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  • Sunflower
  • Sunflower review by jhumi from manchester
    Rated - 4.0 stars beautiful film 5 June 2008
    ...This classic from Vittorio De Sica ,starring none less than sophia loren and marcello mastrianni is a touching romance against the backdrop of the second world war. It has tru...   Read customer review
  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow review by A customer from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 20 February 2009
    ...This movie was directed in 1963 by Vittorio De Sica and is played by the unforgettable duo Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni (the pair co-starred in many other equally ente...   Read customer review
  • Bicycle Thieves
  • Bicycle Thieves review by from Oxford
    Rated - 5.0 stars If you haven't seen this classic, get it!! 4 April 2005
    ...his movie is still powerful, and well worth getting if you have not seen it. Vittorio De Sica has directed this movie depicting Italy's post WWII depression. Shot in the str...   Read customer review

Vittorio De Sica - filmography


  • The Voyage on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Sophia Loren,  Richard Burton,  Ian Bannen
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Adriana De Mauro (Sophia Loren) finds herself unable to be with the man she loves, as his father decreed that his brother should be the one to marry her. So her love Cesar Braggi (Richard Burton) steps aside to allow his sibling Antonio (Ian Bannen), to take her hand. But when fate intervenes in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 32 members
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  • The Garden of the Finzi Continis on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Lino Capolicchio,  Dominique Sanda,  Fabio Testi
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Master storyteller Vittorio de Sica sets his last great film, THE GARDEN OF THE FINZI-CONTINIS in the small Italian town of Ferrara during World War II. The Finzi-Continis, a wealthy Jewish family, live in a castle surrounded by a beautiful garden. While the garden creates the family's physical ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 148 members
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  • Sunflower on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Sophia Loren,  Marcello Mastroianni,  Lyudmila Savelyeva
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The was the first Italian feature film shot in Moscow. It was directed by the renowned Vittorio De Sica and produced by Carlo Ponti. Sophia Loren stars as Giovanna, an Italian woman who marries Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) 12 days before the outbreak of World War II. Antonio has no desire to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 109 members
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  • Woman Times Seven on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Shirley MacLaine,  Elspeth March,  Peter Sellers
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Shirley MacLaine lights up the screen in this collection of seven sexy stories of love and adultery set against the romantic backdrop of Paris. Whether she's playing an amorous widow, a meek housewife gone wild or a socialite who will literally kill for a dress, Shirley MacLaine displays the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 48% from 47 members
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  • After The Fox on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  Victor Mature,  Britt Ekland
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Directed by Vittorio De Sica, AFTER THE FOX is collaboration between highly regarded American playwright Neil Simon and celebrated Italian screenwriter Cesare Zavattini on Simon's first screenplay. The film stars Peter Sellers as Aldo Vanucci, a blundering master thief. Vanucci contentedly whiles ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 572 members
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  • Marriage Italian Style on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Sophia Loren,  Marcello Mastroianni
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 costumes range from tiny to scanty. Loren's fine comic timing, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 298 members
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  • Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Sophia Loren,  Marcello Mastroianni,  Aldo Giuffre
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Adelina (Loren) sells black-market cigarettes on the streets of Naples to support her unemployed husband Carmine (Mastroianni). Caught by the police, and with a jail sentence hanging over her head, desperation sets in. She learns that she can avoid prison as long as she's pregnant. Several years ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 486 members
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  • Il Boom on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Gianna Maria Canale,  Ettore Geri,  Alberto Sordi
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Giovanni lives a decadent life that is way beyond his needs. Due to his exotic wife’s insatiable desire for a life of luxury he is heavily in debt and on the verge of poverty. Desperate with nowhere to turn Giovanni decides that his only way out is to end his life. That is until he finds out that ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 8 members
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  • The Millionairess on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Sophia Loren,  Peter Sellers,  Vittorio De Sica
    Director: Anthony Asquith
