35 Films from the Golden Age of Italian Cinema

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.

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

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.

The Moorish General Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his Lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality, it is all part of the scheme of a bitter Ensign named Iago.

American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

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.

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

Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.

During a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.

A determined priest and a Communist mayor develop a grudging friendship in spite of their official rivalry.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.

A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro.

A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.

A beautiful, ambitious young woman joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises.

Swashbuckling adventures of young army recruit Fanfan la Tulipe during the reign of King Louis XV in 18th Century France.

Three men of varying social standing - a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a soldier - vie for the affections of an actress in 18th-century Peru.

Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.

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

The Faust story retold, with an aged alchemist accepting the gift of renewed youth from the devilish Mephistopheles.

In part one, a heartbroken woman talks to her ex-lover on the phone. In part two, a pregnant woman believes she is carrying the child of Saint Joseph.