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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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Sciuscia aka Shoeshine (1946)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
Cast Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele
Plot Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
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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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Matrimonio all'italiana aka Marriage Italian Style (1964)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Eduardo De Filippo, Renato Castellani, Tonino Guerra
Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi
Plot Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.
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Ieri, oggi, domani aka Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Eduardo De Filippo, Isabella Quarantotti, Alberto Moravia
Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffre
Plot Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.
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Il giardino dei Finzi Contini aka The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1970)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Giorgio Bassani, Ugo Pirro, Vittorio Bonicelli
Cast Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger
Plot The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
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Boccaccio '70 (1962)
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Director Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli
Writer Giovanni Arpino, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Italo Calvino
Cast Anita Ekberg, Sophia Loren, Romy Schneider
Plot Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
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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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Teresa Venerdi aka Doctor, Beware (1941)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Gherardo Gherardi, Franco Riganti, Margherita Maglione
Cast Adriana Benetti, Irasema Dilia¡n, Anna Magnani
Plot Teresa, a young orphan, falls in love with Pietro, a health inspector. She will try to bring order to his reckless life full of debts and lies.
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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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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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Maddalena... zero in condotta aka Maddalena, Zero for Conduct (1940)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Ferruccio Biancini, Aldo De Benedetti, Vittorio De Sica
Cast Vittorio De Sica, Vera Bergman, Carla Del Poggio
Plot A teacher writes sample letters to a fictional Mr. Hartman with her students, but the recipient really exists.
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Un garibaldino al convento aka A Garibaldian in the Convent (1942)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Renato Angiolillo, Adolfo Franci, Margherita Maglione
Cast Leonardo Cortese, Maraa Mercader, Carla Del Poggio
Plot An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school: the happy moments, the sad ones and the tragic love for a Garibaldian.
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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.
