Sophia Loren TV Shows & Movies, Ranked Best to Worst

When Hitler visits Rome during the 1930s, it is declared as a National Holiday, and the occasion is marked by a lavish parade while Hitler and Mussolini celebrate their political friendship. Antonietta, a housewife wants to attend the parade, but is forced to stay at home due to her domestic chores. Things take a turn when she meets Gabrielle, a man living in the same apartment complex.

La ciociara shows the impact of war on personal lives. A widowed mother leaves Rome to save herself and her daughter from the allied bombs during the second World War. As she makes her way to a village, she meets a young man who becomes her lover and a father figure to her daughter. 

This romantic comedy drama film tells us the story of Domenico and his young mistress Filumena. Over the years of spending time together, Filumena falls for him and wants to marry him, but he refuses. Therefore, she tries to come up with various tricks to make him marry her.

When Spain is invaded by the Moors, it seems that the country’s only hope is a heroic knight named El Cid. He believes that as long as his country is divided, his country will not be able to repel the invaders. However, before he is successful in his campaign, he is exiled by the ruler, who is hungry for power.  

This romantic comedy anthology film tells us three different stories revolving around three different women in different parts of Italy. The first is about a woman named Adelina who sells black market cigarettes to support her unemployed husband and her child. The second story is about Anna, the wife of a wealthy industrialist, who is having an affair with another man named Renzo. Renzo begins to rethink his attraction towards her, when she expresses no concern after they nearly run over a child. The third story is about a prostitute named Mara, who serves many high class clients.  

Also referred to as Too Bad She’s Bad, the movie follows young and beautiful con-woman Lina Stroppiani, who with two other accomplices tries to steal a cab from taxi driver, Paolo Silvestrelli. There are much unexpected consequences when he realizes what they are up to. 

After being denounced by the Gestapo, a German war criminal hides in a secluded house owned by his rich father, for over 15 years, thinking that the war is still going on. 

Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius decides that his loyal and trustworthy General Livius should be the one to succeed him. However, before he could announce this, the friends of his son Commodus, poisons him, so that they can secure their political futures. Commodus becomes the new leader, but he turns out to be quite corrupt, arrogant and ineffectual. Livius accepts him as the ruler, but changes his mind, after he threatens to kill Aurelius’s daughter.

A war film set in 1941 during the Battle of the Atlantic, the film The Key is based on the 1951 novel Stella written by Jan de Hartog. The movie, which tells the love story of a former tugboat captain, was one of the most popular films in Britain in 1958. 

Max and John are two friends who like to go fishing together. They attempt to save their favorite bait shop from turning into a restaurant.

Tom Winters is a lawyer working with the US State Department, who is separated from his wife and three kids. Although the kids prefer staying in the countryside with the wealthy parents of their mother, Tom takes them with him to Washington DC. He hires a nanny to take care of the kids, but in reality, the woman is actually an Italian socialite who is trying to get away from her overprotective father.

Ephraim Cabot, the old owner of the New England farm, is hated by his three sons from two previous marriages. He has made them work really hard without any promise of a bright future. So when he marries for the third time, two of them leave, while the third, Eben, begins an illicit relationship with Anna, the new bride. 

This romantic comedy drama film tells the story of a former marshall, who returns to his village home after a long time, only to find that it has been occupied by a young woman working as a fish vendor.

This romantic comedy drama film tells the story of Agnese, a young and beautiful woman, who attracts all the men of the town. She lives with Cesira, her cousin, who has the opposite problem with men. She wants a husband and wishes that men would woo her as well.  

A cunning slaver stages marathon dance contests in order to lure young women into his prostitution ring. When a girl nearly falls into his net, a police officer tries to save her.

Arabesque is an action adventure crime film which revolves around a scheme around Hassan Jena, a prominent Middle Eastern politician. After this scheme is discovered, David Pollock, who is a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is assigned to find information that is believed to be in hieroglyphic code.

