
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…

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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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".

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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,...

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.

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...

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