Cesare Zavattini filmography (writer)
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- DirectorMario CameriniStarsVittorio De SicaAssia NorisLuigi AlmiranteGold is a millionaire tired of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. After saving a homeless man's life, he gets hold of his clothes by wandering around town in search of someone who appreciates him for who he really is, not for his money.
- DirectorMario BafficoStarsBarbara MonisMarcello SpadaUgo Ceseri
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsVittorio De SicaAssia NorisLuigi AlmiranteGold is a millionaire tired of the hypocrisy that surrounds him. After saving a homeless man's life, he gets hold of his clothes by wandering around town in search of someone who appreciates him for who he really is, not for his money.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsVivi GioiGiuseppe PorelliEnrico ViarisioA famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.
- DirectorAmleto PalermiGiorgio BianchiStarsTotòTitina De FilippoSilvana JachinoMastr'Antonio Miciaccio, caretaker and shoemaker devoted to Saint John Beheaded, is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boyfriend and he does not want him to marry her.
- DirectorAlfredo GuariniStarsIsa MirandaRossano BrazziVittorina BenvenutiSeduced, impregnated and abandoned by her lover, a single mother marries a doctor. At first things go well, but after a while the doctor begins to resent his wife because of her past. Stunned, she leaves her child with her mother-in-law. Complications ensue.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsAdriana BenettiIrasema DiliánAnna MagnaniTeresa, 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.
- DirectorMario BonnardStarsAndrea ChecchiAdriana BenettiAldo FabriziCesare is a ticket collector on a bus who is competing with the driver, Bruno, for the love of Rosella, a naïve waitress who's been mugged on the bus.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsCarla Del PoggioAdriana BenettiRubi DalmaThe two young Carla and Giulia, out of the college, dream of being able to marry with their respective lovers, the first with Carletto, with whom she was engaged as a young girl, and the second with Fabrizio.
- DirectorRiccardo FredaStarsGino CerviAnneliese UhligEnrico GloriIn Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsGino CerviAdriana BenettiGiuditta RissoneA family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
- DirectorLadislao KishStarsMaria DenisIrasema DiliánMassimo Serato
- DirectorRaffaello MatarazzoStarsChiaretta GelliArmando FalconiDina GalliA precocious girl tries to prevent the marriage of her older sister to a womanizer and stirs up trouble in the boarding school she is sent to.
- DirectorVittorio CottafaviStarsVittorio De SicaMaría MercaderPaolo StoppaA penniless young man who lives by expedients is instructed by his director to accompany the daughter of an accountant of the company he owns. The young man takes the opportunity to pretend to be very rich in the naive girl and takes her to a luxury establishment, creating, thanks to her inventor's imagination, an authentic dreamlike atmosphere.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsEmilio CigoliLuciano De AmbrosisIsa PolaFour-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaMario CostaStarsMariella LottiLeonardo CorteseRoldano LupiNicoletta, married to the engineer Barbano, finds love in the form of pianist Bruno Traldi.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsMarina BertiElettra DruscovichGiuseppe ForcinaA group of pilgrims embark on a long train journey to the sanctuary of Loreto, where they hope to receive a miracle.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsCarla Del PoggioGino CerviAlfredo VarelliAn allegorical couple work their competing influences on a man and his wife who they live near. The Devil gets the husband to bet on horses and the wife to become more vain.The Angel tries to restore domestic peace and equilibrium.
- DirectorCarmine GalloneStarsLilia SilviAndrea ChecchiLauro GazzoloBirdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortunately, everything will be fine.
- DirectorMarcello PaglieroStarsValentina CorteseAndrea ChecchiNando BrunoAgainst the background of Rome freed from Nazi-fascism in 1945, two personal dramas interweave between a young man, reduced to despair by his girlfriend and a still underage girl, who tries to prostitute herself to survive.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsRinaldo SmordoniFranco InterlenghiAnnielo MeleTwo 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.
- DirectorPietro GermiStarsRoldano LupiMarina BertiErnesto AlmiranteA man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant will be crucial.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsElisa CeganiMassimo GirottiMariella LottiSome Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsVivi GioiAndrea ChecchiCarla Del PoggioImmediately 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.
- DirectorGiorgio BianchiStarsMaria DenisGino CerviAndrea Checchi
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsLamberto MaggioraniEnzo StaiolaLianella CarellIn 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.
- DirectorMichal WaszynskiStarsAnna MagnaniVittorio De SicaAurel MillossAmong the numerous refugees arriving in San Marino during the Second World War, one day a stranger arrives who seems to have lost his memory. The stranger attracts the inhabitants' sympathy, especially those of a young prostitute, for his mild and gentle character.
