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Ladri di biciclette aka Bicycle Thieves (1948)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Bartolini, Oreste Biancoli
Cast Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell
Plot In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
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Umberto D. (1952)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini
Cast Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari
Plot An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.
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I bambini ci guardano aka The Children Are Watching Us (1943)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Giulio Viola, Margherita Maglione, Cesare Zavattini
Cast Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola
Plot Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.
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La ciociara aka Two Women (1960)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Alberto Moravia, Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica
Cast Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone
Plot In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
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Miracolo a Milano aka Miracle in Milan (1951)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Cast Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa
Plot An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.
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Bellissima (1951)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Francesco Rosi
Cast Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Plot A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
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Le mura di Malapaga aka The Walls of Malapaga (1949)
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Director Rene Clement
Writer Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost, Cesare Zavattini
Cast Jean Gabin, Isa Miranda, Vera Talchi
Plot A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
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4 passi fra le nuvole aka The Bigamist (1942)
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Director Alessandro Blasetti
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Piero Tellini, Giuseppe Amato
Cast Gino Cervi, Adriana Benetti, Giuditta Rissone
Plot A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how...
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I girasoli aka Sunflower (1970)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Tonino Guerra, Cesare Zavattini, Giorgi Mdivani
Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva
Plot An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.
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L'oro di Napoli aka The Gold of Naples (1954)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Giuseppe Marotta, Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica
Cast Tota², Lianella Carell, Pasquale Cennamo
Plot A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
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Il tetto aka The Roof (1956)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini
Cast Gabriella Pallotta, Giorgio Listuzzi, Gastone Renzelli
Plot A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof.
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Stazione Termini aka Terminal Station (1953)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Chiarini, Giorgio Prosperi
Cast Jennifer Jones, Montgomery Clift, Gino Cervi
Plot Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.
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Caccia alla volpe aka After the Fox (1966)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Neil Simon, Cesare Zavattini
Cast Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland
Plot An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed.
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Roma ore 11 aka Rome 11:00 (1952)
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Director Giuseppe De Santis
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Basilio Franchina, Giuseppe De Santis
Cast Lucia Bose, Carla Del Poggio, Maria Grazia Francia
Plot Five women interviewed for a job in 1951 Rome. A staircase collapsed during chaos, injuring many. The film follows how this incident impacted their different lives, some finding change, others disappointment.
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Il boom aka The Boom (1963)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini
Cast Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, Elena Nicolai
Plot During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.
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Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs aka Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954)
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Director Jacques Becker
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Jacques Becker, Marc Maurette
Cast Fernandel, Samia Gamal, Dieter Borsche
Plot Rich oriental lord Cassim's cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave, but brings dancer Morgiane, whom he is enamored with. When he's part of a caravan robbed by Abdel's 40 thieves, Ali hides in a camel hive and ...
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Il testimone (1946)
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Director Pietro Germi
Writer Diego Fabbri, Pietro Germi, Cesare Zavattini
Cast Roldano Lupi, Marina Berti, Ernesto Almirante
Plot A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant will be crucial.
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Il giudizio universale aka The Last Judgment (1961)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini
Cast Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Elli Davis, Fernandel
Plot In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack there of) to the announcement.
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San Giovanni decollato (1940)
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Director Amleto Palermi, Giorgio Bianchi
Writer Nino Martoglio, Amleto Palermi, Cesare Zavattini
Cast Tota², Titina De Filippo, Silvana Jachino
Plot Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio, caretaker and shoemaker devoted to Saint John Beheaded, is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boyfriend ...
