Vittorio De Sica

Vittorio De Sica

July 7, 1901 · 125 years old

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…

Known For

36 titles
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Bicycle Thieves

Bicycle Thieves

1948 · 1h 29m · Movie

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

8.2
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Umberto D.

Umberto D.

1952 · 1h 29m · Movie

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

8.1
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Two Women

Two Women

1960 · 1h 41m · Movie

In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.

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The Earrings of Madame De...

The Earrings of Madame De...

1953 · 1h 45m · Movie

When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in de...

7.9
5
Marriage Italian Style

Marriage Italian Style

1964 · 1h 42m · Movie

Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.

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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

1963 · 1h 59m · Movie

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

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Miracle in Milan

Miracle in Milan

1951 · 1h 37m · Movie

An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

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Shoeshine

Shoeshine

1946 · 1h 31m · Movie

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

8.0
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

1970 · 1h 34m · Movie

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.

7.2
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Blood for Dracula

Blood for Dracula

1974 · 1h 46m · Movie

An ailing vampire count travels to Italy with his servant to find a bride.

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Boccaccio '70

Boccaccio '70

1962 · 3h 25m · Movie

Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.

7.0
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After the Fox

After the Fox

1966 · 1h 43m · Movie

An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed.

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Sunflower

Sunflower

1970 · 1h 47m · Movie

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.

7.3
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The Shoes of the Fisherman

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968 · 2h 42m · Movie

After spending decades in a Siberian Gulag labor camp, Roman Catholic priest Kiril Lakota is set free by Russian leader Piotr Ilyich Kamenev at the height of the Cold War.

7.0
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General Della Rovere

General Della Rovere

1959 · 2h 9m · Movie

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

7.7
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It Started in Naples

It Started in Naples

1960 · 1h 40m · Movie

Days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret singer.

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Terminal Station

Terminal Station

1953 · 1h 3m · Movie

Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.

6.2
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A Farewell to Arms

A Farewell to Arms

1957 · 2h 32m · Movie

An English nurse and an American ambulance driver on the Italian front during World War 1 fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them challenge their romance to the limit.

5.8
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The Children Are Watching Us

The Children Are Watching Us

1943 · 1h 24m · Movie

Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.

7.7
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium

1969 · 1h 39m · Movie

The humorous adventures of a group of American tourists taking an 18-day guided bus tour of nine European countries.

6.2
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Bread, Love and Dreams

Bread, Love and Dreams

1953 · 1h 30m · Movie

When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".

6.9
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Woman Times Seven

Woman Times Seven

1967 · 1h 39m · Movie

Seven portraits of different types of women.

5.8
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Le avventure di Pinocchio

Le avventure di Pinocchio

1972 · 5h 21m · Movie

Based on Carlo Collodi's classic novel, this mini-series is about an animated puppet named Pinocchio and his father, a poor woodcarver named Geppetto.

7.8
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Il vigile

Il vigile

1960 · 1h 44m · Movie

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.

7.2
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The Roof

The Roof

1956 · 1h 31m · Movie

A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof.

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Too Bad She's Bad

Too Bad She's Bad

1954 · 1h 35m · Movie

A kind-hearted taxi driver runs into a glamorous girl and falls in love with her, but she turns out to be a cheap thief.

6.8
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The Battle of Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz

1960 · 2h 2m · Movie

Another of Napoleon's adventures in this epic reconstruction of the battle of Austerlitz, where he had the greatest victory of his career, over the Russians.

6.2
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The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders

1965 · 2h 6m · Movie

A bawdy story of how a poor damsel surrenders her virtue again and again to get to the top of society.

5.7
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I due marescialli

I due marescialli

1961 · 1h 33m · Movie

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

7.2
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A Garibaldian in the Convent

A Garibaldian in the Convent

1942 · 1h 23m · Movie

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school: the happy moments, the sad ones and the tragic love for a Garibaldian.

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An Italian in America

An Italian in America

1967 · 1h 36m · Movie

Giuseppe, an Italian gas station attendant, is invited to the United States to reconcile with his father, who he believed had been dead for years.

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The Lady Doctor

The Lady Doctor

1957 · 1h 44m · Movie

Fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating,...

5.8
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Mamma mia, che impressione!

Mamma mia, che impressione!

1951 · 1h 15m · Movie

Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race.

6.0
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Caroline chérie

Caroline chérie

1968 · 1h 45m · Movie

In pre-Revolutionary France, 16-year-old Caroline is caught in a love triangle between her father's choice, politician Georges Berthier, and the man she loves, Gaston de Sallanches, as aristocrats revel while the French Revolution...

5.0
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Casino de Paris

Casino de Paris

1957 · 1h 37m · Movie

Catherine Miller, a star of the Casino de Paris, is noticed by the author Alexandre Gordy.

4.7