List of the best Sophia Loren movies: A Special Day(1977), Two Women(1960), Marriage Italian Style(1964), Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow(1964), The Life Ahead(2020), The Condemned of Altona(1963), The Fall of the Roman Empire(1964), Operation Crossbow(1965), The Sign of Venus(1955), Desire Under the Elms(1958), The Black Orchid(1959), The Cassandra Crossing(1977) ... ...
Drama
Italy|Canada
1977
106 Minutes
Antonietta Taberi
Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni John Vernon Françoise Berd Tiziano De Persio Maurizio Di Paolantonio Antonio Garibaldi Alessandra Mussolini Nicole Magny Vittorio Guerrieri
housewife homosexual radio personality husband fascist stranger charming emotional passionate profound rome apartment street fascism political debate political repression homosexuality domestic life friendship forbidden love
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Drama
Italy|France
1960
99 Minutes
Cesira
Sophia Loren Jean-Paul Belmondo Eleanora Brown Carlo Ninchi Andrea Checchi Pupella Maggio Emma Baron Bruna Cealti
widow daughter soldier intense powerful rome small town italy church war rape survival mother/daughter relationship love rise 1940s
In the Italy of WWII, a widow and her lonely daughter seek for distance between them and the horrors of war.
Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1964
102 Minutes
Filumena Marturano
Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni Aldo Puglisi Tecla Scarano Marilù Tolo Pia Lindström Gianni Ridolfi Vito Moricone Generoso Cortini Raffaello Rossi Bussola Enzo Aita
mistress businessman cashier son amusing sultry charming naples, italy household restaurant romance marriage deception social standing love rivalry discovery 1960s
The rich man Domenico and Filumena, a penniless prostitute, share great part of their lives in the immediate post WWII Italy.
Comedy
Italy|France
1964
119 Minutes
Adelina Sbaratti, Anna Molteni, Mara
Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni Armando Trovajoli Aldo Giuffré Agostino Salvietti Tina Pica Gianni Ridolfi Gennaro Di Gregario Lino Mattera Tecla Scarano Silvia Monelli
wife husband lover grandchild neighbor prostitute airy amusing cool rome milan naples, italy love infidelity infatuation parenthood love forbidden love 1960s
Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.
Drama
Italy
2020
95 Minutes
Sophia Loren Abril Zamora Babak Karimi Renato Carpentieri Ibrahima Gueye Massimiliano Rossi Francesco Cassano Simone Surico Nicola Valenzano Malich Cissé Iosif Diego Pirvu
In seaside Italy, a Holocaust survivor with a daycare business takes in a 12-year-old street kid who recently robbed her.
Drama
Italy|France
1963
114 Minutes
Johanna von Gerlach
Sophia Loren Maximilian Schell Fredric March Robert Wagner Françoise Prévost
A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.
Drama, History
USA
1964
153 Minutes
Lucilla
Sophia Loren Alec Guinness Stephen Boyd James Mason Christopher Plummer Anthony Quayle John Ireland Mel Ferrer Omar Sharif Eric Porter
soldier emperor heir daughter senator barbarian thrilling tense brooding rome battlefield frontier palace roman empire corruption decadence power play rebellion showdown fall
The death of Marcus Aurelius leads to a succession crisis, in which the deceased emperor's son, Commodus, demonstrates that he is unwilling to let anything undermine his claim to the Roman Empire.
Drama, War
UK
1965
116 Minutes
Nora
Sophia Loren George Peppard Trevor Howard John Mills Richard Johnson Tom Courtenay Jeremy Kemp Anthony Quayle Lilli Palmer Paul Henreid Helmut Dantine
lieutenant woman spy prime minister general colonel suspenseful intense germany london holland underground world war ii special ops espionage military working undercover quest sacrifice 1940s
Allied agents attempt to infiltrate the Nazis' rocket research site.
