Alfred Hayes

A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities.

A black South African minister searches the unfamiliar back alleys and shantytowns of Johannesburg for his son.

A woman and her stepdaughter attempt to sneak a few souvenirs past customs and inadvertently become the couriers for an international smuggling ring.

In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its own.

Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old country - and Carl's parents want better for their son than Annie, who was raised in the slums. When Annie runs away to marry Carl while he's at college, they have many difficulties, including a college Dean that frowns upon married couples, Carl's angry parents, Carl's jealousy, and Annie's own problems with her sexuality.

In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.

A cowboy tries for easy money with his partner, then tries ranching with a saloon hostess's money.

A Korean War veteran's morphine addiction wreaks havoc upon his family.

On a Caribbean island, a rich landowner's son, Maxwell Fleury, is fighting for political office against black labor leader David Boyeur. As if the contentious election weren't enough, there are plenty of scandals to go around: Boyeur has a secret white lover and Fleury's wife, Sylvia, is also having an affair. And then, of course, there's the small matter of a recently murdered aristocrat.

A man in priestly robes, seemingly the long-awaited Father O'Shea, arrives at a little-frequented Catholic mission in 1947 China. Though the man seems curiously uncomfortable with his priestly duties, his tough tactics prove very successful in the Seven Villages, as around them China disintegrates in civil war and revolution. But he has a secret, and his friendship with mission nurse Anne (an attractive war widow) seems to be taking on an unpriestly tone.

한국전에서 돌아온 기관사 제프 워렌은 칼 버클리가 아내 비키의 연인 오웬을 죽이는 현장을 우연히 목격한다. 비키의 유혹에 넘어간 제프는 살인을 눈감아주고, 알콜 중독으로 아내를 상습 폭행하는 칼을 죽이라는 제안까지 받는다. 자연주의 대문호 에밀 졸라의 소설이 원작으로, 이미 장 르누아르가 장 가뱅 주연의 로 영화화한 바 있다.

An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.

An Italian war bride has problems dealing with her husband's possessive mother.

영화적 리얼리즘의 새로운 영토를 개척한 영화로 평가된다. 다양한 유형의 인물들을 통해 전쟁 중의 황량한 물질적, 육체적 조건들이 사실적인 모습으로 묘사되고 있다. 1943년 연합군이 시실리에 상륙했을 때를 시작으로 시간과 공간이 모두 상향 이동된 여섯 개의 에피소드들로 구성되어 있으며, 이 에피소드들은 모두 전쟁의 의미가 고통과 죽음뿐이라는 메시지를 전달한다. 2차 대전 말기, 연합군이 이탈리아 남부에 상륙하여 독일군을 차례로 격퇴시키며 북부로 진격해 올라가는 과정에서 있었던 여러 가지 사건들을 다룬 작품. 로셀리니는 여기서 군인, 민간인, 레지스탕스, 그리고 수도원의 수도사들 등 다양한 인물군상을 등장시켜 특정한 역사적 국면에 놓여 있던 특정한 공간의 사람들에 대한 완벽한 프레스코화를 그려내는 데 성공했다.