Carlo Ranieri

A comedy of errors about marriage and infidelity.

In the rough outskirts of a southern Italian city, a young man caring for his ailing grandmother is drawn into a series of robberies with an outlaw bound by an ancient code of honor. Between loyalty, loss, and the longing for family, he must decide who he is—and how far he’ll go not to be alone.

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.

A woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.