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1955
101 Minutes
Agnese Tirabassi
Sophia Loren Franca Valeri Vittorio De Sica Raf Vallone Virgilio Riento Tina Pica Lina Gennari Eloisa Cianni
Agnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
Drama
USA
1958
114 Minutes
Anna Cabot
Sophia Loren Anthony Perkins Burl Ives Frank Overton Pernell Roberts Rebecca Welles Jean Willes Anne Seymour Roy Fant
widower farmer wife slave gripping fascinating melodramatic new england farm california slavery farming money affair illegitimate child discovery forbidden love transformation 1950s
Desperation and secret passions on a family farm lead to tragedy.
Drama
USA
1959
96 Minutes
Rose Bianco
Sophia Loren Anthony Quinn Ina Balin Jimmy Baird Peter Mark Richman Naomi Stevens Virginia Stevens Joe Di Reda Frank Puglia
mobster murderer dead person woman single mother love interest single father brooding moving emotional engaging united states romance love love interest mobsters true love love 1950s
After mobsters murder her husband, Rose Bianco works long hours making artificial flowers, to support herself and her son. Some suspect that Rose's demand for a lavish lifestyle pushed her ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK|Italy|West Germany|USA
1977
126 Minutes
Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain
Sophia Loren Richard Harris Ava Gardner Burt Lancaster Martin Sheen Ingrid Thulin Lee Strasberg John Phillip Law Ann Turkel O.J. Simpson Lionel Stander
lover terrorist military officer doctor beautiful woman ex-husband suspenseful gripping intense train poland europe bridge terrorism disease runaway train smuggling impersonation isolation pursuit
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease. Nobody will let them off the train. So what happens next?
Drama
Canada|Italy
2002
95 Minutes
Sophia Loren Mira Sorvino Deborah Kara Unger Pete Postlethwaite Klaus Maria Brandauer Gérard Depardieu Malcolm McDowell Wendy Crewson
wife mother cellist photographer artist estranged father ex-convict family friend stranger inspiring uplifting touching tender toronto canada secret discovery art journey
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Mystery & Thriller
USA|West Germany|Switzerland
1978
111 Minutes
Mara
Sophia Loren George Kennedy Max von Sydow John Cassavetes Robert Vaughn Patrick McGoohan Bruce Davison Edward Herrmann Ed Bishop Lee Montague
In 1945, General Patton sends Germany's confiscated gold reserves to Frankfurt, but the Army train is robbed by plotters who also hire a Swiss hitman to kill the General.
Comedy
Italy|France
1972
95 Minutes
Maddalena Ciarrapico
Sophia Loren William Devane Gigi Proietti Beeson Carroll Bill Deprato Danny DeVito David Doyle Charles Bartlett Tracy Hotchiner Daniel Fortus
immigrant reporter city official restaurant owner customs agent fiancé offbeat lighthearted hilarious new york city airport restaurant street italy factory immigration politics divorce marriage food
Maddalena and Michele fall in love in Italy in the 1960s, while working at a meat factory in Emilia stormed by the workers' protest, but their love can't be, because he is married and Italy... See full summary »
Romance
Italy|Austria|USA
1960
98 Minutes
Princess Olympia
Sophia Loren John Gavin Maurice Chevalier Isabel Jeans Angela Lansbury Robert Risso Friedrich Ledebur Carlo Hinterman Tullio Carminati Adrienne Gessner Milly Vitale
Princess Olympia (Sophia Loren), despite her life status cannot resist the urge to satisfy her sexual appetites. Exiled to the countryside, Olympia falls in love with American millionaire Charlie Foster (John Gavin).
Comedy
UK
1960
90 Minutes
Epifania Parerga
Sophia Loren Peter Sellers Alastair Sim Vittorio De Sica Dennis Price Gary Raymond Miriam Karlin Noel Purcell Virginia Vernon
heiress rich girl doctor boss philanthropist tennis player charming amusing london office hospital river thames marriage trading places money wealth opposites attract sacrifice transformation 1960s
A Millionairess and a doctor cannot marry until they meet conditions set-up by their respective parents.
