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.

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.

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, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer Angele. A Rashômon style narrative presents the story from three points of view where Sybil accuses Angele of having an affair with Barry, while Angele insists that it was actually Sybil who was having the affair. Finally, Barry gives his side of the story.

Selman is a former boxer who once was interested in anthropology, an extraordinary imam who now works in a mosque. One day, while praying in the mosque, gunshots are echoed. One of the people inside collapses and dies. The police come to the scene and collect the first evidence and start the investigation process. He takes action after this event and decides to resolve the case through some people and circumstances he suspects. Every clue leads to an unexpected point and the events become increasingly mysterious.

Three Chaplin silent comedies "A Dog's Life", "Shoulder Arms", and "The Pilgrim" are strung together to form a single feature length film. Chaplin provides new music, narration, and a small amount of new connecting material. "Shoulder Arms" is now described as taking place in a time before "the atom bomb".

Documentary about specific phases of the battle for the Donetsk airport and about the hero-fighters of the Ukrainian Volunteer corps in Pisky. The film presents the war in extreme focus – adrenaline, humor, pain, anguish, and courage are tightly packed into 82 minutes of screen time. It shows scenes of the battle, evacuation of the wounded, the capture of the new airport terminal, and civilians, who live near the fighting’s epicenter. It features death and frontline humor, and a bit of philosophical discussions as well.

From Murnau to Herzog, and until modern incarnations, a mischievous exploration of a cinematographic legendary character, with Nosferatu himself as a guide...

Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.

Alberto Saporito spent a very eventful night. His friend Aniello Amitrano was brutally killed and his body was hidden by his neighbors, the Cimmarutas. But he can't remember if it was just a dream or if he actually lived it. That's why he shows up early to the police to file a complaint. However, he doesn't know that his gesture will be the fuse that will cause chaos to explode. Just like his uncle Nicola does with his firecrackers. The uncle has in fact decided to stop talking, because the degradation in which humanity finds itself repels him, and is expressed only through his pyrotechnic language.

A pivotal work for video art of the 1980s. Fragments of time during a journey where the changing landscapes become full players in a story shown in shadowy backplay, which relates the imagined encounter of two passengers.

En Fellini-film ligner ikke nogen anden og da slet ikke den festlige Amarcord, der vandt en Oscar som årets bedste udenlandske film i 1974. Titlen betyder "jeg husker", og den fortæller om folk og fæ i Fellinis egen hjemby, Rimini, ved Adriaterhavskysten under fascismen. Federico Fellini satiriserer over sit ungdomsliv og beskriver dagliglivet i byen som et cirkus af sociale ritualer, ungdommelige lyster, mandlige fantasier og politiske udflugter.

Zurich, 1905. Nineteen-year-old Russian Sabina Spielrein is put by her parents in a psychiatric hospital, suffering from a severe form of hysteria and refusing to eat. A compassionate doctor, Carl Gustav Jung, takes her under his care and, for the first time, experiments with the psychoanalytical method of his teacher Sigmund Freud. Thus is born a sweeping story of love and passion, of body and soul, soaring to the utmost heights, but also plunging to the darkest depths of the 20th century.

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the inhabitants of Sète in the South of France.

En rigmandskone som har nok i sig selv rammes af skyld efter hendes søns pludselige død. For at håndtere hendes sorg og finde mening i livet beslutter hun sig for at kaste sig ud i velgørenhed. Denne besættelse fører til konflikter med hendes mand og spørgsmål om hendes fornuft.

A wealthy landlord lives a decadent life with his wife and son. His passion – his wife would calls it his addiction – is music, and he spends a great deal of his fortune on concerts held for the locals in his magnificent music room. He feels threatened by his neighbour, a commoner who has attained riches through business dealings. His passion for music and quest for social respect are his undoing, as he sacrifices his family and wealth trying to retain it.

The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.

An unhinged office worker who planned to go on a shooting spree at his workplace struggles with his newfound status as a hero after he ends up stopping a shooting spree instead.

Martinón er den sidste indbygger i Auzal, en landsby i bjergene, hvor han lever som ulvejæger i samhørighed med naturen. Han går kun ned til dalen to gange om året for at sælge sine skind og købe proviant. Men en dag er han parat til at tage sig en kone, en beslutning, der har til formål at lindre hans ensomme sjæl, men det viser sig, at på nogle områder er hans virkelige kamp først lige begyndt.