חייו של אלקס, נער מתבגר חובב סקייטבורדינג מתחילים להשתבש כאשר המשטרה מגיעה לבית ספרו לחקור את מותו המסתורי של שומר לילה בחברת הרכבות, שנמצא מת ליד הפסים באזור "פרנויד פארק". יחד עם החקירה, הוא מתמודד עם גיל ההתבגרות, עם הרצון להשתלב בחברה, עם המיניות המתפתחת עם חברתו ועם פרידתם של הוריו.
A wealthy, self-absorbed Rome socialite is racked by guilt over the death of her young son. As a way of dealing with her grief and finding meaning in her life, she decides to devote her time and money to the city’s poor and sick. Her newfound, single-minded activism leads to conflicts with her husband and questions about her sanity.
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest living.
After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
A young man tries to make some money so he can marry his girlfriend. He takes a job for $2,000 and then soon realizes that this job involves killing a woman.
June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
A poor neighborhood in Mexico City. Carpenter Pepe el Toro lives peacefully with his daughter Chachita while woos the pretty Celia, but tragedy knocks his door when he is falsely accused of having perpetrated a felony.
Del and his friends agree to take part in a robbery with a boy fresh from the borstal. When Del falls in love with Irene they decide to run away from their nagging parents - and the law.
מרטין סקורסזה לוקח אותנו פעם נוספת למסע נוסטלגי בין הסרטים היקרים לליבו, אלה שעליהם גדל, אלה שמהם הושפע. במסעו הקודם התייחס הבמאי לסרטים אמריקנים שליוו את חייו והפעם הדגש הוא על הקולנוע האיטלקי הקלאסי. דרך סרטיהם של אנטוניוני, ויסקונטי, ופליני פותח סקורסזה צוהר להיכרות עם במאים אלה ויצירותיהם, ומסביר את חשיבותם כמסמכים אודות הזמן והמקום שבהם נעשו. מרגש ומומלץ.
An Italian man is released from prison after World War II, excited to meet the son his late wife had while he was away, only to be shocked when he discovers that the son is half-black, the result of an encounter between his wife and an American GI. Released in America as "Angelo"
A farm family moves into a city maybe at the end of the Spanish Civil War. They move in with the sister of the farmers wife. In the city everything is illegal or immoral or both.
The film represents life in a godforsaken Russian village. The only way to reach the mainland is to cross the lake by boat and a postman became the only connection with the outside world. A reserved community has been set up here. Despite the modern technologies and a spaceport nearby the people of the village live the way they would in the Neolithic Era. There is neither government nor social services or jobs. The postman's beloved woman escapes the village life and moves to the city. Postman's outboard engine gets stolen and he can no longer deliver mail. His normal pattern of life is disrupted. The postman makes a decision to leave for the city too but returns before long with no certain reason. The script is based on real characters' stories. People from the village play their own parts in the film. The search for the protagonist lasted for over a year.
A grieving woman embarks on an unexpected road trip from the Midwest toward the Texas-Mexico border as she grapples with the pain of her recent loss and seeks to understand her place in the world.
When a young couple involved in care proceedings travel across the country to collect a motorbike, their resolve to get their baby back is tested, as is their relationship.
A tribute to Isabella Rossellini's father
הבמאי, מאוריציו ניצ'טי, מוזמן להקרנת סרטו המפורסם, "גונבי הסבונים". אך ניצ'טי נדהם לגלות שסרטו הצנוע ודל התקציב בשחור-לבן, נקטע כל הזמן ע"י פרסומות צבועניות וססגוניות. הוא עוד יותר נדהם לראות שתקלה כלשהי גרמה לפרסומות ולסרט להתערבב יחד ונוצרת עלילה חדשה לגמרי.
On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the village of Primavalle. A brief and poetic account of the events and their impact on an impoverished community. A handful of wild flowers and a painful catch in the voices.
A man gets attacked while trying to take home food for his brother.