Cesare Zavattini Movies

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

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

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

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 story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.

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...

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini

Nicoletta is a young rebel, cherished by his forgiving father, until an old relative joins the family after the wedding of her sister, and insists...

Globe-trotting clothes-horse Julia, who's harboring a secret, embarks on a 10-day fling with Valerio in Italy.

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

Student film

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

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...

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...

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...

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.

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

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