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Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica

Italian film director (1901-1974)
July 7, 1901 (November 13, 1974)
Runtime: 94 min.

The Voyage

V.O.: Il Viaggio
It. 1974. Sentimental drama by Vittorio De Sica with Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Ian Bannen. At the beginning of the twentieth century, obeying his father's last wishes, a count asks for a woman
Runtime: 102 min.

Blood For Dracula

V.O.: Sangue per Dracula
It. 1974. Horror by Paul Morrissey with Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Vittorio De Sica. Count Dracula travels to Italy in search of virgins whose blood is the only thing that can keep him alive.
Runtime: 104 min.
U.S. 1973. Dramatic comedy by Jeannot Szwarc with Marco Della Cava, Vittorio De Sica, Raf Vallone. A poor boy wants to take his sick donkey to the tomb of St. Francis of Assisi.
Runtime: 73 min.

L'Affaire Matteotti

V.O.: Il delitto Matteotti
It. 1973. History by Florestano Vancini with Mario Adorf, Vittorio De Sica, Umberto Orsini. In 1924, a socialist deputy is assassinated by fascists after a resounding speech.
Runtime: 117 min.

A Brief Vacation

V.O.: Una breve vacanza
It. 1973. Sentimental drama by Vittorio De Sica with Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Daniel Quenaud.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1971. Drama by Richard Balducci with Maurice Ronet, Josephine Chaplin, Vittorio De Sica. A disgraced journalist gets into trouble by revealing the affair between an American politician's daughter and a Black man.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

V.O.: Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini
It. 1971. Mores drama by Vittorio De Sica with Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger. A wealthy Italian Jewish family emerges from its isolation as anti-Semitic persecution begins.
Runtime: 108 min.

Twelve Plus One

V.O.: 12 + 1
It. 1969. Comedy by Nicolas Gessner with Vittorio Gassman, Sharon Tate, Orson Welles. A hairdresser seeks to find a treasure hidden in the seat of a chair that was sold to an antique dealer.
Runtime: 94 min.

Sunflower

V.O.: I Girasoli
It. 1969. Drama by Vittorio De Sica with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva. At the end of the war, an Italian woman goes in search of her husband who disappeared in Russia.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1968. Religious drama by Michael Anderson with Anthony Quinn, Oskar Werner, Lee McKern. A Russian bishop released from a labour camp goes to Rome and is elected pope.
Runtime: 162 min.
It. 1968. Sentimental drama by Vittorio De Sica with Marcello Mastroianni, Faye Dunaway, Caroline Mortimer. A rich American woman, suffering from an incurable disease, has an affair with an Italian engineer.
Runtime: 90 min.
G.-B. 1968. Police comedy by Ken Annakin with Vittorio De Sica, Robert Wagner, Raquel Welch. Kidnapped by inexperienced bandits, a gangster dominates them and turns the group into professional criminals.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1967. Adventures by Denys de La Patellière with France Anglade, François Guérin, Bernard Blier. The romantic affairs of a young aristocrat during the French Revolution.
Runtime: 100 min.
It. 1967. Sketches by Vittorio De Sica with Shirley MacLaine, Peter Sellers, Alan Arkin. Adventures showing several types of women and their problems.
Runtime: 99 min.

The Witches

V.O.: Le Streghe
It. 1966. Comedy by Luchino Visconti, Mauro Bolognini, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Vittorio De Sica with Silvana Mangano, Toto, Alberto Sordi. The misadventures of five Italian women from different conditions.
Runtime: 121 min.

After the Fox

V.O.: Caccia alla volpe
It. 1966. Police comedy by Vittorio De Sica with Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Victor Mature. An Italian swindler devises an ingenious scheme to smuggle in a shipment of gold.
Runtime: 102 min.

Un Monde jeune

V.O.: Un Monde nouveau
Fr. 1965. Psychological drama by Vittorio De Sica with Christine Delaroche, Nino Castelnuovo, Tanya Lopert. A medical student who is expecting a child with a young Italian photographer is considering having an abortion.
Runtime: 82 min.

Marriage Italian Style

V.O.: Matrimonio all'italiana
It. 1964. Dramatic comedy by Vittorio De Sica with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi. A former prostitute is married by an old lover.
Runtime: 100 min.

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

V.O.: Ieri, oggi, domani
It. 1964. Sketches by Vittorio De Sica with Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Guiffre. A cigarette seller, an industrialist's wife and a call girl experience various forms of love.
Runtime: 119 min.

