Vittorio De Sica

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Carlo Battisti, Napoleone the Dog, Maria Pia Casilio

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

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

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.

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele

Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa

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

Dir. Luigi Zampa · With Alberto Sordi, Marisa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica

In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.

Dir. Max Ophüls · With Charles Boyer, Danielle Darrieux, Vittorio De Sica

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

In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

Dir. Roberto Rossellini · With Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Vittorio Caprioli

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

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".

Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Vittorio De Sica, Gina Lollobrigida, Marisa Merlini

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

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.

Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Fabio Testi

Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich suitors. But there, instead of pure women, the count encounters incestuous lesbians with vile blood and Marxist manservant Mario, who's suspicious of the aristocratic Dracula.

Dir. Paul Morrissey · With Udo Kier, Joe Dallesandro, Vittorio De Sica