Drama
1966
109 Minutes
Judith Auerbach
An Israeli fighter (Peter Finch) sends a Jewish woman (Sophia Loren) to seduce a British major (Jack Hawkins) who knows where to find her Nazi ex-husband.
Drama
1971
96 Minutes
Hermana Germana
Sophia Loren Adriano Celentano Fernando Rey Juan Luis Galiardo Luis Marin Sergio Fasanelli Giuseppe Maffioli Pilar Gomez Ferrer Patrizia De Clara Teresa Rabal Valentine
A communist worker (Adriano Celentano) falls in love with the nun (Sophia Loren) who is head nurse at the hospital where he is a patient.
Comedy
1962
165 Minutes
Zoe
Sophia Loren Federico Fellini Luchino Visconti Anita Ekberg Romy Schneider Marisa Solinas Germano Gilioli Tomas Milian Luigi Giuliani
Tales of women (Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider) by Italy's leading filmmakers. Stories include "The Raffle," "The Job" and "The Temptation of Dr. Antonio."
Comedy, Drama
1955
91 Minutes
Antonietta Fallari
Sophia Loren Charles Boyer Marcello Mastroianni Nino Besozzi Titina de Filippo Giustino Duran
A photographer is forlorn when the model that he helped make famous becomes involved with a wealthy Lothario.
Comedy
1953
80 Minutes
Cleopatra, Nisca
The Nile queen (Sophia Loren) sneaks out to visit Mark Antony (Ettore Manni), leaving behind a look-alike who tempts her palace guard (Alberto Sordi).
Drama
1963
110 Minutes
Lisa Macklin
Sophia Loren Anthony Perkins Gig Young Jean-Pierre Aumont Yolande Turner Tommy Norden Mathilde Casadesus Barbara Nicot
wife businessman journalist love interest socialite dark gripping paris france spousal abuse marriage divorce plane crash fraud violence escape forbidden love fall 1960s
An American (Anthony Perkins) plays dead after a plane crash and sends his wife (Sophia Loren) to claim his life insurance in Paris.
Drama
1979
99 Minutes
Titina Paterno
Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni Giancarlo Giannini Turi Ferro Mario Scarpetta Lucio Amelio
mafioso attorney widow lover passionate dark sad sicily countryside small town mafia assassination death love triangle romantic dilemma fascism forbidden love rivalry wretched excess 1940s
A lawyer (Marcello Mastroianni) and a thief (Giancarlo Giannini) love a Neapolitan widow (Sophia Loren) and fight Fascists in 1920s Sicily.
Comedy
1979
90 Minutes
Pupa
Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni Aldo Maccione Pierre Brice Nazzareno Natale Mario Maranzana Alvaro Vitali Leopoldo Mastelloni
Drama
1973
95 Minutes
Adriana de Mauro
Sophia Loren Richard Burton Ian Bannen Barbara Pilavin Renato Pinciroli Daniele Vargas Sergio Bruni Ettore Geri Isabelle Marchall Riccardo Mangano Annabella Incontrera
husband widow brother father love interest doctor spectacular melodramatic gondola family home venice, italy sicily car accident disapproval terminal illness mourning love triangle marriage proposal forbidden love rivalry
A woman (Sophia Loren) loves one man (Richard Burton) but marries his brother (Ian Bannen) in circa-1900 Sicily.
Fantasy
1967
110 Minutes
Isabella Candeloro
Sophia Loren Omar Sharif Dolores del Río Georges Wilson Leslie French Marina Malfatti Anna Nogara Rita Forzano Rosa Maria Martino Carlotta Barilli Fleur Mombelli
prince mother peasant monk offbeat spirited naples, italy forest countryside fantasy magic true love prophecy discovery love 17th century
A 17th-century Spanish prince (Omar Sharif) falls for a peasant (Sophia Loren) instead of one of his mother's (Dolores del Río) seven princesses.
