Search results for "Vittorio De Sica"
Sunflower

Sunflower

Sunflower
IMDb: 7.3
N/A

This cartoon follows on from the 1980’s cartoon “Ducktales”, continuing the adventures of Huey, Dewey and Louie. Now 12 year olds and living with their uncle Donald Duck, the three…

Genre: Comedy, Family, Kids
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
IMDb: 7.3
95

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…

Genre: History
A Place for Lovers

A Place for Lovers

A Place for Lovers
IMDb: 5.5
90

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

Genre: Uncategorized
Woman Times Seven

Woman Times Seven

Woman Times Seven
IMDb: 5.8
100

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,…

Genre: Comedy
The Witches

The Witches

The Witches
IMDb: 6
111

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….

Genre: Comedy
After the Fox

After the Fox

After the Fox
IMDb: 6.4
108

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

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Marriage Italian Style

Marriage Italian Style

Marriage Italian Style
IMDb: 7.4
102

During World War II, a man falls for a woman in Naples, leading to a two-decade affair. When she learns he plans to marry someone else, she schemes to make…

Genre: Comedy
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
IMDb: 7.2
119

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

Genre: Comedy
The Condemned of Altona

The Condemned of Altona

The Condemned of Altona
IMDb: 6.8
103

A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family’s shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family’s…

Genre: Uncategorized
Boccaccio ’70

Boccaccio ’70

Boccaccio ’70
IMDb: 7
204

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…

Genre: Comedy
Two Women

Two Women

Two Women
IMDb: 7.7
100

Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born….

Genre: War
The Roof

The Roof

The Roof
IMDb: 7.4
97

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…

Genre: Uncategorized
Indiscretion of an American Wife

Indiscretion of an American Wife

Indiscretion of an American Wife
IMDb: 6.2
63

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…

Genre: Uncategorized
Umberto D.

Umberto D.

Umberto D.
IMDb: 8.2
91

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…

Genre: Uncategorized
Miracle in Milan

Miracle in Milan

Miracle in Milan
IMDb: 7.6
97

An old woman finds a baby in her cabbage patch and raises him. After her death, the boy grows up in an orphanage and later joins the homeless in post-war…

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves
IMDb: 8.3
89

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…

Genre: Uncategorized
The Children Are Watching Us

The Children Are Watching Us

The Children Are Watching Us
IMDb: 7.7
84

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…

Genre: Uncategorized
Teresa Venerdì

Teresa Venerdì

Teresa Venerdì
IMDb: 6.6
87

A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten…

Genre: Comedy
A Garibaldian in the Convent

A Garibaldian in the Convent

A Garibaldian in the Convent
IMDb: 6.4
83

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.

Genre: Comedy