During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow the interactions between American soldiers and Italian civilians as they navigate their way through language barriers and cultural differences.

In the ruins of post-WWII Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy is left to his own devices in order to help provide for his family.

1945 British film directed by David Lean

In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

1916年，阿拉伯大起义爆发。 英军中尉 Lawrence（Peter O'Toole 饰）受命登上阿拉伯半岛之后，决定带领阿拉伯人夺取亚喀巴。在穿越沙漠的过程中， Lawrence 力排众议孤身返回搭救了失踪的 Gasim（I.S. Johar 饰）。此举赢得了众人的尊敬，Ali ibn el Kharish（Omar Sharif 饰）沙里夫甚至让 Lawrence 换上了沙里夫的长袍，而 Lawrence 也欣然接受。可是阿拉伯部落间并不和睦，Harith 部的 Gasim 杀了 Howeitat 部的人，双方剑拔弩张。为了平息争端，Lawrence 亲手处决了 Gasim，而杀人的快感却让 Lawrence 感到不安。成功夺取亚喀巴之后，Lawrence 驼不停蹄地穿越西奈半岛回到开罗。Allenby（Jack Hawkins 饰）将军大喜过望，升 Lawrence 为少校，对其寄予厚望……

1965 film directed by David Lean

Owen Thursday sees his new posting to the desolate Fort Apache as a chance to claim the military honour which he believes is rightfully his. Arrogant, obsessed with military form and ultimately self-destructive, he attempts to destroy the Apache chief Cochise after luring him across the border from Mexico, against the advice of his subordinates.

On the eve of retirement, Captain Nathan Brittles takes out a last patrol to stop an impending massive Indian attack. Encumbered by women who must be evacuated, Brittles finds his mission imperiled.

Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke is posted on the Texas frontier to defend settlers against depredations of marauding Apaches. Col. Yorke is under considerable stress by a serious shortage of troops of his command. Tension is added when Yorke's son (whom he hasn't seen in fifteen years), Trooper Jeff Yorke, is one of 18 recruits sent to the regiment.

A dance troupe prepares for and completes a dress rehearsal of Federico García Lorca's tragic play "Blood Wedding," which is about a bride who runs away from her wedding with a former boyfriend.

1983 film by Carlos Saura

根据西班牙作曲家法里亚的同名作品改编，也被翻译为《魔法师之恋》。场景转移至某现代贫民窟，Candela的丈夫Jose在一场群殴中死亡，Candela伤心欲绝，每晚到丈夫命绝之地，与丈夫亡灵共舞。暗恋Candela的Carmelo借用魔法师的魔力驱赶亡灵，最终与Carmelo携手而归，Jose的亡灵则带着生前情妇Lucía遁去。

1967 film by Carlos Saura

绍拉60年代的“超现实主义三部曲”的第二部，《薄荷刨冰》（1967）、《圣力三重奏》（1968）和《蜂巢》（1969）。三部影片都是由杰拉丁·卓别林主演的，是他们俩合作的黄金时期。
一对青年夫妇费尔南多（费尔南多·赛布里安饰演）和特丽莎（杰拉丁·卓别林饰演）以及好友安东尼奥（胡安·加利亚多饰演）周末出行。汽车行进中，三人闲谈着环境污染、人口剧增等社会问题，特丽莎与安东尼奥下车独处时，费尔南多会拿出望远镜偷窥妻子的举动。帮助路人汽车灭火之后，三人抵达费尔南多的姑姑家，特丽莎的情绪非常低落，而费尔南多对妻子的不信任还在加剧。
三人来到出行的终点-海边，费尔南多对于特丽莎的猜忌达到顶峰，在他看来，好友安东尼奥和妻子特丽莎举止暧昧，毫不顾忌他的感受。混沌之中，他隐约看到安东尼奥和特丽莎偷情，最终自己用鱼枪将安东尼奥刺死。然而，这些都是费尔南多臆想的产物，三人在天黑前平安返回。

This film is not just one of the great results of Saura and Geraldine Chaplin creative and marital union, but one of the rare movies where the environment, the house here, takes the main role.
The huge, abstract, pre-minimalist concrete house (by Spanish architect Carvajal) transforms itself during the whole film running, setting the path to the main characters paranoia. The images that Saura produces are enigmatic, surrealist, funny, and in a strange way therapeutic, and they are deeply rooted in Spanish cubism and surrealism. It is probably one of the most contemporary and interesting film by the director, not recognized, yes, but a great unexpected value anyway.

1989 film by Michael Haneke

1992 film directed by Michael Haneke

71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.