Mientras que Accattone se pasa el día metido en las tabernas, Maddalena, la mujer con la que vive, debe ejercer la prostitución para mantenerlo. Cuando Maddalena es detenida y encarcelada, Accatone, privado de su medio de subsistencia, se ve condenado a llevar una vida miserable. Incluso debe pedir ayuda a su esposa legítima, Ascenza, a la que hace años abandonó.
Basada en la novela de Émile Zola "L'Assomoir". Narra los graves problemas de Gervaise, una joven cuyo marido es alcohólico y que, sin embargo, hace todo lo posible por mantener unida a su familia.
Anna, una rica joven romana, su novio y Claudia, su mejor amiga, se embarcan en un crucero veraniego entre las escarpadas islas sicilianas...
Casado con una millonaria que lo tiraniza sin piedad, un pobre hombre con poco talento para los negocios sueña con quedarse viudo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
Después de pasar varios años en Roma, Antonio (Marcello Mastroianni) regresa a Catania (Sicilia), su ciudad natal. Tiene un gran éxito con las mujeres porque es muy atractivo y de muy buena presencia. Sus padres han pensado que Bárbara (Claudia Cardinale) es la mujer ideal para él, y Antonio decide casarse con ella.
Hedy Winsor recibe una invitación para asistir a un baile de disfraces y se le presenta el dilema de elegir entre tres mujeres: Genoveva de Brabante, Josefina de Beauharnais o Helena de Troya. En su imaginación recrea los episodios más característicos de sus vidas, pero finalmente decide que debe acudir con su propia y exclusiva personalidad.
Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she is going to kidnap him and demand a ransom from the young man's parents, money which will be used to pay for a good lawyer for her brother accused of killing a policeman.
In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèvre, a Frenchman, and Mokhrir, a Lebanese, with the prospecting of an isolated region granted to him by Countess Athelstane Orloff. Their search remains fruitless until Mokhir reports the discovery of a uranium deposit, but disappears before Jean can identify the location. He goes to the Countess for help in finding Mokhir and surprises her when, due to financial difficulties, she is negotiating her concession with the Englishman Hobson, director of a rival company. Attracted by Jean, the Countess nevertheless gives him her preference and they set off together in search of Mokhir.
Quand la Femme S'en Mele (When the Woman Butts In) stars French film favorite Edwige Feuillere as a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's first husband and daughter pay a visit, it's an awkward time for our heroine and her current amour, gang boss Godot (Jean Servais). In addition to fielding a lot of embarrassing questions, Godot also has to deal with a pesky turf war with a rival mobster. Not that the ex-husband is a paragon of virtue: he's busy trying to get even with a crooked business associate.