Cesare Zavattini Movies

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 vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual...

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

Set in a rural area of France in the 19th century, this simple tale tells the story of a servant girl whose life seems marked by grand tragedy, but...

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...

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and...

Short film made for the catholic church.

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...

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

After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is...

Turi, a young Sicilian, makes ends meet by doing some occasional work and singing in taverns in a popular district of Rome.

A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment of The Three Faces, a vehicle for Soraya, the...

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.

A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima...

A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.

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...

Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman...

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural...

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...

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...