Veronika and Boris come together in Moscow shortly before World War II. Walking along the river, they watch cranes fly overhead, and promise to rendezvous before Boris leaves to fight. Boris misses the meeting and is off to the front lines, while Veronika waits patiently, sending letters faithfully. After her house is bombed, Veronika moves in with Boris' family, into the company of a cousin with his own intentions.

In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...

A wizard invents characters who all come to life and start to arrive at his house: a King, his servants, a princes, a bear trapped in a man's body - the usual lot. The Plot mainly rotates around the bear, who the wizard had turned into a man. The Bear, who wishes to be a bear once again, can turn into his old self if he were to kiss a princess. It gets complicated when he falls in love with that princess, that arrived at the wizard's house. For how can they be together, if a single kiss will destroy their love?

Denise de Flavigny, a young convent student, discovers a double-life of the organist Célestin, who teaches her music at the convent. He secretly composes popular operettas for his mistress Corinne. Célestin visits the city to witness the premiere of his latest effort; Denise escapes the convent as well. Following a quarrel with Célestin, Corinne walks out and instead, Denise appears in her role, taking the name Mam'zelle Nitouche. Denise falls in love with Fernand, a handsome young soldier. Both Denise and Célestin are mistaken for soldiers absent without leave and shipped off to an army camp. A series of coincidences brings happiness to all concerned.

Going to vacation at his grandmother’s in a village, the boy Mitya could never imagine that he would become a participant of the extraordinary adventures in a fairy-tale land.

A funny story about Fyodor - the oldest person in the village - and his three sons.

Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov

Eva, personajul Tildei Swinton, a renunțat la carieră și și-a agățat ambițiile în cui pentru a-l naște pe Kevin, dar chiar de când băiatul e bebeluș, relația mamă-fiu e una dificilă. În unele zile, când micuțul Kevin nu mai înceta dintr-un plâns oribil, Eva se gândea disperată că a renunțat pentru acest copil insuportabil la jobul ei minunat de a scrie ghiduri turistice. Tatăl, Franklin, un tip nu foarte dezghețat, își idealizează fiul, iar acesta îl manipulează cu ușurință. La 15 ani, Kevin face ceva irațional și de neiertat în ochii întregii comunități, iar Eva e năucită de propriile sentimente de durere și vinovăție. E vina ei fiindcă nu și-a iubit fiul? Sau nu îndeajuns?

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Wanted for killing his boss, Manuel flees with his wife Rosa to the sertão, the barren landscape of Northern Brazil. Thrust into a primordial violent region, Manuel and Rosa come under the influence and control of a series of frightening figures.

Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...

Louis de Funès joacă rolul unui om de afaceri al cărui contabil îi mărturisește într-o dimineață că a sustras o mare sumă de bani, că este îndrăgostit de fiica lui și că nu poate fi dat în judecată pentru că, în acest caz, va dezvălui fiscului adevărata avere a patronului. În aceeași dimineață, fiica mărturisește că este însărcinată. Totul pare să se rezolve, dar se dovedește că tânăra iubită de contabil nu este fiica patronului, că propria lui fiică este îndrăgostită de șoferul tatălui ei și că, de fapt, nici nu este însărcinată și că maseurul omului de afaceri vrea să-i devină acestuia ginere. Se adaugă și doica, și o veche menajeră a familiei, și o valiză cu bijuterii care este, evident, înlocuită mereu cu altă valiză, similară, conținând haine.Toate încurcăturile îi prilejuiesc lui Louis de Funès crize de furie, în care actorul este neîntrecut.

Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.

A young lunatic director and his devoted cult of cinema terrorists kidnap a Hollywood movie goddess and force her to star in their radical underground movie.

În 1916, în timpul Primului Război Mondial, generalul francez Broulard i-a ordonat generalului Mireau să lanseze o ofensivă sinucigașă împotriva unei poziții germane inexpugnabile, poreclită „furnicarul”. În momentul atacului, soldații au căzut cu zecile și tovarășii lor, epuizați, au refuzat să înainteze...

Peter and Katarina are at a marital crossroads, but, when he brutally kills a burlesque dancer, their domestic squabbles are rendered trivial by comparison. In the wake of the crime, the film backtracks, painting a portrait of the fraught union between Peter and Katarina. When does a marriage go bad? What causes a member of the German bourgeoisie to murder an innocent woman?

Un cuplu varstnic porneste intr-o calatorie catre Tokyo pentru a-si vizita copiii. Ajunsi acolo ei se confrunta cu indiferenta, egoism si nerecunostinta.