Cesare Zavattini Movies

Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of...

Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone...

After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having...

The film tells of old Antonio, 81, who refuses to stay in a mental home and walks away. He hits the streets to give a message to people: be...

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

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...

Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actors and friends.

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

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

This documentary studies the life and artwork of photographer Paul Strand, using his own compelling photography as well as interviews with his...

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...

The second of Castellani's trilogy dealing with the less-than-smooth course of young love in postwar Italy (it was filmed just after Sotto il sole di...

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...

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps...

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

Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times...