Screenplay: Guy de Maupassant

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Sylvia Bataille · Georges Darnoux · Jane Marken · André Gabriello

Plot The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love to a man at the inn, where they spend the day.

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Claude Dauphin · Gaby Morlay · Madeleine Renaud · Ginette LeClerc

Plot Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth....

Direction Helmut Käutner

Cast Marianne Hoppe · Paul Dahlke · Ferdinand Marian · Siegfried Breuer

Plot A traditional love triangle. Made in Nazi Germany, Nazi theories or propaganda is for the most part notably absent.

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Jean-Pierre Léaud · Chantal Goya · Marlène Jobert · Michel Debord

Plot Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes...

Direction Mikhail Romm

Cast Galina Sergeyeva · Andrei Fajt · Faina Ranevskaya · Pyotr Repnin

Plot A company of French bourgeois travel through the territories occupied by Germans in a stagecoach accompanied by a woman of the oldest profession.

Direction Albert Lewin

Cast George Sanders · Angela Lansbury · Ann Dvorak · John Carradine

Plot Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a...

Direction Alexandre Astruc

Cast Maria Schell · Christian Marquand · Pascale Petit · Louis Arbessier

Plot 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...

Direction Arturo Ripstein

Cast Patricia Reyes Spíndola · Alejandro Parodi · Evangelina Sosa · Damián Alcázar

Plot Based on Guy de Maupassant's short story Le port that also inspired Arcady Boitler's 1933 classic Mexican melodrama. La mujer del puerto is the story of Perla, a prostitute and...

Direction Jean-Daniel Pollet

Cast Laurent Terzieff

Direction Arcady Boytler · Raphael J. Sevilla

Cast Andrea Palma · Domingo Soler · Joaquín Busquets · Consuelo Segarra

Plot Rosario becomes a prostitute after losing her father and discovering her boyfriend had a liaison with another woman. In Veracruz, Rosario lives above a sordid cabaret. One night, sailor Alberto...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Komako Hara · Eiji Nakano · Daijirô Natsukawa · Toichiro Negishi

Plot Oyuki, the Virgin is based on Kawaguchi Matsutaro’s adaptation of Maupassant’s “Boule de Suif” (“Lump of Fat,” also the inspiration for Ford’s Stagecoach). To this story Mizoguchi added some of...

Direction Ricardo Alventosa

Cast Juan Verdaguer · Nathán Pinzón · Marisa Grieben · Alba Mugica

Direction Walerian Borowczyk

Cast Ligia Borowcyk

Plot A haunting, minimalist short that mostly consists of a monologue to camera by the young Rosalie, on trial for the murder of her new-born infant.

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Rosario Granados · Tito Junco · Julio Villarreal · Joaquín Cordero

Plot Rosario Granados plays a young wife, Rosario Montero. Ignored by her wealthy art dealer husband, Don Carlos (Julio Villarreal) -- who is many years her senior -- Rosario enters into...

Direction Robert Wise

Cast Simone Simon · John Emery · Kurt Kreuger · Alan Napier

Plot In occupied France during the Franco-Prussian War, a young French laundress shares a coach ride with several of her condescending social superiors. But when a Prussian officer holds the coach...

Direction Harry Kümel · Michel Boisrond · Walerian Borowczyk · Alain Schwartzstein

Cast Jean-Pierre Kalfon · Anne Fontaine · Thierry Bearzatto · Lucienne Bruinooge

Plot This erotic series is an anthology of libertine stories adapted from literary novels from the 18th century to present

Direction Reginald Le Borg

Cast Vincent Price · Nancy Kovack · Chris Warfield · Eilane Devry

Direction Anatole Litvak

Cast Yul Brynner · Deborah Kerr · Jason Robards · E.G. Marshall

Direction Jean-Luc Godard

Cast Maria Lysandre · Roland Tolmatchoff

Plot Agnès, a bourgeois young woman from Genebra, writes a letter to a friend, telling how she ended up cheating on her husband. Fascinated by the attitudes and gestures adopted by...

Direction Stéphane Brizé

Cast Judith Chemla · Jean-Pierre Darroussin · Yolande Moreau · Swann Arlaud

Plot Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young woman full of childish dreams and innocence when she returns home after finishing her schooling in a convent. She marries a local Viscount, Julien...