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...

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

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

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...

A married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past.

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace...

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...

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...

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...

The film tells of old Antonio, 81, who refuses to stay in a mental home and walks away. He hits the streets to give a message to people: be...

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

'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...

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

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

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 telephone repairman sits down at the table of a woman who is tactfully petting a puppy and begins to tell her some bizarre dreams. In a register of...