Luisa Alessandri

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A Place for Lovers
5.5

A Place for Lovers

Dec. 19, 1968

A Place for Lovers

Globe-trotting clothes-horse Julia, who’s harboring a secret, embarks on a 10-day fling with Valerio in Italy.
The Witches
5.9

The Witches

Feb. 22, 1967

The Witches

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy ...
Marriage Italian Style
7.4

Marriage Italian Style

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 ...
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
7.2

Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
The Condemned of Altona
6.7

The Condemned of Altona

A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family’s shipbuilding empire. There, ...
Two Women
7.7

Two Women

Dec. 22, 1960

Two Women

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 ...
Scandal in Sorrento
6.5

Scandal in Sorrento

Dec. 22, 1955

Scandal in Sorrento

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
The Roof
7.4

The Roof

Sep. 29, 1956

The Roof

Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the ...
The Monte Carlo Story
5.7

The Monte Carlo Story

Dec. 19, 1956

The Monte Carlo Story

Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the ...
Indiscretion of an American Wife
6.2

Indiscretion of an American Wife

While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to ...
Bread, Love and Dreams
6.9

Bread, Love and Dreams

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”.
Umberto D.
8.2

Umberto D.

Jan. 20, 1952

Umberto D.

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady ...
Miracle in Milan
7.6

Miracle in Milan

Feb. 08, 1951

Miracle in Milan

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, ...
Bicycle Thieves
8.2

Bicycle Thieves

Jul. 21, 1948

Bicycle Thieves

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to ...
The Children Are Watching Us
7.7

The Children Are Watching Us

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic ...