Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica (7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves (honorary), while Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Indeed, the great critical success of Sciuscià (the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award. These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema. Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history. De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop. De Sica's acting was considered the highlight of the film.
The Earrings of Madame de...
as Baron Fabrizio DonatiIn France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells...
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Blood for Dracula
as Marquis Di FioreDeathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a...
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General Della Rovere
as Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to...
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
as giudiceMastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and...
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The Traffic Policeman
as Il sindacoAn unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates...
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
as ShoemakerA group of travelers from the United States race through seven European countries in 18 days.
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Bread, Love and Dreams
as Maresciallo CarotenutoWhen a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an...
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After the Fox
as HimselfA criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.
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Scandal in Sorrento
as Maresciallo CarotenutoBack to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a...
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All
as Cesare CelliA kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
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A Farewell to Arms
as Major RinaldiAn English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love,...
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It Started in Naples
as Mario VitaleMike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged...
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
as Cardinal RinaldiAll eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the...
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The Sign of Venus
as Alessio SpanoAgnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem...
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The Millionairess
as JoeWhen her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman....
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The Gold of Naples
as Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori")A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza...
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Doctor and the Healer
as Antonio LocoratoloFrancesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the...
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Ferdinand I King of Naples
as SeccanoThe story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government...
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The Moralist
as O.I.M.P. PresidentThe newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything...
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Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
as Il prestigiatore con il piccione (uncredited)Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de...
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Frisky
as Maresciallo CarotenutoThe relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are...
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Too Bad She's Bad
as Vittorio StroppianiWhen young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal...
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The Battle of Austerlitz
as le pape Pie VIINapoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
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The Assassination of Matteotti
as Mauro Del GiudiceHow the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into...
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
as Marchese Vittorio De VitttiThe fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the...
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Eva
as (uncredited)Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance...
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The Last Judgment
as Defense lawyerThe Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by...
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Nero's Mistress
as SenecaNero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is...
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The Two Marshals
as Maresciallo Vittorio CotoneSeptember 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange...
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Twelve Plus One
as Di SetaMario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides...
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Il conte Max
as Conte Max Orsini VaraldoAlberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his...
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What Scoundrels Men Are!
as BrunoBruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi...
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The Miller's Beautiful Wife
as Don Teofilo - governatoreA lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly...
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
as der GrafA bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of...
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
as Ambassador of SpainHenri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king...
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Noi siamo le colonne
as Alfredo Celimontani, il guitto squattrinatoThe adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most...
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Fathers and Sons
as Vincenzo CoralloThe adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their...
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It Happened in the Park
as Arturo Cavazzuti - the lawyer (segment: Incidente a Villa Borghese)Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are...
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It Happens in Roma
as Carlo ReaniAiry comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located...
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Love in Rome
as le réalisateurA young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring...
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We Are Cinema
as Self (archive footage)An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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100 Years of Love
as Duke Giovanni del Bagno aka Signor Pallini (segment "Pendolin")Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino...
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La donna che venne dal mare
as Console BordoginDanae, a woman who came from the sea is a beautiful blonde girl at the center of a spy story...
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Venetian Honeymoon
as AlfredoThere is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels...
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The Monte Carlo Story
as Count Dino della FiabaStylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize...
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Fast and Sexy
as Don LuigiA beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in...
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Tomorrow Is Too Late
as Professor LandiProgressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young...
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Il mondo vuole così
as Paolo MorelliAccused of having stolen 3 million liras, a bank employee serves five years in prison. Having...
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Roman Tales
as Mazzoni Baralla - the lawyerAlvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario,...
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The Orderly
as Colonnello Filippo BitossiColonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife...
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Hello Elephant
as Carlo CarettiVittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that...
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Nel blu dipinto di blu
as SpartacoTuri, a young Sicilian, makes ends meet by doing some occasional work and singing in taverns in...
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An Italian in America
as Lando MarossiGiuseppe, an Italian gas station attendant, is invited to the United States to reconcile with...
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The Inveterate Bachelor
as Il professoreMarcello is engaged to Gina, the daughter of the boarding house where he lives, but he is...
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I'll Give a Million
as GoldA comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo...
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Lafayette
as BancroftThe story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the...
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The Cheerful Squadron
as Il generaleThe Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted...
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The Wonders of Aladdin
as GenieYoung Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.
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Bread, Love and Andalucia
as ToninoDetermined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates...
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It Happened in Rome
as The CountThree girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
as Commendator TrepossiSandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man...
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Trastevere
as Enrico FormichiA retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the...
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Heart
as Master PerboniA young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of...
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Sophia Loren, a special destiny
as Self (archive footage)With a maddening sensuality, the unforgettable actress of the film "A Special Day" embodies the...
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Full Speed
as Il professore Giacomo BantiA meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
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Le pillole di Ercole
as Colonel Piero CuocoloA doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an...
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Vittorio D.
as Self (archive footage)A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and...
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Peddlin' in Society
as Il conte GhiraniThanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She...
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A Garibaldian in the Convent
as Nino BixioAn old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the...
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Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
as Alfredo HartmanA young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters...
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Our Dreams
as LeoLeo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through...
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Hector the Mighty
as GioveA pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal...
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The Angel Wore Red
as General ClaveA clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds...
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Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
as Maresciallo CenciarelliRome, early 1900s. Gigi, a young populace, falls in love with the rich Mara and, to satisfy the...
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Teresa Venerdì
as Dott. Pietro VignaliA comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health...
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Times Gone By
as Defense Advocate (segment "Il processo di Frine")A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
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Il mondo dei miracoli
as Director Pietro GiordaniAn actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's...
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Mister Max
as Gianni / Max VaraldoVittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes...
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My Wife's Enemy
as professor Ottavio TornabuoniMarco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him,...
