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Actors: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Hafsia Herzi, Julika Jenkins, Francis Huster
Synopsis: Inspired by director Vittorio De Sica's 1952 neorealist classic Umberto D., Francis Huster's sentimental drama stars Jean-Paul Belmondo as an aged retiree who is forced out onto the street with his dog after his relationship with a wealthy widow falls apart. A cinematic comeback for Belmondo, who Read More
Synopsis: Survey of the history of Italian cinema, featuring clips from such classics as "Open City," "8-1/2," and "Seven Beauties," and interviews with illustrious stars and filmmakers, including Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Toto, Monica Vitti, Anna Magnani, Vittorio DeSica, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli
Synopsis: Stefania Sandrelli, a bit player in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, stars in the deliberately Felliniesque comedy We All Loved Each Other So Much. Sandrelli plays the longtime object of three friends' affections. The film traces the interrelationships of those friends-Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi Read More
Crew: Director
Actors: Ian Bannen, Sophia Loren, Richard Burton
Synopsis: In turn-of-the-century Sicily, aristocratic scions Adriana (Sophia Loren) and Cesar (Richard Burton) have loved one another for years, but Adriana accedes to the wishes of Cesar's father and marries his foolish younger brother Antonio (Ian Bannen). When Antonio dies, much to the relief of Read More
Actors: Mario Adorf, Franco Nero, Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: This film explores the events surrounding the assassination of Mussolini's chief political opponent, socialist Giacomo Matteotti (1885-1924). Matteotti (Franco Nero) was outspoken in his opposition to Mussolini and his principles. Because the investigation of the assassination by an honest judge (Vittorio De Sica Read More
Synopsis: Made for television, The Small Miracle is based on a story by Paul Gallico. Little Pepino (Marco Della Cava) hopes to cure his dying donkey. The boy is convinced that he can save his pet if only he can bring it to the crypt of St. Francis of Assisi. However, the Father Superior (Raf Vallone) will Read More
Actors: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry, Arno Juerging
Synopsis: The second of two horror films shot in a single production term and bearing the name of pop-art icon Andy Warhol (whose participation pretty much ended with the use of his name), this film is slightly superior to its higher-profile predecessor, Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. Direction is credited to Warhol Read More
Actors: Florinda Bolkan
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a Read More
Actors: Mariangela Melato, Nino Manfredi
Synopsis: Lo Chiameremo Andrea is an Italian comedy by famed director Vittorio De Sica. It tells the story of Paolo (Nino Manfredi) and Maria (Mariangela Melato) two elementary schoolteachers whose "biological clock" is ticking. They have been married for some time, and desperately want a child of their Read More
Synopsis: A tabloid newspaper reporter becomes confused with guilt after one of his stories causes the death of an innocent man, and he must think of a way to make up for his sin in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Jean-Claude Killy, Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: In this offbeat crime adventure, a downhill ski instructor at an Alpine resort involves himself in a conspiracy to rob the bank that lies in the resort town nearby. The heist is a success until a dogged insurance investigator threatens to reveal their identities unless they give him the loot. They Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: This Italian movie is as much a love song to a place as a story. The place is the bohemian quarter in Rome known as the Trastevere. It is been compared to the Left Bank in Paris. This film features highly professional actors, a colorful setting, and very salty Italian dialogue. Actor/director Fausto Tozzi Read More
Synopsis: Writer/director Luigi Comencini originally created Le Avventure di Pinocchio as a five-and-a-half-hour miniseries for Italian television. This 134-minute version, featuring various guest stars, was released theatrically. Pinocchio (Andrea Balestri) is a wooden puppet carved by Geppetto (Nino Manfredi Read More
Actors: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directs the lyrical war drama Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), based on a book by Giorgio Bassani. In Ferrara, Italy, at the beginning of WWII, anti-Semitism is spreading. Mussolini has passed several laws that forbid Jews from going to public Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Galina Andreeva
