with a century of love. The first vignette, "Garibaldin," set in 1854, follows a rebellious priest who attempts to sway others to his beliefs. "Pendolin" examines a philandering wife's affair with a hotel porter who really Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Eduardo de Filippo, Micheline Presle, Gérard Philipe, Anna Maria Ferrero
Synopsis: Villa Borghese is Grand Hotel with trees and shrubbery. Set in the famed Roman city park of Villa Borghese, the film offers pithy character vignettes of the various people from various walks of life who stroll through the park in the course of a day. The all-star cast includes Vittorio De Sica as Read More
Actors: Eduardo de Filippo, Anna Maria Ferrero, Frank Latimore, Vittorio Sanipoli
Synopsis: Napolitani a Milano (Neapolitans in Milan) was co-written and directed by Eduardo De Felippo, himself a Naples native. De Felippo also plays the leading role, a slum-dweller named Salvatore. When a new housing project is built, Salvatore and his neighbors are evicted. Five of these neighbors Read More
Crew: Director, Producer
Actors: Gérard Philipe, Viviane Romance, Frank Villard, Noël-Noël, Henri Vidal, Jacqueline Plessis, Isa Miranda, Eduardo de Filippo, Paolo Stoppa
Synopsis: The Seven Deadly Sins is a portmanteau film (a la Quartet and O. Henry's Full House) assembled by some of the biggest talents in the Italian and French film industry. The film's six sections (one containing two sins) are designed by separate titles, which should be self-explanatory. "Avarice and Read More
Crew: Director, Play Author
Actors: Eduardo de Filippo, Tina Pica, Titina de Filippo, Luciana Vedovelli
Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Titina de Filippo, Eduardo de Filippo, Walter Chiari
Synopsis: A stellar cast distinguishes the so-so seriocomedy Cinque Poveri in Automobile (Five Paupers in an Automobile). The story is set in motion by a winning raffle ticket, jointly held by four people. The first prize is an automobile, which the foursome intend to drive for a day of pleasure before Read More
Actors: Lucia Bosé, Cosetta Greco, Ave Ninchi, Leda Gloria
Synopsis: Ragazze di Piazza di Spagna is better known by its English-language title Three Little Girls from Rome. The girls in question are Marisa, Elena and Lucia, played respectively by Lucia Bose, Cosetta Greco and Liliana Bonfatti. All three work in a fancy Roman house of fashion, and all three have Read More
Actors: Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Gino Cervi, Giulietta Masina
Synopsis: This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a salesman (Aldo Fabrizi) who values peace and quiet, but never gets it, and a vainglorious actor (Vittorio de Sica) with woman trouble. Through it all, Maria survives with a Read More
Actors: Titina de Filippo, Eduardo de Filippo, Tamara Lees, Tina Pica
Synopsis: Playwright Eduardo de Fillipo not only adapted his theatrical piece Filumena Marturano to the screen, but also starred in it and directed as well. de Fillipo's sister Titina plays the title character, a Neapolitan mother who is determined to "legitimize" her three out-of-wedlock children. She Read More
Actors: Eduardo de Filippo
Synopsis: Director Eduardo De Fillipo adapted the screenplay for Napoli Milionaria from his own stage play. De Fillipo also plays the leading role of Gennaro Jovine, a well-meaning Neapolitan streetcar conductor who always manages to get mixed up in other people's problems. Jovine and his conniving buddy Read More
Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Eduardo de Filippo, Yvonne Sanson, Carlo Romano, Carlo Giustini
Synopsis: Gina Lollobridgida was a virtual unknown in the U.S. when Campagne a Martello was released to English-speaking countries in 1950. Critics said then what they'd say later: as an actress, Gina was very pretty. The story concerns an Italian prostitute named Agostina (Lollobridgida) who is left Read More
Actors: Anna Magnani, Eduardo de Filippo, Antonio Centa, Titina de Filippo
Synopsis: Assunta Spina, the popular stage drama by Salvatore Di Giacomo, was first filmed in 1913. This pioneering Italian feature has been hailed as a precursor to the postwar neorealist movement, so it stands to reason that the 1947 remake would star the queen of neorealism, Anna Magnani. The original Read More
Actors: Leda Gloria, Peppino De Filippo, Eduardo de Filippo, Dina Perbellini, Enrico Viarisio
Synopsis: Also known as Three-Cornered Hat, this Italian comedy is based on a Spanish folk tale, which had previously been adapted as a ballet by Manuel de Filla. Director Mario Camerini and his team of screenwriters have refashioned the material as a vehicle for the popular De Filipo brothers Read More
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