if you liked this, try The Bicycle Thief

Rating: Null/10 (15 August 1999)

I don't have much to say about this film. I did not respond to it as others have, but I don't want to criticize it.
Instead, I'd like to urge everyone who was moved by this film to rent The Bicycle Thief, an Italian movie from 1948. Although the story is about the hardships of postwar life, the heart of the movie is the relationship between a father and son, and I must say that it is the most powerful and touching of all father-son relationships that I have ever seen on screen. I am not alone in thinking so.
So, if you were moved by the father and son in Life is Beautiful, I implore you to give The Bicycle Thief a chance.