Cesare Zavattini Movies

A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.

Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and...

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

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...

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...

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...

A four-part documentary series about the Italian director Federico Fellini. Episode 1: His Childhood, His Beginnings; Episode 2: His First Films;...

Alberto, who has a beautiful voice but is afraid to sing in public, and the shy Anna, daughter of a very rich shoe manufacturer, take "lessons of...

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...

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

'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the...

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

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been...

A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the...

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...