It gives an amazing view in post-war Italy, but it’s really hard to care about a movie about a stolen bike. I know that the stakes are higher than just that because of the job and all that stuff, but I couldn’t help myself. The ending was quite disappointing to be honest and seriously… How slow are you when you get caught by some guys on foot so easily? That’s just stupid.

A whole movie about someone whose bike was stolen :joy::joy::joy::joy:

A good story about a working class father. He tried his best and worst to get his bicycle back.

The original title of the film is Ladri di biciclette.

We can see the journey of a father and his son. searching the bike that was stolen. A movie that shows the italian society and lower class during the post-war. Don't expect a traditional story, this movie shows you the country in a very real way.

Liked this even better than Rome, Open City, despite a weak ending. The pathos here was enormous, using the naturalism of the performances to really amp up the tragedy of the otherwise mundane event. This is a simple story of a stolen bicycle, but the movie becomes something really universal. This is a picture about the downtrodden, about the unseen injustices that pervade the lives of the struggling. It was heartbreaking. It also features what I think might be my favorite performance by a child actor I’ve seen: Enzo Staiola.

A great father and son journey, Bruno is just the best. That mozzarella sandwich looked fantastic. The whole time while he was looking for the bike I was thinking just steal another one but when he actually did I was shocked. I didn't think it would go down like that and I'm still sad he didn't find his bike.

a middle-aged man and his son experience the hardships of impoverishment in Italy 1949. A well-known thieve, known to the locals as a humble man, steals the bike from Ricci (the protagonist) and Ricci goes on a hunt with his son to find the thieve.

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While this movie symbolizes the hardships of the Great Depression, it also shows the degradation of the middle and lower class and opens up the reality that the high-class elitists rule the job districts through politics and militarism. As Ricci and Bruno find the thieve, the military police can't establish any evidence to take him down. In the end Ricci gives into temptation and the realization that he's no better then the thief himself and tries to steal a upper-classman bike from one of the stoops, he fails and gets branded as a scumbag and a thief, degrading himself in front of his son and the society itself. The movie ends with Ricci and his son fading into the Italian crowd, they've now became faceless to the society.