When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.
In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
A man confesses his sins and unveils the ugly truth of his life; he is killing for the same mobster that killed his father. Will Vinny Dapello follow his father's footsteps in the organized crime family? Or sacrifice his soul to save his life?
In rural Sicily, the fishermen live at the mercy of the greedy wholesalers. One family risks everything to buy their own boat and operate independently.
In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of the People’s Saint: humility, compassion, faith, and sacrifice. Gorgeously photographed to evoke the medieval paintings of Saint Francis’s time, and cast with monks from the Nocera Inferiore Monastery, The Flowers of St. Francis is a timeless and moving portrait of the search for spiritual enlightenment.
L'Iguana
A Place of Our Own
Black and white homage to Italian neo-realism shot on location in Palermo, Sicily directed by model Rie Rasmussen.
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
Why Did I Do That?
Red Agent
The world is flooding. It's been raining for weeks on end and 12 year old Briggs is the last in the line of kids to be sacrificed in a ritualistic drowning.
Min-seok and Yoon-hee have been dating for three years. Yoon-hee tells Min-seok that she wanted to get married a year ago. However, Min-seok is not ready to get married yet, so he keeps putting it off. Yoon-hee struggles with her father's violence and thinks marriage is her way out. When she first saw Yoon-hee, she was happy, but now, when she sees her, Min-seok feels frustrated. One day, he suddenly gets a call from Min-young, who used to follow him when he was young. Min-seok met Min-young as a change of mood. He is surprised to see Min-young, who has changed into a sexy figure different from before. As soon as Min-young sees Min-seok, she falls in love with Min-seok. When she meets Min-young, she doesn't think of Yoon-hee.
Gabi is undermined when her only friend gets attention from the boy who assaulted her in the past. As night falls on Tel Aviv, the friendship is tested.