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Sophia Loren has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2020s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by A Special Day.
Hobson's Choice
1954
Comedy · Drama

Two Women
1960 · Movie · Actor
Top 7%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
1963 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Cassandra Crossing
1976 · Movie · Actor
Top 50%Prime Video · Included

Grumpier Old Men
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 53%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Life Ahead
2020 · Movie · Actor
Top 54%Netflix · Included

Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon

Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
Dir. Mario Mattoli · With Totò, Sophia Loren, Enzo Turco

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Sophia Loren, Eleonora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo

During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi

as Adelina Sbaratti / Anna Molteni / Mara
Tubi · Free w/ ads
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?
Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Ludmila Savelyeva
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone

A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Silvana Mangano, Sophia Loren, Eduardo De Filippo

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Dir. Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti · With Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Tina Pica
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica

When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?
Dir. Stanley Donen · With Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel

An Italian socialite on the run signs on as housekeeper for a widower with three children.
Dir. Melville Shavelson · With Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
Dir. George P. Cosmatos · With Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Dir. Michael Anderson · With Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard

A family wedding reignites the ancient feud between next-door neighbors and fishing buddies John and Max. Meanwhile, a sultry Italian divorcée opens a restaurant at the local bait shop, alarming the locals who worry she'll scare the fish away. But she's less interested in seafood than she is in cooking up a hot time with Max.
Dir. Howard Deutch · With Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margret

In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Dir. Edoardo Ponti · With Sophia Loren, Ibrahima Gueye, Renato Carpentieri

In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
Dir. Anthony Mann · With Sophia Loren, Stephen Boyd, Alec Guinness
A Russian countess stows away in the stateroom of a married U.S. diplomat bound for New York.
Dir. Charlie Chaplin · With Marlon Brando, Sophia Loren, Sydney Chaplin
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Dir. Robert Altman · With Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Jean-Pierre Cassel
Arrogant, self-centered movie director Guido Contini finds himself struggling to find meaning, purpose, and a script for his latest film endeavor. With only a week left before shooting begins, he desperately searches for answers and inspiration from his wife, his mistress, his muse, and his mother.
Dir. Rob Marshall · With Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard, Penélope Cruz
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