Synopsis: The first Italian feature film shot in Moscow was directed by the renowned Vittorio De Sica and produced by Carlo Ponti. Sophia Loren stars as Giovanna, an Italian woman who marries Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) 12 days before the outbreak of WWII. Antonio has no desire to fight in the conflict Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Sharon Tate, Orson Welles, Vittorio De Sica, Mylène Demongeot
Synopsis: The tragic Sharon Tate plays a crucial role (her last-ever appearance before the cameras) in 12 Plus 1 (aka The Thirteen Chairs). If the plot sounds familiar, it is because it's based on a popular Russian novel, also filmed in 1945 as It's In the Bag and in 1971 as The Twelve Chairs. Vittorio Gassman Read More
Actors: Suzanne Pleshette, Ian McShane, Mildred Natwick, Murray Hamilton, Sandy Baron
Synopsis: A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium. The film is a likeable satire of "packaged" European tours, where the nonplused tourists are expected to rush from one landmark to another in a breathless 18 Read More
Crew: Director, Screenwriter
Actors: Faye Dunaway, Marcello Mastroianni, Caroline Mortimer, Karin Engh
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directed this sudsy romantic drama, which received punishing reviews on its initial release. Recently-divorced fashion designer Julia (Faye Dunaway) arrives in Venice from the U.S. and meets handsome race car driver Valerio (Marcello Mastroianni) at the airport. While she Read More
Actors: Charles Aznavour
Synopsis: Caroline (France Anglade) is the heroine who is pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with a lawyer. Unknown to her new husband, she lost her virginity to a handsome young officer the day the peasants stormed the Bastille. When her husband flees the revolutionary fervor, Caroline engages Read More
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier, Oskar Werner, David Janssen, Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international politics. (Anthony Quinn) plays a Russian priest who has spent 20 years in a Siberian labor camp. When Russian and Chinese relations deteriorate, Russian Premier Kamenev (Laurence Olivier Read More
Actors: Andrea Aurelia, Paola Borboni, Calisto Calisti, Godfrey Cambridge, Carlo Croccolo, Robert Wagner, Raquel Welch
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica delivers a full-blown comic performance as Cesare Celli, an American gangster exiled to Italy and kidnapped by a collection of inept crooks. These incompetents are headed by Harry Price (Robert Wagner), who demands a ransom from Cesare's friends for his safe return. When none of Read More
Actors: Silvana Mangano, Annie Girardot, Francisco Rabal, Massimo Girotti, Elsa Albani
Synopsis: This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive," "Civic Sense," "The Earth As Seen From The Moon," "The Girl From Sicily," and "A Night Like Any Read More
Synopsis: In this Italian melodrama, a soccer referee has more passion for the game than he does for his wife. The man's father doesn't help as he dislikes both the sport and his wife. The couple continues to drift apart and ends up having several affairs. They then attend the same soccer match and end up Read More
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: Albert Sordi is the son who travels to America to visit his father in New York. The two are to be reunited for the first time in 30 years on a television program. His father (Vittorio De Sica) takes advantage of the fabulous prizes offered by the show in hopes of paying off his gambling debts. The Read More
Actors: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Elspeth March, Rossano Brazzi
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short stories each starring Shirley MacLaine. In "Funeral Possession," she plays opposite Peter Sellers as a widow at her husband's funeral. In "Amateur Night," she's a wife who's Read More
Actors: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Lydia Brazzi, Paolo Stoppa, Tino Buazzelli, Victor Mature
Synopsis: With Peter Sellers as star, Neil Simon as screenwriter, and Vittorio DeSica as director, how could After the Fox miss? Miss it did, however--though the film, patchy and inconsistent though it might be, definitely has its moments. Sellers plays an Italian master thief who can't seem to stay out of Read More
Actors: Christine Delaroche, Nino Castelnuovo, Tanya Lopert, Madeleine Robinson, Georges Wilson, Pierre Brasseur
Synopsis: A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes pregnant after their passionate tryst. Now the formerly free-wheeling student finds himself facing a difficult situation. He decides that the woman should abort the child, and so Read More
Synopsis: High-seas battles between a confiscated Italian steamer and British subs during WW II. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Kim Novak, Richard Johnson, Angela Lansbury, George Sanders, Lilli Palmer, Leo McKern, Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This rambunctious filmization of Daniel Defoe's "naughty" novel stars Novak as a poverty-stricken 18th century damsel who rises to the top of society surrendering her virtue--time Read More
