Movies: Cesare Zavattini

A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film....

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini...

A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abortion, even sleeping with an older woman for money. She later decides to keep the baby....

On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her....

When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work....

Accused of having stolen 3 million liras, a bank employee serves five years in prison. Having served his sentence and believed to be rich, he was showered with care and attention by everyone, even his wife. When the real perpetrator of the theft is f...

Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening. In her first film appearance since The Rose Tattoo, Anna Magnani plays a feisty nun named Sister Let...

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, ...

Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father....

A four-part documentary series about the Italian director Federico Fellini. Episode 1: His Childhood, His Beginnings; Episode 2: His First Films; Episode 3: His Films with Giulietta Masina; Episode 4: "La dolce vita" and Neorealism....

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An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women....

A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome....

An American remake of the iconic Italian neo-realist postwar masterpiece. When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent b...

Carlo Lizzani's short film for the anthology film Love in the City...

Two petty thieves, Ciro and Geppa, plan a much bigger scam than they usually practice, but complications ensue....

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Set in a rural area of France in the 19th century, this simple tale tells the story of a servant girl whose life seems marked by grand tragedy, but whose heart is simple and uncomplicated enough not only to endure, but even to attain serenity in the ...

Nicoletta is a young rebel, cherished by his forgiving father, until an old relative joins the family after the wedding of her sister, and insists that the impetuous girl is sent to college. Nicoletta becomes a true tornado for educators trying in va...

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