The Condemned of Altona

V.O.: I Sequestrati di Altona
It. 1963. Psychological drama by Vittorio De Sica with Maximilian Schell, Fredric March, Sophia Loren. The son of a German industrialistis locked in an attic since the end of the war.
Runtime: 112 min.
Fr. 1961. Comedy by Claude Autant-Lara with Francis Claude, Danielle Gaubert, Jean Sorel. Henry IV is looking for a complaisant husband for a young girl he wants to make his mistress.
Runtime: 83 min.

Boccace '70

V.O.: Boccaccio '70
It. 1961. Sketches by Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica with Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider, Sophia Loren. The adventures of a puritan, a couple of aristocrats and a girl who offers herself up as the prize in a lottery.
Runtime: 165 min.

Le Jugement dernier

V.O.: Il giudizio universale
Runtime: 101 min.
It. 1961. Sketches by Mario Monicelli, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Vittorio De Sica with Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider. The adventures of a new couple, a puritan, a married aristocrat involved in a scandal and a fairground worker who offers herself up as the prize in a lottery.
Runtime: 208 min.
It. 1960. Drama by Nunnally Johnson with Dirk Bogarde, Ava Gardner, Aldo Fabrizi. During the Spanish Civil War, a defrocked priest is hunted by communists.
Runtime: 99 min.

Les Trois Belles du colonel

V.O.: Le Tre Eccetera del Colonnello
It. 1960. Comedy by Claude Boissol with Vittorio De Sica, Anita Ekberg, Daniel Gélin. The adventures of a colonel with the reputation of a womanizer who stops for a night in a small village.
Runtime: 95 min.
Fr. 1960. History by Abel Gance, Roger Richebé with Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Jack Palance. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the First Consul Napoleon Bonaparte became emperor of the French and triumphed at the battle of Austerlitz.
Runtime: 166 min.

Two Women

V.O.: La Ciociara
It. 1960. Drama by Vittorio De Sica with Sophia Loren, Eleonora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo. During the war, a woman goes back to her native village with her daughter.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 1960. Comedy by Melville Shavelson with Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica. A man disputes the custody of his nephew with a relative who is a cabaret dancer.
Runtime: 100 min.

Le Don Juan des bas-fonds

V.O.: Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu
It. 1959. Musical by Piero Tellini with Domenico Modugno, Giovanna Ralli, Vittorio De Sica. Having fallen in love, a lazy vagabond decides to make amends.
Runtime: 103 min.
It. 1959. Sentimental comedy by Mario Bonnard with Alberto Sordi, Anna-Maria Ferrero, Chelo Alonso. A music hall dancer believes he can achieve success by choosing a talented young beauty as his partner.
Runtime: 102 min.
It. 1959. Psychological drama by Roberto Rossellini with Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Anne Vernon. At the end of the war, an impostor posing as a resistance hero gets caught up in his game.
Runtime: 137 min.

Brèves Amours

V.O.: Vacanze d'inverno
It. 1959. Comedy by Camillo Mastrocinque with Michèle Morgan, Vittorio De Sica, Eleonora Rossi Drago. Many romances take place at a winter sports resort.
Runtime: 100 min.

Venetian Honeymoon

V.O.: La Prima Notte
It. 1959. Comedy by Alberto Cavalcanti with Martine Carol, Vittorio De Sica, Jacques Sernas. A painter pretends to be a prince in order to steal the jewels of a widow who claims to be rich.
Runtime: 90 min.

Cannon Serenade

V.O.: Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano
Runtime: 95min.

Pain, Amour et Andalousie

V.O.: Pan, amor y... Andalucía
Runtime: 97 min.

Le Médecin et le sorcier

V.O.: Il Medico e lo stregone
It. 1958. Melodrama by Mario Monicelli with Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Lorella De Luca. A young doctor struggles to establish himself in a village whose inhabitants trust a quack.
Runtime: 100 min.

La Danseuse et le bon Dieu

V.O.: Ballerina e Buon Dio
It. 1958. Tale by Antonio Leonviola with Vera Tcheckowa, Marietto Angeletti, Vittorio De Sica. A six-year-old orphan wants a ballerina he saw in a photograph to be his mother.
Runtime: 103 min.

Dites... 33

V.O.: Toto, Vittorio e la dottoressa
It. 1958. Comedy by Camillo Mastrocinque with Abbe Lane, Toto, Vittorio De Sica. A doctor is suspected of infidelity by her husband's aunts.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Inveterate Bachelor

V.O.: Zitelloni, Gli
Runtime: 90 min.

