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Vittorio De Sica
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Vittorio De Sica - what members say
review by jhumi from manchester
beautiful film 5 June 2008
review by A customer from London
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow 20 February 2009
review by from Oxford
If you haven't seen this classic, get it!! 4 April 2005
Vittorio De Sica - filmography
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The Voyage
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Richard Burton, Ian Bannen
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
 
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The Garden of the Finzi Continis
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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from 148 members
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Sunflower
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Savelyeva
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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Woman Times Seven
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Shirley MacLaine, Elspeth March, Peter Sellers
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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from 47 members
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After The Fox
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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from 572 members
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Marriage Italian Style
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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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
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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 »
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Il Boom
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Gianna Maria Canale, Ettore Geri, Alberto Sordi
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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The Millionairess
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Vittorio De Sica
Director: Anthony Asquith
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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 »
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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
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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 »
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Indiscretion Of An American Wife
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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Madame De...
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Vittorio De Sica, Danielle Darrieux, Charles Boyer
Director: Max Ophuls
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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.
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Umberto D
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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Miracle In Milan
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Francesco Golisano, Brunella Bovo, Emma Gramatica
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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from 508 members
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Bicycle Thieves
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Gino Salamerenda, Lianella Carell, Lamberto Maggiorani
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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from 7,427 members
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Bicycle Thieves - Blu-ray
(1948)
Starring: Gino Salamerenda, Lianella Carell, Lamberto Maggiorani
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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from 354 members
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Shoeshine
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni
Director: Vittorio De Sica
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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 »
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...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.
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