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
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: Alberto Sordi
Synopsis: This serio-comic drama finds a man (Alberto Sordi) in debt with no easy way to alleviate the situation. He conspires to sell one of his eyes to cover his loses and remain a success in the eyes of his wife. The talent of Sordi prevents this film from being labels as glory to gore as he weighs his Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Robert Wagner, Françoise Prevost
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica's version of a play by Jean-Paul Sartre stars Frederic March as Albrecht von Gerlach, the owner of one of Germany's biggest industrial firms. Albrecht calls for his son Werner (Robert Wagner), a lawyer who is married to an actress, Johanna (Sophia Loren). The aging Albrecht wants Read More
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Stanley Baker, Virna Lisi, Giorgio Albertazzi, James Villiers
Synopsis: Joseph Losey's turbulent melodrama concerns a phony writer, Tyvian Jones (Stanley Baker), who has recently sold the film rights to his autobiography as a Welsh coal miner (actually penned by his deceased brother). Tyvian is engaged to Francesca (Virna Lisi), an alluring screenwriter, but then Eva (Jeanne Moreau Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: Released in the US by 20th Century-Fox, Boccaccio '70 is a compendium of short subjects directed by three of Italy's top filmmakers. Each story is written in the style of the famed Italian essayist Boccaccio, albeit told in contemporary terms. First up is "The Raffle", written by Cesare Zavattini Read More
Actors: Michel LeRoyer, Howard St. John, Jack Hawkins, Wolfgang Preiss, Pascale Audret
Synopsis: The story of a Frenchman who fought to liberate the American colonies from British rule is colorfully brought to the screen. Lafayette (Michel Leroyer) is an engaging young landowner who spends his time in taverns drinking and talking politics. When he ends up on the wrong side of the minister's Read More
Actors: Donald O'Connor, Noëlle Adam, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Michele Mercier
Synopsis: Aladdin (Donald O'Connor) is a poor young man living in ancient Bagdad, who is given to flights of imagination, and taken with tales of the wealthy and powerful -- in many ways, he's still a boy, and so caught up in his daydreaming that he doesn't realize how his one-time childhood playmate Djalma Read More
Synopsis: In this drama, a woman marries a lawyer who is endeavoring to do all he can to stay on the good side of his wealthy aunts so he will inherit their fortunes. When the bride begins acting strangely and going places at odd times, the aunts hire a private detective to shadow her. He learns that she Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price
Synopsis: A beautiful and wealthy woman in the market for a husband believes she has found the right man -- only to discover he isn't especially interested, in this comedy based on a play by George Bernard Shaw. Epifania Parerga (Sophia Loren) is a woman who has inherited a vast fortune, making her the Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Rascel, Fernandel, Akim Tamiroff
Synopsis: An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when a disembodied voice announces to the city's residents "The Last Judgment will begin at 6:00 p.m." Naturally, not all are immediately willing to accept this statement -- but Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Eleanora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: Normally, an actor or actress in a foreign-language film was not the ideal candidate for an Academy Award, inasmuch as his or her English-language "performance" was often dubbed in by an anonymous third party. Such was not the case of Sophia Loren in Two Women (La Ciociara), who did her own Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Sylva Koscina, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Valerie
Synopsis: In spite of its title, this sex comedy by director Luciano Salce is not another mythic costume drama with Steve Reeves in the lead. Instead, those little pills mentioned in the title are Herculean in their impact on the sexual drives of anyone who takes them. According to this tale, long before Read More
Actors: Pierre Mondy, Rossano Brazzi, Vittorio De Sica, Claudia Cardinale, Martine Carol, Jean Marais
Synopsis: In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly legendary, 1927 historical drama Napoleon with this tale of Napoleon's life after his victories in Italy. The first half of Austerlitz delves into the private life of Napoleon Read More
Actors: Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi
