Cuore d'oro

Le notti di Cabiria (Nights of Cabiria)

(1957)

More Giulietta Masina, this time as a whore in one of those suburbi brutti that turn up so often in Fellini. We never see Cabiria take money from a man (in fact, we see her refuse to), but she owns her own cinderblock home, and she displays a sizable wad of lire after cashing in her assets for--doh!--amore. You can see the disaster coming, and you just hope it won't be as bad as you fear.