In Edo Period Japan, a noblewoman's banishment for her love affair with a lowly page signals the beginning of her inexorable fall.

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

An old villager deeply in love with his cow goes to the capital for a while. While he's there, the cow dies and now the villagers are afraid of his possible reaction to it when he returns.

A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.

Michel Poiccard és un ex-figurador de cinema admirador de Bogart. Després de robar un cotxe a Marsella per anar a París, mata fortuïtament un motorista de la policia. Sense cap remordiment pel que acaba de fer, prossegueix el viatge. A París, després de robar diners a una amiga, busca Patricia, una jove burgesa americana, que aspira a ser escriptora i ven el New York Herald Tribune pels Camps Elisis; somia també matricular-se a la Sorbona i escriure algun dia en aquest diari. A Europa creu haver trobat la llibertat que no va conèixer a Amèrica. El que Michel ignora és que la policia ho està buscant per la mort del motorista.

Tres joves (Odile, Arthur i Franz) es coneixen a classe d'anglès i immediatament es fan amics. Tots tres comparteixen el seu interès per la literatura criminal.

A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.

Paul és un jove idealista que acaba d'acabar el servei militar. Coneix Madeleine, una jove atractiva que aspira a ser cantant pop, i intenta conquistar-la. Tots dos surten junts i acaben junts al llit, encara que amb dues amigues de Madeleine, Elisabeth i Catherine.

Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.

On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.

Hopeless romantic Gertrud inhabits a turn-of-the-century milieu of artists and musicians, where she pursues an idealized notion of love that will always elude her. She abandons her distinguished husband and embraces an affair with a young concert pianist, who falls short of her desire for lasting affection. When an old lover returns to her life, fresh disappointments follow, and Gertrud must try to come to terms with reality.

En contra de la seva voluntat, una jove entra en un convent. A partir de la novel·la de Diderot, Rivette narra una història del segle XVIII, però que podria succeir en qualsevol temps i en qualsevol lloc. És l'etern enfrontament entre individu i el poder.

Paul Javal, un dramaturg francès, accepta reescriure algunes escenes per a "L'Odissea", una pel·lícula que es rodarà a Capri sota la direcció del reconegut director alemany Fritz Lang. En una primera trobada amb el productor nord-americà, l'arrogant Prokosch, l'escriptor deixa que la seva dona, la bella Camille, se'n vagi al cotxe amb el productor a la finca d'aquest. Aquest fet donarà peu a un greu malentès entre el Javal i la seva dona, que creu que l'ha ofert com a moneda de canvi per obtenir un millor sou. Com a conseqüència d'aquesta situació, l'escriptor es veurà immers en una dolorosa crisi matrimonial.

Lemmy Caution is on a mission to eliminate Professor Von Braun, the creator of a malevolent computer that rules the city of Alphaville. Befriended by the scientist’s daughter Natasha, Lemmy must unravel the mysteries of the strictly logical Alpha 60 and teach Natasha the meaning of the word “love.”

Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…

Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.

Having failed in their quest for the Holy Grail, the knights of the Round Table return to Camelot, their number reduced to a mere handful. Seeing a rift developing between Lancelot and Mordred, Arthur urges his knights to bury their differences and become friends. However, the king is unaware that Lancelot is having an affair with his queen, Guinevere. Lancelot is torn between his duty to his king and his love for the queen, whilst Mordred is determined to use his infidelity to destroy him.

The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.

Bae Il-do, who feels unappreciated in his rural village, runs away from home and works as a tailor. His wife grew up under a harsh stepmother and worked as a housekeeper and bar hostess before meeting Il-do, for whom she bore a child. The young and attractive Gong-rye comes between them, having an affair with Il-do while working with him in a garment factory. Their secret meetings don't remain secret for long and Il-do's wife inevitably finds out...

A celebrity is caught by her husband with a young lover.