In a series of simple and joyous vignettes, director Roberto Rossellini and co-writer Federico Fellini lovingly convey the universal teachings of humility, faith, and sacrifice of the People's Saint. --container.

An aging swindler, ringleader of a trio of petty thieves who impersonates priests to cheat peasants, finally realizes the futility of his life.

A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.

This film compassioniately details a year in the life of five young men lingering in post-adolescent limbo, dreaming of adventure and escape from their small town and struggling to find meaning in their lives.

Six vignettes follow the Allied invasion from July 1943 to winter 1944, from Sicily north to Venice. Communication is fragile. A woman leads an Allied patrol through a mine field, she dies protecting a G.I. but the Yanks think she killed him. A street urchin steals shoes from a G.I. who tracks him to a shanty town. A G.I. meets a woman the day Rome is liberated, in six months they meet again. A U.S. nurse braves the trip across the Arno into German...

Four satires on morality and hypocrisy. First act, Renzo & Luciana: Working-class lovers, Renzo and Luciana, marry but must hide it from her employer; plus, they need a room of their own. Second act, Temptations of Dr. Antonio: The story of a meddlesome moralistwho sees sin and obsenity in everything, especially a billboard featuring a provocative woman. Third act, The job: A rich German countess discovers her Italian nobleman husband has been...