# The most important films of Italian Neorealism

Post-war Italy filmed in the streets: the masterpieces of Neorealism according to PopcornTV, Cinescuola and Il Sorpasso.

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- Feb 9, 2025 · I. Ferraro
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## Top 10

1. **Bicycle Thieves (1948)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A father and son search for a stolen bicycle, by De Sica.
2. **Rome, Open City (1945)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Resistance in occupied Rome, by Rossellini.
3. **Paisan (1946)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Six episodes on the Allied advance through Italy.
4. **Shoeshine (1946)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Two shoeshine boys in post-war Rome, by De Sica.
5. **Umberto D. (1952)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A pensioner and his dog, by De Sica.
6. **La Terra Trema (1948)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The fishermen of Aci Trezza, from Verga, by Visconti.
7. **Germany, Year Zero (1948)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A boy in the ruins of Berlin, by Rossellini.
8. **Ossessione (1943)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A drifter and an innkeeper's wife, by Visconti.
9. **Bitter Rice (1949)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Women rice workers in the paddies of Vercelli.
10. **Bellissima (1951)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A mother obsessed with her daughter's screen test at Cinecittà.
11. **Miracle in Milan (1951)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A fable about the homeless, by De Sica.
12. **The Railroad Man (1956)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A train driver and his family, by Pietro Germi.

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