Synopsis: This is an indecisive, ultimately unconvincing wartime drama set in the 1930s when Spain was caught in a bloody civil war, a situation that is never clearly delineated in that the story supports the fascists without specifically saying so. The hero is a voluntarily defrocked priest, Arturo Carrera Read More
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica plays the bumbling captain of a fruit and vegetable boat, operating in World War II Italy. The manpower shortage has depleted De Sica's crew, obliging him to hire several highly unqualified shipmates. While the captain attempts to keep his head above water (so to speak) Read More
Actors: Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Marietto Paolo Carlini, Paolo Carlini, Claudio Ermelli
Synopsis: With top stars Clark Gable as the American Michael Hamilton and Sophia Loren as the very Italian Lucia Curcio, this comedy by director Michael Shavelson already has a lot going for it. Michael is a lawyer who arrives in Naples to wrap up the estate of his dead brother, killed in an automobile Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli, Sandra Milo, Anne Vernon
Synopsis: With a deft guiding hand, director Roberto Rossellini brings out the depths in this study of a man's transformation during the German occupation of Milan. Based on a novel by Indro Montanelli, the story is true. Colonel Mueller (Hannes Messemer) and his cohorts have decided to plant a spy in the Read More
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Franca Valeri, Franco Fabrizi
Synopsis: Prolific director Giorgio Bianchi comes off with another good comedy in Il Moralista, due in no small part to the talents of Alberto Sordi as Agostino, the de facto head of a censorship board whose double life as a nightclub owner might raise some questions as to his censorial judgment. The Read More
Synopsis: It Happened in Rome -- as well as in Venice, Florence, and points in between in this frothy excursion into beautiful Italy. The slight story concerns two young girls -- the German Hilde (Inge Schoener) and the French Josette (Isabelle Corey) -- who are hitching through the countryside. Vacationing Read More
Actors: Domenico Modugno, Giovanna Ralli, Vittorio De Sica, Franco Migliacci
Actors: Wera Cecova, Vittorio De Sica, Marietto Paolo Carlini, Gabriele Ferzetti, Roberto Risso
Synopsis: This charming fantasy concerns a young orphan named Marietto who believes that he must select his own mother. Escaping from the orphanage, he latches on to Camilla (Vera Cecova), a famous ballerina who cannot seem to dissuade the mischievous youth, no matter how hard she tries. Finally, God (Vittorio De Sica Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director
Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Dale Robertson, Vittorio De Sica, Carla Macelloni, Gabriella Pallotta
Synopsis: In this occasionally amusing frolic, Gina Lollobrigida plays a sexy widow who returns to Italy from New York following the death of her husband. Her wealth and good looks entice all the men in her small village except for the one she really wants, the town blacksmith (Dale Robertson). Giuseppe Rotunno Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Heinz Reincke, Folco Lulli, Lianella Carell, Nino Manfredi
Synopsis: This German-Italian production was also released as Kanonenseranade and The Muzzle. Vittorio De Sica stars as Ernesto DeRossi, captain of a vegetable-transport steamer in WWII Italy. After a desultory confrontation with a British midget submarine (which chooses not to fire upon DeRossi's vessel) Read More
Actors: Totò, Vittorio De Sica, Abbe Lane, Darry Cowl
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Marisa Merlini, Gabriella Pallotta, Lorella de Luca
Synopsis: This engaging slice of neorealism stars Marcello Mastroianni as "Il Medico" (The Doctor) and Vittorio de Sica as "Lo Stregone" (The Healer). Setting up practice in a backward, provincial village, Mastroianni finds that he can make no headway with the superstitious townsfolk so long as faith-healer Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Walter Chiari
Synopsis: A womanizing bachelor with a cynical outlook on marriage urges a young salesclerk to avoid tying the knot with his landlady's daughter in this comedy starring Vittorio De Sica and Walter Chiari. Luigi (De Sica) believes that marriage is a scam. He's doled out so much advice on the matter that he's Read More
Crew: Composer (Music Score)
Synopsis: Anna may be from Brooklyn, but this medium-budget domestic drama was filmed and financed in Italy. The title character, played by Gina Lollobrigida, returns from Flatbush to her small village in Italy in search of a husband. Among her suitors are Dale Robertson and Vittorio DeSica, indicating that Read More
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Lorella de Luca, Dorian Gray
Synopsis: Domenica e Sempre Domenica (Sunday is Always Sunday) is one of several late-1950s films to be based on a successful TV series. In this instance, the program is Il Muschiere, which in 1958 was one of the most popular attractions on Italy's RAI-TV network. Il Muschiere was a game show, in which Read More
