Dividido em seis episódios, o filme tem lugar durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. No primeiro episódio, uma rapariga siciliana trava amizade com um soldado americano. No segundo, um napolitano rouba as botas a um soldado americano. No episódio seguinte, uma prostituta de Roma encontra um soldado que tinha conhecido no dia da Libertação e no quarto episódio uma enfermeira inglesa deambula por Florença à procura de um amor antigo. Um judeu e um protestante passam a noite num mosteiro no quinto episódio e no último episódio as tropas americanas são vítimas da ferocidade dos Nazis.

Edmund, um garoto que vive na Alemanha detruída após a 2ª Guerra Mundial, trabalha e faz de tudo para sustentar sua família. Ele espera ajuda ao encontrar um antigo professor, mas as ideias deste só o confundem ainda mais. Filme neorrealista de Rossellini, fecha a "Trilogia da Guerra", da qual também fazem parte 'Roma, Cidade Aberta' e 'Paisà'.

The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.

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...

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

Karen é uma refugiada. De modo a poder ficar em Itália, ela casa-se com um marinheiro da ilha de Stromboli, na Sicília. Rapidamente, o facto de ambos terem mentalidades diferentes cria conflitos entre o casal. Odiada pelos habitantes da ilha e praticamente ignorada pelo marido, Karen procura forças para sobreviver nesse contexto.

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.

A história se passa logo após a Segunda Grande Guerra, com a Itália destruída e o povo passando necessidade. Ricci (Lamberto Maggiorani) consegue um emprego após muita espera. Só que esse emprego, de colador cartazes na rua, lhe pedia como obrigação uma bicicleta. Ricci e sua mulher Maria (Lianella Carell) conseguem um dinheiro para uma, possibilitando que ele realize o seu trabalho. Há também o menino Bruno (Enzo Staiola), filho do casal. Fascinado por bicicletas, o menino cai de cabeça com o pai na busca pela bicicleta que lhes foi roubada, quando Ricci trabalhava apenas em seu primeiro dia.

O percurso de duas famílias - os sulistas Cameron e os nortistas Stoneman - durante a Guerra Civil Americana e os anos que se seguiram.

O amor aos 20 anos, segundo fragmentos de filmes dirigidos por 5 diretores de diversos países: François Truffaut, Shintarô Ishihara, Marcel Ophüls, Renzo Rossellini e Andrzej Wajda.

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.

Celal, lives an unhappy family life with his wife Sevilay and his child in a small town. Celal and his brother Cemal, running an electrician shop which doesn't go well. They are in debt. The only fun they have is going to the night clubs in Samsun. Celal's love for Sibel Ceylan who works in the night club, will cause him trouble. Celal's wife, Sevilay, saves her money, sent by her father who lives in Germany. She is unaware of the fact that Celal knows her secret.

Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.

Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.

Uma sátira da animação Fantasia (1940). Bruno Bozzetto utiliza os mesmos recursos de Disney, animando peças musicais clássicas e ainda acrescentando uma mordaz crítica social em cada quadro.

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Prelude to War was the first film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series, commissioned by the Pentagon and George C. Marshall. It was made to convince American troops of the necessity of combating the Axis Powers during World War II. This film examines the differences between democratic and fascist states.

A disgraced soccer star seeks redemption but is exploited by a variety of causes hoping to capitalize on his celebrity.