With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks revenge on his captors.
When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Rimski novinar Marcello Rubini (M. Mastroianni) u neprestanoj je potrazi za društvenim senzacijama kojima će ispuniti svoje članke tiskane u popularnome dnevniku. Dio njegovog posla je da bude prisutan svakome događaju o kojemu govori krema talijanskoga glavnoga grada: otvorenju velike izložbe, konferenciji za novinare glasovite međunarodne filmske zvijezde Sylvije (A. Ekberg) koja u Cinecittà snima najnoviji film, razuzdanoj zabavi visokoga društva... Usput se u noćnome lokalu susreće s ocem, odvodi u bolnicu djevojku koja je zbog njegove nevjere pokušala samoubojstvo, ispraća prijatelja kojemu je samoubojstvo uspjelo, na morskoj obali dočekuje golemu ražu kao nesvakidašnji ulov lokalnih ribara...
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
After a fateful encounter in the summer of 1966, the lives of two brothers from a middle-class Roman family take different directions, intersecting with some of the most significant events of postwar Italian history in the following decades.
During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the leader of the Resistance is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
Za svoj redateljski prvijenac François Truffaut, nekad filmski kritičar, a sada redatelj, inspiraciju je pronašao u vlastitu nesretnom djetinjstvu. Jean-Pierre Léaud glumi Antoinea Doinela, Truffautov predadolescentski alter ego. Kod kuće Antoinea ne shvaćaju roditelji, a u školi ga muči neljubazni učitelj (Guy Decomble) te on često bježi. Kad ga učitelj optuži zbog plagiranja, trajno napušta školu. Ukrade pisaći stroj ocu (Albert Remy) kako bi financirao planove za odlazak od kuće. Gnjevni otac preda Antoinea policiji, koja ga zatvori s okorjelim kriminalcima. Psiholog u centru za delikvente ispipava Antoineovu potištenost, koju ovaj otkriva u fragmentiranom nizu monologa.
When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
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...
In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
Radnja ove napete, klaustrofobične drame Alfreda Hitchcocka događa se na čamcu za spašavanje koji pluta Atlantskim oceanom. Na njemu se nalazi osmero ljudi koji su preživjeli napad nacističkog torpeda. Nakon nekoliko dana besciljnog plutanja, primaju još jednog putnika, Willia (Walter Slezak), mornara koji je preživio potonuće njemačke podmornice. Svi pretpostavljaju kako Willi ne razumije engleski. Međutim, vrlo brzo se pokaže kako Wili ne samo da razumije i govori nekoliko jezika, već je i vrlo inteligentan . On je, zapravo, bio kapetan podmornice koja ih je potopila. Pošto je jedini sa pomorskim iskustvom, on preuzima komandu na čamcu i navodi ga prema svom matičnom brodu. Ostatak putnika pomirljivo prihvaća činjenicu da će postati ratni zarobljenici.
Following the Civil War, headstrong rancher Thomas Dunson decides to lead a perilous cattle drive from Texas to Missouri. During the exhausting journey, his persistence becomes tyrannical in the eyes of Matthew Garth, his adopted son and protégé.
A dream-like narrative in which a woman (Deren), is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey, a quest for personal identity, encountering other people and other versions of herself.
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.