Doctor, Beware

1941

Italian

6.6

♡ 2

55%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Guglielmo Barnabò as Agostino Passalacqua

Vittorio De Sica as Dott. Pietro Vignali

Arturo Bragaglia as Il primo creditore

Anna Magnani as Loletta Prima

A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.

Stazione Termini

1953

Italian

6.2

♡ 5

43%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Paolo Stoppa as Annoying man with oranges

Montgomery Clift as Giovanni Doria

Jennifer Jones as Mary Forbes

Richard Beymer as Paul Stevens

While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?

A Garibaldian in the Convent

1942

Italian

6.3

♡ 5

60%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Achille Majeroni as Il governatore

Lina Marengo as La signora Colombelli

Vittorio De Sica as Nino Bixio

Fausto Guerzoni as Tiepolo, Il guardiano del convento

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.

Woman Times Seven

1967

English

5.8

♡ 17

34%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Paul Frees as Dubbing

Alan Arkin as Fred

Michael Caine as Handsome Stranger

Michael Brennan as (segment "At The Opera")

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.

A Place for Lovers

1968

Italian

5.5

♡ 2

17%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Esmeralda Ruspoli as Attorney's Wife

Faye Dunaway as Julia

Mirella Pamphili as Party Guest

Marcello Mastroianni as Valerio

Globe-trotting clothes-horse Julia, who's harboring a secret, embarks on a 10-day fling with Valerio in Italy.

The Children Are Watching Us

1943

Italian

7.7

♡ 7

87%

Action

Drama

innocence

Vittorio De Sica Director

Emilio Cigoli as Andrea - il padre

Marcello Mastroianni as Extra

Lina Marengo as La signora sul treno

Adriano Rimoldi as Roberto - l'amante di Nina

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.

The Roof

1956

Italian

7.4

♡ 1

85%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Fernando Gerra as Francesco

Aldo Boi as Luigi

Emilia Maritini as Luisa's mother

Luisa Alessandri as Signora Baj

Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.

Miracle in Milan

1951

Italian

7.6

♡ 2

92%

89%

angel

based on novel or book

Vittorio De Sica Director

Arturo Bragaglia as Alfredo

Emma Gramatica as La vecchia Lolotta

Guglielmo Barnabò as Mobbi

Paolo Stoppa as Rappi

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

Bicycle Thieves

1948

Italian

8.2

♡ 54

99%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Sergio Leone as A Seminary Student

Gino Saltamerenda as Baiocco

Veriano Ginesi as Man in the Crowd

Elena Altieri as The Charitable Lady

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

The Boom

1963

Italian

7.1

♡ 5

100%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Alberto Sordi as Giovanni Alberti

Angelo Casadei as Man in the queue

John Karlsen as Occulist

Maria Grazia Buccella as Secretary

Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...

The Witches

1967

Italian

5.9

♡ 17

46%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Clint Eastwood as Carlo / Charlie

Helmut Berger as Hotel Page

Valentino Macchi as Man at Stadium

Annie Girardot as Valeria

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.

Sunflower

1970

Italian

7.3

♡ 5

88%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Marcello Mastroianni as Antonio

Sophia Loren as Giovanna

Anna Carena as La madre di Antonio

Pippo Starnazza as Man of Enquiry Office

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

Marriage Italian Style

1964

Italian

7.4

♡ 19

86%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Mara Marilli as

Alberto Castaldi as Doctor

Marcello Mastroianni as Domenico Soriano

Sophia Loren as Filumena Marturano

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.

Umberto D.

1952

Italian

8.1

♡ 8

Vittorio De Sica Director

Lina Gennari as Antonia Belloni

Ileana Simova as La donna nella camera di Umberto

Elena Rea as La suora all' ospedale

Carlo Battisti as Umberto Domenico Ferrari

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

After the Fox

1966

English

6.4

♡ 8

78%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Carlo Pisacane as 2nd Judge

Britt Ekland as Gina Romantica

Martin Balsam as Harry Granoff

Paolo Stoppa as Polio

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1963

Italian

7.2

♡ 19

78%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Sophia Loren as Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara

Carlo Croccolo as Auctioneer

Marcello Mastroianni as Carmine Sbaratti / Renzo / Augusto Rusconi

Aldo Giuffrè as Pasquale Nardella

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

Two Women

1960

Italian

7.7

♡ 13

88%

parent child relationship

Vittorio De Sica Director

Sophia Loren as Cesira

Carlo Ninchi as Filippo, il padre di Michele

Raf Vallone as Giovanni

Curt Lowens as Ufficiale tedesco batteria contraerea

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

Boccaccio '70

1962

Italian

7.0

♡ 8

50%

Vittorio De Sica Director

Valentino Macchi as Friend of Man Winning a Bottle

Paolo Stoppa as Lawyer Alcamo

Silvio Bagolini as Secretary of Monsignore

Sophia Loren as Zoe

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

1970

Italian

7.2

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Vittorio De Sica Director

Helmut Berger as Alberto Finzi Contini

Joshua Sinclair as (as Gianni Loffredo)

Dominique Sanda as Micòl Finzi Contini

Adolf Hitler as Self - Acknowledges Hess

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.

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Doctor, Beware

Stazione Termini

A Garibaldian in the Convent

Woman Times Seven

A Place for Lovers

The Children Are Watching Us

The Roof

Miracle in Milan

Bicycle Thieves

The Boom

The Witches

Sunflower

Marriage Italian Style

Umberto D.

After the Fox

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Two Women

Boccaccio '70

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis