The Life Ahead / La vita davanti a sé (2020)
Drama
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye
Director: Edoardo Ponti
A Special Day / Una giornata particolare (1977)
Drama
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd, Patrizia Basso, Tiziano De Persio
Director: Ettore Scola
Arabesque (1966)
Action | Adventure | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Romance | Thriller
After being hired by an Arabian oil magnate to decipher a secret message, Oxford professor David Pollock (Gregory Peck) finds himself becoming romantically involved with his employer's attractive companion, Yasmin (Sophia Loren). The duo soon become involved in a deadly chase when they discover just what the secret message relates to.
Starring: Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel, Kieron Moore, John Merivale, George Coulouris
Director: Stanley Donen
The Cassandra Crossing (1976)
Drama | Thriller
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train so what happens next?
Starring: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson, Lionel Stander, Ann Turkel
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Ieri, oggi, domani / Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
Comedy | Romance
Three separate tales in which Sophia Loren and Mastroianni appear as different characters paired up in each segment with a connecting theme of comedy of the sexes.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Tecla Scarano, Armando Trovajoli, Tina Pica
Director: Vittorio De Sica
El Cid (1961)
Adventure | Biography | Drama | History | Romance | War
Anthony Mann masterfully directs this classic tale of the 11th-century hero (Charlton Heston) who fought to unite Spain. Known as history's "compassionate warrior," the film follows El Cid's remarkable journey from peace-broker accused of treason to the King's fighting champion, and later from exiled hero to legendary martyr. Unequaled in scope, grandeur and adventure, EL CID is an essential part of any film lover's collection.
Starring: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Geneviève Page, John Fraser, Gary Raymond
Director: Anthony Mann
I girasoli / Sunflower (1970)
Drama
A desperate woman searches for her missing husband who never returned from the Russian front during World War II.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva, Anna Carena, Silvano Tranquilli, Umberto Di Grazia
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Matrimonio all'italiana / Marriage Italian Style (1964)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
A woman who's had an ongoing affair with her lover for twenty years, feigns a serious illness to get him to marry her after finding out that he's fallen for a younger woman.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Marilù Tolo, Gianni Ridolfi
Director: Vittorio De Sica
The Millionairess (1960)
Comedy | Drama | Romance
London-based Millionairess Epifania (Sophia Loren) is attracted to Dr. Kabir (MD from Delhi and PhD from Calcutta), who is more intent on treating patients. When she persists, he confides in her that he had made a commitment to his late widowed seamstress mother that he will wed any woman who will manage to survive on just Rs.500/-, for 90 days. She finds out that this sum is equivalent to just 35 shillings but readily accepts this challenge. She also informs him that her late father had also imposed a condition that she must wed a male who will turn £500 into £15000 within the same period. Epifania then finds employment with an Italian firm, ends up re-organizing, and turning up the firm's profits. At the end of 90 days, she goes to meet Kabir and discovers that he has not only given all the money away but also has no interest whatsoever in marrying her.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price, Gary Raymond
Director: Anthony Asquith
Man of La Mancha / L'uomo della Mancha (1972)
Adventure | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Musical | Romance
This musical version of Don Quixote is framed by an incident allegedly from the life of its author, Miguel de Cervantes. Don Quixote is the mad, aging nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family by his adventures. Backed by his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, he duels windmills and defends his perfect lady Dulcinea (who is actually a downtrodden whore named Aldonza).
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco, Harry Andrews, John Castle
Director: Arthur Hiller
Houseboat (1958)
Comedy | Drama | Family | Romance
Tom Winston, a widower, is trying to understand and raise three precocious children alone. He gets a little unexpected help from Cinzia, when the children decide she is be the new maid. She is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.
Starring: Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer, Harry Guardino, Eduardo Ciannelli, Murray Hamilton
Director: Melville Shavelson
Ready to Wear / Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Comedy | Drama
A fashion show in Paris draws the usual bunch of people; designers, reporters, models, magazine editors, photographers. Lots of unconnected stories which all revolve around this show, and an all-star cast.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Julia Roberts, Tim Robbins, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Kim Basinger, Anouk Aimée, Lili Taylor, Rupert Everett, Forest Whitaker, Michel Blanc
Director: Robert Altman
Boccaccio '70 (1962)
Comedy | Fantasy | Romance
Four directors tell tales of Eros fit for a 1970s Decameron. Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. A billboard of Anita Ekberg provocatively selling milk gives a prudish crusader for public decency more than he can handle. The wife of a count whose escapades with call girls make the front page of the papers decides to work to prove her independence, but what is she qualified to do? A buxom carnival-booth manager who owes back taxes offers herself for one night in a lottery: a nerdy sacristan and a jealous cowboy make for a lovers' triangle. In each, women take charge, but not always happily.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider, Anita Ekberg
Director: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Drama | History | War
After poisoning the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, his mad son Commodus succumbs to dissipation and allows Rome to be ravaged by pestilence and the Barbarians.
Starring: Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness, James Mason, Christopher Plummer
Director: Anthony Mann
Legend of the Lost (1957)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A wealthy treasure hunter employs a brawling, jailbird adventurer to help him find a hidden treasure in the Sahara, but eventually a young woman, along for the ride and looking to marry the wealthy man, comes between them.
Starring: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar
Director: Henry Hathaway
Nine (2009)
Drama | Musical | Romance
'Nine' is a vibrant and provocative musical that follows the life of world famous film director Guido Contini as he reaches a creative and personal crisis of epic proportion, while balancing the numerous women in his life including his wife, his mistress, his film star muse, his confidant and costume designer, an American fashion journalist, the whore from his youth and his mother.
Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Sophia Loren
Director: Rob Marshall
