Cesare Zavattini Movies

A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the...

A documentary feature film about Vittorio De Sica, one of the greatest masters of world cinema. Through a new access to his family, rare archives and...

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.

Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This film follows the efforts of a...

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

Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do...

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà,...

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.

Hall Bartlett directs the rural drama The Children of Sanchez, based on the tome The Children of Sanchez: Autobiography of a Mexican Family written...

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...

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

A pickpoket falls in love with one of his victims.

This documentary studies the life and artwork of photographer Paul Strand, using his own compelling photography as well as interviews with his...

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...

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a...

The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the...

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...

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our...