FR #2405 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Italy, USA | Italian, Arabic
Director
Anthony Mann
Writer
Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman
Cast
Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
Plot
The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
FR #6409 | Movie | Comedy, Fantasy | Italy, France | Italian, German
Director
Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli
Writer
Giovanni Arpino, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Italo Calvino
Cast
Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Plot
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.
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.
"Miseria e Nobiltà " tells the story of the humble families of Felice Pasquale and his colleague who are hired by a Marquis who wants to marry the daughter of a rich but simple cook, so they pose as aristocrats.
FR #8431 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Melville Shavelson
Writer
Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Betsy Drake
Cast
Cary Grant, Sophia Loren, Martha Hyer
Plot
A widower, his three young children, and an Italian nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.
FR #9178 | Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Stanley Donen
Writer
Julian Mitchell, Stanley Price, Peter Stone
Cast
Gregory Peck, Sophia Loren, Alan Badel
Plot
International intrigue in London, involving an American university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
FR #13138 | Movie | Drama, Fantasy | Italy, USA | English
Director
Arthur Hiller
Writer
Dale Wasserman, Miguel De Cervantes Y Saavedra
Cast
Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco
Plot
The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
FR #15420 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Italy | Italian
Director
Dino Risi
Writer
Edoardo Anton, Luigi Comencini, Franca Valeri
Cast
Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica
Plot
Agnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
FR #16943 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | USA | English, Italian
Director
Melville Shavelson
Writer
Melville Shavelson, Jack Rose, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Cast
Clark Gable, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica
Plot
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.
FR #20170 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Italy | English, French
Director
Anatole Litvak
Writer
Peter Viertel, Hugh Wheeler, Andre Versini
Cast
Sophia Loren, Anthony Perkins, Gig Young
Plot
Lisa's husband Robert fakes his death in a plane crash to collect insurance. She's trapped between helping him commit fraud and her growing feelings for David Barnes, until she makes one final, desperate choice.
During World War II, successive tugboat British Captains sent on dangerous salvage missions pass-on the key to a home-port apartment, where a lonely Swiss-Italian young war-widow lives.
