Cesare Zavattini — Playwright (33)
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Angels of Darkness (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Donne proibite
director: Giuseppe Amato actor: Linda Darnell / Valentina Cortese …
other title: Donne proibite / Femme damnées
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 livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
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The Roof (1956) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Il tetto
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Gabriella Pallotta / Giorgio Listuzzi …
other title: Il tetto / O Teto …
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 a family to erect the roof on a house overnight so that a newlywed couple can have their own home.
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Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Stazione Termini
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Jennifer Jones / Montgomery Clift …
other title: Stazione Termini / Med natekspres Rom-Paris …
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
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The Walls of Malapaga (1949) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Au-delà des grilles
director: René Clément actor: Jean Gabin / Isa Miranda …
other title: Le mura di Malapaga / Die Mauern von Malapaga …
After murdering his mistress and being hunted by the authorities in France, Pierre stows away aboard a ship bound for Genoa. Though he's immediately robbed after arriving, things look up for Pierre when he meets kindhearted Cecchina, who introduces him to her mother, Marta. Pierre and Marta fall in love, but police are closing in and the new couple may not have much time left.
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The Sign of Venus (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Il segno di Venere
director: Dino Risi actor: Sophia Loren / Franca Valeri …
other title: Il segno di Venere / Im Zeichen der Venus …
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
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Twelve Hours to Live (1950) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
È più facile che un cammello...
director: Luigi Zampa actor: Jean Gabin / Elli Parvo …
other title: È più facile che un cammello... / Pour l’amour du ciel
After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having committed evil while alive. Defending himself against the accusation in an impassioned plea, however, he succeeds in obtaining to return to earth for a few hours to make reparation for the evil he committed and, above all, for the bad deed that caused Amedeo Santini's suicide attempt. The affair will lead him to make a risky but happy choice.
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Arturo's Island (1962) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
L'isola di Arturo
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Vanni De Maigret / Key Meersman …
other title: L'isola di Arturo / Insel der verbotenen Liebe …
A lonely teenage boy, living isolated on an island, idolizes his distant father. Complications arise when his father brings home a young new wife, whom the boy falls for, and a recently released criminal, entangled in a web of complex relationships.
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The Children Are Watching Us (1943) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
I bambini ci guardano
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Emilio Cigoli / Luciano De Ambrosis …
other title: I bambini ci guardano / Les enfants nous regardent …
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
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A Brief Vacation (1973) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Una breve vacanza
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Florinda Bolkan / Renato Salvatori …
other title: Una breve vacanza / Amargo Despertar …
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
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The Overcoat (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Il cappotto
director: Alberto Lattuada actor: Renato Rascel / Yvonne Sanson …
other title: Il cappotto / Der Mantel …
Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
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The Gold of Naples (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
L'oro di Napoli
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Silvana Mangano / Sophia Loren …
other title: L'oro di Napoli / Das Gold von Neapel …
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
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Lipstick (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Il rossetto
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Pierre Brice / Giorgia Moll …
other title: Il rossetto / O Batom …
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 schoolgirl crush on the handsome man though, so instead of reporting the crime she befriends him.
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The Last Judgment (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Il giudizio universale
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Alberto Sordi / Vittorio Gassman …
other title: Il giudizio universale / Das Jüngste Gericht findet nicht statt …
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 thereof) to the announcement.
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Sunday in August (1950) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Domenica d'agosto
director: Luciano Emmer actor: Anna Baldini / Vera Carmi …
other title: Domenica d'agosto / Ein Sonntag im August …
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 of Ostia.
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Four Steps in the Clouds (1942) [Movie] TMDB
4 passi fra le nuvole
director: Alessandro Blasetti actor: Gino Cervi / Adriana Benetti …
other title: 4 passi fra le nuvole / Lüge einer Sommernacht …
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 to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....