Justinian's Human Torches

A three-card-trick player wins at strip-poker.

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon...

An earnest G.I. returning home from European trenches awaits a woman to whom he has written but never seen.

A group of fishermen decide to initiate their youngest one through a different kind of storytelling - telling of an obese woman who will guide him...

Third part of the "Verlorene Töchter" series

France in the first half of the 17th century, at the time of the Duke and all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu. The courtesan Marion Delorme falls in love...

The Job is a close look at racism based on the actual conflicts in Texas in the early 1970s. An Elvis impersonator and a "good ole boy" set out on a...

Philibert Bretonneau signs novels which are actually written by Moluchet, his secretary, secretly in love with Bretonneau's charming wife, Pauline......

Katusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Nekludov. Nekludov finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katusha for a...

New York, 1927. An aspiring model goes to have her picture taken, but a camera can have a mind of its own.

Edward Town is a rough and tumble police detective who's shaken up by a haunting case that he couldn't solve in time. Years later, he finds himself...

A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, only for him to have second thoughts.