Rooftops of New York is a 1961 English language documentary directed by Robert McCarty. He takes his camera up high to look down on the roof tops of New York, to watch vignettes unfold. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.
Munich cab driver Herbert Sponer picks up American businessman Jack Mortimer at the train station. Suddenly Mortimer is shot while driving and Sponer has to try to avoid being suspected as the perpetrator.
Three soccer fans are determined to do literally anything to get to the soccer match between Czechoslovakia and the famous representation team of Brazil.
The young generation is not very at peace with the morality of their parents. In a story set in a Moravian village, the otherwise contented cooperators indulge in stealing from the common property without seeing anything wrong with such actions.