In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory.

Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

Endnu en klassiker til samlingen - denne gang fra instruktør Vittorio De Sica, den italienske neorealismes vigtigste pioner. I den tifoldigt Oscar-nominerede kærlighedskomedie Ægteskab på italiensk mødes Sophia Loren og Marcello Mastroianni for sjette gang på filmlærredet. Den succesrige forretningsmand Domenico Soriano (Mastroianni) møder Filumena Marturano (Loren) første gang på et napolitansk bordel i løbet af Anden Verdenskrig. Da skæbnen flere år senere sammenfører dem, indleder de en romance, som kommer til at vare over to årtier. For nogle tager det nemlig så lang tid at komme til alteret.

Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.

Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who spent his whole life looking after a crumbling Bourbon estate: his mission is to save a young buffalo named Sarchiapone. Pulcinella takes the buffalo north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy.

Faye Dunaway er Julia – en succesrig amerikansk designer, som efter beskeden om, at hun er døende af kræft søger tilflugt i Italien. Der tilbringer hun sine sidste dage i en kærlighedsrus sammen med den gifte Valerio, spillet af Marcello Mastroianni. Dunaway og Mastroianni – en genial kombination! Den lige så dybt romantiske som tragiske kærlighedsskildring Amanti var et samarbejde mellem Vittorio De Sica og producenten Carlo Ponti, der vandt en Oscar for La strada.

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her. She gives birth: we see the crowning of the baby's head, then the birth itself; we watch a pair of hands tie off and cut the umbilical cord. With the help of the attending hands, the mother expels the placenta. The infant, a baby girl, nurses. We return from time to time to the bath scene. By the end, dad's excited; mother and daughter rest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with ideas on romantic love induced by classical poetry, Nello falls for Angela, a beautiful blind woman who indulges him only to win back her fiancé.

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Though it features many spectacles, including clowns, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, and more, Parade also focuses on the spectators, making this stripped-down work a testament to the communion between audience and entertainment.

An army deserter and a soon-to-be high school graduate embark on an ill-fated romance in this musical film set in the '60s.

When an opera singer loses her voice, her husband embarks on an odyssey through different underworlds to recover it through supernatural means.

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

A young Tokyo salary man and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he has an extramarital affair.

A young terrorist kills and injures patrons of a Norfolk amusement park by placing homemade explosives on the track of one of its roller coasters. After staging a similar incident in Pittsburgh, he sends a tape to a meeting of major amusement park executives in Chicago, demanding $1 million to make him stop.