1950s Italian films

Umberto D.

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 8.2

When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month o...

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Nights of Cabiria

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1957 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her str...

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General Della Rovere

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1959 IMDB Rating: 7.8

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

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I Vitelloni

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 1953 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo f...

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L'Avventura

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1960 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance d...

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Mon Oncle

Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1958 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmar...

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Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, whe...

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Bellissima

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Bellissima is a satire of the film industry, and centers on a mother and daughter after the latter attends an audition.

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Miracle in Milan

Film Age rating: 1 Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 7.6

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and lo...

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