Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels his lowly status keenly. If only he could graduate to the ranks of hitmen, who are honored in his world, perhaps then he would feel more like somebody. He finally gets his chance when he receives instructions to kill the eminent hitman Max, who knows too much to be left alive. Instead of planning a cool and distant hit, Jeremie gets to know his quarry personally and thereby gets entangled in a mass of conflicting allegiances. Max has one more assignment and has asked Jeremie to help him with it. The hero-worshipping boy can't bring himself to knock of this classy guy. However, just having such an inept apprentice as Jeremie around is enormously dangerous for the soon-to-be-retired killer.

State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.

Odile is getting ready to celebrate her birthday. As her kids and grandkids are on their way to visit her, Jean, her husband, unexpectedly passes away.
Unable to cope with reality, she hides him under the bed.

Sandra, a schoolteacher, would like to control every moment of a life she finds too banal. Even if she seems to have found an ideal in love, she takes two lovers, in the person of Pierre, ordinary but in love, and of Blaise a splendid black photographer.

巴黎深秋的一个清晨，22岁贵族出身的拉法埃尔·瓦朗坦在赌桌上输光了身上的最后一枚金币后，准备投进塞纳河自尽。但这位才华横溢的年轻侯爵并没有成功。他希望几个月前努力在写的一本论意志的书会给他带来名利双收，结果却仍是身无分文。当瓦朗坦经过一家古董店时，他想得到一把枪来结束自己的生命。然而，古怪的盲古董商却给了他一张印有天竺文字的驴皮。这张驴皮能为主人实现任何的愿望，但愿望一经实现，驴皮会立刻缩小，主人的寿命也随之缩短。瓦朗坦开始从掳获金钱的快感，去填壑无尽的欲望，另一方面象征他的生命的驴皮也逐步的缩小，将他带往死亡。当成为百万富翁的瓦朗坦终于有了自己心仪的女人时，这位把灵魂出卖给魔鬼的浪荡子猛然惊觉，死神已临近身旁，只能眼睁睁地看着自己的末日来临。

1990 film by Jean-Luc Godard