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Time of Vacation
as Aristide RossiHoliday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various...
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Department Store
as Bruno ZacchiIn a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager...
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1960
as Self (archive footage)By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores...
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The Bigamist
as Honorable Prince / Attorney PrinceA traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are...
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L'onorata società
as Salvatore il 'Capintesta'Salvatore and Rosalino are sentenced to death by the Mafia because they are accused of having...
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The Girl of San Pietro Square
as Armando ConfortiArmando Conforti, his family and his friends have a business: they sell souvenirs near St....
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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
as (archive footage)
The Anatomy of Love
as Conte Ferdinando / Don Corradino ScognamiglioNine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
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Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
as Self (archive footage)How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates...
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Gastone
as The PrinceDuring the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film...
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Rome: Free City
as Il signore distintoIn a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man...
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
as Self (archive footage)Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past....
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
as Self (archive footage)Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted...
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The Adventuress from the Floor Above
as Fabrizio MarchiniA comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his...
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Winter Holidays
as MaurizioAlberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV...
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Position Wanted
as Leonardo LeonardiMaria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting...
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I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear
as Player in Venice casinoTwo spouses discover a corpse that mysteriously disappears and then reappear in their suitcase....
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Lost in the Dark
as CarmineNaples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having...
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Dear Caroline
as Le comte de BièvreAgainst the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first...
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Cose di Cosa Nostra
as Don MicheleA young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
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Modern Virgin
as Antonio ValliThe young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each...
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I Don't Know You Anymore
as Il dottore Alberto SpinelliAfter an argument with her husband, an unsatisfied wife suffers from selective amnesia. She...
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The Garden That Doesn't Exist
as Self (archive footage)Once upon a time there was a garden, a refuge, a safe haven - 'The Garden of the Finzi...
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Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
as Colonel BelalcazarIn Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals...
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Cinéma et Réalité
as SelfIn this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini...
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Orson Welles at Large: Portrait of Gina
as Self1958 documentary film by Orson Welles. It was funded by ABC TV. Around 30 minutes long, it...
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The Cuckoo Clock
as uncreditedThe rich banker Rosen of Livorno fear that the Bonapartist will take all his gold, so he is...
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If I Was Honest
as Pietro KovachThe nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor...
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The Sinner
as Pietro BandelliSeduced and abandonned by her fiance, Maria Ferrante leaves home to avoid any scandal. She is...
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Cinéastes de notre temps : Max Ophuls ou la ronde
as SelfA 1965 episode of the French television program Cinéastes de notre temps, featuring interviews...
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Paris Casino
as Alexander GordyCatherine Miller's triumph at the Casino de Paris leads fashionable playwright Alexandre Gordi...
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Angel in a Taxi
as uncreditedMarietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One...
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Red Roses
as Alberto VeraniA comedy of errors about marriage and infidelity. Vittorio De Sica's debut film.
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Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
as Adriano LariBelieved dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when...
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Scandal Man
as uncreditedMarc, is a reporter in a tabloid. At the "Bongo Club", he photographs a young blond woman...
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The Secrets of the Bed
as RobertoFour-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural...
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Men and Noblemen
as marchese Nicola Peccoli Macinelli di AfragolaNicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of...
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Holiday Island
as Engineer OcchipintiIntersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer...
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La compagnia dei matti
as Prof. RosolilloMomi Tamberlan, Bortolo Cioci and Piero Scavezza are the last three old survivors of a club...
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi
as RetiredAn unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when...
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Love and Chatter
as Avvocato BonelliMaria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the...
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Il matrimonio
as Gregory Stefanovich SmirnovAn Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by...
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Gran varietà
as VenezianiA musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and...
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Working with De Sica
as Self (archive footage)This short documentary features interviews with film scholar Callisto Cosulich, BICYCLE THIEVES...
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Domenica è sempre domenica
as Il 'comandante' GastaldiA television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will...
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That's Life: Vittorio De Sica
as Self (archive footage)Documentary about the life and career of Italian film director Vittorio De Sica.
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Das Lied der Sonne
as Dr. Giuseppe PaladinoImpresario Adler is imprisoned for insulting an official and therefore unable to negotiate an...
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Ai vostri ordini, signora...
as Pietro HaguetThe young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free...
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Manon Lescaut
as Renato Des GrieuxManon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and...
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The Guilty
as GiorgioValerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia,...
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Amo te sola
as GiovanniFlorence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a...
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Christmas at Camp 119
as Don VicenzinoSecond World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners...
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No One Comes Back
as MaurizioA host of college girls take different life paths in the Italy of the 1930s.
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Two Happy Hearts
as Mr. BrownWhen his wife storms out of a dinner planned in honor of his American boss (because their dog is...
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Snow Job
as Enrico DolphiA famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a...
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Cesare Zavattini
as Self (archive footage)Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini
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But It's Nothing Serious
as Memmo SperanzaBased on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to...
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Unkown Men of San Marino
as Leo, l'ateoA mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the...
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
as SelfA documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
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We Are All in Temporary Liberty
as uncreditedA judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.
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Man of Three Worlds: Luchino Visconti
as Self - IntervieweeBBC television program exploring Visconti’s mastery of cinema, theater, and opera direction.
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Pazza di gioia
as Conte Corrado ValliA modest accountant wins a utility vehicle in a contest and publishes an ad looking for a...
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The Old Lady
as Fine dicitoreAn elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a...
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Lohengrin
as AlfredoThe monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent...
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The Small Miracle
as Father DamicoA small boy of rural Italy, befriends a Catholic priest and pleads for help to save his sick...
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
as GiudiceMastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and...
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The Four Just Men
as Ricco PoccariThe Four Just Men was a 1959 Sapphire Films production for ITC Entertainment. It ran for one...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as uncreditedHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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