The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and directed by legendary 4-time Oscar Winner Vittorio de Sica (Bicycle Thieves), the film is a beautiful and haunting story of unrequited love set in WWII in Ferrara, Italy. Giorgio is a middle-class Jewish man who is desperately trying to win over Micol, a beautiful and privileged Jewish woman who lives in the grand and secluded estate of Finzi-Contini.