Cesare Zavattini Movies

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.

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...

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

Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race.

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.

The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World...

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...

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

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.

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

A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an...

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

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...

The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic...

An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs...

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

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...

Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and...

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace...

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been...