Cesare Zavattini Movies

'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the...

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

Two petty thieves, Ciro and Geppa, plan a much bigger scam than they usually practice, but complications ensue.

Short film made for the catholic church.

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

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

A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.

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.

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

Pedro is a young peasant who leaves home to join the Rebel Army, based in Sierra Maestra.

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

The second of Castellani's trilogy dealing with the less-than-smooth course of young love in postwar Italy (it was filmed just after Sotto il sole di...

Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries...

Alberto, who has a beautiful voice but is afraid to sing in public, and the shy Anna, daughter of a very rich shoe manufacturer, take "lessons of...

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini