Vittorio De Sica
1) Sunflower
Pub. Date
1970.
Description
In another of Sophia Loren’s great collaborations with director Vittorio De Sica (*The Bicycle Thief*), Loren plays Giovanna, a steel-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing on the WWII battlefields of Russia. Making the grueling overland journey years after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and finds him a changed man. This heart-wrenching reunion will forever...
Pub. Date
1963.
Description
This **Oscar-winning**, sparklingly original comedy casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband. And in Rome, Mastroianni is an industry scion who helps Loren’s prostitute set a wavering priest back onto...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the **Academy Award–winning** BICYCLE THIEVES, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief. Simple in construction and profoundly...
4) The Boom
Pub. Date
1963.
Description
Giovanni lives far beyond his means to provide for his wife's bodily needs. In return, she fully satisfies his sexual desires. Nearly insolvent and terribly worried at the idea of losing his wife, he thinks of committing suicide when an ad gives him hope again : a rich man offers anyone able to give him one of his eyes a big amount of money...
5) Two Women
Pub. Date
1960.
Description
In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.
Pub. Date
1974.
Description
Desperate for virgin blood, Count Dracula – Udo Kier in the performance Flavorwire calls “one of cinema’s Top 5 best Draculas” – journeys to an Italian villa only to discover the family’s three young daughters are also coveted by the estate’s Marxist stud (Joe Dallesandro). Stefania Casini and Bicycle Thieves director Vittorio De Sica co-star – with an unforgettable cameo by Roman Polanski – in “one of the most unique vampire films...
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
An anthology of films depicting various aspects of Neapolitan life. The Big Chief: A district big wig settles down in a family he reduces to slavery. The Players : A ruined gambler nobleman has no other partner than his caretaker's son. Theresa : A rich man marries a prostitute to punish himself for a young girl's suicide. Pizza on Credit : A nice-looking pizza salesgirl has forgotten her ring at her lover's house. Her husband thinks she has lost...
Pub. Date
1961.
Description
In Naples, a mysterious voice foretells that "the last judgment will begin at 6 p.m". First of all, it is seen as hype, then as the hour approaches, panic sweeps across the town. Everyone reacts in their own individual way but once the threat is apparently past, normal life resumes. For good or bad, it is as if nothing has happened.
Pub. Date
1960.
Description
Starring studio-era legends Sophia Loren and Clark Gable, IT STARTED IN NAPLES follows an American lawyer who travels to the Italian city to settle the estate of his recently deceased expatriate brother. When he arrives, he discovers that his sister-in-law was also killed in the accident, leaving their son Marrietto in the guardianship of an aunt he hardly knows. Though the two share a mutual suspicion towards one another at first, they eventually...
10) Boccaccio '70
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in Boccaccio '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (Big deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), Luchino Visconti (The leopard) and Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, today and tomorrow) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through four stories of unashamed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, they are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding...
Pub. Date
1967.
Description
Shirley Maclaine (*The Apartment, Terms Of Endearment*) portrays an amazing array of characters over seven satirical vignettes that attempt to tackle the universal subjects of love and adultery. From a distraught widow dealing with amorous advances, a bored housewife becoming a hooker, suicidal lovers, naked poetry reading and psychotic socialites to a chance encounter on public transport that leads to a bittersweet, poignant conclusion. Michael Caine,...