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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.

Clara, diagnosed with tuberculosis, is treated in a sanatorium in the Alps where she can finally take a break from her miserable life.

Paolo and Maria are two primary school teachers and they love each other, but cannot have a child.

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

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

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Inspired 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.

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.

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

A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.

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.

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

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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