Turin i slutet av 1800-talet. Arbetarna vid en textilfabrik vill ha bättre arbetsförhållanden. Av en slump hamnar en lärare från Genua mitt i deras kamp och han uppmanar dem att strejka.

Neapel är den första av tre liderliga och komiska episoder. Här möter vi en försäljerska av smuggelcigaretter som utnyttjar den lag som säger att havande kvinnor inte får sättas i fängelse. Men efter sju barn börjar potensen på hennes härdade man att svikta. I Milano stiftar vi bekanstskap med en miljonärska som är upp över öronen förälskad i sin fattige men stilige älskare. Det vill säga enda tills han fullständigt demolerar hennes gnistrande Rolls Royce. Och i Rom förtjusas vi av en godhjärtad lyxprostituerad som avger ett kyskhetslöfte när en prästelev börjar bli närgången - till hennes mest pilska kunds stora förtret.

Domenico träffar Filumena första gången på en napolitansk bordell under andra världskriget. När ödet flera år senare sammanför dem inleder de en romans som kommer att vara i över två decennier. För vissa tar det nämligen så lång tid att ta sig till altaret.

Documentary about the art of film editing. Clips are shown from many groundbreaking films with innovative editing styles.

Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.

Pulcinella, a foolish servant, is sent from the depths of Mt. Vesuvius to present-day Campania to grant the last wish of poor shepherd Tommaso, who spent his whole life looking after a crumbling Bourbon estate: his mission is to save a young buffalo named Sarchiapone. Pulcinella takes the buffalo north and the two servants, man and beast, travel through a beautiful and lost Italy.

Tom and Mae Garvey are a Tennessee farming couple battling violent floods to save their land. In addition to natural disasters, the Garveys fight to stop a selfish land developer and a local corporation from foreclosing on their farm. While Mae stays at home to care for their children and tend to the crops, Tom finds work as a scab at a steel mill to preserve his family's property.

An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

On a winter's day, a woman stretches near a window then sits in a bathtub of water. She's happy. Her lover is nearby; there are close ups of her face, her pregnant belly, and his hands caressing her. She gives birth: we see the crowning of the baby's head, then the birth itself; we watch a pair of hands tie off and cut the umbilical cord. With the help of the attending hands, the mother expels the placenta. The infant, a baby girl, nurses. We return from time to time to the bath scene. By the end, dad's excited; mother and daughter rest. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with ideas on romantic love induced by classical poetry, Nello falls for Angela, a beautiful blind woman who indulges him only to win back her fiancé.

A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.

An army deserter and a soon-to-be high school graduate embark on an ill-fated romance in this musical film set in the '60s.

In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.

A WW2 story of a young Austrian soldier running from the Russian army and a woman whom he forces to come along in order to save his wounded mate.

When an opera singer loses her voice, her husband embarks on an odyssey through different underworlds to recover it through supernatural means.

Villagers are afraid of Samurai Rauni Reposaarelainen, who keeps them on their toes every day. When someone places a bounty on Rauni's head, he goes after this mysterious person.

Arrested while a student in university, Yusuf is released from prison after ten years. He returns home and is welcomed by his sick and elderly mother. Soon he will meet Eka, a beautiful Georgian girl who is a sex worker, and love becomes a final desperate attempt to grasp life and elude loneliness.

En gift tjänsteman inleder en affär med en maskinskriverska i Ozus porträtt av det kalla, trista, stereotypa livet för kontorsanställda i 50-talets Japan.

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.