Vittorio De Sica

Roberto Rossellini’s Golden Lion winner at Venice 1959 is a moving wartime masterpiece. Vittorio De Sica plays a small-time conman imprisoned by the Nazis and coerced into impersonating a resistance hero. As he gains the trust of fellow prisoners, deception gives way to conviction. Based on real events, it’s a stirring reflection on identity, courage, and redemption under fascist rule.

In this delightful 1959 comedy by Giorgio Bianchi, Totò plays a humble man entangled in a world of aristocrats, pretensions, and social climbing. With biting humor and charm, the film satirizes class distinctions in postwar Italy. Featuring the incomparable Totò at his comic best, it’s a lesser-known gem of Italian cinema filled with sharp wit and timeless performances.

When a woman sells her earrings to pay a gambling debt, it leads to a string of betrayals.

Classic romantic comedy starring Clark Gable and Sophia Loren. Mike Hamilton (Gable) is a lawyer travelling to Naples to sort out the estate of his recently-deceased brother and take charge of his orphaned nephew. Mike soon comes up against the strong-willed Lucia (Loren), the boy's aunt, who has decided to take custody of him herself.

With his supply of virgin blood diminishing, Dracula is forced to seek a fix in a Catholic Italian province, where a few virgins still exist.

A passionate but star-crossed romance develops between an American soldier and a Red Cross nurse during WWI. Based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway.

A millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set up by their respective parents.

Based on the best-selling book by Morris L. West, this sweeping epic follows Anthony Quinn as a Russian political prisoner who becomes Pope and tries to prevent an atomic war.

A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.

If you're rich, she's available! Kim Novak plays the title role and goes from bed to better in The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders, a bawdy comedy based on Daniel Defoe's classic novel.