Fast and Sexy

V.O.: Anna di Brooklyn
It. 1958. Comedy by Carlo Lastricati with Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Dale Robertson. A rich widow prefers a young, attractive worker to three village notables.
Runtime: 99 min.

Pères et fils

V.O.: Padri e figli
It. 1957. Mores comedy by Mario Monicelli with Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Antonella Lualdi. Family portraits based on the theme of fatherhood.
Runtime: 108 min.

Responsabilité limitée

V.O.: I Colpevoli
It. 1957. Psychological drama by Turi Vasile with Carlo Ninchi, Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica. A judge is faced with a terrible dilemma when he learns that his son has committed a murder.
Runtime: 84 min.

The Monte Carlo Story

V.O.: Montecarlo
It. 1957. Comedy by Samuel A. Taylor with Marlene Dietrich, Vittorio De Sica, Arthur O'Connell. A Neapolitan aristocrat courts a French marquise he believes to be rich.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1957. Musical by André Hunebelle with Gilbert Bécaud, Caterina Valente, Vittorio De Sica. The secretary of a successful playwright falls in love with an artist.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1957. War drama by Charles Vidor with Rock Hudson, Jennifer Jones, Vittorio De Sica. An American enlisted as an ambulance driver in the Italian army falls in love with a nurse.
Runtime: 142 min.

Le Comte Max

V.O.: Il conte Max

Woman Who Came From the Sea

V.O.: La Donna che venne dal mare
It. 1957. Spy drama by Francesco de Robertis with Sandra Milo, Vittorio De Sica, Peter Lynn. In 1940, an adventurous navigator turns out to be a spy in charge of helping Italian frogmen.
Runtime: 94 min.

À qui la faute?

V.O.: I colpevoli
It. 1957. Psychological drama by Turi Vasile with Carlo Ninchi, Isa Miranda, Vittorio De Sica.
Runtime: 83 min.

Vacances à Ischia

V.O.: Vacanze a Ischia
It. 1957. Comedy by Mario Camerini with Vittorio De Sica, Myriam Bru, Nadia Gray. In Italy, tourists experience various adventures.
Runtime: 100 min.
It. 1956. Satire by Luciano Emmer with Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Franca Valeri. The misadventures of an honest family man falsely accused of bigamy.

The Roof

V.O.: Il Tetto
It. 1956. Social drama by Vittorio De Sica with Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi, Gastone Renzelli. A young couple takes advantage of a law forbidding the eviction of inhabitants from dwellings where the roof is laid, and builds a house in one night.
Runtime: 91 min.

Les Week-ends de Néron

V.O.: Mio figlio Nerone
It. 1956. Comedy by Steno with Alberto Sordi, Brigitte Bardot, Vittorio De Sica. The misadventures of the emperor Nero struggling with his mother, Agrippina.
Runtime: 90 min.

The Miller's Beautiful Wife

V.O.: La Bella Mugnaia
It. 1956. Comedy by Mario Camerini with Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni. In the seventeenth century, the governor of an occupied province is attracted to the charms of a pretty miller.
Runtime: 97 min.

Amours de vacances

V.O.: Tiempo di villegiatura
It. 1956. Comedy by Antonio Racioppi with Vittorio De Sica, Giovanna Ralli, Abbe Lane. A hotel in a resort is the scene of various adventures.
Runtime: 87 min.

Too Bad She's Bad

V.O.: Peccato che sia une canglia
It. 1955. Comedy by Alessandro Blasetti with Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni. A young thief falls in love with an honest cab driver.
Runtime: 95 min.

Scandal in Sorrento

V.O.: Pane, amore e...
It. 1955. Comedy by Dino Risi with Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani. A retired marshal is seduced by a fishmonger and then falls in love with a mature, pious young woman.
Runtime: 92 min.

Les Cinq dernières minutes

V.O.: Gli Ultimi Cinque Minuti
Runtime: 87 min.

L'Éternel Féminin

V.O.: Il Segno di Venere
It. 1955. Mores comedy by Dino Risi with Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica. The daily life and loves of two cousins living together in Rome.

Jalousie

V.O.: Pane, amore e gelosia
It. 1954. Comedy by Luigi Comencini with Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Risso. Romantic complications in a mountain village.
Runtime: 93 min.

Gold of Naples

V.O.: L'oro di Napoli
It. 1954. Sketches by Vittorio De Sica with Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Toto.
Runtime: 110 min.

