In this raucously entertaining farce, 19-year-old Loren stars opposite Totò, who must pose as an aristocrat in order to gain the approval of her father.

Mayhem ensues when an honest cabbie (Marcello Mastroianni) gets caught in the middle of a car theft by a working-class, thieving father and daughter—a smooth-talking Vittorio De Sica and Loren.

Loren triumphs as Agnese, who has no trouble finding male attention, much to the chagrin of her cousin, who pines for a husband.

A widow (Sophia Loren, in an Oscar-winning role) and her daughter find peace (and an affable Marxist played by Jean-Paul Belmondo) in the countryside during World War II, but their idyll is shattered on their way back to Rome.

Mastroianni and Loren light up this breezy comic triptych of tales about love, sex, and class. Vittorio De Sica’s Oscar-winning charmer deftly combines naughty bedroom comedy with neorealist social commentary.

Loren sizzles in an Oscar-nominated performance with Mastroianni in which their chemistry propels a 22-year relationship that begins as a near-flawless boudoir comedy, only to develop into something disarmingly moving.

A deliriously mod comic-thriller that follows Gregory Peck and Loren zipping around London to Henry Mancini’s exotica-tinged score, and remains one of the finest—if manic—examples of Donen’s unmatched knack for tightly choreographed filmmaking.

Sophia Loren and Omar Sharif play 17th century peasant and prince in this sumptuously shot, oddball fairy tale from Francesco Rosi.

Charlie Chaplin’s underappreciated final film (his only in color) finds Sophia Loren as its titular character: Natascha, a passport-less Russian refugee in Hong Kong who escapes prostitution by sneaking into an American diplomat’s (Marlon Brando) ship cabin.

Sophia Loren stars in one of her most wrenching performances, playing a seamstress who falls ill not long after her husband dies in a freak car accident, and comes under the care of her late husband’s brother (Richard Burton)—her (not so) former lover.

She’s a conservative Mussolini supporter; he’s a homosexual enemy of the state. But after a chance meeting, the two share a life-changing day in 1938 that will challenge their assumptions about people, politics, and sexuality. Marcello Mastroianni and Sophia Loren deliver virtuoso performances.

One of Robert Altman’s most underrated films is Nashville for the ’90s: a deliciously catty, star-studded satire set amidst the hubbub of Paris Fashion Week.

A Holocaust survivor turned children’s caretaker (Loren) forms an unlikely friendship with a bitter street kid (a spectacular Ibrahim Gueye) after he robs her.