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Carlo Fortunato Pietro Ponti Sr. Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI (11 December 1912 – 10 January 2007) was an Italian film producer with more than 140 productions to his credit. Along with Dino De Laurentiis, he is credited with reinvigorating and popularizing Italian cinema post-World War II, producing some of the country's most acclaimed and financially-successful films of the 1950s and 1960s.
Ponti worked with many of the most important directors of Italian cinema of the era, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Vittorio De Sica, as well as many international directors. He helped launch the career of his wife, international film star Sophia Loren. He won the Academy Award for Best Foreign-Language Film for La Strada (1954) and was nominated for Best Picture for producing Doctor Zhivago (1965). In 1996, he was ascended as a Knight Grand Cross to the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic.
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27 December 1954
Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.
31 May 1963
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life.
26 April 1967
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events.
11 September 1959
A young G.I. falls in love with a kept woman on a train to New York.
12 August 1974
An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
07 December 1972
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
02 May 1962
The story of a journalist in southern Germany who stays with a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the young couple's lives.
16 March 1960
A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
25 August 1975
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
27 October 1955
A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela.
18 September 1954
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.
19 October 1954
Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
20 December 1952
Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
12 February 1959
An aging widower fights family disapproval when he falls in love with a gangster's widow.
22 December 1965
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
20 December 1967
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
23 December 1967
Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work.
20 September 1957
A young woman gets closely watched by her jealous fiance while she is trying to deliver cakes to customers' houses.
20 December 1951
Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path.
30 September 1967
A young woman and a soldier team up to deliver an Austrian General to Italian forces during World War I.
11 March 1974
The charming Adriana gets sick after her husband's death. Her brother-in-law takes her on a journey to meet a doctor, while love overwhelms them.
08 March 1974
A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.
30 October 1962
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire.
27 January 1956
The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini.
27 October 1954
During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong.
13 March 1947
Vivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.
19 March 1957
For the 17-year-old Mariza, there is no other house than the train station in Civitavecchia. Here, an orphaned girl lives early after the death of her father, a railwayman; here she earns additionally at the station buffet, selling ice cream to passengers of passing trains.
18 October 1956
Adventures of a young married couple during their honeymoon trip.
05 March 1954
A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.
10 December 1954
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
18 August 1971
Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the Police.
03 December 1954
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
29 November 1951
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him.
04 December 1952
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick.
23 September 1976
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome.
08 April 1952
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
09 December 1949
Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.
16 December 1949
Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law.
01 April 1965
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.
28 September 1949
In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé’s relatives.
18 September 1948
A struggling woman and a black American soldier fall in love in post-World War II Italy.
19 May 1977
Richard Butler is the director of a Montreal advertising agency. When he meets Dyanne, a young beautiful model, he falls in love.
30 October 1975
A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town.
11 August 1977
Two neighbours — a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife — forge a strong bond on the day of Adolf Hitler's historic 1938 visit to Rome.
09 December 1946
During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.
25 October 1957
The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome.
10 April 1941
Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.
29 June 1962
Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.
25 September 1953
A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier.
11 May 1950
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double.
26 March 1970
Anthropology student Daria, who's helping a property developer build a village in the Los Angeles desert, and dropout Mark, who's wanted by the authorities for allegedly killing a policeman during a student riot, accidentally encounter each other in Death Valley and soon begin an unrestrained romance.
11 April 1962
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy.
01 March 1960
Nineteenth century Wyoming: the wild West. Mild-mannered Tom Healy has a two-wagon theater troupe hounded by creditors because Angela, his leading lady and the object of his affection, constantly buys clothes.
12 October 1990
Rosa, a mature mother of several children, is concerned that her beloved husband Don Peppino is losing interest in her, and does his best to provoke some jealousy in him.
16 October 1952
The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles.
24 December 2019
With a maddening sensuality, the unforgettable actress of the film "A Special Day" embodies the golden age of Italian cinema.
06 December 1950
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand.
22 December 1960
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 up with them.
15 October 1975
Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is told of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress.
21 August 1956
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