Comedy
1955
100 Minutes
Lina Stroppiani
Sophia Loren Vittorio De Sica Marcello Mastroianni Walter Bartoletti Mario Passante Giacomo Furia Giulio Cali
con artist thief taxi driver father police officer beautiful woman amusing sultry witty police station family home italy scams theft family marriage reform pursuit love 1950s
A cabdriver (Marcello Mastroianni) encounters a thieving, fast-talking woman (Sophia Loren) and her seemingly respectable father (Vittorio De Sica).
Drama
1957
92 Minutes
Nives Mongolini
A rural Italian (Sophia Loren) informs on the smuggler (Rik Battaglia) who got her pregnant, then goes off to have his child.
Comedy, Drama
1955
91 Minutes
Antonietta Fallari
Sophia Loren Charles Boyer Marcello Mastroianni Nino Besozzi Titina de Filippo Giustino Duran
beautiful woman producer woman photographer endearing heartwarming emotional moving photography studio career aspirations love-hate relationship aspirations relationships adventure discovery pursuit transformation love rise
A photographer is forlorn when the model that he helped make famous becomes involved with a wealthy lothario.
Comedy, Drama
1961
100 Minutes
Catherine Hubscher
Sophia Loren Robert Hossein Julien Bertheau Marina Berti Carlo Giuffré Gabriella Pallotta Analía Gadé Laura Valenzuela Gianrico Tedeschi
Napoleon's (Julien Bertheau) laundress (Sophia Loren) and her sergeant husband (Robert Hossein) become heroes, then duchess and duke.
Musical
USA|Italy
1972
130 Minutes
Peter O'Toole Sophia Loren James Coco Harry Andrews John Castle Brian Blessed Ian Richardson Julie Gregg Rosalie Crutchley Gino Conforti Marne Maitland
don quixote sancho panza prostitute niece writer inmate amusing charming emotional spain dungeon field inn household spanish inquisition imprisonment performance miguel de cervantes delusion chivalry
The funny story of mad but kind and chivalrous elderly nobleman Don Quixote who, aided by his squire Sancho Panza, fights windmills that are seen as dragons to save prostitute Dulcinea who is seen as a noblewoman.
Romance
USA
1958
110 Minutes
Cary Grant Sophia Loren Martha Hyer Harry Guardino Edward Ciannelli Murray Hamilton
widower socialite son daughter conductor lighthearted charming uplifting playful washington, d.c. houseboat potomac river new love second chance family impersonation parenthood love discovery 1950s
A widower, his three young children, and a bombshell nanny get to know each other better when circumstances have them living together aboard a badly neglected houseboat.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
105 Minutes
Yasmin Azir
Gregory Peck Sophia Loren Alan Badel Kieron Moore Carl Duering John Merivale Duncan Lamont George Coulouris Ernest Clark Harold Kasket Gordon Griffin
professor spy villain femme fatale politician amusing engaging middle east england espionage investigation assassination dangerous assignment romance deception quest adventure discovery 1960s
Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
Comedy
Italy|France
1955
106 Minutes
Vittorio De Sica Sophia Loren Lea Padovani Antonio Cifariello Tina Pica Mario Carotenuto Joka Berretty Antonio La Raina
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Romance
USA
1960
100 Minutes
Clark Gable Sophia Loren Vittorio De Sica Marietto Paolo Carlini Claudio Ermelli Giovanni Filidoro
lawyer sister-in-law nephew brother italian american charming melodramatic heartwarming amusing naples, italy island family home village office capri reunion funeral custody battle may-december romance
Days before his wedding, a Philadelphia lawyer travels to Naples in Southern Italy to settle the estate of his late brother, only to find that he has an Italian nephew who is being cared for by his maternal aunt, a cabaret singer.
Adventure
USA
1957
111 Minutes
Alan Ladd Sophia Loren Clifton Webb Jorge Mistral Laurence Naismith Alexis Minotis Piero Giagnoni Charles Fawcett Gertrude Flynn Charlotte Terrabust Margaret Stahl
diver boyfriend archaeologist art collector melodramatic engaging greece island underwater love triangle shipwreck treasure betrayal discovery pursuit 1950s
A woman finds a treasure and is torn between two men: one who wants to sell it and one who wants to gift it to Greece.
