Neorrealismo Italiano

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.

A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.

An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.

A contingent of Italian prisoners of war arrive on a train from Germany after World War II to Turin. The city where Ernesto lives has been bombed, his mother is dead and his sister has gone missing.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".

The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.

Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

Five women interviewed for a job in 1951 Rome. A staircase collapsed during chaos, injuring many. The film follows how this incident impacted their different lives, some finding change, others disappointment.

A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.