Cesare Zavattini Movies

The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World...

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.

A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the...

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the efforts of...

Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of...

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

A prostitute is robbed and murdered. A fourteen-year-old girl sees a suave gigolo come out of the hotel where the murder occurred. She has a...

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

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

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach...

A day in Rome viewed by sixteen different directors under the supervision of the great screenwriter Cesare Zavattini.

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

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a...

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

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