Luderkarlen Accattone

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old s…

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way …

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.

A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...

United by an uncompromising struggle as members of the infamous 1970s far-left terrorist group Prima Linea, fugitive couple Sergio and Susanna have become increasingly alienated from the real world. Their luck runs out when Susanna is captu…

An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cannot seem to tell the novel from reality, causing sleep troubles. (2) A man cannot escape the absurd ads he saw at the movie theater that day.…

In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a c…

An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the…

Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the…

A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.

Efter at have plyndret en mexikansk bank flygter Dad Longworth (Karl Malden) med pengene og lader Kid Rio (Marlon Brando) i stikken. Kid Rio tilbringer de næste 5 år i et mexikansk fængsel, og hævntørsten er stor, da han kommer ud. Han find…

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

A businessman, Tsuda, runs into a childhood friend, Kojima, on the subway. Kojima is working as a semiprofessional boxer. Tsuda soon begins to suspect that Kojima might be having an affair with his fiancée Hizuru. After an altercation, Tsud…

Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community wit…

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier…

Pioneren Lin McAdam forsøger at spore sin fars morder og sin unikke riffel, Winchester ’73, som går fra hånd til hånd mellem en række desperate mænd – bl.a. en skør stratenrøver, en skrupelløs våbensmugler, en brutal ung indianerhøvding sam…

Maj 1945. På den første dag efter afslutningen af Anden Verdenskrig får den unge modstandsmand Maciek til opgave at dræbe en ny kommunistisk distriktsleder. Han overnatter i en sønderbombet landsby, hvor han møder en smuk ung kvinde. Men sn…

Vi følger den rumænske politimand Cristi, der er under mistanke for korruption. Cristi møder den smukke, muligvis farlige Gilda, der lokker ham til at tage en tur til De Kanariske Øer. Her bliver han introduceret til fløjtesproget "El Silbo…

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.