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- Geo the seer, on request of her own son, Sepeos, predicts the death of Kerysta the dancer from Tanagra, after she has danced three times. Messalina, the Roman empress, knew of Geo's powers to forsee the things to come, and went to consult her in her tent - and meets Sepeos just as he had heard his mother's prediction. As Sepeos had fallen in love when he first saw Kerysta, Messalina falls for Geo now, and immediately asks for affection in return, but he refuses her. Messalina is rejected, and dejected. She will use her arsenal of seductive poses and, caresses, then pleadings and promises, and finally imprisonment, punishment, and torture to achieve her end.
- A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
- A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
- A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
- A surrealist film, a pseudo-documentary portrait of Las Hurdes, a remote region of Spain where civilisation has barely developed, showing how the local peasants try to survive without even the most basic utilities and skills.
- Three anonymous songs about Lenin provide the basis for this documentary that celebrates the achievements of the Soviet Union and Lenin's role in creating them.
- The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
- A documentary showing the struggle of the Spanish Republican government against a rebellion by ultra-right-wing forces led by Gen. Francisco Franco and backed by Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
- The captain of the tugboat Cyclone, André Laurent, rushes off to save the Mirva. He abandons his sick wife Yvonne and the couple celebrating their marriage. In the early morning, the Cyclone tugs the Mirva ashore with Catherine aboard.
- A schoolteacher struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, having neither money nor future prospects.
- Denis is distracted: he's studying all day for philosophy exams and working all night at the flower market; plus, whenever he closes his eyes, he dreams of a mysterious woman in white. His girlfriend Nina is annoyed at him for his inattention, so she steps out behind his back with a friend of his. One night, while napping at the flower mart, he pursues the mystery woman in what he thinks is a dream, and finds himself with her in a restaurant with her father and her fiancé, then on to a magic shop, the Louvre, a nightclub, and a mental asylum. During the night, he discovers a plot against her, and still believing it's a dream, goes to great lengths to try to save her.
- "Chiffon" is an eccentric young aristocratic girl, who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community.
- In a lost French village, an old woman is killed and her savings stolen. Several members of her family, all called "Goupi", are suspected.
- A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.
- In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
- The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.
- Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.
- A mystery writer becomes involved in a tangled web of murderous deception not unlike the plots of her novels.
- A childless middle-aged couple faces a marital crisis.
- A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
- A naive stripper falls for an artist engaged to the daughter of a controversial female politician.
- Bankrupt and disbarred, Parisian lawyer Pierre Martel heads for Algiers where he's supposed to rejoin his high-maintenance Italian girlfriend Sylvia but when she fails to show-up a heart-broken Pierre joins the French Foreign Legion.
- Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.
- After an overly aggressive district attorney unknowingly sends an innocent man to the chair, he resigns, turns to drinking, and acquires a criminal clientèle.
- Philippe Morin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...
- The history of Nazi Germany's death camps of the Final Solution and the hellish world of dehumanization and death contained inside.
- Five office friends meet up for a night on the town to celebrate the forthcoming marriage of one of them. As the night wears on and the drink starts to tell, they become more confidential in expressing their concerns and hopes.
- A female radio reporter turns a folk-singing drifter into a powerful media star.
- Powerful but unethical Broadway columnist J.J. Hunsecker coerces unscrupulous press agent Sidney Falco into breaking up his sister's romance with a jazz musician.
- A gold-digger floozy marries a wealthy wine producer but she secretly takes a young lover with whom she conspires to murder her husband for his fortune.
- American reporter doing a story on Swedish nightlife gets involved with a drug-addicted nightclub singer.
- A businessman clashes with his elder daughter over her choice of a husband.
- When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
- Tom Dooley and Country Boy are on the run after killing an enemy soldier not knowing the war is over. The Command refuses to give them some slack for making this tragic but honest mistake and sends a lawman after them.
- Rosario is a prostitute who lives in her married sister's house. When the latter wants to be a hooker too, she doesn't approve.
- A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
- A letter summons American detective Steve Marshall to Sao Paulo, Brazil, in search of fugitive murderess Louise Dunning. Marshall contacts Louise and learns that she murdered her husband only in self-defense. In the meantime, Marshall is set up as a pawn in a counterfeiting ring (they were the ones who sent him the letter), and unwittingly helps the police capture the criminals. Louise decides to remain in Brazil.
- Viridiana, a young nun about to take her final vows, pays a visit to her widowed uncle at the request of her Mother Superior.
- Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
- European night-club attractions and their sexy numbers
- Charles Dexter Ward arrives at a small village to visit the house he inherited from his ancestor who died there 100 years ago.
- After her mother runs away from home, Tomoko is raised to be a geisha. One day Tomoko meets her mother in a red-light district in Tokyo and her life deeply gets in trouble.
- The story takes place in Brazil, where a businessman has to face the demands of his workers, tired of the labor exploitation to which he subjects them. Everything gets even worse when his beautiful wife is kidnapped and abused by them.
- Four vignettes about the lives of the Cuban people set during the pre-revolutionary era.
- François, a young carpenter, lives a happy, uncomplicated life with his wife Thérèse and their two small children. One day he meets Emilie, a clerk in the local post office.
- A young man hitchhiking through the desert is picked up by a beautiful woman. They have an affair, and he finds out that she's married. The consequences of the affair lead to murder and blackmail.
- A young school teacher tries to master the art of flirtation using his neighbor's skills.
- Young Pharaoh Ramses XIII clashes with Egypt's clergy over influence on the affairs of the state and its coffers.