入圍1952年坎城影展正式競賽。 入圍1957年奧斯卡金像獎最佳編劇。 榮獲1955年丹麥波迪獎最家歐洲電影。 榮獲1957年芬蘭尤西獎最佳外國導演。 50年代的義大利，戰爭帶來的惡劣餘韻還在持續著，面對強大的生存壓力和微薄的養老金，曾為政府辛苦工作幾十年的退休者們終於吶喊著走上了街頭，但很快便被警察驅散了。在散開的人群中，翁貝爾托顯得格外的淒涼，他身無分文又生了病，即將要因為付不起房租而被趕走，一直陪伴在他身旁的只有他的愛犬…

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.

A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.

In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.

A fashion designer rents his villa to a woman before leaving to go abroad. The daughter of the woman is forced to pretend to be handicapped in a dark conspiracy aimed to prevent the man from leaving.

Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career descends and only Nino, an art partner, remains close to her and helps her earn her living by singing in taverns.

After an argument with her husband, an unsatisfied wife suffers from selective amnesia. She doesn't recognize the man she married and calls her doctor husband instead.

A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.

After ending up in jail, a thief in Naples with a beautiful fiance and a good friend has to decide which path his life should take.

A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.

The story is told through the eyes of a boy, how he wanders between reality and dream. His daily life is transformed to a surreal world through the unique sensitivity of boyhood.