Gil Clary

After many difficulties, the seductive Italian dancer, Rosine Savelli, manages to clear herself of a plot hatched against Napoleon III...

Father-and-son lion tamers, Rabbas and Léo share a mistress - Rosita, the " lovely bitch " of the film's title. She is as wild as their lionesses and, in a single night the father is injured and the son attempts suicide. Only when Rosita leaves the circus can things get back to normal.

From 6 P.M. to 8 P.M., in a documentary fashion, the film shows different character types sitting, meeting, and working at a cocktail's bar.

Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline... One day, Jim la houlette, the king of thieves, resurfaces in France. He steals jewels from Madame Clisson, the wife of a lawyer. Saint-Lévy, Bretonneau's publisher, has an idea : to simulate the theft of a manuscript by Jim la houlette, in fact by Moluchet posing as the criminal. But Moluchet, confronted by the real Jim, lets him run away and is arrested...

Rose is a young factory worker, seduced and abandoned by her lover. She feels compelled to abandon her baby, who will grow up in a rich family, with problems of its own. Rose lives through plenty of adventures, always repenting for leaving her child, until one day.

A French film star visits Coimbra and it's old university, and breaks a poor local girl's heart, as her fiancee turns his attentions to the foreign girl. In a play within the story, one is told the sad love story of Don Pedro, king of Portugal, and Inês de Castro.

In a small fishermen's village love affairs are in turmoil, amidst political meetings and revolutionary activities. Nature adds drama to the human passions with its wind- and sea-storms.

열차 기관사인 시지프는 전복사고 현장에서 고아 소녀 노르마를 발견하고 몰래 집으로 데려온다. 엄마 없이 자란 아들 엘리와 노르마를 함께 키우려던 그의 욕심은 비극을 낳는다. 어느 날 시지프는 노르마에 관한 비밀을 고위 관료인 에르상에게 털어놓는데, 노르마를 탐한 에르상은 비밀을 빌미 삼아 그녀와의 결혼을 요구한다. 어느새 노르마를 남자로서 흠모했던 시지프는 힘겹게 그녀를 떠나보내고, 노르마에 대한 애정을 간직해온 엘리 또한 사실을 알게 된 뒤 좌절감에 빠진다. 정작 노르마 자신은 비밀을 모르는 가운데, 한 여자를 사랑한 세 남자는 지옥 같은 현실에서 벗어나지 못한다.