Un ragazzo di borgata torna dalla moglie, abbandonata tempo prima, quando la prostituta che lo mantiene viene arrestata. Capolavoro d'esordio nel cinema di Pasolini.
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
Durante una gita in barca, Anna scompare misteriosamente su un'isola semideserta. Il suo fidanzato, Sandro e l'amica Claudia si mettono alla sua ricerca.
Un industriale romano organizza il "delitto perfetto" per uccidere la ricca moglie milanese ed assicurarsene la cospicua eredità, al fine di riparare ai propri disastri finanziari.
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.
Antonio Magnano, giovane di bella presenza, cui vengono attribuite numerose avventure sentimentali, dopo parecchi anni di permanenza a Roma ritorna alla nativa Catania, dove il padre Alfio gli ha trovato una sposa, Barbara Puglisi. Uniformandosi al volere paterno, Antonio sposa Barbara; ma trascorso un anno, il padre di Barbara dà ad Alfio la notizia che il matrimonio verrà sciolto per le condizioni fisiche del marito. Così avviene, e mentre Barbara sposa il duca di Bronte, uomo anziano, ma ricco; Alfio "per riscattare l'onore della famiglia" riprende a frequentare una casa di appuntamenti e poco dopo muore. La vedova ben presto si consola; la giovane servetta di casa sta per diventare madre e la paternità del nascituro viene attribuita ad Antonio.
A una festa di nozze partecipano tre belle donne, fra le quali un giovanotto dovrebbe scegliere la più affascinante. Ma un professore interviene per impedire il verdetto, ricordando i guai causati da Paride in una analoga situazione.
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.