Bellissima
Maddalena is an overbearing, working-class mother in Rome…
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Category: Italian Neorealism
The Bicycle Thieves
In war-torn Rome, jobs are very scarce. Antonio is lucky. He is offered a job posting advertising bills. However, the job requires the use of a bicycle, which…
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Bitter Rice
The film begins during the start of the rice-planting season in the Po Valley in Italy. To escape the law, Francesca and Walter, two small-time thieves…
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Nights of Cabiria
A happy, laughing Cabiria, a prostitute, is standing by a river bank with her live-in boyfriend Giorgio when he snatches her purse filled with money and pushes her into the river…
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