A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.

This documentary shows how the Berliner workers lived in 1930. The director Slatan Dudow shows through images: a) the workers leaving the factory; b) the raise of the rents; c) the "unpleasant" guest, meaning the justice officer that brings the eviction notice; d) the fight of classes of the houses of capitalists and working classes; e) the parks of the working class; f) the houses of the working class, origin of the tuberculosis and the victims; g) the playground of the working class; h) the swimming pool for the working class, ironically called the "Baltic Sea" of the working class; i) the effects of humidity of basement where a family lives, with one member deaf; j) one working class family having dinner while the capitalist baths his dog; k) the eviction notice received from an unemployed family and their eviction.

A sudden windfall has unexpected consequences on a working class girl during the Great Depression.

Documentary about the merging of the Communist Party of Germany and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in the Soviet occupation zone, a merger that would lead to the creation of the Socialist Unity Party that would rule the soon-to-be-created East Germany until 1989.

Kalle Magnus Berg is a kind bailiff in Gamla Stan (Old Town) in Stockholm. He helps out "clients" by supporting them with money from his own pocket. His neighbor is a jazz musician who plays at a restaurant for a living.

En el Japón de la postguerra, un hombre encuentra en la calle a un niño perdido y lo lleva a su casa, pero nadie quiere acogerlo, ni siquiera por una noche. Finalmente, lo hace una viuda de agrio carácter. Al día siguiente, la mujer lleva al niño a su barrio y averigua que el padre se ha marchado a Tokyo y lo ha abandonando. (FILMAFFINITY)

Short public information film showing housewives' efficient and hygienic methods of food storage.

En los estudios de Cinecittà, el director Alessandro Blasetti está haciendo un casting para seleccionar a la niña que actuará en su nueva película. Entre las madres que han llevado a sus hijas está Maddalena Cecconi, una mujer de barrio que sueña con ver a su hija en el Olimpo de las grandes estrellas. Contra la voluntad de su marido, Maddalena no repara en medios para conseguir su objetivo: inscribe a María en un curso de baile y actuación, le paga fotógrafo y peluquera, le encarga vestidos a medida. En su obsesión, confía incautamente en Alberto Annovazzi, un especulador sin escrúpulos que dice tener los contactos necesarios para que María realice la prueba.

"She Came Like a Wind" - Fabian Rosander works at a factory and is close to 50 years old. When a new employee named Lilly, a young beautiful girl, comes to the factory Fabians life takes a new turn.

Roberto Morán, un joven que trabaja en una fábrica y toca el bandoneón, decide aprender música en un conservatorio dirigido por un viejo músico frustrado llamado Don Matiás. Este ve gran potencial en Roberto y lo hace concentrarse en la música clásica, pero el muchacho no va a olvidarse fácilmente de su verdadera pasión: la música popular.

El sueño de la incontenible Anna Zaccheo de contraer un buen matrimonio le acarreará varias experiencias trágicas tratando de conseguir una dote para casarse con Andrea, un marinero del cual se ha enamorado.

This film is the first of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. In early November 1918, Ernst Thälmann is an unwilling soldier serving on the western front. As the revolutionary movement at home is threatened by the betrayal of the Social Democrats and fissures in the working class, Thälmann calls on his fellow soldiers to put down their weapons and unite with the workers in the communist struggle at home. Thälmann’s qualms about which side he is fighting on continue, but when the local police attempt to prevent a shipment of provisions and supplies from reaching the people in Petrograd, he intervenes and the ship is unloaded. With this moment of clarity, Thälmann continues to follow his political convictions and joins the workers at the Hamburg uprising in October 1923.

Caireles y Tarrajas descubren que el tranvía 133, en el que se han pasado media vida trabajando, va a ser retirado del servicio. Ambos salen de borrachera para consolarse... y deciden robarlo. Tras una noche en la que dan servicio a distintos pasajeros, quieren devolverlo por la mañana, pero un antiguo inspector quiere delatarlos.

This film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist politician and anti-fascist Ernst Thälmann. Autumn, 1918: Somewhere on Germany’s western front, Ernst Thälmann, age twenty-four, is calling on his fellow soldiers to put down their guns and join him in the communist struggle at home. When Hamburg’s Police Commissioner blocks a much-needed food shipment to the workers of Petrograd, Ernst battles to see it allowed through. Until his murder on August 18, 1944, Ernst remained true to his political convictions in the face of many setbacks.

En la estación principal de El Cairo, las personas se cruzan durante unos instantes, mientras las vidas de los porteadores, vendedores ambulantes y demás trabajadores se mezclan. Otros seres invisibles ocupan los vagones vacíos durante la noche y desaparecen entre la multitud de día, aportando vida y alma a la estación. Entre ellos se encuentra el lisiado Kinawi, perdidamente enamorado de la guapa Hanuma, que va a casarse con Abu Sri, el viril y musculoso jefe de los porteadores.

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of 1917, German and Russian soldiers start to solidarize with each other. By disarming the officers, machinist Henne Lonke and stoker Jens Kasten prevent the attack on a Russian freighter. When German admiralty gives out orders for operation "Nibelungen", which would lead the German fleet into a suicidal attack against England and quell the revolutionary spirit, seamen and soldiers from different political backgrounds unite in protest.

El ingenuo Stanley Windrush regresa de la guerra, y piensa abrirse paso con exito en los negocios. Para su desilusión, se da cuenta que tendrá que empezar desde cero, y pronto se verá envuelto en una pelea entre la gerencia de la empresa y la asociación sindical a la que pertenece, que le utilizaran como una herramienta en su lucha por alcanzar el poder, y que cuando se convierte en un obstáculo, se unirán para destruirlo. (FILMAFFINITY)

Come Back, Africa chronicles the life of Zachariah, a black South African living under the rule of the harsh apartheid government in 1959.

Popular in the riverside area of Porto, Micas raised her daughter, Madalena, at the cost of sacrifice, as her father emigrated to Brazil. With a happy voice, Madalena works on unloading the coal, seeing her loves thwarted by her humble condition. Barata, another typical figure who makes a living from expedients, helps Madalena's father - meanwhile returned, to "register" her - in a kidnapping plan capable of facilitating her reconciliation with Micas, who is reluctant... Things get complicated, but happiness ends up triumphing.

Rosaria y sus cuatro hijos (Simone, Rocco, Ciro y Luca) abandonan su tierra natal, Lucania (la actual Basilicata), para emigrar a Milán en busca de trabajo y oportunidades que les permitan mejorar sus condiciones de vida. Allí encuentran a Vincenzo, el hermano mayor, que trabaja de albañil pero que está relacionado con el mundo del boxeo.