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 .
影片讲述了一个失去性能力的退伍军人在未婚妻子的帮助下，寻回自信，最终获得幸福婚姻的感人故事，影片富含一定哲理，供大家静下心来，好好地思考！
一队身负重伤，下肢截瘫的军人退伍回到了“普通”生活，他们当中有一个人曾经是一名优秀的运动员。当他得知自己失去男人的特征的时候，他拒绝见他的未婚妻 。最后，在他的未婚妻的努力帮助下，他重新建立自信，同失去男人特征的恐惧作斗争，终于获得了幸福的婚姻……
母親一手拉扯著三個孩子，欲努力經營好亡夫留下的乾洗店，卻困難重重。電影以長女的視點帶出劇情，講述家庭的變遷。
本片描写了越南风景的三段恋曲：春季，乡下姑娘欣被大户人家雇为采摘白莲花的女工。每天望着荷花荡的风景，她都会跟其他女工哼唱民歌。她的歌声吸引了患麻风病的杜先生。她在为他抄送诗词的时候，两人产生了忘年之交；旱季，三轮车夫海偶然结识了妓女莲。她总在跟他描述星级酒店里的奢华生活，但是他却只是痴望着她。慢慢地，两个人的关系也发生了微妙的变化；雨季，越战老兵詹姆斯（哈威•凯特尔 Harvey Keitel 饰）在酒吧里邂逅了推销小贩伍迪，并从他贩卖的货物里发现了一枚越战时的打火机。詹姆斯对伍迪诉说着他跟妻女失散的离别之苦。此后，两人各自的情感均有所收获……
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.
In the underground of a besieged city, a soldier awaits his fate. Meanwhile, in the ruins of the surface, the dangerous Cannibal runs wild.