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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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21 December 1960
In fascist Italy, Urbano Marangoni aspires to become Corazziere, like his late father, but it is a dream destined not to come true because of his short stature.
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.
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.
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.
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.
22 December 1971
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a humorous and frustrating ordeal.
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.
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.
24 October 1951
The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.
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.
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.
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.
04 January 1976
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
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.
18 October 1956
Adventures of a young married couple during their honeymoon trip.
11 April 1974
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.
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.
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.
03 November 1945
When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio.
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.
19 December 1975
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
11 May 1950
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double.
01 April 1965
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant.
01 December 1968
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
13 August 1974
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood.
06 October 1954
A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
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.
21 December 1963
Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
29 October 1963
A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director.
09 October 1952
Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
18 December 1976
Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.
13 March 1947
An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk.
18 September 1954
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.
11 September 1974
A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.
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.
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.
20 December 1951
The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't choose between two men, and now devotes herself to nursing.
01 January 1965
A promotional short for Operation Crossbow (1965) giving historical background for the film's plot using archival footage of Robert Goddard's rocket experiments in the 1930s.
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.
12 July 1974
A snake-oil salesman is chased across the desert by a gang of Mexican bandits. He finds out, however, that he is being protected by the spirits of Davey Crockett, Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed.
16 September 1949
Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping.
20 December 1975
Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.
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.
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.
14 March 1957
Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family.
31 July 1963
Lina, a young woman now tired of the constant betrayals from her husband, decides to cheat on him with a mutual friend, Piero.
17 December 1965
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.
25 October 1978
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
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.
