Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). El 1916, a França, el general Boulard ordena la conquesta d'una posició alemanya inexpugnable i encarrega aquesta missió a l'ambiciós general Mireau. L'encarregat de dirigir l'atac serà el coronel Dax. La presa del turó resulta un infern, i el regiment emprèn la retirada cap a les trinxeres. L'alt comandament militar, irritat per la derrota, decideix imposar al regiment un terrible càstig que serveixi d'exemple als altres soldats.
Un matrimoni ja gran decideix visitar els fills a Tòquio i comprova amb tristesa que només són una càrrega per a ells. El viatge, que té com a objectiu la reunificació d’una família , es converteix, per contra, en el detonant que obre fissures irreparables i mostra dues concepcions de l’existència humana diametralment oposades.
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.
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
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?
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.
Bertrand Barnier és un ric empresari per al qual la vida transcorre tranquil·lament amb la seva dona i la seva filla Colette. Per mantenir la seva forma física fa exercici regularment sota la direcció d'un jove atleta, la intel·ligència del qual està lluny d'igualar la seva força física. El servei de la casa està perfectament atès per Bernadette, la jove criada, i l'Oscar, el xofer. No obstant, aquesta confortable situació es veurà pertorbada, quan el seu empleat, Christian Martin, irromp a la casa a primera hora del matí per exigir-li un augment de sou, amb la intenció de demanar-li la mà al pare de la seva núvia. El caos es deslliga a casa de Bernier quan aquest descobreix que és la seva pròpia filla amb què Christian vol casar-se.
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...
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?
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.
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.
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.
Durant la Segona Guerra mundial, els alemanys produeixen aigua pesant a Telemark, Noruega, amb l'objectiu de fabricar la bomba atòmica. Les forces britàniques envien un petit escamot que té per missió introduir-se a la fàbrica de Telemark per poder destruir la perillosa producció enemiga.
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...
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.
A funny story about Fyodor - the oldest person in the village - and his three sons.
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.
Omnibus film featuring early works by Chekhov