"Shoeshine 70" is a documentary directed by Mimmo Verdesca that celebrates an important anniversary. This years marks the 70th anniversary of the release of the film helmed by Vittorio De Sica "Shoeshine", a masterpiece of Neorealism, and the first Italian film ever to win an Oscar and the first recipient of a Nastro d'argento, a prizeigiven by Italian journalists. The film will revolve around the filming of that masterpiece in the 1946. Therefore it will be a report of those events but a film where memories will come to life thanks to the candid stories of the protagonists, that will take the spectator on an emotional and enticing journey.

Hvad der skulle have været et storladent bryllup ser ud til at ende som et mareridt af ekskærester, uindbudte gæster og slagsmål mellem deres forældre.

Efter at have tilbragt hele sit liv og opvækst i kirkens børnehjem forlader Toto en dag de trygge rammer for at begive sig ud i den rå virkelighed. Uden at kende betydningen af ondskab støder Toto på en gruppe hjemløse i udkanten af Milano og beslutter sig for at slå sig ned sammen med disse og organisere opbygningen af en lille by. En dag brydes idyllen dog, da det viser sig, at der findes olie på området. De hjemløse må forlade stedet. Politiet og militæret mobiliserer deres styrker og gør sig klar til kamp. Men da er det, at alt det fantastiske sker. Det, som til evig tid vil blive husket som miraklet i Milano!

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police arresting them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.

Joan (Sylvia Sidney) er forelsket i den småkriminelle Eddie (Henry Fonda), der sidder i fængsel. Med hjælp fra hendes ven og forsvarer Stephen formår hun at få ham ud af fængslet før tid, og de to gifter sig straks. Eddie gør alt for at holde sig på den lovlydige side og får hurtigt et job som lastbilchauffør. Men det er ikke nemt at være eksfange, og allerede første dag bliver han helt urimeligt fyret. Mens han prøver at finde et andet job, er der et røveri i en bank, og Eddie bliver anklaget i sagen. I hans forsøg på flugt eskalerer tingene, og Eddie kommer i en situation, der er svær at redde sig ud af.

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan, and soars headlong into a series of wondrous adventures.

International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.

Efter den amerikanske borgerkrig starter Thomas Dunson en kvæg-farm, med hjælp fra sin trofaste cowboy Groot og hans unge protoge Matthew, en forældreløs dreng som Dunson har taget til sig. Sammen må de lede kvæget fra Texas til Missouri, hvor priserne er højere, men temperamenterne koger snart over hos den vredladne gamle mand og den stædige dreng, over den lange rejse.

Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.

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

Efter sønnen i en familie dør, bliver forholdet mellem den bitre mor, den godmodige far og den skyldsplagede søn sat på en alvorlig prøve.

Ingmar Bergmans hudflettende blotlægning af forholdet mellem en følelseskold mor og hendes kærlighedshungrende datter holdes oppe af et fremragende spil mellem Liv Ullmann (datteren) og, ikke mindst, Ingrid Bergman (moderen) i sin sidste store rolle. Sidstnævnte spiller en berømt pianist, der kommer på et af sine sjældne besøg hos datteren, som i virkeligheden bærer på mange års opsparede bebrejdelser. Under en natlig samtale kommer de store følelser på bordet.