Cesare Zavattini filmography (writer)

Gold 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.

Gold 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.

A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.

Mastr'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.

Seduced, 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.

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.

Cesare 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.

The 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.

In 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.

A 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....

A 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.

A 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.

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

Nicoletta, married to the engineer Barbano, finds love in the form of pianist Bruno Traldi.

A group of pilgrims embark on a long train journey to the sanctuary of Loreto, where they hope to receive a miracle.