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Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch. Director Mario Mattoli Stars Sophia Loren Alberto Sordi Paul Muller. 24. The Anatomy of Love. 1954 2h 14m.
While under contract to Paramount, Sophia starred in Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Key (1958), The Black Orchid (1958) , It Started in Naples (1960), Heller in Pink Tights (1960), A Breath of Scandal (1960), and The Millionairess (1960) before returning to Italy to star in Two Women (1960).
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She holds the record for having earned seven David di Donatello Awards for Best Actress: Two Women; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963); Marriage Italian Style (1964, for which she was nominated for a second Oscar); Sunflower (1970); The Voyage (1974); A Special Day (1977) and The Life Ahead (2020).
Dec 14, 2023 · Discover the best Sophia Loren movies, films that showcase the legendary actress's exceptional talent and timeless beauty. Loren, an star of Italian cinema, has graced the silver screen with her magnetic presence for over six decades.
- Houseboat (1958) 64%
- Arabesque (1966) 69%
- Operation Crossbow (1965) 71%
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1964) 78%
- Marriage Italian Style (1964) 80%
- Two Women (1960) 88%
- El CID (1961) 92%
- The Life Ahead (2020) 92%
- The Fall of The Roman Empire (1964) 100%
- A Special Day (1977) 100%
Loren shares the screen with legendary leading man Cary Grant in Houseboat, a rom-com set on the titular houseboat off stationed in Washington D.C. Grant plays Tom Winters, a widower and single father of three unruly children. When the children appoint European socialite Cinzia (Loren) to be their new nanny, Tom invites her to stay with them on an ...
Directed by Stanley Donen, Arabesqueis a wild comedic spy thriller in which cryptographer David Pollock (Gregory Peck) is tasked with deciphering ancient hieroglyphics in order to solve an international assassination plot. RELATED: Top 10 Gregory Peck Movies, According to IMDb Along his quest, David meets Yasmin (Loren), a double-crossing femme fat...
Also known as The Great Spy Mission, Operation Crossbow concerns Allied soldiers in WWII who make a daring attemptto destroy a Nazi rocket research and testing laboratory. In specific, the weapons include the V-1 flying bomb and V-2 rocket. Loren plays Nora Van Ostamgen, the wife of a German operative impersonating an Air Force cadet in order to th...
Italian maestro Vittorio De Sica's Yesterday, Today and Tomorrowis a romantic-comedy triptych that explores the daily lives of three disparate women living in Italy. Loren plays all three women in the film. RELATED: Paulo Sorrentino & 9 Other Great Italian Directors Every Film Lover Should Check Out In the first tale entitled "Adelina in Naples," L...
Vittorio De Seca's Marriage Italian Style is often hailed as one of the most hilarious domestic rom-coms ever produced. Loren stars as Filumena, a destitute prostitute who finds her match in the rich and rakish Domenico (Marcello Mastroianni) in post-war Italy. At first disinterested in Filumena, Domenico reluctantly invites the obsessed woman to l...
Sophia Loren earned an Academy Award for her leading turn in Two Women, the third-straight film on the list directed by Vittorio De Seca. Loren plays Cesira in the film, a ravishing widow and single mother who leaves her grocery store in Rome behind to raise her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta (Eleonora Brown). RELATED: Lady Bird & 9 Other Mother/Dau...
Anthony Mann's three-hour historical epic,El Cidfollows the titular Spanish soldier aka Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (Charlton Heston) as he makes a dogged stand to protect Spanish Christians from a Moorish attack. Loren plays El Cid's wife, Jimena, who out of her refusal to consummate the marriage, leaves to join a convent. Afterward, El Cid goes on to p...
According to Rotten Tomatoes, Loren's third-best movie of her career happens to be her most recent. In The Life Ahead, Loren portrays Madame Rosa, a Holocaust survivor who owns a daycare on the Italian coast. When Rosa is swindled on the street by a 12-year-old boy from Senegal named Momo (Ibrahima Gueye), she decides to take him into her daycare r...
Three years after El Cid, Loren reunited with director Anthony Mann for another epic three-hour historical drama entitled The Fall of the Roman Empire. The story concerns the succession of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (Alec Guinness) in 180 AD. RELATED: 10 Movies to Watch If You Love The Roman Empire, Ranked According To Rotten Tomatoes Following ...
Ettore Scola's A Special Day reunites Sophia Loren with her Marriage Italian Stylecostar Marcello Mastroianni to tell a far more heartwrenching dramatic story. The two stars play neighbors who forge a profound fleeting connection on one historical day. With Adolf Hitler set to make his first visit to Italy in the 1930s, most of the countrymen plan ...
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Sep 14, 2023 · Tour our photo gallery of Loren’s greatest films, including some of the titles listed above, as well as “El Cid” (1961), “Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow” (1963), “A Special...
7. The Black Orchid. Anthony Quinn and Sophia Loren star as longtime widower Frank and recently widowed Rose, lonely hearts who discover something special in The Black Orchid, a sensitive comedy romance directed by Martin Ritt (Norma Rae, Murphy's Romance). 8.
