Bicycle Thieves / Ladri di biciclette (1948)
Drama
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.
Starring: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Gino Saltamerenda, Vittorio Antonucci, Giulio Chiari
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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
Blood for Dracula (1974)
Horror
Paul Morrissey's moralistic take on modern values is a brash mixture of humor, horror, and sex – and a revelation to fans of the horror film. In Blood for Dracula, the infamous count searches Italy for virgin blood.
Starring: Joe Dallesandro, Udo Kier, Vittorio De Sica, Maxime McKendry
Director: Paul Morrissey
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
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Drama | Romance | War
Hollywood legends Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones heat up the screen in a towering adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel, the famous tale of doomed love amidst the howl and fury of the most perilous theatre of World War I – the snowy Alpine peaks and muddy plains of northern Italy. Majestically filmed in the actual Hemingway locales (the Alps, Milan, Switzerland and Rome), A Farewell to Arms tells of the love affair of Lt. Henry (Hudson), an American ambulance driver injured on the battlefront, and Catherine (Jones), the English nurse who shares his pain – and his hospital bed. When Henry is forced to desert, the devoted (and now pregnant) Catherine joins him in his flight to neutral Switzerland…where very different, even greater danger awaits. Best Supporting Actor Oscar® nominee Vittorio De Sica co-stars in this epic motion picture worthy of Hemingway's American classic.
Starring: Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica, Oskar Homolka, Mercedes McCambridge, Elaine Stritch
Director: Charles Vidor
Madame de… / The Earrings of Madame de… (1953)
Drama | Romance
The most cherished work from French master Max Ophuls, The Earrings of Madame de… is a profoundly emotional, cinematographically adventurous tale of deceptive opulence and tragic romance. When an aristocratic woman known only as Madame de (the extraordinary Danielle Darrieux) sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband (Charles Boyer) in order to pay a debt, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair. Ophuls's adaptation of Louise de Vilmorin's incisive fin de siècle novel employs the elegant and precise camera work for which the director is so justly renowned, to ravishing effect.
Starring: Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Debucourt
Director: Max Ophüls
Woman Times Seven / Sette volte donna / Sept fois femme (1967)
Comedy | Drama
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Michael Caine, Rossano Brazzi, Alan Arkin, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Lex Barker, Elsa Martinelli, Adrienne Corri, Philippe Noiret
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Umberto D. (1952)
Drama
A retired bureaucrat struggles to live on his meager pension in Rome, about to be kicked out of his apartment for back rent, and his only companion his small dog.
Starring: Carlo Battisti
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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
