Cesare Zavattini Movies

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

The following documentary on screenwriter, publisher, novelist, and film theorist Cesare Zavattini was made in 2019 and is part of an ongoing Italian...

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural...

Turi, a young Sicilian, makes ends meet by doing some occasional work and singing in taverns in a popular district of Rome.

Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman...

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

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.

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...

Biggest Hollywood stars in Italy from 1950 to 1970 through Cinecittà Luce's archives.

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...

A married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past.

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...

A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way...

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

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

Paolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child.

Leo is a young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to...