Nadezhda Reshetova lives in a small provincial town - a young, charming woman, and also the head of the construction department at the local mayor's office. Everyone loves her, and some (like the drunkard neighbor, for example) are even afraid of her. But Nadya has not yet met her fate. She lives with her beloved grandmother and loves to fish: every weekend she goes overnight to the river in her Zhiguli. And then on one of these weekends, Nadya meets the “prince on a white horse.” This is Victor, a businessman from Moscow, a horse riding enthusiast. The acquaintance began romantically and continued like in a fairy tale. Soon the wedding was scheduled.

Edgard works as a subordinate in the company of millionaire Werneck and is in love with Ritinha, a simple woman who works as a teacher to support her mother and her three sisters. One day, Peixoto, Werneck's son-in-law, makes him a proposal to marry Maria, the boss's daughter. The reason is that Maria was abused and now is being forced to marry by her family. Edgard hesitates first but accepts the offer. From then on he enters into a great doubt: should he deposit the check and marry Maria or stay with Ritinha, his great love?

A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape. Restored by the Academy Film Archive and the Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos in 2019.

Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.

Un film despre artă și viață în vremuri cumplite pentru omenire și pentru specia umană. În Parisul aflat sub ocupație nazistă, o actriță care era căsătorită cu un evreu trebuie să îl țină ascuns pentru a-i salva viața.

A woman who is about to die calls the town's priest and hands him a scapulary, saying that she knows of its great powers. Anybody who does not believe in them will end up dead.

Doi prieteni din copilărie care locuiesc la Roma se îndrăgostesc de aceeași femeie și, devenind rivali, luptă fiecare pentru a o cuceri.

Pierre Lachenay e un bărbat între două vârste, director al unei reviste literare pariziene, e însurat și are un copil. În timpul unei călătorii, el o întâlnește pe tânăra stewardesă Nicole, fată de care simte imediat o atracție irezistibilă și cu care începe o relație pasională. Însă compromisurile acestei vieți duble îi tulbură liniștea sufletească și Pierre decide să o ia de la capăt și să-și construiască o nouă existență, alături de noua sa iubire. Până când aceasta se va dovedi înșelătoare...

In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who's on his trail.

Bruno Stroszek is released from prison and warned to stop drinking. He has few skills and fewer expectations: with a glockenspiel and an accordion, he ekes out a living as a street musician. He befriends Eva, a prostitute down on her luck and they join his neighbor, Scheitz, an elderly eccentric, when he leaves Germany to live in Wisconsin.

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick her up.

Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.

Doinel se înrolează în armată, dar e destituit pentru insubordonare. În scurt timp, el se angajează ca paznic de noapte într-un hotel și, după prima tură, e deja concediat. Apoi acceptă să fie detectiv particular și se îndrăgostește de doamna Tabard.

Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.