Mamma Roma (1962), The Bicycle Thief (1948), Umberto D. (1952), La Notte (1961), La Strada (1954), Bellissima (1951), Miracle in Milan (1951), L'Amore (1948) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Post-war Italy movies.
Storyline: A prostitute (Anna Magnani) tries to go straight and help her son (Ettore Garofalo), but the past and corruption catch up with them.
Plot Keywords: social critique, mother-son relationship, moral dilemma, social injustice, struggle for survival, exploration of humanity, harsh reality ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A poor man (Lamberto Maggiorani) and his son (Enzo Staiola) search postwar Rome for the stolen bicycle he needs to work as a bill poster.
Plot Keywords: italian cinema, poverty, unemployment, father-son relationship, moral dilemma, theft, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Umberto Ferrari, aged government-pensioner, attends a street demonstration held by his fellow pensioners. The police dispense the crowd and Umberto returns to his cheap furnished room which he shares with his dog Flick. Umberto's lone friend is Maria, servant of the boarding house. She is a simple girl who is pregnant by one of two soldiers and neither will admit to being the father. When Umberto's landlady Antonia demands the rent owed her and threatens eviction if she is not paid, Umberto tries desperately to raise the money by selling his books and watch. He is too proud to beg in the streets and can not get a loan from any of his acquaintances. He contracts a sore throat, is admitted to a hospital and this puts a delay on his financial difficulty. Discharged, he finds that his dog is gone and, following a frantic search, locates him in the city dog pound. His room has been taken over by the landlady and the now-homeless Unberto determines to find a place for his beloved dog, and ...
Plot Keywords: loneliness, poverty, elderly, social marginalization, humanity, struggle for survival, emotional bond ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Milan, after visiting dear friend Tommaso Garani that is terminal in a hospital, the writer Giovanni Pontano goes to a party for the release of his last book, and his wife Lidia Pontano visits the place where she lived many years ago. In the night, they go to a night-club, and later to a party in the mansion of the tycoon Mr. Gherardini. Along the night, Giovanni flirts with Valentina Gherardini, the daughter of the host, and then he receives a proposal to work for him in the area of communication and write the history of his company. Meanwhile, Lidia flirts with the playboy Roberto.
Plot Keywords: italian cinema, marital crisis, alienation, upper class, existentialism, black and white, literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Sad story of a waif, Gelsomina, who is sold by her mother to Zampano for 10,000 lire and a few kilos of food. Zampano is a traveling showman who exhibits feats of strength by breaking a chain wrapped around his chest. He performs in village squares and then passes the hat for whatever the normally small crowd is prepared to give. He teaches Gelsomina a drum roll as part of his introduction. He doesn't treat her well and when she tries to run away, he beats her. They eventually join a small traveling circus where they meet a tight-rope walker who convinces Gelsomina to question her choices.
Plot Keywords: drama, romance, tragedy, italian cinema, circus, underclass, loneliness ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daugther to Cinecittà, hoping she'll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria, even if her husband would prefer they save their little money for the rent, instead of paying teachers, hairdressers or bribes for her illusions.—Yepok
Plot Keywords: drama, italian cinema, motherhood, talent show, poverty, dreams, social criticism ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: An old woman finds a baby among the cauliflowers in her garden; she takes care of him and calls him Totò. When she dies, he is sent to an orphanage, which he leaves as a teenager. When Totò goes out in the world, he expects everyone to be open-hearted as himself, but they aren't. Without belongings and a place to live, he soon turns up among other homeless people, living scattered in boxes and cement pipes on a vast, barren field outside Milan. With his energy and enthusiasm, Totò quickly engages the outcasts in transforming the place into a small shanty-town. The eccentric misfits are turned into a warm-hearted community. But when the wealthy Mr. Mobbi buys the land, he tries to get rid of them.—Maths Jesperson {maths.jesperson1@comhem.se}
Plot Keywords: fantasy, comedy, allegory, social critique, poverty, hope, surreal ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In the first of two separate tales, an Italian woman (Anna Magnani) desperate to reconcile with her ex-husband, pours out her feelings to him in an emotional phone conversation. In the second, a volatile peasant (also Magnani) in a small village believes a vagrant (Federico Fellini) is Saint Joseph. After the woman speaks with him, he offers her wine, and later she passes out. Weeks later, discovering she's pregnant, the woman tells the scoffing villagers that she is carrying the Christ child.
Plot Keywords: love, drama, italian cinema, black and white, female protagonist, poverty, urban life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The manager (Peppino De Filippo) of a theater troupe leaves his mistress (Giulietta Masina) for a younger woman (Carla Del Poggio).
Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, romance, italian cinema, black and white, show business, circus ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A drifter (Massimo Girotti) helps a beauty (Clara Calamai) kill her husband (Juan de Landa) in Italy.
Plot Keywords: film noir, crime, erotic, murder, adaptation, 1940s, black and white ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In Italy, Athos Magnani (Giulio Brogi) is the son of an anti-fascist hero who was assassinated three decades earlier. When the dead man's former mistress (Alida Valli) calls him back to his father's hometown, Athos has a number of perplexing, surreal encounters with her and the men who were his father's allies long ago. But were they really allies? As he tries to unravel the mystery of his father's murder, the son is forced to reckon with the nature of compromised ideals.
Plot Keywords: political allegory, fascism, father and son, betrayal, mystery, literary adaptation, symbolism ...
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