Actors: Martine Carol, Vittorio De Sica, Philippe Nicaud, Marthe Mercadier
Synopsis: Two well-known actors (Martine Carol and Vittorio De Sica) star in this standard melodrama by Alberto Cavalcanti about two people out for adventure and money in Venice. As they pursue the goals they think they want, they discover a blossoming of romantic love. Next, they have to choose between Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Totò, Abbe Lane
Synopsis: If Hollywood could put the names of Abbott and Costello in the titles of the team's pictures, why couldn't Italy honor its favorite actors in a similar fashion. Toto, Vittorio e la Dotoressa stars that matchless Italian comic actor Toto, matinee idol/director Vittorio De Sica, and, as Dotoressa Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Nadia Gray, Myriam Bru, Bernard Dheran
Actors: Gilbert Becaud, Caterina Valente, Vittorio De Sica, Gregoire Aslan, Grethe Weiser, Vera Valmont
Synopsis: This French-Italian musical starts out in the eponymous French gambling establishment. Vittorio de Sica plays Gordy, an ageing playwright who decides to transform a music-hall singer named Catherine (Caterina Valente) into a dramatic actress. Just as his protegee achieves stardom, Gordy dies. But Read More
Synopsis: Amore e Chiacchere (Love and Chatter) was cooked up by ubiquitious Italian scenarist Cesare Zavattini. Vittorio De Sica stars as the pompous windbag of a town mayor, whose efforts to keep his constinuents happy are designed primarily to keep him in office. De Sica finds himself in a pickle when Read More
Actors: June Laverick, Inge Schoener, Isabelle Corey, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi
Synopsis: The superb cinematography of Aldo Tonti adds immeasureably to the enjoyment of Souvenir D'Italie. The story revolves around three lovely young ladies: Margaret (June Laverick) from England, Hilde (Ingeborg Schoener) from Germany and Josette (Isabelle Corey) from France. Hitchhiking through Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Marisa Merlini
Synopsis: Though the English translation of Padre I Figli is Fathers and Son, the film bears no resemblance to the Russian novel of the same name. Set in the weeks just prior to Christmas, the story focuses on the Yuletide preparations made by five different families. The humor derives from the Read More
Actors: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi, Kurt Kasznar, Mercedes McCambridge
Synopsis: Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by David O. Selznick (Gone with the Wind). Rock Hudson plays an American serving in the Italian Army during the "War to End All Wars". Jennifer Jones is his lover, a Red cross Read More
Actors: Carlo Ninchi, Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell, Natalie Trundy, Jane Rose
Synopsis: Marlene Dietrich and Vittorio De Sica grace this comical yet dramatic Italian tale of a tumultuous love affair between two compulsive gamblers who meet in Monte Carlo. Though both are down on their luck, they dress affluently and that is what attracts them to each other. Romantic sparks fly until Read More
Synopsis: In this Italian romantic comedy set in the town of Sorrento, on the beautiful Bay of Naples, a woman rents a home from a dashing womanizer. Unfortunately, after 30 years away, the man returns to become the town police chief and wants to reclaim his home. The woman refuses to leave. The man then Read More
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Gloria Swanson, Vittorio De Sica, Brigitte Bardot
Synopsis: Mio Figlio Nero boasts one of the most eccentrically diverse casts in motion picture history. Silent movie queen Gloria Swanson hams it up as Agrippina, the mother of infamous 1st-century Roman emperor Nero. Her little boy grows up to become Alberto Sordi, who plays the notorious lyre-plucker and Read More
Crew: Director, Producer
Actors: Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi, Gastone Renzelli, Guiseppe Martini
Synopsis: Directly after his successful The Gold of Naples (1954), Italian filmmaker Vittorio DeSica served up something of a throwback to his neorealist days. In The Roof (originally Il Tetto) a pair of young lovers wed in defiance of their families' wishes. With the confidence of youth, they decide to set Read More
Synopsis: More a slice-of-life film than anything else, Vittorio De Sica simply examines the patrons of the Villa Borghese parks for a day. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani, Antonio Cifariello
Synopsis: The third entry in the Italian "Bread, Love and. . ." series, Pane, Amore e. . . was directed by Dino Risi, taking over from the auteur of the first two films, Luigi Comencini. Likewise, Sophia Loren substitutes for Gina Lollobrigida, the female star of the earlier films; only Vittorio De Sica Read More
