Vittorio De Sica

All Movies of Vittorio De Sica

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  The Thousand And One Monicas
  An actress, director and writer. Intense, sensual, eclectic. She began by interpreting existential angst and emptiness, and then she moved on to the films of the golden age of Italian comedy. Talking about Monica Vitti means telli...
   2006

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  9.0
  Marcello, una vita dolce
  Character: Self (archive footage)

   2006

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  6.0
  Così è la vita: Vittorio De Sica
  Character: Self (archive footage)

   2001

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  6.0
  Nitrate Base
  This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the gender...
  Character: Self (archive footage)

   1996

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  Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
  Character: (archive footage)

   1975

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  6.0
  The Voyage
  Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's mourning for Antonio ends when Cesar...
  Director of the film

   1974

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  8.3
  We All Loved Each Other So Much
  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 deal with th...
  Character: Himself (archive footage)

   1974

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  6.1
  Blood For Dracula
  Count Dracula (Udo Kier) knows that if he fails to drink a required amount of pure virgin's blood, it's time to move into a permanent coffin. His assistant suggests that the Count and he pick up his coffin and take a road trip to ...
  Character: Il Marchese Di Fiore

   1974

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  Storia de fratelli e de cortelli
   1973

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  7.0
  A Brief Vacation
  Director of the film

   1973

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  6.5
  The Adventures of Pinocchio
  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 fai...
   1972

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  4.0
  Quando le donne si chiamavano 'Madonne'
   1972

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  We Are All in Temporary Liberty
   1971

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  Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente
   1971

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  Gang War
  Character: Don Michele

   1971

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  7.8
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a circle of friends for constant rounds ...
  Director of the film

   1971

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  6.5
  Man and Wife
  Three episodes: The refrigerator. A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s). The purchase is too expensive for their familiar balance sheet. To earn some ...
  Director of the film

   1970

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  7.4
  Sunflower
  An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia - like fifty thousand others during WWII.
  Director of the film

   1970

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  6.5
  If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
  A group of travelers from the United States race through seven countries in 18 days. Included in the group are Samantha Perkins, a lovely young miss who finds time for some romance with handsome Britisher Charlie Cartwright; Jenny...
   1969

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  9.0
  Caroline chérie
   1968

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  2.0
  The Biggest Bundle of Them All
   1968

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  7.1
  The Shoes of the Fisherman
  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...
  Character: Cardinal Rinaldi

   1968

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  6.4
  The Witches
  This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their own stories about witches. The five stories are "The Witch Burned Alive," "Civic Sense," "The Earth As See...
  Director of the film

   1967

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  5.5
  Woman Times Seven
  Seven mini-stories of adultery.
  Director of the film

   1967

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  An Italian in America
  Character: Giuseppe's Father

   1967

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  5.8
  After the Fox
  Peter Sellers plays Aldo Vanucci (aka the Fox), one of the greatest criminals of the world, and master of disguise. After Aldo escapes from the Italian prison he was held in, he meets again with his friends, and plans to retrieve ...
  Director of the film

   1966

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  Me, Me, Me... and the Others
  Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta. But little by little Sandro identifies himself ...
   1966

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  The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders
  Character: The Count

   1965

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  7.5
  Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  Stories about three very different women and the men they attract. Adelina sells black-market cigarettes in Naples, is married to the unemployed Carmine, and faces a jail sentence. She can avoid it as long as she's pregnant. Sever...
  Director of the film

   1964

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  7.3
  Marriage Italian Style
  MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE presents director Vittorio De Sica's fourth collaboration with actress Sophia Loren, and the film exploits the busty Amazon for all she's worth. In the role of Filomena Marturano, a lusty prostitute, Loren's...
  Director of the film

   1964

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  7.5
  The Condemned of Altona
  After being denounced to the Gestapo by his father, and later becoming a torturer, Franz von Gerlach locks himself in a room for fifteen years, isolated from the world -except from Leni, his sister-lover- to confront himself to an...
  Director of the film

   1962

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  7.0
  Boccaccio '70
  An anthology of three adult tales by three leading Italian directors--a billboard photo of a scantily clad, sexy woman comes to life to torment the local censor; a lottery is held in which the prize is to spend the night with a be...
  Director of the film

   1962

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  The Wonders of Aladdin
  A poor young man finds a magic lamp that possesses a genie, who will grant the boy three wishes if he sets him free from the lamp.
   1961

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  6.0
  La Fayette
  At 13 years old, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert Motier inherited from his parents a long name, a fortune bigger then that, and the title of Marquis de La Fayette. Barely past majority, he was a brilliant lieutenant and a King...
   1961

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  The Two Marshals
  Character: Maresciallo Vittorio Cottone (as De Sica)

   1961

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  6.0
  The Last Judgment
  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.
  Character: Defense lawyer | Movie director

   1961

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  6.5
  Austerlitz (The Battle of Austerlitz)
  Thirty-three years after his epic "Napoleon," director Abel Gance returned to the life of the Little Corporal with this look at the decisive 1805 conflict between French forces and the armies of Austria and Russia. An ep...
   1960

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  7.0
  The Angel Wore Red
  A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
  Character: Gen. Clave

   1960

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  5.8
  The Millionairess
  Character: Joe (as Vittorio de Sica)

