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Bicycle Thieves

Cast

Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri View All

Crew

Vittorio De Sica (Screenplay), Vittorio De Sica (Director), Cesare Zavattini (Screenplay), Cesare Zavattini (Story) View All

Release: Nov. 24th, 1948

Runtime: 1 hour, 33 minutes

Antonio, an unemployed man in the depressed post-WWII economy of Italy, at last finds a good job hanging up posters, the only requirement for which is that he must have his own bicycle. When Antonio�s bicycle is stolen, he and his son are forced to walk the streets of Rome in search of it, or else face ruin.

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6 Why was the title to Bicycle Thieves (1948) changed?

I remember back in the 90s and maybe early 2000s, the movie was always called "The Bicycle Thief". Now the title has been changed and is always called "Bicycle Thieves". Why th...

9 Vittorio De Sica's The Bicycle Thieves, and Italian Neo-Realism in general

Had never seen the Bicycle Thieves before until one dull, sluggish night I popped in the rented disc in the DVD player, having no idea what to expect. I had seen little of the Italian Neo-Realist film...

16 "Bicycle Thieves" or "The Bicycle Thief"?

Whatever title you use, I saw this film last Friday. It's in the Lists area as Bicycle Thieves, and I've learned that this was the original title. Netflix, and I think most American stores/rental hous...

24 Bicycle scenes in movies

Can you help me with finding some nice bicycle scenes in movies? I'm not talking about action movies but rather bicycle journeys in the nature (through the woods, villages etc.). It doesn't have to b...

5 Identify this old B&W bicycle movie?

It is old. It may be French, not sure. Definitely B&W. Set in a poor rustic village (South America? Mexico?) It is about a boy wanting a bicycle. The town is poor so remote and inaccessible that t...

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Citizen Rules
I often love Italian films as they're so full of life, even if the subject matter is depressing or dark, the films themselves are alive with the movement of life.

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Iroquois
I also liked how, despite the fact that a small child tags along and naturally acts out due to the thankless chore of being dragged around the city, the film is almost completely devoid of mawkish sentimentality - even a scene where father and son have a bonding moment in an eatery is still undercut....

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KeyserCorleone
This is something I taught myself twenty-five minutes into Bicycle Thieves, a 1948 film that's arguably the most famous film of the movement.

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