Just before the Second World War and the rise of the dictators, two men fall in love with the same woman. Because of the changes in their country’s politics, three of them are forced to take a journey across the ocean to New York City.  

Also known as Five Miles to Midnight, the movie follows Lisa Macklin who intends to leave her abusive husband, Robert. Soon Robert is reported dead in a plane crash but is alive and wants to collect his life insurance. He convinces Lisa to help but when he refuses to leave her alone, she takes desperate measures. 

Rose, a widowed florist with a son, and Frank a widower with a grown up daughter, want to get married. But Frank’s daughter, Mary, who has been looking after her father, is dead against it. On the other hand, Rose’s son Ralph, now living in a farm for troubled boys, is looking forward to the wedding because he will be released from Rose and Frank’s joint custody only after that.  

A woman attempts to commit suicide after learning that her boyfriend is married. However, her life is saved by a priest. She tries to date him, and the priest is unable to resist her charm. He realizes that his vow of celibacy is the main problem in their relationship. 

A peasant girl is deserted by her lover Gino after he learns about her pregnancy. In revenge, the girl reports his smuggling activities to the police. However, after some time, she is informed that Gino has escaped from the prison and is trying to find her to seek revenge.

A group of passengers on a train that is travelling from Geneva to Stockholm are exposed to an extremely deadly virus. In order to ensure that the virus doesn’t spread, the driver receives explicit orders not to stop or let anyone off the train. 

This drama film takes us to 1944, during the time of the Second World War. The film tells the story of Kay, the mistress of a millionaire industrialist, who uses her to help him influence his contacts at the Pentagon. While travelling from Miami to New York City, by train, she and her friend meet a young American paratrooper named Red, who she eventually falls in love with.

Luca, a mill runner, and Carmela, a beautiful woman, are married to each other. However, Carmela’s beauty soon captivates Teofilo, a corrupt governor, who wants to have her. He then gets Luca arrested and tries to seduce his wife. However, Carmella resists his advances and does her best to free Luca.

During a trip to the countryside, ill-tempered Spanish prince, Rodrigo, encounters a flying monk who foretells his future and directs him towards peasant Italian girl, Isabella, who refuses him. Soon, the King orders him to choose among seven princesses within a week and organizes a week-long celebration, which draws Isabella, while the prince searches for her in the countryside.

This comedy film tells us five different stories. The first one is the story of a poverty-ridden couple who feels that they already have enough children, and therefore they think of leaving their newborn at a church.  The second story is about a depressed old woman; the third one is about an elderly actor and actress, who discover that they are old friends, during a shoot. The fourth film is about a bus driver, and the final story is about a woman who is after a camera.

Tom Healy, owner of the Healy Dramatic Company arrives in Cheyenne while trying to stay away from debt collectors. However, Tom and leading actress Angela get embroiled in more perilous situations and gunslinger Clint Marby gets involved, becoming a rival to Tom’s affections for Angela. 

A film based on the novel The Algonquin Project by Frederick Nolan, Brass Target revolves around the historical event of Gen. George S. Patton's German automobile crash. Even though the crash was initially believed to be an accident, the film suggests that it was a conspiracy. 

After Adriana’s husband, Antonio is killed in a car crash, his brother Cesare, who once loved Adriana, starts trying to woo her. Things get even more complicated when she falls ill and a doctor finds that her disease is incurable. 

Pretty young woman Antoinette is shocked to see her picture on the front page of Rome’s well-known newspaper, which brings her a lot of publicity, and unwarranted attention. Furious, she decides to sue the photographer Corrado, but Corrado introduces her to influential Count Gregario Sennetti, who promises to make her a star. Then, gradually Corrado finds himself truly falling in love with Antoinette. 

Guido Contini, the gifted Italian film director, has only few days before he starts his new ambitious venture, but he doesn’t have a story for it yet. With his personal and professional life in chaos, he escapes to a resort and desperately tries to find an inspiration from his relationships with various women…..his wife, his mistress, his agent, his muse and mother.

