Dario Parisini

Festa di Laurea (graduation party) is a film about times of change. The story is set at the end of World War II. A middle aged working class man who has just started his own bakery trying to mass produce pastry for the expected influx of mass tourism on the Adriatic has agreed to prepare a completely run down beach house with an overgrown garden for a graduation party. (imdb)

Luigi Stanzani arrives in Bologna to take up a job at an important bank. Luigi is unable to integrate himself with his colleagues, who appear to him as offenders.

Italy, the early sixties: Yuri, a young boy who lives with his mother and a little sister (his father has abandoned them) meets Razzo, a tough streetwise boy and becomes his friend (imdb)