Despite his fiancee's reluctance, a young man moves to Sicily for a better job, but soon starts questioning his decision.

The story follows the uneventful lives of three young men who live in a small, poverty-stricken village in southern Italy.

Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the past resurface.

War drama inspired by real life events of the Italian partisan Otello Pighin.

Two workers at an isolated Alpine dam grow closer when an avalanche traps them in their hut without power or contact.

Milan, one winter in the early sixties. Valeria, a free young woman who usually goes from one man to another, falls in love with Giampiero. This time, this is a serious relationship to the point that she contemplates marriage. All the more since she gets pregnant. Will the free roaming girl finally settle down or will she return to her old ways?

A five part documentary on the development of metallurgy, made for Italian television, opens up the last phase of the career of Rossellini, a phase in which he will direct or supervise didactic works about history.