Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.

Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.

Jennifer Shannon can always find a diamond in the rough, when it comes to garage sales, that is. Whether it's a new antique to sell at her consignment shop, an Atari game for her son or a piece of furniture for her handy husband Jason to refurbish, she has made a career out of her treasure hunting prowess. When a string of burglaries hits her town, Jennifer's keen eye for detail and her natural problem solving instincts even help her see the connection between these burglaries and local garage sales! Jennifer works with Detective Adam Iverson to investigate her theory that the perpetrators of the burglaries are fellow garage sale regulars. The case escalates to dangerous levels when Jennifer discovers the dead body of her friend. Even though the deceased's husband, Ben Douglas, finds nothing missing in their house, and the police label the death as accidental, Jennifer suspects that the death may be related to the burglaries.

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...

Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.

Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compromised his image as a director. One day Serafino receives the news that his adopted daughter Rita is about to return to Italy from America, where she is studying. Serafino is very happy, because at least he can teach her the real music. However, Rita is deeply grown and changed: she follows the musical patterns of her time: the rock music and blues. Serafino gets very angry, especially when he discovers that his daughter falls in love with a young man, a member of a band called "The Rockets.

Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).

Andenrangsforfatteren Holly Martins kommer til Wien umiddelbart efter anden verdenskrig, hvor han er blevet lovet et job af sin gamle ven Harry Lime. Ved ankomsten får han at vide at Lime er død, og at han var en svindler og morder. Martins er først oprørt over anklagen, men finder snart ud af, at vennen afgjort var kriminel, men også at han ikke er død. Herefter venter den endelige konfrontation mellem den retskafne Martins og hans tidligere ven.

Efter en forkælet arving mister hukommelsen i en skiulykke ved juletid, tager en uheldsramt enkemand og hans datter sig godt af hende.

Ann er prinsesse og keder sig bravt. På en rejse til Rom pjækker hun fra sine officielle pligter og tager ud for at opleve byen incognito. Hun møder journalisten Joe, der får færten af en god historie, og derfor lader som han ikke genkender hende. Joe tilbyder at vise hende den evige stad og bliver i processen forelsket til op over begge ører i den dejlige prinsese.

Under en gigantisk, faldefærdig port i udkanten af 1100-tallets Kyoto har en præst, en skovhugger og en dagdriver søgt tilflugt fra den silende regn. Præsten og skovhuggeren har forinden vidnet i en retssag omkring mordet på en mand og voldtægten af hans hustru i en nærliggende skov. Mens de venter på, at vejret skal klare op, diskuterer de tre mænd den sælsomme process, hvor ingen af førstehåndsvidnernes forklaringer syntes at korrespondere med hinanden. Historien om, hvad der fandt sted i skoven, genfortælles på skift af banditten Tajomaru, kvinden, et medie repræsenterende den afdøde mand samt af skovhuggeren

Ridderen Antonius Block vender tilbage fra et korstog til middelalderens pesthærgede Sverige. Ridderen er begyndt at tvivle på sin Gud, efterhånden som han møder stadig mere nød og elendighed på sin vej mod hjemmet. Pludselig står han øje til øje med Døden, der er kommet for at hente ham. Ved at udfordre Døden til et spil skak skaffer Antonius sig dog en frist, som han vil bruge til at søge et konkret tegn på Guds eksistens. Bergman's berømte drama modtog juryens pris ved filmfestivalen i Cannes.

Da U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels ankommer til et fængselsagtigt hospital for sindssyge forbrydere på Shutter Island, tager hans forventeligt rutinemæssige opgave snart en dyster drejning. Under opklaringsarbejdet afslører Teddy den ene mere grufulde sandhed om øen end den anden, alt imens han må sande, at fortidens minder kan være svære at slippe af med.

Da Mahatma Gandhi i 1948 bliver skudt ned af en attentatmand, mister det forrige århundrede en af sine største personligheder. Livet igennem kæmper Gandhi mod undertrykkelse og for Indiens selvstændighed, og hans kampmidler er utraditionelle og frem for alt uvoldelige. 'Gandhi' blev belønnet med hele otte Oscars - bl.a. som årets bedste film. Ben Kingsley modtog en statuette for sin præstation som Gandhi.

På sit dødsleje udtaler rigmanden og mediemogulen Charles Foster Kane ordene 'Rosebud'. Journalisten Jerry Thompson bliver sendt ud for at finde ud af, hvad de sidste ord fra den store mand betyder. Thompson interviewer venner, familie og forretningsforbindelser og et fantastisk og tragisk liv rulles op.

Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.

A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.

Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.