
7.4
The Roof
IMDb: 7.4 1956 97 min
Under provincial Italian law at the time, once a roof is erected, the occupants cannot be evicted from a building. This comedy follows the ...

6.2
Indiscretion of an American Wife
IMDb: 6.2 1953 64 min
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to ...

8.1
Umberto D.
IMDb: 8.1 1952 91 min
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady ...

7.6
Miracle in Milan
IMDb: 7.6 1951 97 min
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, ...

8.2
Bicycle Thieves
IMDb: 8.2 1948 89 min
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to ...

7.7
The Children Are Watching Us
IMDb: 7.7 1943 84 min
In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic ...

6.6
Teresa Venerdì
IMDb: 6.6 1941 87 min
A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending ...

6.3
A Garibaldian in the Convent
IMDb: 6.3 1942 83 min
An old woman’s poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.