Østberlin, 1984. Den dybt loyale Stasi-Agent Wiesler. er fra højeste sted blevet beordret om at overvåge den intellektuelle...

I en lille fattig by i Alabama i 1930'erne ne bliver den sorte Tom Robinson anklaget for voldtægt. Den hvide og højt respekterede...

I april 1945 har den russiske hær lagt en jernring omkring Berlin, og Tyskland er ved at tabe krigen. Hitler har sammen med sine nærmeste...

Den gamle professor, Isak Borg, er i sin bil på vej til Lund for at blive udnævnt til æresdoktor. Undervejs drømmer han sig...

Under 2. Verdenskrig bliver en gruppe menige amerikanske soldater kastet i den berygtede tyske fangelejr Stalag 17. De bruger størstedelen af...

Guido kører ind i en lille italiensk by i en by med defekte bremser og fortsætter i hæsblæsende tempo. Han svøber den...

Louis Malles semibiografiske film fra 1987 om et skæbnesvangert venskab under den nazistiske besættelse af Frankrig var en stor...

Lindum Svendsen er en rigtig led inspektør på en sort skole i provinsen i 1960'ernes Danmark. En dag kommer den nyuddannede og...

After the end of WWII, a young Lithuanian woman and a young Italian man from Stromboli impulsively marry, but married life on the island is more...

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice.

Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She...

Bruno, a young Frenchman, is frustrated by his girlfriend's constant lack of punctuality. He decides to end their relationship the next time she is...

When Irene takes a position at a hotel deep in the woods of the Austrian Alps, she soon discovers the girl she replaced vanished without a trace.

The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.

After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young...

Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing...

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of...