Young scholar Andrei, fascinated by haunting actress Zoia Kadmina, is surprised when she sends him a note. The two have a brief scheduled meeting, then three months later Andrei is shocked to learn she has died. He becomes obsessed with Zoia's memory and decides he must find out all that he can about her.
Toni wants to become an opera-singer. Her mother was once simple chanteuse. Toni marries the brutal industrialist Liesegang. An Italian doctor falls in love with Toni. He want's to see Liesegang dead.
Mladého francouzského vojáka v první světové válce přepadne pocit viny, když zabije německého vojáka, který je stejně jako on hudebně nadaný odvedenec, protože oba navštěvovali stejnou hudební konzervatoř ve Francii. Skutečnost, že k incidentu došlo ve válce, jeho vinu nezmírní. Odcestuje do Německa, aby se setkal s jeho rodinou.
A woman murders her husband's mistress and someone else gets accused of the crime.
A man feels so much guilt over being infected by venereal disease that he conjures up a personal trial over his own behaviour.
An attorney handling a murder case in unaware his own wife played a crucial role in the killing.
Handicapovaný farmář Pete Morgan a jeho sestra Ellen žijí na farmě s adoptovanou dívkou Meg. Straní se lidí a blízké město je považuje za tajemné. Meg přesvědčí Peta, aby najal jednoho z jejích spolužáků, Natha Storma, aby mu pomáhal s domácími pracemi na farmě. Prvního večera, když je čas, aby se vrátil domů, Nath řekne, že se vydá zkratkou přes staré lesy, které patří Petovi. Pete je rozrušený a trvá na tom, že lesy jsou nebezpečné a je v nich strašidelný červený dům a že Nath musí jít okolo delší cestou. Po cestě nočním lesem se Nath vrací vyděšený poté, co zaslechl sténání a výkřiky. O pár dní později je však za svou zbabělost stydí a vrací se tam po setmění. Je zasažen zezadu a spadne do potoka. Vrátí se na farmu a věří, že ho udeřil Pete, ale Meg a Ellen říkají, že Pete byl s nimi v místnosti od chvíle, kdy Nath odešel. Nath i Meg si myslí, že Pete v lese skrývá nějaké tajemství a začnou hledat tajemný červený dům.
During WWII, industrialist Joe Keller commits a crime and frames his business partner Herbert Deever. Years later, his sin comes back to haunt him when Joe's son plans to marry Deever's daughter.
Tokiko is a mother patiently waiting for her husband's return from the war when her 4-year old son becomes ill. She takes him to the doctor for treatment but has no way of paying. She resorts to prostitution. One month later her husband returns from WWII to find his desperate wife, who tells him the truth. Together they must deal with the consequences.
Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, a man is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormentor. As the police close in around him, he makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man’s fiancée, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression.
Richard Burton hraje římského tribuna Marcella Gallia, který dostal příkaz ukřižovat Ježíše Nazaretského. Poslušen rozkazu vydá se tribun s odsouzencem na cestu ke Golgotě. Cestou postupně začíná ve skrytu duše o rozsudku pochybovat. Přesto svůj úkol splní a v kostkách pak vyhraje Kristovo roucho.
Když se pak kolem kříže začnou dít podivné a nevysvětlitelné věci, s hrůzou získané roucho odhazuje. Vzápětí však dostane pokyn roucho opět najít a dopravit neprodleně do Říma. Zážitky při usilovném pátrání po Ježíšově rouchu a setkání se stoupenci ukřižovaného Ježíše způsobí, že se sám obrátí na křesťanství. V Římě je za to i se svou snoubenkou Dianou (Jean Simmonsová) odsouzen k smrti. Film se podle mínění tehdejší kritiky příliš podbízí publiku a nepřesvědčuje ani příběhem, ani jeho ztvárněním. Koster dodal rutinní produkt průměrné kvality, a tak film vzbudil pozornost především užitím nové technologie Cinemascope.
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly despised this man all her life and finds her worst fears proven when Jaime grows determined to seduce his pure niece. Viridiana becomes undone as her uncle upends the plans she had made to join the convent.
A former army private goes to an island off the coast of the Philippines which he believes to be haunted by the ghosts of fallen American soldiers.
About a young couple who accidentally by car run over someone and kill him. The victim turns out to be an escapee from an asylum for the mentally ill.The two wander around the country side trying to figure out the situation, which quickly turns out not only to include the fatal accident but also the same to their own mutual situation. The catastrophe becomes the catalyst for their own emotional confrontation and settlement.
Sven Bertil, a pastor's son, accidentally is hit in the head by a church bell, resulting in a permanent concussion. He is admitted to a mental hospital,. Sven Bertil ends up in a conflict with his psychologist, his father and his father's new woman. He escapes from the institution and joins a group of gangsters. They exploit him for their criminal purposes..
Ellen Hardy gets a rude awakening when she discovers that her brother and sister are scheduled to leave their mental institution. As children, they were put there after killing their parents. Ellen, who now lives in the house of an old widow, Mrs. Armstrong, takes them in. But if their secret gets out, it could jeopardize Ellen's plans to wed Mrs. Armstrong's stepson. She struggles with anxiety -- until Mrs. Armstrong suddenly turns up dead.
A nymphomaniac recounts her memories of taboo sex.
A Quebec architect, working in Israel, visits a psychoanalyst to learn why he has an insatiable libido.