A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

1974 film by Alain Resnais

The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors.

这个故事里没有女孩，只有两个男孩。事情再简单不过。当然，时光流转，也曾有一两位美人出现在故事里，可三两个来回，便又消失不见。她们挽起一个男孩的胳膊，又吻上另一个的唇，但这依然是一段两个男孩间的故事。本没有什么能让他们分开，不管是木十字还是铁十字，不管是生离还是死别。他们间没有过愚蠢的争斗。令他们决裂的是别的事情，某件一开始就存在却没有人能想象到的事情。

Faustine, a romantic teenager, decides to spend her summer in the countryside with her grandparents. Upon her arrival she briefly meets a teenager named Joachim and quickly becomes obsessed with his family, spying on them from a distance.
Eventually she begins to integrate herself in to their lives, befriending Joachim's cousins, flirting with Joachim himself and developing a crush on his uncle.

A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.