Actors: Silvana Pampanini, Franco Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: Racconti Romani (Roman Tales) is a fast-paced comedy based on the short stories of Alberto Moravia. Tying the various narratives together is a gang of young Romans who'll do anything to line their pockets with money. Unfortunately, most of their schemes are at odds with the Law, and most culminate Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Paolo Stoppa, Yvonne Sanson
Synopsis: A rich man's attempts to steal away a poor man's wife set the stage for this comic farce, set in Naples in 1860. Luca is a simple but honest man married who runs a mill and his married to Carmela (Sophia Loren), a strikingly beautiful woman. Carmela's face and figure attracts the eye of the Read More
Actors: Linda Darnell, Vittorio De Sica, Sophie Desmarets, Rossano Brazzi, Peppino De Filippo
Synopsis: Gli Ultimi Cinque Minuti (The Last Five Minutes) was adapted from the popular Italian stage play by Aldo De Benedetti. Hollywood's Linda Darnell heads the cast as Renata, who sublets an apartment in Rome. Unfortunately, Carlo Reani (Vittorio de Sica) also has a legal claim on the apartment. The Read More
Actors: Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica, Raf Vallone, Peppino De Filippo
Synopsis: Il Segno di Venera (The Sign of Venus) offers an earthier Sophia Loren than American audiences would later become accustomed to. Agnese (Loren) has no trouble attracting men, which is more than can be said for her plain-Jane friend Cesira (Franca Valeri). The two girls embark on a search for an Read More
Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica
Actors: Susan Hayward, Richard Conte, Eddie Albert, Jo Van Fleet, Don Taylor
Synopsis: Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry Tomorrow. In as harshly realistic a manner as possible in the still censor-dominated Hollywood of 1955, the film recounts Roth's rise to fame, her precipitous fall and her Read More
Actors: Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Walter Bartoletti, Mario Passante
Synopsis: Can a good man tame a woman on the wrong side of the law? Paolo (Marcello Mastroianni) is a slightly clumsy cab driver who, not long after being issued a new vehicle, picks up an interesting fare -- a strikingly beautiful young woman, Lina (Sophia Loren), who is going to the beach with two of her Read More
Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica, Marisa Merlini, Roberto Risso, Maria Pia Casilio
Synopsis: In this sequel to Bread, Love, and Dreams a fortyish man gets himself in trouble with his wife who suspects him of messing around with a sexy woman. Unfortunately, he is innocent. His attempts to prove it form the basis for the story. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide 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
Actors: Charles Vanel, Vittorio De Sica, Daniel Gélin, Jean Richard
Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Richard Todd, Gianni Franciolini, Vittorio De Sica, Dawn Addams, Martine Carol, Marcel Mouloudji
Synopsis: Franciolin) FI An all-star lineup of actors and directors was responsible for the omnibus feature Secrets D'Alcove. The film is made up of four separate playlets; the only "character" common to the four stories is a huge bed. The characters whose behavior is governed by being in close proximity of Read More
Actors: Maria Fiore, Alberto Sordi, Carlo Croccolo
Synopsis: Unlike many multistoried films of the 1950s, Gran Varieta is the handiwork of a single solitary director--though five writers collaborated on the screenplay. The film is divided into five separate playlets, all unified by a "backstage" theme. In the first, Maria Fiore plays an aspiring singer who 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: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi, Richard Beymer
Synopsis: Legendary producer David O. Selznick teamed with Italian neorealist Vittorio De Sica (The Bicycle Thief) to bring audiences this heartfelt romantic drama concerning the pain of lost love and the difficulty of saying goodbye. When a beautiful but married American woman, Mary Forbes (Jennifer Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini, Virgilio Riento, Roberto Risso
Synopsis: Vittorio De Sica plays the middle-aged marshal of carabiniers in a remote Italian mountain village. He's anxious to marry, and selects young Gina Lollobrigida as his bride; but she is already in love with De Sica's shy subordinate Roberto Risso. Mistaking her headstrong behavior as promiscuity, De Sica Read More
Actors: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt, Mireille Perrey
Synopsis: Max Ophüls' masterpiece stars Danielle Darrieux as the titular Madame Louise de..., who in the film's opening scenes is forced to discreetly sell a pair of earrings, a gift from her military officer husband Andre (Charles Boyer), in order to make good on her debts. After she claims the earrings to Read More
