After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.

I Vitelloni er en af Federico Fellinis mindre kendte film, som dog indeholder mester-instruktørens sædvanlige sans for skarp observation af menneskelige skæbner. Filmen er et karakterstudie af fem unge mænd, som holder til i en lille, isoleret by ved Adriaterhavet. Deres utilfredshed og rastløshed fører dem ud i forskellige aktiviteter, der ikke alle er lige beundringsværdige. Godfather-kompo-nisten Nino Rota har skrevet filmens enkle og udtryksfulde musik.

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.

Med denne stærkt personlige erindringsrejse og utilslørede hyldest til byernes by, Rom, demonstrerer Federico Fellini med legende lethed, hvorfor han anses for en af sin generations største filmskabere. Denne overdådige biografi, fyldt med fantastiske fantasibilleder og monumental storhed, begynder med Fellinis barndom ude på landet. I skolen studerer han koncentreret det klassiske Roms historie, og som ung mand kommer han endelig til at opleve byen på tætteste hold, da han ved 2. Verdenskrigs udbrud ankommer til den historiske stad. Gennem en række visualiserede drømmesyn og tilsyneladende usammenhængende episoder beretter Fellini en mængde spredte historier om sin elskede by - hvorefter beskueren kan træde et imaginært skridt tilbage og åndeløst betragte det samlede værk i sin helhed.

Kort før WW1's udbrud sejler en flok operaelskere ud i Adriaterhavet for at sprede verdens største operasangerindes aske. Virkeligheden rykker ind på deres forgyldte verden, da skibets kaptajn samler en flok serbiske bådflygtninge op, og et fjendtligt skib dukker op og forlanger skibets overgivelse. Det går slet ikke op for de verdensfjerne passagerer, at deres verdensorden er ved at forsvinde, og at skibet sejler mod en skæbne lige så uundgåelig som Titanics.

Skandalejournalisten Marcello på jagt i Roms gader efter sladderhistorier eller et amourøst eventyr.

Gelsominas fattige mor sælger hende til den brutale og dominerende gøgler og stærkmand, Zampanò. Hun skal arbejde for ham som klovn, og de slår sig sammen med et omrejsende cirkus, hvor Zampanò møder sin gamle rival, klovnen Matto, og et trekantsdrama udvikler sig. Gelsomina og Matto udvikler følelser for hinanden, og han foreslår at de stikker af sammen, men det nægter Gelsomina. Som et trofast kæledyr vil hun ikke forlade Zampanòs side. Til sidst eksploderer Zampanòs voldsomme temperament en gang for meget, hvilket får tragiske konsekvenser. Giulietta Masina var gift med Federico Fellini, og her instruerer han hende som Gelsomina i La Strada, filmen der gav dem begge international berømmelse. Den anerkendte, italienske filmskaber, Federico Fellini, trak på sine egne erfaringer fra sin cirkusbaggrund i denne klassiker fra 1954. Fellini har siden stået bag beundrede værker som La Dolce Vita og 8½.

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?

En filminstruktør (Marcello Mastroianni) kæmper for at finde den kreativitet, det kræver, for at han kan færdiggøre sin næste film, men han bliver konstant forstyrret af producenter, sin kone og sin elskerinde. For at flygte fra sine plageånder trækker instruktøren sig tilbage i en verden af minder, drømme og fantasier. Resultatet er en række fantastiske temaer og drømme, der gør 8½ til den ultimative Fellini-film. Den afspejler også Fellinis egne problemer, før han fik dette filmprojekt sat i gang.

A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes from many different periods of its history.

Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.

A town in Fengjie county is gradually being demolished and flooded to make way for the Three Gorges Dam. A man and woman visit the town to locate their estranged spouses, and become witness to the societal changes.

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.

In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a POW.

While on a summer trip with her friends, Megan begins to feel the presence of Sophie, her twin sister who recently committed suicide.

A Polish priest arrives at a convent hoping to save the Mother Superior, who is supposedly possessed by eight demons.

Star major league pitcher Monty Stratton loses a leg in a hunting accident, but becomes determined to leave the game on his own terms.