Vittorio de Sican Polkupyörävaras (Ladri di biciclette) kertoo Antonio Riccistä (Lamberto Maggiorani), työttömästä perheellisestä miehestä, joka saa töitä julisteiden liimaajana. Työssään mies tarvitsee polkupyörää, mutta se varastetaan ja Antonio lähtee poikansa Brunon (Enzo Staiola) kanssa sitä etsimään. Klassikkoelokuva on italialaisen neorealismin kestävimpiä teoksia.
The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.
Kaksi hetken mielijohteesta toimivaa irlantilaisnuorta lähtevät varastetuilla polkupyörillä rannikolle etsimään kokaiinipaalia salakuljettajan kaatuneesta laivasta.
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Follows a young cyclo driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to petty crime on behalf of a mysterious Madame from whom he rents his cyclo.
Sawa, a home helper for a middle class family with an elderly infirm grandfather, is forced to stretch her morals to keep her job. As a result, she finds herself broke and out on the street. She survives her first night by striking up an ambiguous friendship with a kindly old man, gaining access to a portion of the immense wealth held by Japan's aging population. She continues with similar encounters, and while these begin as scams or revenge on rampant sexism, they ultimately become vulnerable intergenerational exchanges.
A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
A man finds his stolen bicycle, but now it belongs to a stranger. How much of himself will he lose to get it back?
An eccentric TV host surrounded by an incompetent crew, reports the story of four lonely tenants that after a blackout in the middle of summer, have created the invention of the century.
After a long night out two lonely people awake in unfamiliar places on opposite ends of the same city. Their eventual meeting in a city park can only be described as good fortune.
Petr is a courier, a messenger as a matter of fact. He is one of those young men who believe that on their bikes they have become part and parcel of the atmosphere of modern cities. He is a non-conformist who refuses to settle into today‘s deformed society, he abhors its indolence, consumerism and lies, as well as its pseudo-truths, pseudo-feelings, pseudo-loves and pseudo-values. Petr’s untrammelled personality keeps causing more and more serious problems. And Petr is also one of those who will never admit to themselves that they might be at the end of their tether.