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A Roman prostitute keeps hoping; the ending smile is one of the great last shots.

Rossellini shot on the streets months after the Germans left; neorealism begins here.

A father and son search Rome for a stolen bicycle he needs to keep his job.

A pensioner and his dog on the edge of eviction in Rome; De Sica's bleakest neorealism.

A honeymooning bride runs off after the star of a photo-comic; Fellini's first solo feature.

Petronius as a hallucination: Nero's Rome with no moral centre at all.

Two households in Verona and five days from the ball to the tomb.

An American ambulance driver and an English nurse in the Italian war; the retreat from Caporetto.