If you loved The Working Class Goes to Heaven, try Bicycle Thieves

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

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The Working Class Goes to Heaven

1971 · dir. Elio Petri

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Bicycle Thieves

1948 · dir. Vittorio De Sica

What they share

Theyboth carry the foreign gem, raw mood tags, and they sit in Drama territory. If that's the register that drew you to The Working Class Goes to Heaven, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Bicycle Thieves is

Rome, post-war, a bicycle bell ringing. A father and son scour the city streets, a stolen bike their only hope for a steady income. De Sica grounds neorealism in the everyday struggles of the working class.

If you loved The Working Class Goes to Heaven, try Bicycle Thieves

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Bicycle Thieves

What they share

What Bicycle Thieves is

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