- DirectorRené ClémentStarsJean GabinIsa MirandaVera TalchiA French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsVittorio De SicaFiorella BettiJacqueline PlessisNaples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniStarsGino CerviGina LollobrigidaOdile VersoisDuring his wedding day, a man, while is driving to the church for the ceremony, saves a woman from a suicide. The woman is pregnant and she's alone; the man carries her to a cloistered convent,where she gives birth to her son. That's an occasion for the man to reflect about his life.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsMichèle MorganHenri VidalMichel SimonIn ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
- DirectorLuciano EmmerStarsAnna BaldiniVera CarmiEmilio CigoliA variety of different people, both adults, children, families, young lovers and youth gangs, spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia outside Rome.
- DirectorRenato CastellaniStarsMario AngelottiElena VarziDonato DonatiBeppe Agosti, a Florentine and an orphan boy, is very fond of girls, especially maids.
- DirectorClaudio GoraStarsMarina BertiJacques SernasMischa Auer Jr.Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in a refuge with some girls.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsAldo FabriziGaby MorlayLudmilla DudarovaThe daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsJean GabinElli ParvoAntonella LualdiOne inattentive step under the wheels of a bus ended the life and career of a wealthy Roman industrialist Bacca in the prime of life. In the other world, he does not doubt that he is destined for paradise.
- DirectorRoberto SavareseStarsAlberto SordiGiovanna PalaCarlo GiustiniShy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsEmma GramaticaFrancesco GolisanoPaolo StoppaAn open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.
- DirectorLuchino ViscontiStarsAnna MagnaniWalter ChiariTina ApicellaA woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniVittorio De SicaStarsVittorio De SicaSabuMaría MercaderVittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and life will become easier for his wife, Maria Mereander, and kids. An Indian prince (Sabu) visits Italy, is assisted by the teacher, and gives De Sica a baby elephant as a reward. This upsets the landlord, Nando Bruno, the other tenants and the neighborhood . He takes the elephant away but, like Lassie, it comes home.
- DirectorMario MattoliStarsEduardo De FilippoAldo FabriziTitina De FilippoFour poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
- DirectorAlberto LattuadaStarsRenato RascelYvonne SansonGiulio StivalBased on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, THE OVERCOAT is the story of a poor city hall clerk (Renato Rascel) whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsLucia BosèCarla Del PoggioMaria Grazia FranciaBased on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls (told in a slow beginning) who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy morning in Rome in 1951. They crowd and push their way into the old building and fight their way up the stairs to await an interview, only to be told there is not enough time to interview all. A scuffle breaks out and the stairway collapses sending many of them hurtling down in a mass of bodies amid brick and mortar. Among them are the well-born wife of a poor artist;, a streetwalker making an attempt to change her life; an unhappy servant girl; and the desperate wife of an unemployed factory worker. How the event changes or fails to change their lives is told.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsCarlo BattistiMaria Pia CasilioLina GennariAn elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsJennifer JonesMontgomery CliftGino CerviPrior 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.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniFederico FelliniAlberto LattuadaStarsRita JosaRosanna CartaEnrico PellicciaSix separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
- DirectorRenato RascelStarsRenato RascelValentina CortesePaolo StoppaA meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of living but she is very hard to convince. When she finally realizes he really loves her it is too late.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisStarsSilvana PampaniniAmedeo NazzariMassimo GirottiAnna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniAlfredo GuariniRoberto RosselliniStarsIngrid BergmanAnna MagnaniIsa MirandaFive portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
- DirectorJacques BeckerStarsFernandelSamia GamalDieter BorscheRich oriental lord Cassim's cheeky servant Ali Baba was sent to buy a meaty girl-slave, but brings dancer Morgiane, whom he is enamored with. When he's part of a caravan robbed by Abdel's 40 thieves, Ali hides in a camel hive and thus learns the secret of Sesame cave. With stolen loot he buys Morgiane and his own residence for him and beggar friends. Cassim not only gets him drunk to learn his secret gold source but also plans to rob him at the grand wedding with Morgiane. But Abdel observed them too and invites his 40 robbers.
- DirectorGiuseppe AmatoStarsLinda DarnellValentina CorteseLea PadovaniTamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. While she is being taken to hospital the other girls learn that, following the implementing provisions of the Merlin bill, their house is to be closed. Wally, Franca and Lola find shelter in the beautiful apartment of a generous former colleague, Rosita. Wally tries to get married, Tamara goes through a religious crisis while Franca finds an honest job in order to support her young daughter and herself. As for Lola, she considers going back to her parents' home but won't she give offense to her sister, who is about to be wedded?
