Miracle in Milan
An impudent, riotous laugh on the lives and morals of our day!
1951 · 1h 37m · N/A
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Vittorio De Sica
Free account saves your watchlist and ratings.
Miracle in Milan
Overview
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
Director and cast
- Vittorio De Sica Director
- Emma Gramatica as La vecchia Lolotta
- Francesco Golisano as Totò
- Paolo Stoppa as Rappi
- Guglielmo Barnabò as Mobbi
- Brunella Bovo as Edvige
- Anna Carena as Marta, la signora altezzosa
- Alba Arnova as La statua che prende vita
- Flora Cambi as L'innamorata infelice
- Virgilio Riento as Il sergente delle guardie
- Arturo Bragaglia as Alfredo
More films
Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
Drama · Fantasy · PG-13
Purehearted teen Lazzaro is content living as a sharecropper in rural Italy, but an unlikely friendship with the marquise’s son will change his world.
- Runtime
- 2h 8m
- Cast
- Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Luke Chikovani
The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015)
Comedy · Drama · Family · PG
Young and feisty Gilly Hopkins devises a scheme to escape from her new foster home and reunite with her birth mother.
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Cast
- Sophie Nélisse, Kathy Bates, Glenn Close
The Kid (1921)
Comedy · Drama · Passed
A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.
- Runtime
- 1h 8m
- Director
- Charlie Chaplin
- Cast
- Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance
Simon Birch (1998)
Comedy · Drama · Family · PG
Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an 11-year-old dwarf whose outsize personality belies his small stature. Indeed, he often assails the local reverend with t...
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Director
- Mark Steven Johnson
- Cast
- Ian Michael Smith, Joseph Mazzello, Ashley Judd
Candy Cane Lane (2023)
Comedy · Family · Fantasy · PG
Determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, family man Chris makes a pact with an elf to help him out-do the competition. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of Christmas to life, unleashing chaos on the small unsuspecting town.
- Runtime
- 1h 57m
- Cast
- Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell
I Served the King of England (2007)
Comedy · R
Prague, Czechoslovakia, during the inter-war period. Jan Dítě, a young and clever waiter who wants to become a millionaire, comes to the conclusion that to achieve his ambitious goal he must be diligent, listen and observe as much as he can, be always discreet and use what he learns to his own advantage; but the turbulent tides of hist...
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- Ivan Barnev, Oldřich Kaiser, Julia Jentsch
My Sweet Little Village (1985)
Comedy · PG
The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík...
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- János Bán, Marián Labuda, Zdeněk Svěrák
Larks on a String (1990)
Comedy · Drama · Romance · N/A
In post-WWII Communist Czechoslovakia, several characters considered bourgeois are sentenced to work in a junkyard for rehabilitation. Among them is a young man who pines for a female convict.
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- Rudolf Hrušínský, Václav Neckář, Jitka Zelenohorská
Cutting It Short (1981)
Comedy · N/A
Francin, manager of a small-town brewery, has a charming wife whose abundant blonde locks are an adornment to the town. Maryska looks ethereal but loves meat and beer, while Francin is an ascetic. The strict members of the brewery board of directors come to audit the accounts, but are diverted from concentrating on Francin's detailed r...
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- Magda Vášáryová, Rudolf Hrušínský, Petr Čepek
The Snowdrop Festival (1984)
Comedy · Drama · N/A
An episodic film about the inhabitants of Kersko, their hardships and their joys, most prominently hunting. A lyrical and humorous adaptation of writings by Bohumil Hrabal.
- Runtime
- 1h 23m
- Director
- Jiří Menzel
- Cast
- Rudolf Hrušínský, Jaromír Hanzlík, Josef Somr
Comments
Talk about the film with other members