Cast: Vittorio De Sica

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Nino Manfredi · Vittorio Gassman · Stefania Sandrelli · Stefano Satta Flores

Synopsis Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is the story of the life of these three idealists and how they...

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Charles Boyer · Vittorio De Sica · Jean Debucourt

Synopsis A woman lies to her husband about having sold a pair of diamond earrings which were a gift from him. He discovers it thanks to the indiscreet jeweller. She is ultimately forced to reckon with her deception and the penalties...

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Hannes Messemer · Sandra Milo · Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis Genoa, 1943. Grimaldi is a swindler, pretending to be a colonel in the Italian army to get money from the family of people put into jail by the Nazis. Once caught, the Gestapo makes a deal with him : he...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Silvana Mangano · Sophia Loren · Eduardo De Filippo · Paolo Stoppa

Synopsis Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster ; an inconstant pizza seller (Sophia Loren) loosing her husband's ring ; the funeral...

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Mylène Demongeot · Elsa Martinelli · Peter Baldwin · Claudio Gora

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Nino Manfredi · Franco Franchi · Ciccio Ingrassia · Andrea Balestri

Synopsis Television adaptation of the story of Pinocchio. In a Tuscan village in the nineteenth century, a poor carpenter named Geppetto builds a puppet he calls Pinocchio. Soon it begins to move and speak on his own. The next night, a...

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Lia Franca · Cesare Zoppetti · Aldo Moschino

Direction Florestano Vancini

Cast Franco Nero · Mario Adorf · Riccardo Cucciolla · Damiano Damiani

Synopsis During the fascist period in Italy, the killing of Giacomo Matteotti, a socialist member of the Italian Parliament, forces an official investigation by the fascist government of Mussolini, whose "Black Shirts" were responsible of the crime.

Direction Michael Anderson

Cast Anthony Quinn · Laurence Olivier · Oskar Werner · David Janssen

Synopsis After twenty years in a Siberian labor camp, Kiril Lakota (Anthony Quinn), the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lvov, is set free by USSR president Piotr Ilyich Kamenev (Laurence Olivier). The Catholic Archbishop is released and sent to Rome, where the ailing...

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Alberto Sordi · Fernandel · Nino Manfredi

Synopsis One morning, over the heavens of Naples, a mysterious voice announces that the God's Last Judgement will arrive that evening, and then the story follows various denizens as they struggle to absorb it.

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Assia Noris · Rubi D'Alma · Lilia Dale

Synopsis Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an...

Direction Luigi Zampa

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio De Sica · Marisa Merlini · Mara Berni

Synopsis Othello (Alberto Sordi), an unemployed loser, is constantly being jeered at and publicly humilated at the local Cafès and bars, for being a useless man supported by his hard working wife, until through family connections and friends he gets a...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Gina Lollobrigida · Roberto Risso · Marisa Merlini

Synopsis Italian actress Gina Lollobrigida ("La Lollo") had been in a number of smaller films before this 1953 blockbuster catapulted her to international fame. The success of this rustic comedy spawned a sequel a year later: PANE AMORE E GELOSIA or...

Direction Mario Camerini

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Assia Noris · Luigi Almirante · Mario Gallina

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Marcello Mastroianni · Marisa Merlini · Lorella De Luca

Direction Alessandro Blasetti

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Sophia Loren · Vittorio De Sica · Umberto Melnati

Synopsis 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...

Direction Gennaro Righelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Vittorio De Sica · Virgilio Riento · Laura Gore

Synopsis Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit...

Direction Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio De Sica · Anne Vernon · Susana Canales

Synopsis Alberto is a newspaper vendor in Roma fascinated by the local high society. His secret dream is to be part of it or at least socialize with that people he can only watch on the newspapers he sells. When Alberto...

Direction Léonide Moguy

Cast Pier Angeli · Vittorio De Sica · Gino Leurini · Gabrielle Dorziat

Synopsis The story concerns the efforts to provide a proper sex education for youngsters. Progressive schoolteachers Landi (Vittorio de Sica) and Anna (Lois Maxwell) have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella (Anna Maria Pierangeli) and Franco (Gino...

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Gina Lollobrigida · Marisa Merlini · Maria Pia Casilio

Synopsis Borrowing elements of Shakespearean comedy, this film is about the parallel amorous fortunes of two couples, one young, one middle-age. We encountered them both in the first film. "Maresciallo" Antonio Carotenuto (Vittorio De Sica) must resign his position in the...