Synopsis: Indiscretion of an American Wife began its life as a romantic drama entitled Terminal Station, directed with extraordinary skill and sensitivity by neorealist filmmaker Vittorio De Sica and starring Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift as a visiting American housewife and her Italian lover. Their Read More
Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Enzo Staiola
Synopsis: An all-star cast graces this Italian "omnibus" feature. The film consists of eight short stories, each based on nostalgic literary efforts. Linking the various stories is bookseller Aldo Fabrizi, who passes the time by reading the works dramatized herein. In "The Excelsior Ball," dancer Alba Arnova Read More
Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Actors: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari
Synopsis: Frequently mentioned on lists of masterpieces of modern cinema, Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. transforms a simple character study into a painfully poignant drama. Umberto is an aging former civil servant, now retired on his scant government pension. He spends his time in his tiny room in Rome Read More
Crew: Producer
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Sabu, Maria Mercader, Nando Bruno
Synopsis: It hardly takes a linguist to figure out that the title of this whimsical Italian comedy translates to Bonjour, Elephant! Vittorio de Sica plays Garetti, a Roman schoolteacher with nary a sous in his pocket. Nothing, however, dampens Garetti's joie de vivre. Eventually, the teacher's sunny Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Maria Mercader, Giorgio de Lullo, Nerio Bernardi
Synopsis: Heart and Soul is actually an Italian variation on Goodbye, Mr. Chips. Vittorio de Sica plays a provincial schoolmaster, much beloved by his past and present students. We follow De Sica as he stands steadfastly at his post throughout the years, during which time he is aided and abetted by 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
Crew: Screenwriter
Actors: Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena, Guglielmo Barnabo
Synopsis: Vittorio DeSica's follow-up to The Bicycle Thief documents the lives of the poverty-stricken in post-war Italy. Francesco Golisano is Good Toto, an orphan boy who begins living with a cluster of beggars. His organizational efforts bring some structure to the colony and engenders a sense of faint Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Lois Maxwell, Gabrielle Dorziat, Gino Leurini
Synopsis: Domani e Troppo Tardi is the first of two Leonide Moguy films dealing with the travails of postwar Italian life; the second was Domani e un altro Giorno. The story concerns the efforts to provide a proper sex education for youngsters. Progressive schoolteachers Landi (Vittorio de Sica) and Anna (Lois Maxwell Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Isa Miranda
Synopsis: Filmed in 1945, the Italian My Widow and I made it to the U.S. five years later. Two of Italy's top box-office draws, Vittorio de Sica and Isa Miranda, head the cast. De Sica plays Adriano Lari, who has been missing for so long that he is presumed dead. Returning home, Lari poses as his own Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Enrico Glori, Jacqueline Plessis
Synopsis: Sperduti nel Buio was released in the U.S. as Lost in the Dark. The film traces the ups and downs of three Neapolitan street musicians. Vittorio de Sica plays Nunzio, a blind violinist, while Enrico Glori portrays Paolo, a deaf clarinetist. Both are enamored of singer Paolina (Fiorella Berti), the Read More
Actors: Lamberto Maggiorani, Lianella Carell, Enzo Staiola, Elena Altieri, Vittorio Antonucci
Synopsis: This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies, including a special Academy Award as "most outstanding foreign film" seven years before that Oscar category existed. Written primarily by neorealist pioneer Cesare Zavattini and directed Read More
Actors: Anna Magnani, Vittorio De Sica, Virgilio Riento, Laura Gore
Synopsis: The Italian Peddlin' in Society was originally released as Da Bancarella a Bancarotta. Anna Magnani stars as Gioconda, a fruit vendor who supplements her income by trafficking in black-market goods. Making her fortune, Gioconda tries to crash society, leasing a lavish villa for this purpose. Alas Read More
Actors: Emilio Cigoli, Luciano de Ambrosis, Isa Pola, Adriano Rimoldi
Actors: Pacifico Astrologo, Franco Interlenghi, Antonio Carlino, Bruno Ortensi, Aniello Mele, Emilio Cigoli, Angelo D'Amico
Synopsis: Vittorio DeSica's Shoeshine (Sciuscia) is a must-see example of Italian neorealist cinema, ranking with such other neorealist classics as DeSica's Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D. (1952) and Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945). Using nonprofessional actors, DeSica and co-screenwriter Cesare Zavattini Read More
Actors: Emilio Cigoli, Isa Pola
