The Bicycle Thief (1948) [also titled "Bicycle Thieves" internationally]. Highlighting the hardship of post-World War II life for the average Italian working class, this film is about a man who relies on his bicycle to commute to work to make a living. He is offered a job of pasting advertising posters around the city, but is no longer able to work when his bicycle is stolen. Desperate to find the thief he recruits his comrades to help find the bicycle and bring the thief to justice. Doing so in a crowded city proves to be an extremely difficult task and time is running out for the victim as he gets desperate to continue to earn a living or face homelessness.

This film was originally in a foreign language but you can now get it with English subtitles and voice dubbed if you are too lazy to read subtitles as an American I can sympathize lol.