A car salesman journeys to France and encounters an apparently lonely woman. He immediately begins to successfully woo her only to learn that she is actually a baron's wife. Fortunately, the baron believes in open marriages and winds up hiring the Englishman to teach his son (from an earlier marriage) everything about automobiles. Meanwhile the car salesman finds himself falling seriously in love with the wife. The baron really doesn't mind as he himself is involved with another.

Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing.

When Jacob tells Jesus that Lazarus, his son, is dead, he goes to his house to raise him from the dead.

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

The history of American popular music runs parallel with the history of a Russian Jewish immigrant family, with each male descendant possessing different musical abilities.

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.

Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, which together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks to have scuppered the plan to capture a secret agent.

On the outskirts of town, the hard-nosed Vienna owns a saloon frequented by the undesirables of the region, including Dancin' Kid and his gang. Another patron of Vienna's establishment is Johnny Guitar, a former gunslinger and her lover. When a heist is pulled in town that results in a man's death, Emma Small, Vienna's rival, rallies the townsfolk to take revenge on Vienna's saloon – even without proof of her wrongdoing.

Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.

În Napoli, Adelina trebuie să vândă tutun de contrabandă pentru a-și întreține familia. Amenzile neplătite pentru desfășurarea acestei activități o fac să trăiască sub amenințarea constantă a închisorii. La Milano, bogata și volubilă Anna face o evadare cu noul ei iubit în Rolls-Royce al soțului ei. La Roma, Mara, o prostituată cu inimă bună, va face promisiune că va întoarce un tânăr seminarist captivant pe calea cea bună. Trei povești cu actrița Sophia Loren în rol principal care arată voința, decizia și caracterul practic al italiencei în fața slăbiciunii bărbaților din jurul ei.

Un baron Sicilian căsătorit se îndrăgostește de verișoara sa și jură să se căsătorească cu ea, dar cu divorțul ilegal, el trebuie să născocească o crimă din pasiune ca să scape de soția lui.

When a happily married family man, who would never consider an affair, meets a beautiful woman in red, he is totally infatuated and desperate to make her acquaintance. However, as he tries out various schemes to sneak out to meet her, he realizes that adultery is not quite as easy as it looks.

When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After becoming involved with a young married woman, her husband hires Bobby to kill her. Later, she hires Bobby to kill the husband.

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

În Italia, la începutul anilor 1970, șeful brigăzii criminale este pe cale să fie promovat la funcția de director al secției. Convins că îndatoririle lui îl pun mai presus de lege, îi tăie gâtul amantei sale, Augusta Terzi, în timpul unei partide amoroase. Cu un calm desăvârșit, face totul pentru a dovedi că nimeni nu va avea inteligența, nici măcar îndrăzneala, să-l bănuiască și să tulbure astfel buna ierarhie socială. El reușește să semene dovezi copleșitoare, relansând ancheta atunci când aceasta se oprește...