Synopsis: A very early Vittorio De Sica effort, The Children Are Watching Us was originally released in Italy as I Bambini Ci Guardano. Director De Sica collaborated with another neorealist pioneer, Cesare Zavattini, on the screenplay. The film, a real tearjerker, concerns a young mother (Isa Pola) who Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Anna Magnani
Synopsis: Doctor Beware was the U.S.-released title of Vittorio DeSica's 1941 effort Teresa Venerdi. DeSica not only directed, but played the leading role of orphanage official Dr. Vignali. The thinnish storyline finds the good doctor becoming romantically involved with three women. It is up to orphaned Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Maria Denis, Bella Starace Sainati
Synopsis: Altoleto Palermi is both writer and director of the Italian domestic drama Le Due Madri (The Two Mothers). Vittorio De Sica plays Salvatore, a young aspiring artist who becomes an overnight success (after several years' worth of struggling!) Upon having fame and fortune thrust upon him, Salvatore Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Guglielmo Sinaz, Lamberto Picasso
Synopsis: The Italian historical melodrama The Cuckoo Clock was acquired for US distribution by MGM-who promptly shelved the film for several months in reflection of mounting anti-Mussolini sentiments in the US. Vittorio De Sica heads the cast of this complex mystery, in which a huge, American-manufactured Read More
Actors: Maria Denis, Vittorio De Sica
Synopsis: Partire (Departure) was adapted by director Amleto Palermi from the stage play by Gherardo Gherardi. Vittorio de Sica stars as Paul, who convinces himself that fame and fortune will be his if only he can escape his provincial hometown. Unfortunately, he lacks the necessary funds for such a move. Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Emma Gramatica, Maria Denis
Synopsis: Its title translating as Naples of Former Days, this Italian musical romance takes an bittersweet backward glance at the 19th century. Vittorio de Sica plays Maestro Perla, who hopes to arise from poverty to become a renowned composer and symphony conductor. He is helped along by a mysterious Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Paola Barbara, Armando Migliari, Giuditta Rissone, Enrico Viarisio
Synopsis: Loud, prolonged laughter is the order of the day in the Italian Il Trionfo Dell'Amore (Triumph of Love). Vittorio de Sica and Paolo Barbara play Vincenzo and Giovanna, newlyweds who can't help but feel that their marriage may have been a mistake. While on their honeymoon at the villa of Vincenzo's Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Paola Barbara, Giuditta Rissone, Enrico Viarisio, Armando Migliari
Synopsis: Questi Ragazzi (Those Children) is the story of a December-December romance. An elderly man and woman, both long widowed, inaugurate a surprisingly passionate romance. So frisky are the aged lovers that they are referred to as "those children" by their own children. As it turns out, the oldsters Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Assia Noris, Franco Coop
Synopsis: Daro un Milione (I'll Give A Million) was another felicitous collaboration between director Mario Camerini and his favorite star Vittorio de Sica. The story gets under way when a cynical millionaire announces that he intends to disguise himself as a hobo and given a million lire to anyone who Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Assia Noris, Umberto Melnati, Enrico Viarisio
Synopsis: This Italian romantic drama was originally released as L'Uomo Che Sorride. It's a Taming of the Shrew yarn in mufti; the eminently tameable heroine is a spoiled industrialist's daughter named Adriana. Used to getting her own way, Adriana has browbeaten her eternally-smiling husband Pio into Read More
Actors: Milly, Vittorio De Sica, Enrico Viarisio, Giuditta Rissone, Ada Dondini
Synopsis: Vittorio de Sica stars as Professor Giovanni Agano, a lighthearted (and somewhat light-headed) Italian composer. Falling head over heels in love with the aristocratic Grace (Milly), Giovanni endeavors to make himself a worthy suitor. His efforts are compromised by his alleged best friend Piccoli (Enrico Viarisio Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Livio Pavanelli
Synopsis: Composer Pietro Mascagni was responsible for this direct-to-screen Italian operetta. The story is traditional mistaken-identity fare, with heroine Frida (Lilliane Dietz) assuming that young lawyer Paladino (Vittorio de Sica) is actually famed opera-tenor Giacomo Lauri-Volpi (playing himself). It Read More
Actors: Vittorio De Sica, Elisa Cegani
Synopsis: Ma Non e Una Cosa Seria (But It Isn't Serious) is based on a play by Luigi Pirandello. Terrified of the notion of matrimony, the hero (Vittorio De Sica) goes so far as to be "vaccinated" against the possibility of marriage! No, he doesn't roll up his sleeve and jam a needle in his arm: Rather, he Read More
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