Two Italian coworkers fall in love; but cannot marry because he is married and Italy does not permit divorce. So he moves to the USA and the lady follows him four years later. The problem is that the US customs will not allow the mortadella she has brought with her and she will not leave without it. Meanwhile she meets a reporter.

This drama film tells the story of a Jewish woman who survived a concentration camp, and decides to track down her Nazi ex-husband who had betrayed her. She soon comes to know that a British major may know where her ex-husband is located.  

The Italian comedy film follows Charlie Colletto, a gangster from Milan, who is enamored with a redhead prostitute, Pupa. Despite being obsessed, he ill-treats Pupa. But when he falls on bad times, Pupa is in a position to call the shots. It is up to Pupa whether to bail him out of hot water or to set him up for a fall.

Based on a true story, Angela, the wife of gangster Saro, is an integral part of her husband's drug-dealing business and illicit activities. Life changes when Angela falls for Masino, one of Saro's flunkeys. 

Elegant at 80 years, Lady Lendale relates her life’s romantic adventures to biographer Sir Percy. Basically from Corsica, she meets and falls for anarchist Armand while working as a laundress in Paris. Later, she marries the smitten aristocrat, Lord Lendale, on the condition of saving Armand from jail after attempted assassination of a Prince. But her wealthy, upper-class life hides a secret. 

Austrian Princess, Olympia, falls in love with Pittsburg mining engineer Charlie Foster who is not of noble birth. But her father Prince Philip wants her to marry the Prince of Prussia. With a royal scandal breathing down the neck, will true love survive?

Penurious opera singer Pasquale Lojacono and his beautiful wife, Maria, who have no house of their own, get to live free of charge in an ancient palace believed to be haunted. On finding food and gifts in the house, Pasquale naively believes that the ghosts are bestowing the gifts. Actually it is Maria’s suitor who wants to keep his love in luxury. 

Based on the life of Attila the Hun, the film begins with Attila leading his soldiers towards the Italian peninsula. Meanwhile Roman emperor Valentinian III is busy with parties while the court ladies are busy conspiring against him. It now falls upon his mother, Galla Placidia, and his trusted general, Flavius Aetius, to save Rome from total destruction. 

A communist worker who is currently a patient at a hospital, starts to develop feelings for the head nurse, who also begins to fall for him.

Aida is a musical drama film which tells the story of Radames, a military commander, who falls for a young woman, whom he mistakes for a slave in the country which he had conquered along with his army. He soon finds himself struggling between his affection for the woman and his loyalty to the King of Egypt.

As the Paris Fashion Week gets closer, models, designers and journalists prepare for it. However, things get complicated when the Head of the Fashion Council, Olivier de la Fontaine, chokes to death on a sandwich.

When a chemist is killed by a letter bomb, his wife suspects his employer, a reclusive billionaire, to be the assassinator. Eventually FBI takes up the case and a former mafia man is hired to track down the suspect in Antigua. The victim’s wife also chips in, helping the team to locate her husband’s murderer. But is revenge her only motive? 

This romantic drama historical film revolves around Marcus, a Roman general, and how his love for a Christian slave encourages him to protect her and her family, when there are atrocities on the Christians.

Anna is a nun and a nurse working at a hospital. One day a man is brought in, after he suffers a car accident. Things get interesting since the man turns out to be her former lover, and is the main reason she chose to become a nun.

Toto decides to kidnap the woman he loves, in order to marry her. However, he instead ends up kidnapping another woman named Carmela, who is not very good-looking. She finds herself attracted to Toto, and he is forced to run from her. In order to escape from her, Toto and his friend Amilcare eventually team up with a beautiful journalist named Lana. Toto pretends to be her boyfriend, a detective, who is investigating a serial killer.  

The long-lost son of a wealthy explorer is lost in the forests of Congo with his gorilla. Upon realizing his lineage, a bunch of opportunists get hold of him to have a share in his immense ancestral property.