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Of Life and Love (1953) [Movie] Douban
Siamo donne
Four Steps in the Clouds (1942) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Quattro Passi fra le Nuvole
director:
Alessandro Blasetti
actor:
吉诺·塞尔维
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Adriana Benetti
other title:
云中四部曲
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Quattro Passi fra le Nuvole
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Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned.
Boccaccio '70 (1962) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Boccaccio '70
other title:
三艳嬉春
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博迦丘70年
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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.
The Gold of Naples (1954) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
L'Oro di Napoli
other title:
那不勒斯的黄金
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L'Oro di Napoli
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Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Napolitean episodes : a clown exploited by a gangster ; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) loosing her husband's ring ; the funeral of a dead child ; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid ; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute ; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller".
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) [Movie] Douban WikiData IMDb TMDB
Stazione Termini
other title:
终站
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Stazione Termini
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While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
The Children Are Watching Us (1944) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
I bambini ci guardano
other title:
孩子在看着我们
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I bambini ci guardano
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In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
Rome 11:00 (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData Douban
Roma ore 11
other title:
Roma, ore 11
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Es geschah Punkt 11
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The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.
Love in the City (1953) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
L'amore in città
other title:
小巷之爱
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L'amore in città
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Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
Bellissima (1951) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Bellissima
other title:
小美人
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아름다운 여인
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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.
Umberto D. (1952) [Movie] Douban Eggplant.place IMDb TMDB WikiData
Umberto D.
other title:
风烛泪
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温别尔托D
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1952 Italian film by Vittorio De Sica
Miracle in Milan (1951) [Movie] IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
Miracolo a Milano
other title:
米兰的奇迹
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Miracolo a Milano
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Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
The Bicycle Thieves (1948) [Movie] Eggplant.place Min reol TMDB Douban IMDb WikiData Skybridge
Ladri di biciclette
other title:
偷自行车的人
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Ladri di biciclette
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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.
