"Shoeshine 70" is a documentary directed by Mimmo Verdesca that celebrates an important anniversary. This years marks the 70th anniversary of the release of the film helmed by Vittorio De Sica "Shoeshine", a masterpiece of Neorealism, and the first Italian film ever to win an Oscar and the first recipient of a Nastro d'argento, a prizeigiven by Italian journalists. The film will revolve around the filming of that masterpiece in the 1946. Therefore it will be a report of those events but a film where memories will come to life thanks to the candid stories of the protagonists, that will take the spectator on an emotional and enticing journey.

Büyük gün gelip çattığında bir çiftin görkemli düğün planları; eski aşkları, kavga eden ebeveynleri ve davetsiz misafirler sayesinde kabusa dönüşür.

Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.

Barbara Graham is a woman with dubious moral standards, often a guest in seedy bars. She has been sentenced for some petty crimes. Two men she knows murder an older woman. When they get caught they start to think that Barbara has helped the police arresting them. As a revenge they tell the police that Barbara is the murderer.

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.

Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

Arap Geceleri hikayelerinden uyarlanmıştır. Kötü bir büyücü Prens Ahmed’i sihirli bir at sürmek zorunda bırakır. Ancak kahraman prens sihirli atla birçok maceraya çıkar. Bu yolculukları esnasında güzel prenses Peri Banu’ya aşık olur. Prensesin kalbini kazanmak için bir şeytan ordusuyla savaşmak zorundadır.

International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?

II. Dünya Savaşı’ndan hemen sonra çekilmiş olan film, savaşta İtalya’da yaşananları anlatır. Film, yönetmenin savaş üçlemesinin ikincisidir ve aynı zamanda İtalyan Yeni Gerçekçilik akımında yer alır.

In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.

Film, Texas’ta büyük bir sürü sahibi Thomas Dunson’ın (John Wayne) hayvanlarını satmak üzere sürüyü kuzeye, Missouri’ye doğru yola çıkarmasıyla başlar. Yol boyunca Dunson’ın değişen tavırları ve gaddarlığı, evlatlık oğlu Matt’in (Montgomery Clift) müdahale etmesine sebep olur. Erzak çalan üç kovboy yakalanır. Thomas Dunson, üç adamı asmak ister oğlu ise devreye girer ve iktidarı ele geçirir. Matt, sürüyü Thomas Dunson’ın elinden alarak Kansas’a doğru yönlendirmesine neden olur. Thomas Dunson, oğluna karşı intikam yemini eder ve peşine düşer.

Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.

Sophia Loren ile Marcello Mastroianni"nin eşsiz oyunculuklarıyla İtalyan toplumundaki farklı gerçeklerin anlatıldığı Dün, Bugün, Yarın, üç kadının trajikomik yaşam öyküsünden oluşuyor: Napoli"de karaborsa sigara satarak ailesini geçindiren Adelina; aradığı macerayı parasız bir yazarla flört etmekte bulan Milanolu zengin Anna ve genç erkeklerin başını döndüren Mara. Sophia Loren, farklı mekanlarda ve koşullarda yaşayan bu üç karakteri canlandırmanın üstesinden başarıyla geliyor.

Beth, Calvin, ve oğulları Conrad, öteki oğullarının ölümünün acısıyla yaşamaktadırlar. Bundan en çok etkilenen Conrad, acı ve suçluluk duyguları içinde intihar etmeye çalışıyor, ancak başarılı olamayıp terapiye başlıyor. Beth, ölen oğlunu daha çok sevdiğinden Conrad'a yardımcı olamıyor. Calvin ise ikisinin ortasında kalıyor ve ortak bir yol bulup aileyi ayakta tutmaya çalışıyor.

Yıllar sonra bir araya gelen ve yaptıkları hatalarla yüzleşmek zorunda kalan anne-kızın öyküsünü anlatan film, ölüm, hastalık, utanç ve sessizlik üzerine büyülü bir sonat.