Movies: Neorealism

Newspaper Boy is a Malayalam–language Indian film released in 1955. It is the first neo realistic movie in the language. The film, a drama of stark realism, narrates the life of the common man on the street. The film is noteworthy in that the entire ...

An anthropologist investigates the origins of human evolution. She had suffered a mental trauma during her childhood when her father, a submarine captain, died during the war. This trauma periodically destabilizes her condition. The ghosts of a prehi...

On the day they move apartments, a couple struggles to get everything in order before the landlord arrives for a final inspection....

Michele, a young boy, while playing football with a friend, stumbles upon a remarkable encounter....

Three friends drive through the mountains looking for a community of Palestinians they've only ever heard about....

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A film scholar named Mark Shiel discusses the history of italian neo-realism in filmmaking, accompanied by rare still photographs and newly restored film footage....

Pablo returns to the neighborhood where he spent the early years of his life, searching for Juanito, but he does not find him. His sister Delia tells him that Juanito has lost his job and, in his desperation, has turned to crime. It is considered as ...

A short film centered around young schoolboy Tommy Rogers; alienated by his peers & abused by his step-dad he spends his days caring for his alcoholic mother....

On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the village of Primavalle. A brief and poetic account of the events and their impact on an impoverished c...

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 veritable cultural revolution rapidly became a boundless source of inspiration for movie-makers throu...

An Italian man is released from prison after World War II, excited to meet the son his late wife had while he was away, only to be shocked when he discovers that the son is half-black, the result of an encounter between his wife and an American GI. R...

Juana moves with her son Juan from the country to Caracas in search of better work and educational opportunities. When they get there they have to live in a poor home in one of the slums located in the city's outskirts, where they encounter a horribl...

This film is about the humiliating work conditions and exploitation endured by many Latin American actors, filmmakers and writers in Hollywood....

Two young boys are sitting on the stairs and playing ball. Then they perform a sexual act with a girl from the building. A friend of the boys watches everything happening from upstairs, several floors above them....