Cesare Zavattini Movies

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...

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

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.

After dying in a car accident, wealthy shoe industrialist Carlo Bacchi finds himself in the afterlife, where he is condemned to hell for having...

A lonely teenage boy, living isolated on an island, idolizes his distant father. Complications arise when his father brings home a young new wife,...

Short film made for the catholic church.

A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.

Mario Soldati accompanies us once again, after the journey in the Po valley, in search of genuine foods, this time to discover the culinary...

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

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...

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...

A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with...

Accused of having stolen 3 million liras, a bank employee serves five years in prison. Having served his sentence and believed to be rich, he was...

On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her.

Documentary about Italian movie director Pier Paolo Pasolini, with interviews with some of his actors and friends.

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...

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