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Irene Girard elegáns, szép nő, második házasságában nagypolgári módon él férjével, aki egy nagy iparvállalat igazgatója. A mozgalmas társasági élet leköti Irenét, így nincs ideje első házasságából származó fiával, Michele-lel foglalkozni. Az egyik vendégektől zajos estén Michele az ágyához hívja az anyját, de az rendreutasítja, és magára hagyja. Michele leveti magát a lépcsőn, és kórházba kerül. A szörnyű esemény Irenét egészen közel hozza fiához, úgy érzi, ezentúl másként kell élnie. Kisfia váratlan halála végképp elfordítja eddigi életmódjától, és lassan olyan dolgokra kezd figyelni, amelyeket eddig észre sem vett... (Port.hu)
Róma, Termini pályaudvar. Mary búcsúlevelet ír a külföldi útján megismert férfinek, szerelmének. Giovanni feldúltan jelenik meg a pályaudvaron és erős érzelmekkel marasztalni próbálja az asszonyt, akit Philadephiában vár férje és kislánya. A szerelmesek már nem mozdulnak ki a pályaudvarról, a vonatindulásig két óra van hátra...
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.
Mamma Róma egy római prostituált akinek végre sikerül elszakadnia az utcától és "gondozójától". A nő saját standot vezet és elég pénze van arra, hogy megtalálja végre fiát akinek fogalma sincs anyja múltjáról. Mamma Roma mindent megtesz azért, hogy Ettore rendes felnőtté váljon. Egy nap azonban a múlt felébred...
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.
World-renowned director Martin Scorsese narrates this journey through his favorites in Italian cinema.
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
Director Maurizio Nichetti is invited on TV to introduce a screening of his neo-realist classic 'The Icicle Thief'. He is horrified to discover that his black-and-white tale of life in poverty is constantly interrupted by garish color commercials, and even more horrified when a power cut in the studio causes film and commercials to mix up – a glamorous model finds herself in the arms of an unemployed pauper, while his wife finds herself in consumers' heaven. Nichetti has to break into the film to try to sort everything out.
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.