Cesare Zavattini Movies

Leo is a young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to...

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

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

Directed by the incredibly prolific Mario Camerini, Suor Letizia was released in English-speaking regions as When Angels Don't Fly and The Awakening....

A day in Rome viewed by sixteen different directors under the supervision of the great screenwriter Cesare Zavattini.

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...

"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by...

A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way...

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...

A pickpoket falls in love with one of his victims.

The following documentary on screenwriter, publisher, novelist, and film theorist Cesare Zavattini was made in 2019 and is part of an ongoing Italian...

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...

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...