   1960

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  6.2
  It Started in Naples
  Michael Hamilton (Clark Gable) is an American lawyer who travels to Naples to settle the estate of his recently deceased expatriate brother. When he arrives, he discovers that his sister-in-law was also killed in the accident, lea...
  Character: Mario Vitale

   1960

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  7.3
  Two Women
  Cesira is a beautiful widow and a successful grocery store owner in Rome. WWII is raging, and she fears for her beloved daughter, 13-year-old Rosetta, amid the daily bombings. They travel to the village where Cesira was born, wher...
  Director of the film

   1960

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  Venetian Honeymoon
  Venezia, la città romantica per eccellenza che predispone all'amore; Isabelle, una bella avventuriera a cui sono rimasti solamente alcuni gioielli ed è alla ricerca di un marito ricco; Alfredo che lavora come barman, e a tempo p...
   1959

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  5.0
  Ferdinando I, re di Napoli
   1959

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  Winter Holidays
  By the late 1950's Italy seems to have developed the custom of going to 'White week' holidays, that is week long skiing holidays, something very popular nowadays. Alberto Sordi & Co, always ready to make fun of the latest tren...
   1959

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  Policarpo
   1959

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  Nel blu dipinto di blu
   1959

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  7.8
  General della Rovere
  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 will stay alive if he imper...
  Character: Bardone AKA 'Grimaldi'

   1959

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  6.0
  Anna of Brooklyn
  | Movie director

   1958

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  The Girl of San Pietro Square
  Character: Armando Conforti

   1958

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  5.0
  Holiday Island
   1957

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  A Tailor's Maid
  Just prior to Christmas, the story focuses on the Yuletide preparations made by five different families. The humor derives from the communication gap between the elder family members and their bewildering offspring.
   1957

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  It Happened in Rome
  Character: The Count

   1957

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  6.5
  A Farewell to Arms
  Frederick Henry, an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls in love with his attending nurse, the British Catherine Barkley. In the midst of war and som...
  Character: Major Alessandro Rinaldi

   1957

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  6.5
  The Roof
  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 the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can ha
  Director of the film

   1956

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  5.0
  Nero's Big Weekend
  Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has t...
   1956

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  6.3
  Scandal in Sorrento
  Marshall Antonio Carotenuto comes back to native Sorrento to take care of the local fire brigade. But since Sofia, a very nice fishmonger, occupies his native house Antonio share another home with Donna Violante, secretly fall in ...
  Character: Comandante Carotenuto

   1955

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  5.0
  Roman Tales
  Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company, but they lack t...
   1955

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  5.0
  The Miller's Beautiful Wife
  The film has Vittorio De Sica as a lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 who lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly the miller's wife Carmela, played by a ravishing Sophia Loren. The miller himself, played by a you...
  Character: Don Teofilo - governatore

   1955

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  6.0
  Lucky to Be a Woman
  Antoinette (Sophia Loren) is an attractive young woman who is adjusting her stockings one day when a passing news photographer snaps her picture. To Antoinette's shock, the picture appears on the front page of one of Rome's bigges...
   1955

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  The Bed
   1954

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  100 Years of Love
   1954

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  5.0
  Bread, Love and Jealousy
  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 (Vittor...
   1954

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  Vergine moderna
  Character: Antonio Valli

   1954

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  7.7
  The Gold of Naples
  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 ...
  Character: Il conte Prospero B. (segment "I giocatori") | Movie director

   1954

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  7.0
  Peccato che sia una canaglia
  Character: Vittorio Stroppiani

   1954

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  6.8
  Bread, Love and Dreams
  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: PAN...
  Character: Maresciallo Carotenuto

   1953

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  6.7
  Indiscretion of an American Wife
  A married American woman has gotten involved with another man while visiting relatives in Rome. She decides that the time has come to break off the relationship, and she makes plans to return home to her husband. But she soon real...
  Director of the film

   1953

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  8.5
  The Earrings of Madame De...
  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 of liv
  Character: Baron Fabrizio Donati

   1953

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  8.0
  Umberto D.
  Umberto Ferrari, aged government-pensioner, attends a street demonstration held by his fellow pensioners. The police dispense the crowd and Unberto returns to his cheap furnished room which he shares with his dog Flick. Umberto's ...
  Director of the film

   1952

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  Position Wanted
  Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, firs...
   1951

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  8.0
  Miracle in Milan
  Once upon a time, in the story of Vittorio De Sica's MIRACLE IN MILAN, an old woman, Lolotta (Emma Grammatica), discovered a young child in her cabbage patch. She cared for him until her death, at which time the boy, Toto (Frances...
  Director of the film

   1951

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  Tomorrow is Too Late
  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 M...
  Character: Professor Landi

   1949

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  8.3
  Bicycle Thieves
  After nearly two years of unemployment, Antonio (Lamberto Maggiorani) finally finds work posting bills. But he needs a bicycle to do the job. Unfortunately, he was forced to pawn his own bicycle long ago, so Antonio has to exchang...
  Director of the film

   1948

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  7.9
  Shoeshine (Shoe-Shine)
  Rome, after WWII. At a track near the italian city, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to...
  Director of the film

   1946

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  Se io fossi onesto
   1942

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  L'avventuriera del piano di sopra
   1941

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  5.5
  Mister Max
  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 aristocrat who is an old s...
  Character: Gianni / Max Varaldo

   1937