Truffaut egy film forgatásáról készített filmet, de nemcsak a forgatás nehézségeit mutatja be, hanem szól az emberi kapcsolatokról, amelyek a filmkészítők között alakulnak ki és szűnnek meg. A filmrendező Ferrand a Bemutatom Pamelát című filmjét forgatja. A főszereplő idegösszeroppanásból épült fel, az egyik színész állandóan részeg, emellett a történetben szerelmi bonyodalom, féltékenység és ármánykodás is fellelhető. Truffaut a film a filmben ötlettel a forgatás folyamatát akarta közelről megmutatni. A film erénye, hogy az ábrázolt nehézségek ellenére is derűs képet fest a filmvilág mindennapjairól.
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Reverend Miller arrives in Tucson where he wants to build a church. But on the very day of his arrival a gang carries out a raid on the bank and the people of Tucson, who are suspicious of the new reverend because he carries a gun, immediately blame him for the robbery. The sheriff saves him from lynching by putting him in jail. Then he asks the priest to find the gang and the booty; thus Miller becomes the Reverend Colt. His exceptional skill means that he can shoot hats off people's heads and their pistols from their pockets, but he never kills.
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
Jeff is a gangster who's disappeared with a million dollars, and Laurent is looking for him to catch him before the other members of the gang find him.
A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.
An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
A quirky, but happily in love young Italian couple fall in with an older, but distinctly reserved Swedish couple whilst on vacation on islands off the coast of Southern Italy. Eventually the couples seem to warm to each other as the infectious youths bring the standoffish couple out of their shells. But there is a sinister reason for the Swedish couple's cold behavior and it may spell doom for them all.
A compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a cabaret singer. A getaway ensues.
Forty-year-old Sandro is married to Claude. Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self-confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when Mark enters their life.
Screenwriter Philippe (Duchaussoy) imagines a crime committed by his wife Sylvie (Delon) and a mutual friend Pierre (Serre): a dead body is put in a trunk but the hand sticks out. Sylvie and Pierre begin to have an affair and things get very dangerous and the imaginary crime is on its way to becoming prophetic.