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.

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.

Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.

In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee Lange, and he murdered somebody in Paris. Lange was an employee in a printing works. His boss was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. What then made Lange a killer?

Todd is a hyper-articulate, obsessive compulsive gay twentysomething whose fear of dying alone leads him to a baffling conclusion: he might not be gay after all. When he meets Rory, a whip-smart struggling actress with her own set of insecurities, the two forge a relationship that’s all talk and no sex.

One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.

In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.

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.

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more demanding than she can accept.

A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is forced to reinterpret his own past.

In late 60s Tokyo, Eddie, a young drag queen, is the favourite of Gonda, the owner of the bar where she works. This relationship provokes the jealousy of Gonda's mistress, Leda, the bar's matron. Eddie and Gonda decide to get rid of her...

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.

Et par rejser til Napoli for at sælge et hus, de har arvet. De glider stadig længere væk fra hinanden, og hustruen genoplever minder om en ulykkelig kærlighedshistorie under krigen.

Den franske modstandsaktivist Fontaine dømmes til døden af nazisterne og bruger al sin vågne tid på at planlægge sin flugt ud af fængslet. En dødsdømt flygter af Robert Bresson vandt instruktørprisen i Cannes. Hans minimalistiske og nervepirrende dramathriller er baseret på virkelige hændelser i nazifængslet i Lyon under Anden Verdenskrig.

Johnny Farrell arbejder for Ballin Mundson, indehaveren af et illegalt spillested og kasino i en by i det sydlige USA, hvor Farrell hurtigt bliver en af Mundsons hovedmænd. Alt er godt, lige indtil Mundson vender tilbage fra en rejse med sin nye brud, Gilda, en kvinde fra Johnnys fortid. Uvidende om deres tidligere kærlighedsforhold, tildeler Mundson Farrell tjansen med, at sørge for at Gilda er en trofast og loyal hustru. Fyldt med had, gør Gilda sit bedste for at modarbejde, intimidere og gøre Farrell jaloux, indtil omstændighederne gør, at han kan tage hævn.

I det feudale Japan, under en blodig krig mellem klaner, støder to kujonagtige og grådige bønder, soldater fra en besejret hær, på en mystisk mand, der fører dem til en fæstning skjult i bjergene.

En lille amerikansk landsby bliver hjemsøgt af uhyggelige og uforklarlige ulykker. Byen gribes af panik, men myndighederne står magtesløse. En 11-årig dreng, der er lammet i benene og hvis yndlingsbeskæftigelse er at læse gyserlitteratur, er tilsyneladende nærmere en forklaring, da han får mistanke om at det er en varulv der er på spil.