本片改编自巴西名著。一个民工家庭为富有的庄园主看管牲口，境况逐渐改善，但父亲被骗跟当地警察玩牌，引起争吵，遭到警察毒打。影片结束时，严重的乾旱迫使全家又上路寻找新的生活出路。本片充满了对弱者的人文关怀和对社会不公的抗议，标志着巴西“新电影运动”的启动。

弗朗西斯卡（多利斯·道灵 Doris Dowling 饰）是小偷沃尔特（维托里奥·加斯曼 Vittorio Gassman 饰）的情妇，沃尔特自私贪婪心狠手辣，常常虐待弗朗西斯卡，令她苦不堪言。最终，弗朗西斯卡决定从他的身边逃开，前往波流河自寻生路。 　　在波流河，弗朗西斯卡结识了同事希尔瓦纳（肖瓦娜·曼加诺 Silvana Mangano 饰），希尔瓦纳拥有俊俏的外表和高傲的性格，她暗暗的将弗朗西斯卡认定为竞争对手。沃尔特循着弗朗西斯卡的踪迹也来到了波流河，他被希尔瓦纳的美貌所吸引，向她展开热情的攻势。原来，沃尔特想要利用希尔瓦纳的职位之便来偷窃营地里的粮食，弗朗西斯卡虽然百般提醒希尔瓦纳，但后者并不相信她。

Silvio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian partisan, he and his companions belong to Italian resistance movement fighting against the Nazis. They are at Lake Como. He is helped by Elena (Lea Massari). He spends three months hiding in Elena's grandfather's mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war. 　　The film spans the story of Italy from 1944 to 1960, from the times of poverty in World War II to the birth of the Italian Republic, the elections and Silvio's ideals of the Italian Communist Party, his stay in jail, his disappointments, his crises with Elena, his attempts to get his works published and to sell his film scripts in Cinecittà to Alessandro Blasetti, Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman (they appear as themselves).

Silvio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian partisan, he and his companions belong to Italian resistance movement fighting against the Nazis. They are at Lake Como. He is helped by Elena (Lea Massari). He spends three months hiding in Elena's grandfather's mill. They fall in love. Silvio is an idealist, communist, journalist writer. He goes back to war. 　　The film spans the story of Italy from 1944 to 1960, from the times of poverty in World War II to the birth of the Italian Republic, the elections and Silvio's ideals of the Italian Communist Party, his stay in jail, his disappointments, his crises with Elena, his attempts to get his works published and to sell his film scripts in Cinecittà to Alessandro Blasetti, Silvana Mangano and Vittorio Gassman (they appear as themselves).

1940年，第二次世界大战的烈焰席卷欧洲，战火即将蔓延整个西欧的关键时刻，当时还是世界头号强国英国的态度已然成为整个英国乃至西欧甚至世界的救命稻草…

警探Frank因工作场所事故导致听力受损。十六个月后，他作为警局口译员，与一群腐败警察展开斗争……

1940年5月至6月，温斯顿·丘吉尔 （ 加里·奥德曼 饰）作为英国首相，不仅要面对德国纳粹势力的入侵，还要面对一群毫无准备的人民群众，和一个怀疑自己的国王。他必须面对接下来最黑暗的时刻——是成为第三帝国的傀儡，还是与世界人民站在一起来共同反抗法西斯 。温斯顿·丘吉尔在英国国会下议院发表演讲，鼓舞了英国以及同盟国的无数民众，最终赢得敦刻尔克战役的胜利，带领英国走出了危机 。

1949年3月25日，中共中央从西柏坡迁到北京香山“进京赶考”，于新中国成立前夕毛泽东、周恩来、刘少奇、朱德、任弼时等抱着将革命进行到底的决心和勇气，在香山运筹帷幄、共商大计，会见民主人士、指挥渡江战役、布局经济工作和筹备政协会议。在国共和谈破裂的千钧一发之际，全力筹划建立新中国的开国大典的辉煌历程 。

"加菲"安德鲁-加菲尔德主演，改编自著名音乐创作家乔纳森-拉森的自传性同名剧作，拉森因写出了著名的《吉屋出租》而名垂青史，但他却因病在《吉屋出租》…

讲述了新中国成立前，以毛泽东同志为核心的党的第一代中央领导集体，以北京香山双清别墅为中共中央指挥中心，建立新中国的故事。