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Anthony Asquith, more famous for his direction of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION, here adapts the lighter, though still socially conscious Shaw play, THE MILLIONAIRESS. Sophia Loren, as the beautiful, statuesque heiress, Epifinia, can't find a man who measures up to her late father's marriage test...read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 398 members
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  • Il Generale della Rovere on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Vittorio De Sica,  Hannes Messemer,  Vittorio Caprioli
    Director: Roberto Rossellini
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Based on an article by the Italian journalist Indro Montanelli, Rossellini casts Vittorio De Sica as confidence trickster Emanuele Bardone who helps to save Italians arrested by the Gestapo or at least pretending to do so in exchange for money or gifts from their family. When he attempts to save a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 31 members
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  • Indiscretion Of An American Wife on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Jennifer Jones,  Montgomery Clift
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Director Vittorio de Sica's first English language film, INDISCRETION OF AN AMERICAN WIFE, examines the personal romantic crises of a woman caught between romantic love and her duties as a wife and mother. The film takes place over a few hours in Rome's Terminal Station, where Mary (Jennifer Jones) ..read more »
    0.5 stars out of 5 10% from 1 member
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  • Madame De... on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Vittorio De Sica,  Danielle Darrieux,  Charles Boyer
    Director: Max Ophuls
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    A series of tragic misunderstandings and deceptions ensue after the Countess Louise, the wife of a General, sells the earrings he had given to her on their wedding day to pay off her debts.
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 676 members
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  • Umberto D on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Carlo Battisti,  Maria Pia Casilio,  Lina Gennari
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Frequently mentioned on lists of masterpieces of modern cinema, Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. transforms a simple character study into a painfully poignant drama. Umberto is an aging former civil servant, now retired on his scant government pension. He spends his time in his tiny room in Rome, with ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 1,318 member
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  • Miracle In Milan on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Francesco Golisano,  Brunella Bovo,  Emma Gramatica
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Once upon a time, an old woman discovered a young child in her cabbage patch. She cared for him until her death, at which time the boy was placed into an orphanage. When the child is released from the orphanage he inspires shantytown squatters to improve their huts and enjoy the world. But, as they ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 508 members
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  • Bicycle Thieves on DVD (1948)
    Starring: Gino Salamerenda,  Lianella Carell,  Lamberto Maggiorani
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Vittorio De Sica's remarkable 1947 drama of desperation and survival in Italy's devastating post-war depression earned a special Oscar for its affecting power. Shot in the streets and alleys of Rome, De Sica uses the real-life environment of contemporary life to frame his moving drama of a ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 7,427 members
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  • Bicycle Thieves - Blu-ray (1948)
    Starring: Gino Salamerenda,  Lianella Carell,  Lamberto Maggiorani
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    The recipient of international acclaim, Vittorio de Sica's Italian Neorealist masterwork, THE BICYCLE THIEF, is a treasure of world cinema. 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 ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 354 members
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  • Shoeshine on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Franco Interlenghi,  Rinaldo Smordoni
    Director: Vittorio De Sica
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Directed by Vittorio De Sica (BICYCLE THIEVES), SHOESHINE tells the story of two young boys who work on the streets of Rome in 1946 shining the shoes of American troops. When the boys are implicated in a petty crime, they are punished by society, resulting in tragic consequences. The Italian ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 510 members
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Vittorio De Sica facts

5 most recent films

The Voyage - 2.5 stars
The Garden of the Finzi Continis - 3.0 stars
Sunflower - 3.0 stars
Woman Times Seven - 2.5 stars
After The Fox - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Bicycle Thieves - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Bicycle Thieves - 4.0 stars
Shoeshine - 3.5 stars
Madame De... - 3.5 stars
Umberto D - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Indiscretion Of An American Wife - 0.5 stars
Austerlitz - 2.0 stars
Il Boom - 2.0 stars
Woman Times Seven - 2.5 stars
Miracle In Milan - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Sophia Loren - 7 times - show films
Marcello Mastroianni - 4 times - show films
Lianella Carell - 3 times - show films
Jennifer Jones - 3 times - show films
Lamberto Maggiorani - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Max Ophuls - 2 times - show films
Roberto Rossellini - 2 times - show films
Richard Whorf - 2 times - show films
Melville Shavelson - 2 times - show films
Anthony Asquith - 1 times - show films