En la Roma de la posguerra, Antonio, un obrero en paro, consigue un sencillo trabajo pegando carteles a condición de que posea una bicicleta. De ese modo, a duras penas consigue comprarse una, pero en su primer día de trabajo se la roban. Es así como comienza toda la aventura de Antonio junto con su hijo Bruno por recuperar su bicicleta mientras su esposa María espera en casa junto con su otro hijo.
Durante la ocupación nazi de Roma en 1944, el líder de la resistencia, Giorgio Manfredi, es perseguido por los nazis mientras busca refugio y una forma de escapar.
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.
Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband.
La última película de la trilogía de películas de guerra de Rossellini (las dos primeras son Roma, Ciudad Abierta y Paisà). El año cero de Alemania tiene lugar en la Alemania de la posguerra, a diferencia de los otros, que tienen lugar en la Roma ocupada por los alemanes y la Italia de la posguerra, respectivamente. La historia sigue a un niño de doce años, Edmund Köhler, que se deja principalmente a su suerte para sobrevivir y ayudar a su familia a hacer lo mismo.
Umberto Doménico Ferrari es un jubilado que intenta sobrevivir con su miserable pensión. Sumido en la pobreza, vive en una casa de huéspedes, cuya dueña lo maltrata porque no consigue reunir el dinero necesario para pagar el alquiler de su habitación. Los únicos amigos que tiene en este mundo son una joven criada y sobre todo su perro Flike.
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.
A foreign visitor to Bulgaria finds himself accidentally involved in a chase for a stray child. The latter seriously injures him, but will also try in his own way to save him.
In an urban Indian city, A struggling actor battles for his career, but his friend who loses money in a scam deal commits an action that puts both of their lives in danger. The three last days before the incident follows the struggling actor, an ambitious filmmaker, a wannabe hustler, an opportunist, a lover and two cinephile thugs, through an inter-twining vignette of their lives.
A woman is rescued after a shipwreck by two fishermen and falls in love with one of them, whereupon the other jealousy attempts a fratricide and other intrigues. The film seems almost like a prelude to Italian neo-realism. Filmed on Sicily, Corsica and on the French Riviera.