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Suso Cecchi d'Amico has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1940s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Bicycle Thieves.
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.
Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell
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.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale, Alain Delon
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Andrea Balestri, Nino Manfredi, Gina Lollobrigida
During the annual Christmas gathering at the family home, the parents surprise their children by announcing their decision to move in with one of them and pass on the house.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Marina Confalone, Tommaso Bianco, Renato Cecchetto
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.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti
A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais
Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local and international press descend upon the scene, hoping to crack open the true story behind the death of this young man, who, at the age of twenty-seven, had already become Italy’s most wanted criminal and celebrated hero.
Dir. Francesco Rosi · With Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Pippo Agusta
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Helmut Berger, Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Burt Lancaster, Silvana Mangano, Helmut Berger
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Natasha Pyne
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Dir. Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti · With Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider
In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
Dir. Franco Zeffirelli · With Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Rina Morelli
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