Varakas mediamoguli William Parrish viettää loistavaa elämää kunnes Kuolema saapuu hänen luokseen ja ehdottaa vaihtokauppaa. Jos Bill esittelee Joelle maailmaa, niin hän saa elää kauemmin. Viaton, hauska ja arvoituksellinen Joe seuraa Billiä liikemaailman kiemuroihin. Kaikki sujuu hyvin kunnes Joe rikkoo sopimuksen sääntöjä ja rakastuu Billin kauniiseen tyttäreen. Uskomaton kertomus siitä kuinka Bill järjestelee omaa ja rakkaittensa tulevaisuutta.
Ritari palaa ristiretkeltä Ruotsiin ja kohtaa kurjuutta, fanaattista uskonnollisuutta sekä Kuoleman.Ingmar Bergmanin mestariteos valmistui vuonna 1957.Kuoleman kanssa shakkia pelaavana ritarina nähdään Max von Sydow. Kuolemaa näyttelee Bengt Ekerot.
Oliveiro is a young poet living in Buenos Aires where sometimes he has to sell his ideas to an advertising agency to make a living or exchange his poems for a steak. In Montevideo, he meets a prostitute, Ana, with whom he falls in love. Back in Buenos Aires, he accepts a contract with a publicity agency to get the money for three days of love with her. Will he get what he's searching for when his ideal of love's pleasure is literally going in levitation while making love?
After years of questioning why people fear him, Death takes on human form so he can mingle among the mortals and find an answer. However, events soon spiral out of control as he falls in love with the beautiful young Grazia, the only woman not afraid of him. As he falls in love with her, her father sees him for what he is and begs him to return to his duties. Death must decide whether or not to seek his own happiness or sacrifice it so that Grazia may live.
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
Death takes a human form and visits Earth to try to find out why humans want so desperately to cling to life. He unexpectedly falls in love with a beautiful young woman.
A man and a woman on a motorcycle arrive with a ferry to Assens. They want to catch the next ferry in Nyborg, on the other side of the island, but this ferry will leave in three quarters of an hour and the ferry berth is 70 km away.