Sophia Loren
2) Sunflower
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
Italiano
Description
In another of Sophia Loren’s great collaborations with director Vittorio De Sica (*The Bicycle Thief*), Loren plays Giovanna, a steel-willed Italian woman on a desperate search to find her husband Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni), who has gone missing on the WWII battlefields of Russia. Making the grueling overland journey years after the end of the war, she tracks Antonio down and finds him a changed man. This heart-wrenching reunion will forever...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1964.
Language
Italiano
Description
One of the most famous, and funniest, Italian comedies of all time, MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE received nominations for Best Foreign Language Film, and Best Actress for Sophia Loren, at the **Academy Awards**. Marcello Mastroianni co-stars as the irrepressibly carnal businessman Domenico, who discovers Loren’s Filumena as a young prostitute and keeps her as his mistress and confidante. When he chooses to marry a young cashier instead of her, Filumena...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1963.
Language
Italiano
Description
This **Oscar-winning**, sparklingly original comedy casts Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren in three different stories set throughout Italy. In Naples, they are poor but resourceful, selling black market cigarettes on the streets. In Milan, Loren is costumed in Christian Dior and debates her preference for a Rolls Royce or her husband. And in Rome, Mastroianni is an industry scion who helps Loren’s prostitute set a wavering priest back onto...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
A glittering Hollywood all-star cast shines in Robert Altman's deliciously sexy comedy hit Ready To Wear! At the world's hottest fashion show, there's been a murder. Now, everybody's a suspect - including two guests who end up sharing much more than a hotel room! Add to the fun a hilariously inept TV reporter on the trail of her most shocking interview yet! They're all caught up in the year's biggest see-and-be-seen event - where steamy scandals and...
6) Two Women
Publisher
NYX Channel
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
Italiano
Description
In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Italiano
Description
This documentary offers a deep dive into the ground breaking life and career of Lina Wertmuller, the first woman ever nominated for the **Academy Award** for Best Director for her masterpiece *Seven Beauties*. The documentary spans decades, from the unpublished pictures taken in Cinecitta, when she was Federico Fellini’s assistant director on *8 1⁄2*, to the places where her most famous films were set, revealing the artistic and human universe...
Publisher
StudioCanal
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Italiano
Description
An anthology of films depicting various aspects of Neapolitan life. The Big Chief: A district big wig settles down in a family he reduces to slavery. The Players : A ruined gambler nobleman has no other partner than his caretaker's son. Theresa : A rich man marries a prostitute to punish himself for a young girl's suicide. Pizza on Credit : A nice-looking pizza salesgirl has forgotten her ring at her lover's house. Her husband thinks she has lost...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
1960.
Language
English
Description
Starring studio-era legends Sophia Loren and Clark Gable, IT STARTED IN NAPLES follows an American lawyer who travels to the Italian city to settle the estate of his recently deceased expatriate brother. When he arrives, he discovers that his sister-in-law was also killed in the accident, leaving their son Marrietto in the guardianship of an aunt he hardly knows. Though the two share a mutual suspicion towards one another at first, they eventually...
11) Boccaccio '70
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
Italiano
Description
Four legendary filmmakers direct some of Europe's biggest stars in Boccaccio '70, a landmark anthology film. Mario Monicelli (Big deal on Madonna Street), Federico Fellini (8 1/2), Luchino Visconti (The leopard) and Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, today and tomorrow) direct Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider and more through four stories of unashamed eros. Modeled on Boccaccio's Decameron, they are comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding...