Carlo Ponti Trailers
Sophia Loren, a special destiny Trailer
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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05 February 1953
Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her.
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.
05 April 1958
Two young lovers, Tao and Valeria, decide to go and enjoy a beautiful holiday in privacy, away from the daily routine and their parents.
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.
31 January 1964
A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her.
29 June 1962
Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.
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.
12 November 1953
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
27 August 1962
A lonely teenage boy, living isolated on an island, idolizes his distant father. Complications arise when his father brings home a young new wife, whom the boy falls for, and a recently released criminal, entangled in a web of complex relationships.
07 December 1972
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
29 October 1963
Art film producer Jeremy Prokosch, unhappy with the work of his director, hires Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of The Odyssey, but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker is making a picture destined to bomb, he brings in a screenwriter to energise the script.
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.
21 August 1956
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
18 December 1976
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
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.
01 December 1960
The nun tells the priest about her past and then a long flashback begins...
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.
01 June 1973
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
04 January 1973
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them.
06 October 1954
A retelling of Homer's The Odyssey, focusing on Ulysses's ten-year journey home to Ithaca following the Trojan War, where he faces various mythical challenges while his wife Penelope fends off suitors.
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.
18 December 1966
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing.
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.
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.
14 March 1970
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage.
15 December 1967
The firemen of a provincial Czechoslovakian town throw a ball in honor of the old chief's retirement.
06 September 1961
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
23 February 1962
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
03 March 1961
A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
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.
28 February 1975
David Locke is a world-weary American journalist who has been sent to cover a conflict in northern Africa, but he makes little progress with the story.
21 January 1975
A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
02 December 1965
In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt.
30 November 1964
A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.
11 May 1950
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double.
23 September 1954
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together.
30 November 1973
Within the decadent walls of the Frankenstein mansion, the Baron and his depraved assistant Otto have discovered the means of creating new life.
01 April 1965
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.
07 December 1979
Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
27 December 1955
Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges girls to settle down by marrying a wealthy man.
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.
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.
21 December 1963
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
13 December 1962
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist.
18 December 1964
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 him reciprocate her feelings.
23 September 1976
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome.
25 January 1963
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
24 October 1974
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
27 October 1954
During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong.
19 December 1975
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
18 September 1954
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.
22 September 1961
Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.
15 June 1965
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
29 November 1973
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice.
13 March 1947
An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk.
02 May 1962
On a work assignment in Germany, failed journalist Albin crosses paths with Andreas, a successful writer, and his wife Hélène, who quickly becomes the apple of Albin’s eye.
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.
14 March 1957
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family.