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsTotòLianella CarellPasquale CennamoA portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsSophia LorenFranca ValeriVittorio De SicaAgnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsAnna MagnaniEleonora Rossi DragoAntonio CifarielloA Roman nun who was a missionary in Africa for 20 years is sent to a convent near Naples where she grows very fond of a boy whose father has died. The child's mother is about to leave him to follow a worker she is in love with who has decided to emigrate to America.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsGabriella PallottaGiorgio ListuzziGastone RenzelliA 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.
- DirectorMario SoldatiStarsFernandelGiulia RubiniFosco GiachettiThe Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
- DirectorGiuseppe De SantisLeopoldo SavonaStarsSilvana ManganoYves MontandPedro ArmendárizTwo young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
- DirectorFrancesco MaselliStarsVirna LisiHaya HarareetElisa CeganiA struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiStarsVittorio De SicaGino CerviCarla GravinaAn industrialist tries to corrupt the deputy mayor by exploiting his oratory vanity, to prevent the panoramic view of his villa from being disfigured by a hospice.
- DirectorPiero TelliniStarsDomenico ModugnoGiovanna RalliIda GalliTuri, a young Sicilian, makes ends meet by doing some occasional work and singing in taverns in a popular district of Rome.
- DirectorVeljko BulajicStarsAntun VrdoljakEwa KrzyzewskaLjubisa JovanovicAt a church in the country, eternally optimistic John marries Maria, his Atomic War Bride, as a war starts, planes buzz overhead and bombs start dropping. Though John is "mobilized" by the military seconds after the ceremony, he and Maria are reunited just in time for the Big Bang!
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsPierre BriceGiorgia MollPietro GermiTwelve-year-old Silvana De Carli falls in love with 30-year-old Gino.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenJean-Paul BelmondoRaf ValloneIn WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsNicola Rossi-LemeniElli DavisFernandelIn 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.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsBelinda LeeSylva KoscinaSergio FantoniAn industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaFederico FelliniMario MonicelliStarsAnita EkbergSophia LorenRomy SchneiderInspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMaximilian SchellFredric MarchA 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.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsVanni De MaigretKey MeersmanReginald KernanFirst love experience of a teenage boy living on an isolated island.
- DirectorJulio García EspinosaStarsBlas MoraWember BrosJosé Yedra
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsAlberto SordiGianna Maria CanaleElena NicolaiDuring the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniAldo GiuffrèStories about three very different women and the men they attract.
- DirectorRenato CastellaniMarco FerreriFranco RossiStarsNino ManfrediAnna Maria FerreroUgo TognazziA vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsPeter SellersVictor MatureBritt EklandAn Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed.
- DirectorNelo RisiStarsGeraldine ChaplinNino CastelnuovoFederico ScrobognaIn a small village in Yugoslavia during the German occupation, a girl, Lenka, lives with her blind brother, while her father and boyfriend fight. One day they return with the Nazis on their tail.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsChristine DelarocheNino CastelnuovoMadeleine RobinsonCarlo and Anne meet in Paris and fall in love. She becomes pregnant, but he is resistant to fatherhood.
- DirectorMauro BologniniVittorio De SicaPier Paolo PasoliniStarsSilvana ManganoAnnie GirardotFrancisco RabalFive short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsShirley MacLainePeter SellersElspeth MarchSeven portraits of different types of women.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsMarcello MastroianniFaye DunawayEnrico SimonettiJulia, 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.
- DirectorMauro BologniniMario MonicelliPier Paolo PasoliniStarsTotòUgo D'AlessioRegina SeiffertThe film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
- DirectorGianni PucciniStarsGian Maria VolontèLisa GastoniCarla GravinaThe true story of seven Italian brothers, farmers and Catholic, who became Communist and fought for justice and freedom against Fascism. Shot in December 1943 in Reggio Emilia, they are the first and most famous heroes in the Italian "Resistenza" (resistance against German Fascism).
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniLyudmila SavelevaAn Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsDominique SandaLino CapolicchioHelmut BergerThe story of the Finzi-Continis, a noble family of Ferrara, during the Jewish persecution in Italy's 1930s.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsNino ManfrediMariangela MelatoAnna Maria AragonaPaolo and Maria are two primary school teachers and they love each other, but cannot have a child.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsFlorinda BolkanRenato SalvatoriDaniel QuenaudClara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life.