Cesare Zavattini — Playwright (19)
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Bicycle Thieves (1948) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb
Ladri di biciclette
8.9 (13 ratings) director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Lamberto Maggiorani / Enzo Staiola …
other title: Ladri di biciclette / Cykeltyven …
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
意大利 新现实主义
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Boccaccio '70 (1962) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB NeoDB WikiData
Boccaccio '70
director: Vittorio De Sica / Federico Fellini … actor: Marisa Solinas / Anita Ekberg …
other title: Boccace 70 / Boccaccio 70 …
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
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Sunflower (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban WikiData
I girasoli
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Sophia Loren / Marcello Mastroianni …
other title: I girasoli / Sonnenblumen …
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?
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The Witches (1967) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
Le streghe
director: Luchino Visconti / Mauro Bolognini … actor: Silvana Mangano / Annie Girardot …
other title: Le streghe / Hexen von heute …
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
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First Communion (1950) [Movie] TMDB
Prima comunione
director: Alessandro Blasetti actor: Aldo Fabrizi / Gaby Morlay …
other title: Prima comunione / Sa Majesté monsieur Dupont …
The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
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We, the Women (1953) [Movie] TMDB
Siamo donne
director: Luigi Zampa / Gianni Franciolini … actor: Ingrid Bergman / Anna Magnani …
other title: Siamo donne / Wir Frauen …
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
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Miracle in Milan (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Miracolo a Milano
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Emma Gramatica / Francesco Golisano …
other title: Miracolo a Milano / Miraklet i Milano …
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
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A Day in the Life (1946) [Movie] TMDB
Un giorno nella vita
director: Alessandro Blasetti actor: Elisa Cegani / Massimo Girotti …
other title: Un giorno nella vita
Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
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San Giovanni decollato (1940) [Movie] TMDB
San Giovanni decollato
director: Amleto Palermi actor: Totò / Titina De Filippo …
other title: San Juan degollado
Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and 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 boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.
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The Boom (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Il boom
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Alberto Sordi / Gianna Maria Canale …
other title: Il boom / El especulador
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...
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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....
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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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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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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 Gold of Naples (1954) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
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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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.