Italian Neorealist Films

Films of Italian neorealism, made just after the Second World War in real streets with ordinary people, about poverty and the strain of war. A film belongs here when the cited article calls it an Italian neorealist film. The two films are among the best known of the movement, and they used non-professional actors, real locations and plain stories of poverty, hunger and survival to set a standard that directors around the world followed. It excludes later Italian films made in other styles and neorealist writing and painting outside the cinema.