Les Gaietés de l'escadron

V.O.: Allegro Squadrone
It. 1954. Comedy by Paolo Moffa with Daniel Gélin, Vittorio De Sica, Charles Vanel. Life in the French cavalry barracks at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Runtime: 83 min.

100 Years of Love

V.O.: Cento Anni d'amore
Runtime: 76 min.

Modern Virgin

V.O.: Vergine moderna
It. 1954. Psychological drama by Marcello Pagliero with May Britt, Vittorio De Sica, Gabriele Ferzetti. To escape the mediocrity of her life, a young bourgeois woman uses her charms to blackmail the married men she has compromised.
Runtime: 100 min.

The Anatomy of Love

V.O.: Tempi Nostri
It. 1953. Sketches by Alessandro Blasetti, Paul Paviot with Michel Simon, Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni. Six anecdotes borrowed from contemporary Italian authors.
Runtime: 134 min.

Bread, Love and Dreams

V.O.: Pane Amore e Fantasia
It. 1953. Comedy by Luigi Comencini with Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Roberto Risso. In love with a gunslinger, a beautiful wild woman is the subject of her country's gossip.
Runtime: 90 min.

Indiscretion of an American Wife

V.O.: Stazione Termini
It. 1953. Psychological drama by Vittorio De Sica with Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi. At Rome's central station, an American tries to break up with her Italian lover.
Runtime: 161 min.

Bonjour éléphant

V.O.: Buongiorno elephante
It. 1953. Social drama by Gianni Franciolini with Vittorio De Sica, Sabu, Maria Mercader.
Runtime: 95 min.
It. 1953. Sketches by Vittorio De Sica, Gianni Franciolini with Vittorio De Sica, Gérard Philipe, François Périer. Lovers meet in the park of the Villa Borghese.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 1953. Sentimental drama by Max Ophüls with Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica. An Italian diplomat falls in love with a care-free woman and is challenged to a duel by her husband.
Runtime: 99 min.
Fr. 1953. Sketches by Henri Decoin, Gianni Franciolini, Ralph Habib, Jean Delannoy with Vittorio De Sica, Jeanne Moreau, Bernard Blier. Four travelers, immobilized by the fog, tell each other stories of sleepless nights.
Runtime: 86 min.
It. 1951. Social drama by Vittorio De Sica with Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari. An old retiree is struggling with life's difficulties.
Runtime: 90 min.

Demain, il sera trop tard

V.O.: Domani è troppo tardi
It. 1950. Psychological drama by Léonide Moguy with Vittorio De Sica, Pier Angeli, Gabrielle Dorziat. A teenage romance causes problems at a summer camp.
Runtime: 105 min.

Miracle in Milan

V.O.: Miracolo a Milano
It. 1950. Fantasy comedy by Vittorio De Sica with Francesco Golisano, Brunella Bovo, Paolo Stoppa. An orphan with magical powers wants to help poor people out of poverty.
Runtime: 96 min.

The Bicycle Thief

V.O.: Ladri di biciclette
It. 1948. Social drama by Vittorio De Sica with Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carrel. A family man has his bicycle stolen, which he needs for work.
Runtime: 89 min.

Perdu dans les ténèbres

V.O.: Sperduti nel buio
It. 1947. Melodrama by Camillo Mastrocinque with Vittorio De Sica, Jacqueline Plessis, Enrico Glori. An abandoned little girl is taken in by a violinist who is blind.
Runtime: 105 min.

Noël au camp 119

V.O.: Natale al campo 119

Shoeshine

V.O.: Sciuscia (Ragazzi)
It. 1946. Social drama by Vittorio De Sica with Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Bruno Ortenzi. The story of two young Italians involved in the black market in the post-war period.
Runtime: 91 min.

The Children Are Watching Us

V.O.: Bambini Ci Cuardano, I
It. 1943. Drama by Vittorio De Sica with Isa Pola, Luciano De Ambrosis, Emilio Cigoli. A young mother loses her husband and the affection of her son for good.

A Garibaldian in the Convent

V.O.: Un Garibaldino al convento
It. 1942. Dramatic comedy by Vittorio De Sica with Leonardo Cortese, Maria Mercader, Carla Del Poggio. An old woman's reminiscence of her youth in a convent school: the happy moments, the sad ones and the tragic love for a Garibaldian.
Runtime: 83 min.

Mademoiselle Vendredi

V.O.: Teresa Venerdi
It. 1941. Sentimental comedy by Vittorio De Sica with Vittorio De Sica, Adriana Benetti, Anna Magnani.

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