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A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.

Monsieur Hulot visits the technology-driven world of his sister, brother-in-law, and nephew, but he can't quite fit into the surroundings.

Inspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him. Only after she has humbled him mercilessly does she offer him her love in the end.

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued by the police.

French police inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a rich Paris widow and ends up chasing the killer up the Eiffel Tower's girders.

The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.

A native of Mauritania is delighted when he is chosen to work in Paris. However, he is disappointed when he sees racial inequity as blacks are relegated to manual labor while less skilled whites are given preferential treatment.

This social realist drama deals with a home for unwed mothers.

In 18th century Russia, Imperial officer Piotr Grinov is dispatched to a faraway isolated outpost where his loyalties are tested during the Pugachev Rebellion against the Empress Catherine II.

Two children go behind the scenes of a small circus.

The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and executed as a criminal, a plan aided and abetted by disciple Judas Iscariot.

A doctor in southern France takes a mistress but lives to regret it.

A Havana bar girl with a tough "protector" falls for a young sailor.

The lawyer Martini starts looking for his young daughter who has been missing for some time. With the help of Irene, one of the girl's best friends, the man comes into contact with a world composed of unscrupulous people.

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.

Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.

A young woman is deeply moved by the shipboard singing of a widower who has been left with only his young son.

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.

This version of the story begins with the engineer's wife (Denise Morel) being driven to the site where her husband is building a bridge. The first thing she notices is the mark of the dragon branded on the shoulders of the coolies who are being driven out with her. On the way to the site, shots ring out, and one of the men in the truck with her is hit. The car would have to take the wounded man to the hospital, but, by chance, another car drives up with Prince Lee Lang in back. The Prince volunteers to drive her to her husband's site. She leaves a glove in the Prince's car. Pierre Morel, her husband, is angry about the shooting, and sends people out to take care of it. Apparently, they are having trouble building the bridge The next day, at Prince Lee Lang's house, Valfar, his business partner and Ming, their secretary, are introduced. The Prince is an art collector, and mentions to Valfar that he would like to add Denise to his collection of art objects. Denise meets the British consul and his wife. Denise and the wife become good friends. Pierre shows Denise how to gamble, and has an argument with the owner of the gambling spot, Tang-si. Denise borrows money from the owner of the gambling spot through Ming. Valfar has a discussion with Tang-si and money is exchanged. The Red Cross bazaar is held at Prince Lee Lang's house. Lee Lang offers to buy Denise's glove, and gives her money, which she puts to the proceeds of the bazaar. All the proceeds of the bazaar are in a drawer, and Denise has the key.  Denise goes to the gambling spot, and Tang-si tells her to pay her debt the next day at noon. She takes the Red Cross money out of the drawer and pays Tang-si, but now has to repay the Red Cross funds. Valfar suggests she talk to the Prince. The Prince tells her he will give her the money, if she gives herself to him. She agrees to this and is able to return the money to the Red Cross, but the next day, talks to the wife of the British consul, and gets the money from her, and sends the money to the Prince. The Prince is angry, but Valfar suggests he take his revenge on her husband instead.  On the next day, the bridge is tested, but collapses. It has been sabotaged. Pierre and Denise go to France. Pierre explains the fact of the sabotage to his board of directors. Then goes to a house, where he finds a gun and the Prince dying.  Valfar sees Pierre in the house. The next day, Denise gets her breakfast in bed, and discovers that Pierre has been arrested. Pierre talks to his lawyer and insists that he is innocent.  The trial begins. At a certain point, Valfar puts a piece of one of Denise's dresses, taken from the dying Prince's hand, into Pierre's hand, and Pierre realizes that it was probably Denise that shot the Prince. In court, he confesses that he shot the Prince. Denise says that Pierre is not telling the truth, and is sworn in. She says that Lee Lang had tried to rape her, and had branded her after which she shot him with his gun and run out. The judge demands that she prove that she had been branded, and so she takes off her dress to reveal the brand. Valfar, who had given evidence that Pierre had shot the Prince, is surrounded, and the police release Pierre. Pierre tells Denise that he believes her story.

Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears...

At the biginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions.

Young Danny, better known as Tomb, is the toughest in a street gang in Paris. She dresses as a boy and fights like a man.

A wealthy aristocrat disguises himself as a poor, deformed hunchback in order to avenge a murder.