Vittorio De Sica

A man poses as a mysterious admirer to find out whether his wife would cheat on him.

A teacher writes sample letters to a fictional Mr. Hartman with her students, but the recipient really exists.

Teresa, a young orphan, falls in love with Pietro, a health inspector. She will try to bring order to his reckless life full of debts and lies.

An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school: the happy moments, the sad ones and the tragic love for a Garibaldian.

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

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.

A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.

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.

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

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

Prior to leaving by train for Paris, a married American woman tries to break off her affair with a young Italian in Rome's Stazione Termini.

A portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.

A married couple learns that it is possible to build an illegal house in the outskirts of Rome, as long as it is erected in one single night and has a roof.

In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack there of) to the announcement.

A maddened German war criminal lives in a secluded house owned by his rich father who lets him think the war is still on 20 years after the fact.

During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.

Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.

Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.

Carlo and Anne meet in Paris and fall in love. She becomes pregnant, but he is resistant to fatherhood.

An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed.

Seven portraits of different types of women.

Julia, a fashion designer harboring a secret, spends ten days of passion in the Alps with Valerio, a race car driver, in what will be their last vacation together.

An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.

The story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.