The extended Steyer family lives together in a cottage in the mountains. The younger Steyer's wife Ludmilla wants money, and doesn't care if she must ruin the lives of the Steyer family to get it.
There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is searching corpses for food, he meets a young woman looking for the town of Novokursk. She asks Sergei to help her get there, and to tell anyone they might meet that he is her husband.
This short film provides a fanciful account of how Felix Mendelssohn came to compose "The Wedding March".
The film features Fernandez himself as a character named Rogellio Torres. The lion's share of the footage, however, is devoted to the romance between Esperanza, granddaughter of a common laborer, and Jose Luis Castro, the firebrand son of a landowner. Joining a revolutionary movements, Castro is disowned by his father, but Esperanza remains loyally by his side. Later on, Castro's father is killed by outlaws; in seeking vengeance, he sacrifices his own life, while Esperanza carries on his revolutionary work with their young son in tow.
Reino Köyri the son of a wealthy house falls off a horse and ends up at Liuhala's cottage to be treated by Venla. There he falls in love with the daughter of the house Anna. The couple’s cohabitation is hampered by previous commitments and ambiguities in kinship.
A ruffian sends his assistant to force a peasant girl to marry him, but while he is bringing her to him, he falls in love with her.
The film depicts the lives of Guangdong peasants who have gone through the suffering of the Sino-Japanese War only to experience home-grown oppression by a rapacious landlord in their village.
The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the early 20th century.
Set in the period of land reform movement, a poor peasant Zhang gets a fertile land. But he doesn't work seriously on it, then loses money and runs into debt. Song wants to buy Zhang's land but his son thinks that they should help Zhang.
日本戰國時代末期，不少武士淪落為作惡多端的山賊。一個村莊的村民，經常遭受野武士搶劫，無意又得知野武士計劃在秋收時來襲，決定到外面尋找武士協助他們抵抗山賊。由於這條村實在太貧窮，只能用收成得來的白米飯做酬勞，長老說要請「肚餓的武士」，但肚餓的武士怎能對抗山賊？不過，這班村民拿著白米飯，居然打動了六位沒有藩屬、俠骨仁心的武士，加上自稱武士之後的菊千代，七人回到村落協助防守。七位武士帶領農民積極備戰，建築防禦、掘成壕溝、整肅隊伍。這段相處期間，武士與農民的各種矛盾逐一湧現，又逐一和解。終於，山賊襲擊的時候來了。七位武士和一眾農民，奮力抵抗山賊，也付出了沉重的代價，武士中包括菊千代在內有四人陣亡。大戰過後，武士們離開村落，武士中的首腦人物勘兵衛不禁感嘆：「這也是場敗仗……羸的並不是武士，而是農民。」
When peasant girl Nives is deserted by smuggler Gino Lodi, she betrays him to the police. Police officer Enzo Cinti, who loves Nives, traces her to the Po River cane-fields, where she is working as a cutter to support herself and an infant son, and warns her that Gino has escaped from prison and is seeking revenge. She rejects his offer to protect her. Gino finds Nives, mourning the drowning death of their son. He surrenders himself to the police and then walks at Nives' side in the funeral procession.
The struggle of two Serbian peasants to choose between love of their families and love of their country.
Pablo, a wandering laborer, has imprisoned himself in a hell of alcoholism. Cruz, a widow, reaches out to the troubled man, but even her compassion may not be enough to save him.
Nagy István, the formerly poor peasant boy returns to his native village as a teacher. His conviction is that the abyss between rich and poor can be diminished by good will. The rich Böröcz Horváth Klári returns his love, and also Böröcz Horváth is willing to help the poorest family, the Bakos. Bakos Jóska, who was sent to serve the tough Böröcz Horváth as a payment, dies of an infected wound and the people in the village hold the teacher liable as well. Nagy István realises, that the abyss cannot be ceased, what is more, it is impassable. He breaks up with his fiancée and stands by the side of the poor.
Olof is driven from home when he wants to marry the wrong girl. He takes a job as a log driver and his reputation as a womanizer goes far and wide.
A poverty-stricken woman raises her sons through many trials and tribulations. But no matter the struggles, always sticks to her own moral code.
改編自13世紀的民俗詩謠，《處女之泉》是瑞典名導英格瑪．柏格曼最有代表性的作品之一。獲得1961年奧斯卡最佳外語片與1960年坎城影展國際影評人大獎。 故事發生在一個純樸保守的農村中，天真美麗的少女艾琳是父母親的掌上明珠，從小備受疼愛與呵護，應父母的要求，她要送蠟燭去教堂。但沒有心防的少女在路上遇到意圖不軌的三個牧羊人，艾琳被強暴且殺害，陪同的女伴和年紀最小的牧羊人親眼看到無辜的生命慘遭殺害。當牧羊人們誤打誤撞借住在艾琳家，艾琳的父親得知真相，盛怒之下殺了他們為女兒報仇。 50-60年代中期，柏格曼拍出了幾部經典作品，本片和《第七封印》、《冬之光》都是柏格曼在此時期屬於天問式的宗教電影。少女的父母對上帝虔誠的信仰，卻換來女兒無辜的犧牲，柏格曼試圖從中探討上帝是否存在、以及人類生存意義的問題。麥斯馮西度（Max von Sydow）所飾演的父親受到喪女的打擊，雖然最後他還是選擇相信上帝，但他不得不用自己的方式來行使正義與懲罰。電影的背景雖然是古代，但當表現生命的不可預知性，與人們面臨兩難選擇的議題時，卻絲毫不顯過時。 片中的場景與角色性格亦描述了北歐的地理環境，少女的父親表面上看起來嚴肅冷酷，但當他表現對女兒的關愛時，卻依然可見他對生命的熱情與執著。另一方面，《處女之泉》也是柏格曼最詩意的作品之一，導演李安曾說：他從未看過如此安靜卻又如此暴力的電影。大師柏格曼對李安的影響至深。
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.
Young farmer Mikajlo while on youth labour action falls in love with a student Nada and infatuated with her, he leaves the peasant brigade and Malena, a girl who as if she were overabundant, followed him to work the labour action. Mikajlo's courtship of Nada provokes laughter and ridicule, so ambitious 'Don Juan' returns to his brigade and the girl.