Adventure
Italy|USA
1957
109 Minutes
John Wayne Sophia Loren Rossano Brazzi Kurt Kaszner Sonia Moser Angela Portaluri Ibrahim el Hadish
explorer guide prostitute african native thrilling tense africa timbuktu desert temple treasure journey betrayal survival unlikely allies quest discovery revenge 1950s
American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.
Romance
UK
1967
108 Minutes
Marlon Brando Sophia Loren Tippi Hedren Sydney Chaplin Patrick Cargill Michael Medwin Oliver Johnston John Paul Angela Scoular Margaret Rutherford Peter Bartlett
In Hong Kong, the ambassador returning to America meets the Russian countess, a refugee without a passport, who decides to hide in his cabin.
Western
USA
1960
100 Minutes
Angela Rossini
Anthony Quinn Sophia Loren Eileen Heckart Margaret O'Brien Steve Forrest Edmund Lowe Ramon Novarro George Mathews Ed Binns Frank Silvera Iron Eyes Cody
actor actress gunslinger banker mother native american playful crafty witty theater cheyenne, wyo. saloon house show business old west journey debt performance quest escape
Story of theatrical troupe that travels through the Old West.
Action
1957
132 Minutes
Juana
Cary Grant Frank Sinatra Sophia Loren Theodore Bikel John Wengraf Jay Novello José Nieto Carlos Larrañaga Philip Van Zandt Julián Ugarte Felix de Pomes
british soldier peasant rebel mistress spaniard frenchman inspiring passionate intense melodramatic thrilling spain countryside river camp mountain napoleonic wars weapons journey love triangle
A British naval officer (Cary Grant) and a Spanish guerrilla (Frank Sinatra) salvage a huge cannon to use against Napoleon.
Drama
1952
97 Minutes
Elvira
Silvana Pampanini Eleonora Rossi Drago Sophia Loren Tamara Lees Marc Lawrence Vittorio Gassman Barbara Florian Ettore Manni
A white slaver (Marc Lawrence) based in an Italian seaport stages marathon dance contests to lure young women into his prostitution ring.
Comedy
USA
1995
100 Minutes
Maria Sophia Coletta Ragetti
Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau Ann-Margret Sophia Loren Burgess Meredith Kevin Pollak Daryl Hannah Ann Morgan Guilbert Katie Sagona Wayne A. Evenson
father fisherman grandfather restaurant owner son daughter hilarious madcap heartwarming amusing minnesota lake fishing boat restaurant home boat courtship friendship fishing funeral
John and Max resolve to save their beloved bait shop from turning into an Italian restaurant, just as its new female owner catches Max's attention.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
1961
105 Minutes
Marcello Mastroianni Vittorio Gassman Sandra Milo Sophia Loren Lilla Brignone Tino Buazzelli Claudio Catania Enzo Cerusico Alberto De Amicis Eduardo De Filippo Evelyn Stewart
Musical, Comedy
Italy
1954
125 Minutes
Sisina
Paolo Stoppa Clelia Matania Maria Fiore Nadia Gray Leonide Massine Sophia Loren
The life of a family of street singers.
Musical, Romance
UK|USA
2009
118 Minutes
Mamma
Daniel Day-Lewis Marion Cotillard Penélope Cruz Judi Dench Fergie Kate Hudson Nicole Kidman Sophia Loren Ricky Tognazzi Giuseppe Cederna Valerio Mastandrea
director wife mistress prostitute actress journalist creative passionate spirited venice, italy beach bar stage movie set hotel filmmaking infidelity women failure personal revelation
Famous film director Guido Contini struggles to find harmony in his professional and personal lives, as he engages in dramatic relationships with his wife, his mistress, his muse, his agent, and his mother.