Bitter Rice

Riso amaro (original)

7.6

/10

1h 42mCrime Drama

During planting season in Northern Italy's Po Valley, an earthy rice-field worker (Silvana Mangano) falls in with a small-time criminal (Vittorio Gassman) who is planning a daring heist of the crop, as well as his femme-fatale-ish girlfriend (Doris Dowling). Both a socially conscious look at the hardships endured by underpaid field workers and a melodrama tinged with sex and violence, this early smash for producer Dino De Laurentiis and director Giuseppe De Santis is neorealism with a heaping dose of pulp.

Spoken language: it

Starring Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano, Raf Vallone, Checco Rissone, Nico Pepe, Adriana Sivieri, Lia Corelli, Maria Grazia Francia, Dedi Ristori

Watch "Bitter Rice" from streaming services Vudu, Google Play, Criterion Channel and several more released in 1949. It's a crime and drama movie, and has a rating of 7.6 out of 10 from Imdb which is usually fine for this kind of movie.