An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.

少女瑪麗有一隻心愛的驢子，在同伴惡作劇替牠「受洗」之後，牠就叫做「巴達薩」。本片敘事循著少女瑪麗和巴達薩分別前進，偶爾他們的命運交會，但大部分他們都在獨自面對生命種種無情的打擊。極其複雜的劇情，配上布列松式徹底拒絕提供任何角色心理動機的手法，讓歷來的影評人對它又愛又恨；而布列松式的「天問」（天主教神秘的救贖與原罪思想）色彩，讓本片名列英國「視與聽」雜誌2002年票選影史20大影片。

安托瓦內特是一名教師，她正期待著和秘密情人弗拉基米爾一起度過計劃已久的暑假。弗拉基米爾是她一個學生的父親。當得知弗拉基米爾不能來是因為他的妻子帶著他們的女兒和一頭驢去塞文國家公園度假時，安托瓦內特決定獨自跟隨他們的足跡，還有一頭保護他們的驢派屈克。

Abdellah, a young shepherd living in the mountains, is forced to brave the snow blocking him in order to get food and save this cattle. Once he gets to the village, he faces a supernatural phenomenon.

This short film highlights the odd 1930s fad of playing baseball while riding donkeys.

Eleni asks for a fig on her deathbed. Her husband Kostas goes to the nearest fig tree to get one. Time is running out and Kostas is old. With a fig in his hand, he struggles through a rugged natural landscape to get home in time and fulfil his wife's last wish.

Ali Baba steals hidden treasure from some raiders who then seek revenge on his family.