Lea
A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love.
Gemma
Princesse Blanche
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
baronessa Lucrezia Costanzi
1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
L'infirmiera
When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?
Fatma
Gina, Fernando's wife
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
Lola
20세기 초의 파리. 부유한 장군의 부인인 루이즈는 사치스런 생활을 누리다가 생긴 빚을 갚기 위해 남편이 결혼식 날 선물한 귀걸이를 보석상에 판다. 그리고 남편에게는 오페라를 보는 동안 잊어버렸다고 둘러대는데... 사랑의 휘발성 혹은 유동성이란 문제에 관한 한 막스 오퓔스가 영화사상 최고의 영화적 사색가들 가운데 하나임을 입증하는 영화. 구조와 시공간에 대한 오퓔스의 완벽한 통제력이 보는 이로 하여금 놀라울 정도의 지적, 정서적 정점에 오르게 만든다.
La maestrina
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Paola
A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
Madame Meunier
After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensues.
Cameriera
Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
Pedicurist (uncredited)
폭군 네로(Nero : 피터 유스티노브 분) 황제는 방탕하고 퇴폐적인 생활을 하면서 신흥 종교인 기독교에 대한 무자비한 탄압을 시작한다. 전투에 큰 승리를 거두고 부하들과 함께 로마로 행진하던 마커스 비니키우스(Marcus Vinicius : 로버트 테일러 분)는 네로 황제가 로마 시내에서 큰 잔치를 연다는 이유로 로마 시외곽에서 기다리게 되는데, 궁정의 타락한 축제에서 아름다운 리지아(Lygia : 데보라 커 분)를 만나 사랑에 빠진다. 네로의 황녀는 비니키우스의 남성다움에 반해 그를 사랑하나 그가 리지아와 사랑하는 사이임을 알고 네로에게 기독교도들을 잡아 처형하도록 사주한다. 로마에 대화재를 일으킨 네로는 그 죄를 기독교인들에게 씌어 많은 기독교인이 붙잡혀 사자의 밥이 된다. 리지아를 구하기 위해 원형 경기장에 뛰어든 비니키우스....
