Carlo Lizzani Movies

A young shepherd returns home after the Second World War having been held in a prisoner of war camp. He finds that the local landowner has stolen his...

A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of...

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.

A documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year...

A woman travels in a compartment of a train and a young man sits next to her with whom, almost immediately, sparks strike: once they arrive at their...

Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man...

Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big...

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.

A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring...

Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.

Barbara, a waitress in a hotel, has the vice to remove objects from guests rooms. Francesco, a student, finally meets a girl known on internet who...

Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits...

This short film tells the story of the most important cinema trend that Italy has ever produced - Neo Realism. Born after the Second World War, this...