June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
Ken Wilcheck (Marlon Brando) é um ex-combatente que ficou parapégico. Ele tenta se adaptar à vida civil mas, como os seus companheiros que também ficaram paralíticos, se sente marginalizado, apesar de ser apoiado por Ellen (Teresa Wright), sua noiva.
A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Um americano na Cidade de Ho Chi Minh no Vietnã, antiga Saigon, procura uma filha que ele gerou durante a guerra. Nessa busca o filme vai retratando indivíduos que triunfam sobre as adversidades, recuperando-se dos traumas, ansiosos por melhores tempos, bem como com a nostalgia por aqueles dias melhores antes das invasões americanas e francesas e outras invasões, materiais ou ideológicas. É um filme poético que tenta pintar uma imagem da cultura urbana submetida à ocidentalização.
Post-war provincial Iceland: around 1950, Freyja, who'd been a plump teen, returns from America, a widow with a 20-inch waist, seven suitcases of dresses, and a list of who ever wronged or slighted her. She moves in with an aunt and socialist uncle: finding a new husband is high on her agenda, and she's mistrusted by Agga, a pre-teen who's our eyes and ears. The social order and Freyja are more complicated than they seem at first, and so may be her prospects. Class divisions, families ties, pride, the onset of puberty, and the power of Eros sliver the ice.
Immediately after the prom, Olya Rusanova arrives in the city where her father worked and tragically died. Many years ago he dreamed of building a city, and now she is walking along the street bearing his name, a street without end. Having met her father’s friends, Olya learns him anew. They tell the girl how her father wanted to see large houses and wide streets on the site of the tent city. How he knew how to be friends and to love, and how longed for Olya when he broke up with his wife, who didn't agree to go with him.
An Army veteran finds his re-entry into civilian life easier through the efforts of his younger brother and a donkey.
Post-war Germany in 1946 while people are struggling to make ends meet, the film follows Hermann, a war veteran who finds employment at a train station. As he falls in love with an agricultural worker and starts comitting thefts, his fragile psyche seems to fall more and more out of balance.
Leonid Pleshcheyev returned from the war blind. Against his will, he became a dependent. He drowns his grief in unrestrained drunkenness, thereby tormenting his wife Mariya and his teenage son Lyonka. Mariya finally decides to take her son and leave for Altai, but the boy runs away and returns to his father. So, together, they eke out a half-miserable existence until Grigoriy Shalagin, Pleshcheyev's longtime friend, returns from the army. It is he who awakens in Leonid the extinct self-esteem and pride of a soldier. Pity aside, he helps him get back to work.
The effortlessly comic abandons the stress of his city job to work on a farm.
No subterrâneo de uma cidade cercada, um soldado aguarda seu destino. Enquanto isso, nas ruínas da superfície, o perigoso Canibau corre à solta.