En grå morgen ankommer en cirkuskaravane til en lille by i Skåne, hvor cirkusdirektøren Alberts familie bor. Albert har ikke set sin familie i tre år og har i mellemtiden fået sig en elskerinde – den unge og yppige Anne. Da Albert tager kontakt til sin kone, bliver Anne jaloux og lader sig forføre af Frans i bytte for en halskæde, han påstår er værdifuld. Anne finder dog ud af, at halskæden er uden værdi, og på samme tid afviser Alberts kone ham. Albert og Anne hænger på det nødlidende cirkus og hinanden. Samme aften er der cirkusforestilling. Frans vil være til stede, selvtilfreds og hånlig, bjørnen skaber sig, klovnen er sur og bitter, og selvmord forekommer som en udvej. Ingmar Bergman har selv kaldt denne skildring af gøgleren og hans verden for ”en sørgelig vise på film”. ”Gøglernes Aften” anses for at være et af Bergmans nøgleværker.

Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual experience during that summer, challenging their families. Their fathers, Youssef, Jojo and Giuseppe, are old friends and their friendship will be in crisis because of the girls, while Hadj, an old rich Arab, would like to marry Meriem.

I 1880 genopfrisker den rige købmand hr. Clay og hans pertentlige bogholder en gammel sømandshistorie. Nemlig den om den aldrende mand, der betaler en matros 20 pund for at gøre den gamle mands smukke, unge kone gravid. For at bevise, at virkeligheden ikke behøver at stå tilbage for fantasien, beslutter Clay sig for at iscenesætte sin egen "udødelige historie".

A year after the incident at the Mount, the police are still investigating the murders of Philomena and Caroline. The Mount has been cordoned off by the police. However, on Halloween night, a group of teenagers break in. They plan on holding a wedding between friends, conducted by a rather odd character, however, little did they know some unexpected guests would show up to crash the party.

After learning that his wife has been killed in an accident, a violinist looks back on their relationship.

The devil has a stye in his eye, caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it, he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now, makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.

Three women in a maternity ward reveal their lives and intimate thoughts to each other.

En rigmandskone som har nok i sig selv rammes af skyld efter hendes søns pludselige død. For at håndtere hendes sorg og finde mening i livet beslutter hun sig for at kaste sig ud i velgørenhed. Denne besættelse fører til konflikter med hendes mand og spørgsmål om hendes fornuft.

A jaded prima ballerina reminisces about her first love affair after she is unexpectedly sent her lover's old diary.

Eight people experience a strange phenomenon while waiting for a bus at a remote station on a rainy October night.

When 'Vogler's Magnetic Health Theater' comes to town, there's bound to be a spectacle. Reading reports of a variety of supernatural disturbances at Vogler's prior performances abroad, the leading townspeople (including the police chief and medical examiner) request that their troupe provide them a sample of their act, before allowing them public audiences. The scientific-minded disbelievers try to expose them as charlatans, but Vogler and his crew prove too clever for them.

Advokat Fredrik Egerman er en skørtejæger af rang, men lever i et platonisk ægteskab med ungmøen, Anne. Da hans gamle elskerinde, skuespillerinden Désirée, dukker op i et gæstespil i den lille by, begynder skinsygen at ulme. Nye elskere dukker op på scenen, hustruer og piger kurtiseres til højre og venstre, og Fredrik bliver bragt i forlegenhed og udfordres til en duel!

Andreas, a man struggling with the recent demise of his marriage and his own emotional isolation, befriends a married couple also in the midst of psychological turmoil. In turn he meets Anna, who is grieving the recent deaths of her husband and son. She appears zealous in her faith and steadfast in her search for truth, but gradually her delusions surface. Andreas and Anna pursue a love affair, but he is unable to overcome his feelings of deep humiliation and remains disconnected. Meanwhile, the island community is victimized by an unknown person committing acts of animal cruelty.

A young girl living in the French countryside suffers constant indignities at the hand of alcoholism and her fellow man.

Tore og Märeta har en datter, Karin, som med sit gyldne hår og sine blå øjne charmerer de fleste omkring sig. Hun er elsket af alle. En morgen rider Karin af sted til kirken med lys til den Hellige Jomfrus ære. Sagnet siger, at det udelukkende er en jomfru, der må bære lysene. På vejen møder hun tre hyrder. Karin tilbyder at dele sin frokost med hyrderne, men de nøjes ikke kun med maden. Hun bliver overfaldet, voldtaget og slået ihjel. Hyrderne fortsætter deres færd og når frem til Tore og Märetas gård, hvor de beder om et aftensmåltid og ly for natten. Man byder dem, intetanende om Karins grumme skæbne, til bords. Da en af hyrderne siden hen forsøger at sælge Karins kjole til Märeta, begynder de at forstå, hvad der er hændt deres datter.

On the eve of his wedding, on holiday on the Lake Annecy shore, a career diplomat visits an old acquaintance, perhaps a former girlfriend. Through her he meets an intense teenager, Laura, and then lusts after her sister, Claire. Whilst Laura attempts to flirt with him, his fantasy becomes focused on wanting to caress Claire's knee.

A wife, overwhelmed with hatred for her husband, inflicts an unspeakable wound on their son, as the family heads towards horrific destruction.

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

Filmen handler om en mand, der flygter fra Frankrig, efter nazisterne invaderer landet, og han tager en død forfatters identitet. Da han ankommer til Marseille møder han en ung kvinde, der forsøger at finde sin forsvundne ægtemand.

Et eller andet sted i Europa befinder to søstre og en lille dreng sig på ferierejse. De forstår ikke et ord af sproget, varmen er kvælende, og uden for vinduet hersker der krigsstemning. De er blevet tvunget til at tage ophold på stedet, da den ene søster har pådraget sig en sygdom. De to er hinandens modsætninger, omend de begge er præget af mangel på kærlighed. Den lille dreng flygter fra den spændte atmosfære og går på opdagelsesrejse i hotellets korridorer.