Four teenagers in the German Ruhr region try to succeed as a rock band in 1966. A girl tries to join them as a singer but is rejected by them.

Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).

De unge elskende, forener 5 forskellige instruktører rundt om i verden og præsenterer hver især hvad kærlighed er, når man er 20 år.

A kindhearted seventeen-year-old in the American Southwest turns to prostitution to fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco.

Thrown to rot in a narrow and gloomy cell of a hideous Soviet prison, a weary new inmate struggles to come to terms with the new reality. Within the grey cage, an unwelcoming fellow convict cautions the newcomer not to touch the intriguingly mysterious red wooden box which rests on the lower bunk, moreover, not even think of opening it. Why is there so much secrecy about the contents of the box? Could there be hiding the means to his escape?

A young woman tries to go to Paris, but her garden and the whole village is flooded with water.

Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.

In 1798, a feral boy is discovered outside the town of Aveyron, France. Diagnosed as mentally impaired, he is relegated to an asylum. A young doctor named Jean Itard becomes convinced that the boy has normal mental capacity, but that his development was hindered by lack of contact with society. He brings the boy home and begins an arduous attempt at education over several years.

Den indadvendte Jules og den erfarne Jim bliver bedste venner i mellemkrigstiden, hvor de begge forelsker sig i den overjordisk skønne Catherine. Jim lader galant Jules gifte sig med Catherine, men den lidenskabelige Catherine trives med usikkerheden og med flere tilbedere, så de tre indleder et trekantdrama, hvor generøsiteten bliver forudsætning for såvel venskab som kærlighed.

I slutningen af 1800-tallet, under et bal i Joinville i udkanten af Paris, møder Georges, en tidligere kriminel, der arbejder som tømrer, Marie, en ung kvinde med forbindelse til en kriminel bande.

Den amerikanske præsident får en atomnedrustningsaftale med russerne vedtaget i Senatet, men nationen vender sig imod ham. Oberst Jiggs Casey finder samtidig beviser for, at den meget populære general Scott, der er præsidentkandidat, sammen med andre militære ledere har planer om at vælte præsidenten, idet de frygter et russisk lynangreb. Casey går til præsidenten med sin foruroligende viden, og et uoverskueligt net af intriger viser sig i magtens korridorer.

This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.

I løbet af nogle dage udspilles på et gods en handling, der afspejler tiden, dvs. slutningen af 30'erne. En gruppe aristokrater leger med kærligheden og livet på randen af afgrunden, og dette spil har sin parallel i et tilsvarende, omend mindre elegant spil blandt tjenerskabet. Ikke blot herskabet kritiseres, tjenerskabet er ligeså snobbet og konventionelt.

In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.

François Truffaut har instrueret denne film om den midaldrende redaktør Pierre, der lever i et lykkeligt ægteskab med sin kone Franca, som han har en datter med. Under en flyrejse betages han af den unge stewardesse Nicole. Parret indleder en affære, og efterhånden begynder Franca at ane, at hendes mand er utro. Da hun endelig skrider, beder Pierre Nicole om at gifte sig med ham, men hun siger nej. Så prøver Pierre at vende tilbage til sin kone.

Gambler Nathan Detroit has few options for the location of his big craps game. Needing $1,000 to pay a garage owner to host the game, Nathan bets Sky Masterson that Sky cannot get virtuous Sarah Brown out on a date. Despite some resistance, Sky negotiates a date with her in exchange for bringing people into her mission. Meanwhile, Nathan's longtime fiancée, Adelaide, wants him to go legit and marry her.

Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.

På sin bryllupsdag bliver Julie Kohler enke, da hendes brudgom David på brutal vis bliver dræbt for øjnene af hende. Sønderknust og ødelagt af sorg begynder hun dog at udtænke sin grusomme hævn! Ingen af de fem mænd der skød hendes mand, skal slippe fra det med livet i behold, og den smukke enke Julie begiver sig snart afsted med det ene formål at finde og dræbe dem, der ødelagde hendes liv.

Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer is drawn to the enigmatic beauty, and he begins to cast about for a way to exonerate his client. Keane puts the Paradine household servant on the stand, suggesting he is the killer. But Keane soon loses his way in the courtroom, and his half-baked plan sets off a stunning chain of events.

Selv efter at være blevet indespærret på et sindssygehospital kontrollerer mesterhjernen, Dr. Mabuse, den kriminelle underverden uden for murene. Denne film af den verdenskendte, østrigske instruktør, Fritz Lang, er nummer to i rækken af Dr. Mabuse-film, udsendt 11 år efter den første og 27 år før den sidste! Filmen var ment som en direkte salut til Hitler og den voksende nazisme, omend den præsenteres som en gedigen god kriminalhistorie.