Hrdinou tragického příběhu o lidech zlomených válkou je 12letý chlapec Edmund, který žije v ruinách válkou zničeného Berlína. Aby pomohl sobě a své rodině přežít, musí vymýšlet různé triky a drobné podvody. Edmunda jeho výchova v duchu národního socialismu nepřipravila na porážku Německa a musí se s ní proto vyrovnávat po svém. Jeho sestra pro peníze prodává vlastní tělo a Edmund také dělá, co může. Jednoho dne potkává pana Henninga, svého bývalého učitele, a rád by u něj našel podporu v obtížné situaci. Učitel však i po válce zůstává skálopevně přesvědčen o správnosti nacistické demagogie. Podle Henningovy rady Edmund uplatní Darwinovu doktrínu o přirozeném výběru, kterou převzali i nacisté, a zabije svého invalidního otce. Po tomto činu se však nedokáže vyrovnat se svým svědomím a nakonec spáchá sebevraždu. Film ukazuje tragické následky války na duších těch nejkřehčích - dětí, které po selhání gener

Pianista Paul Orlac (Conrad Veidt) přišel při nehodě vlaku o obě ruce. Jsou mu transplantovány ruce jiné, ruce bývalého vraha. Paul zažívá chvíle paniky a úzkosti. Má chuť zabíjet. Situace se zhorší, když jeho otec zemře a podezření z jeho vraždy padne na Paula. Objasnění vraždy pak přinese klid do duše hlavního hrdiny.

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.

Via the Chicago Reader: "After World War II an Italian soldier returns to his hometown near the Alps and, unable to find a job, hooks up with a crotchety hermit who scavenges buried shells and bombs for scrap metal."

Behind the Hollywood Bowl stage which is playing the opera The Barber of Seville, Bugs Bunny flees into the backstage area with Elmer Fudd in close pursuit. Seeing his opportunity to fight on his terms, Bugs raises the curtain on Elmer, trapping him on stage. As the orchestra begins playing, Bugs comes into play as the barber who is going to make sure that Elmer is going to get a grooming he will never forget.

Zdánlivě jednoduchý příběh znuděného anglického páru, který cestuje do Itálie, aby našel kupce pro dům zděděný po strýci, proměnil Roberto Rossellini ve vášnivý příběh plný krutosti a cynismu, zatímco se jejich manželství rozpadá.

Mladý fotbalista, jeho trenér i majitel klubu mají každý jiné trápení. Svých vnitřních démonů se ale možná zbaví během jediného utkání na udusaném hřišti kousek od Říma.

Todd a Rory jsou intelektuálně spřízněné duše. On je asi gay. Jí je to jedno.

In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

Jacques pracuje jako reportér ve velkých francouzských regionálních novinách. Jeho pověst nezaujatého a nadaného investigativního novináře upoutá pozornost Vatikánu, který si ho najme na splnění zvláštního úkolu. Stane se členem komise ověřující údajné zázračné zjevení v malé francouzské vesnici – tedy opravdového kanonizačního procesu.

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

At a track near Rome, shoeshine boys are watching horses run. Two of the boys Pasquale, an orphan, and Giuseppe, his younger friend are riding. The pair have been saving to buy a horse of their own to ride...

An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.

Stefan Brand je klavírní virtuos a miláček žen, jenž své nadání pohřbí v povrchním bohémství a jehož svůdnické úspěchy nemohou zastřít neschopnost milovat. Teprve dopis, který dal filmu název, odhalí prošedivělému elegánovi vše obětující lásku, s níž se osudově minul.

In 1960s Tokyo, Gonda owns a bar in which the gay, cross-dresser, and trans scenes meet. Gonda is in a relationship with the madam of the bar, Leda. As the younger Eddie starts a passionate affair with Gonda, she ignites the jealousy of Leda, unaware of another kind of history between them.

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew, and Juliette longs to escape the monotony of the boat and experience the excitement of a big city. When she steals away to Paris by herself, her husband begins to think their marriage was a mistake.

Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.