From Europe - ITALY 1 (Drama)

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.

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.

A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.

An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.

A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.

Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.

The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but her childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

A man faces a trial for murder. The court is biased because of his personal qualities.

The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.

While recovering in Venice, sickly composer Gustav von Aschenbach becomes dangerously fixated with teenager Tadzio.

The reign of the tormented Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from 1864 to 1886.

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful, he becomes enamored of her again.

During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.

American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.

A young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post-WWII Berlin.

Karin, a young woman from the Baltic countries, marries fisherman Antonio to escape from a prison camp. But she cannot get used to the tough life in Antonio's volcano-threatened village, Stromboli.

A series of vignettes depicting the lives of the original Franciscan monks, including their leader and the bumbling Ginepro.

A wealthy woman becomes obsessed with humanitarianism when her young son dies after committing suicide.

Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.

Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.

Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.

In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.

An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.