Nel 1947, il professor Humbert arriva in una piccola città del New England dove lo attende un posto di insegnante di letteratura francese. Cercando alloggio, gli capita una stanza in casa della vedova Charlotte. Il posto non sarebbe molto di suo gusto, ma decide di fermarsi dopo aver visto in giardino la figlia dodicenne di Charlotte, Lolita, dalla quale subito rimane affascinato. Charlotte corteggia Humbert che alla fine, pur di stare accanto a Lolita, accetta di sposare la donna...
Al Grand Hotel di Berlino si intrecciano le storie di svariati personaggi: madame Grusinskaya, star del balletto ed eccentrica diva, si innamora dello spiantato barone von Geigern, inizialmente intenzionato a rubare solo le sue perle. L'industriale Preysing tiranneggia il suo contabile Kringelein, mentre la sua segretaria-amante Flaemchen, invaghita del barone, resterà sola senza nessuno dei due uomini.
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Hotel Coolgardie is a portrait of outback Australia, as experienced by two backpackers who find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” to work as barmaids in a remote mining town.
Chimo è un giovane diciannovenne di origini magrebine che vive nel degrado della periferia parigina. Un giorno conosce una bellissima ragazza con il volto di un angelo: Lila. A dispetto della sua apparenza innocente, Lila è invece una ragazza disinibita e seduce Chimo con discorsi di un erotismo sconvolgente. Chimo ne rimane turbato, rapito e, allo stesso tempo, estasiato. Ad ogni nuovo incontro, lei lo trascina sempre più dentro al proprio universo sessuale. Lila dit ça è il nome del diario che nasce dalle trascrizioni dei racconti e delle fantasie di Lila, che Chimo riporta fedelmente incontro dopo incontro.
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
When Zhang Hui is told by long-time best friend Xiao Gong that he has a new girlfriend, she is determined to learn new tricks to gain him back. Based on the novel written by Luo Fuman, Everyone Loves Tender Women.
Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himself as a nurse to effect his escape.
Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.
Two young strangers meet in Naples and begin to flirt and dance in the street.
A Finnish documentary follows four young men who have one year to find new love in Helsinki.
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
Sentimental marivaudage between Nicole, her husband Christian, her friend Alexandre and a provincial girl, Marie-Josèphe, who marries Alexandre after arousing Nicole's jealousy.