In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.

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8½
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8.1/10

A Daughter
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The Girl in the Book
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6.5/10

Skin
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6.4/10

What Maisie Knew
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Rosie
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6.2/10

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The Forge
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6.9/10

Paternal Leave
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A Question of Faith
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Small Body
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Flesh + Blood
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6.555/10