Shoeshine(Sciuscià)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
Italy · 1946
1h 27m
Director Vittorio De Sica
Starring Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi
Genre Drama
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...
What are people saying?
Users who liked this film also liked
Sunflower
(I girasoli)
Giovanna travels to Russia to try to find her husband, Antonio, believed to have died during World War II.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France, Soviet Union • 1970
- Director Vittorio De Sica
- Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Ludmila Savelyeva, Galina Andreyeva, Anna Carena, Germano Longo
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
(Il giardino dei Finzi Contini)
An upper-class Jewish family witnesses the dangerous rise of fascism and antisemitism in 1930s Italy.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, West Germany • 1970
- Director Vittorio De Sica
- Cast Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Barbara Pilavin
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on MGM Plus
Paisan
(Paisà)
Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1946
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Carmela Sazio, Robert Van Loon, Benjamin Emanuel, Raymond Campbell, Harold Wagner, Albert Heinze
- Genre Drama, History, War
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max
Autumn Sonata
(Höstsonaten)
Time can't heal all wounds.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- West Germany, United Kingdom • 1978
- Director Ingmar Bergman
- Cast Ingrid Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Lena Nyman, Halvar Björk, Marianne Aminoff, Arne Bang-Hansen
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, YouTube
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed)
This earliest surviving animated feature film tells the story of a heroic prince attempting to save his sister from an evil sorcerer.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1926
- Director Lotte Reiniger
- Cast Dana Dempsey
- Genre Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Kanopy, Darkroom
Late Autumn
(秋日和)
A mother gently tries to persuade her daughter to marry.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Japan • 1960
- Director Yasujirō Ozu
- Cast Setsuko Hara, Yôko Tsukasa, Mariko Okada, Keiji Sada, Miyuki Kuwano, Shinichirô Mikami
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Two Women
(La ciociara)
Suddenly, love becomes lust and innocence becomes shame, as two women are trapped by violent passion and unforgettable terror!
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1960
- Director Vittorio De Sica
- Cast Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Eleonora Brown, Carlo Ninchi, Andrea Checchi
- Genre Drama, War
- Available on Apple TV, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Plex Channel
Bitter Rice
(Riso amaro)
An earthy drama of human passions among women rice workers in the Po Valley.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1949
- Director Giuseppe De Santis
- Cast Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Checco Rissone, Nico Pepe
- Genre Drama, Crime
- Available on Criterion Channel, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
The Devil, Probably
(Le Diable probablement)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1977
- Director Robert Bresson
- Cast Antoine Monnier, Tina Irissari, Henri de Maublanc, Laetitia Carcano, Nicolas Deguy, Marie Rivière
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
(Ieri, oggi, domani)
A playful anthology comedy following the romantic complications faced by three sets of lovers.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy, France • 1963
- Director Vittorio De Sica
- Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffrè, Agostino Salvietti, Lino Mattera, Tecla Scarano
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Available on Criterion Channel, Kino Film Collection, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Tubi TV, Kanopy, Hoopla, Darkroom
Miracle in Milan
(Miracolo a Milano)
An impudent, riotous laugh on the lives and morals of our day!
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1951
- Director Vittorio De Sica
- Cast Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa, Guglielmo Barnabò, Brunella Bovo, Anna Carena
- Genre Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
- Available on Criterion Channel, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube
Totò cerca casa
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1949
- Director Mario Monicelli, Steno
- Cast Totò, Alda Mangini, Lia Molfesi, Mario Castellani, Aroldo Tieri, Folco Lulli
- Genre Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Children Are Watching Us
(I bambini ci guardano)
A pulsating drama of childhood.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1944
- Director Vittorio De Sica
- Cast Emilio Cigoli, Isa Pola, Luciano De Ambrosis, Ernesto Calindri, Giovanna Cigoli, Tecla Scarano
- Genre Drama
- Available on Criterion Channel
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
(La Prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1966
- Director Roberto Rossellini
- Cast Jean-Marie Patte, Raymond Jourdan, Silvagni, Katharina Renn, Dominique Vincent, Pierre Barrat
- Genre Drama, History
- Available on Criterion Channel
Why
(Detenuto in attesa di giudizio)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Italy • 1971
- Director Nanni Loy
- Cast Alberto Sordi, Elga Andersen, Andrea Aureli, Nazzareno Natale, Michele Gammino, Lino Banfi
- Genre Drama, Comedy
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Wedding Party
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Nigeria • 2016
- Director Kemi Adetiba
- Cast Adesua Etomi, Iretiola Doyle, Zainab Balogun, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Banky Wellington
- Genre Comedy, Romance
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Amazon Video, YouTube, The Roku Channel, Freevee