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Kanopy
88
8.1
/30397/
79
/526/
78
/723/
4.3
/46189/
98
/41/
93
/453/
92
/9/

Umberto D. (1952)
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
poster
Amazon Prime Video
88
8.2
/191214/
80
/2690/
81
/2588/
4.3
/254338/
99
/67/
94
/2156/
cc age 12+

Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
8.0
/33693/
79
/619/
80
/956/
4.2
/70091/
100
/46/
92
/278/

Rome, Open City (1945)
During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
79
7.8
/15121/
75
/306/
76
/414/
4.0
/32440/
96
/24/
86
/117/

Germany, Year Zero (1948)
In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.
poster
Criterion Channel
82
79
7.9
/12653/
76
/298/
80
/762/
4.0
/18760/
89
/9/
90
/85/

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
poster
Criterion Channel
84
77
8.0
/8856/
76
/134/
77
/266/
4.1
/12251/
100
/12/
92
/61/
82
/7/

Shoeshine (1946)
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.
poster
Criterion Channel
81
77
7.6
/10539/
75
/229/
75
/342/
3.9
/21509/
100
/12/
86
/76/

Paisan (1946)
Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat.
poster
Criterion Channel
79
74
7.6
/9287/
74
/177/
72
/260/
3.9
/13733/
92
/13/
89
/57/
78
/8/

Miracle in Milan (1951)
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, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
poster
Plex
80
73
7.5
/8969/
72
/138/
75
/262/
3.7
/12034/
100
/15/
84
/93/

Obsession (1944)
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
poster
80
71
7.8
/6112/
76
/100/
77
/172/
4.0
/8967/
82
/11/
87
/49/

La Terra Trema (1949)
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.
poster
Plex
79
69
7.7
/5988/
73
/89/
78
/243/
3.9
/9693/
80
/5/
88
/40/

Beautiful (1952)
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
poster
Criterion Channel
80
69
7.6
/5475/
72
/124/
74
/224/
3.9
/9188/
100
/8/
82
/28/

Bitter Rice (1949)
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.
poster
Criterion Channel
73
67
7.2
/8773/
70
/184/
70
/215/
3.9
/19006/
67
/12/
80
/43/

Stromboli (1950)
After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.
poster
Criterion Channel
69
52
6.9
/2162/
66
/38/
67
/72/
3.5
/4265/
73
/251/

L'amore (1948)
L'Amore ('Love') is a 1948 Italian drama anthology film that consists of two parts, The Human Voice (Una voce umana), based on Jean Cocteau's 1929 play of the same title, and The Miracle (Il miracolo), based on Ramón del Valle-Inclán's 1904 novel Flor de santidad.
poster
80
45
7.8
/961/
70
/14/
77
/44/
4.0
/1440/
100
/25/

Rome 11:00 (1952)
The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.
poster
73
31
7.5
/771/
70
/18/
75
/43/
3.6
/748/

The Path of Hope (1950)
The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.
poster
74
26
7.6
/840/
80
/3/
70
/31/
3.6
/750/

In the Name of the Law (1949)
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
poster
65
23
6.8
/540/
60
/7/
64
/27/
3.5
/766/

The Bandit (1946)
Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest living.
poster
59
19
6.6
/614/
58
/8/
58
/20/
3.4
/624/
50
/17/

Without Pity (1948)
A struggling woman and a black American soldier fall in love in post-World War II Italy.
poster
74
18
7.6
/281/
71
/6/
77
/24/
3.6
/324/

Difficult Years (1948)
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
poster
65
18
6.9
/292/
54
/10/
67
/14/
3.6
/965/

Chilsu and Mansu (1988)
An aimless young man and his sign-painter friend draw a crowd when they climb to the top of a high-rise billboard.
poster
69
16
6.9
/382/
67
/8/
71
/19/
3.5
/368/

Under the Sun of Rome (1948)
A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the last years of WWII.
poster
57
12
5.8
/252/
50
/10/
57
/20/
3.2
/307/

Notes on a True Story (1951)
On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the village of Primavalle. A brief and poetic account of the events and their impact on an impoverished community. A handful of wild flowers and a painful catch in the voices.
poster
62
12
6.9
/320/
40
/2/
70
/13/
3.5
/416/

Under the Olive Tree (1950)
A young shepherd returns home after the Second World War having been held in a prisoner of war camp. He finds that the local landowner has stolen his sheep and his girlfriend. When he also assaults and murders his sister, the shepherd takes revenge.
poster
65
9
6.8
/237/
66
/3/
61
/12/
3.4
/248/

Lost Youth (1948)
In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals are actually university students; inspector Mariani, a young World War II veteran, enrolls and tries to find out more. He falls for a pretty fellow student, Luisa, but she is the sister of the gang leader...
poster
63
7
6.4
/264/
70
/1/
54
/10/
3.3
/232/

Desire (1946)
Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied succor, like so many of Rossellini’s isolated figures, Paola awaits the arrival of her fiancé, who has offered her a new start, but instead decides that life is untenable.
poster
?
8.2
/70/
10
/1/

Cinéma et Réalité (1967)
In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
poster
Hoopla
50
?
4.4
/121/
50
/13/
42
/5/
3.0
/232/
55
/11/

Hemet, or the Landlady Don't Drink Tea (2024)
During a cannibalistic bath salts epidemic in Hemet, California, a tyrannical landlady lords it over her tenants, pitting them against each other in a web of paranoia spun for deadly results.
poster
?
7.3
/12/
80
/3/
60
/1/

The Last Shoeshine (1948)
A story of a kid whose only friends are a dog and the stars. The kid without a name, together with his beloved dog Matteo, tries to sell cigarettes at a street corner; he doesn't succeed, pursued by a cop. His only consolation will be stars-watching at night.
poster
64
?
7.0
/302/
57
/4/
66
/13/

Tragic Hunt (1947)
Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.
poster
66
?
6.2
/225/
70
/1/
67
/3/

The Gate of Heaven (1945)
Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
poster
55
?
6.5
/210/
53
/3/
49
/10/

Rome: Free City (1946)
In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.
poster
60
?
6.4
/370/
58
/11/
60
/26/

Attention! Bandits! (1951)
During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons. Meanwhile, there's a strike in the city and the Nazis are trying to suppress it violently. The factory becomes the scene of fighting between the Germans and the partisans but the latter, aided by the workers, will be able to get the better.
poster
63
?
6.7
/215/
62
/4/
63
/17/

Days of Glory (1945)
An Italian WWII documentary by a group of neorealists.


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