In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.

The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.

1964 film by Luis Buñuel

绅士冉阿让（杰拉尔·德帕迪约 Gérard Depardieu 饰）因为偷窃了一条面包而被判了20年的有期徒刑。出狱后，被困顿生活逼得走投无路的他被好心的主教收留，可是，未能经得住内心阴暗面考验的冉阿让却偷走了主教家的银烛台。被捕后，主教为了保护冉阿让，遂承认是自己主动赠与对方烛台，主教这一举动彻底的感化了冉阿让，令他决定洗心革面做个好人。 时光匆匆流逝，曾经的囚犯如今已成为德高望重的镇长，可即便如此，嫉恶如仇的警长沙威（约翰·马尔科维奇 John Malkovich 饰）也一直没有放弃过对于冉阿让的追踪。冉阿让爱上了垂死的妓女芳汀（夏洛特·甘斯布 Charlotte Gainsbourg 饰），答应在她死后照顾她的女儿珂赛特（维吉妮·拉朵嫣 Virginie Ledoyen 饰），而此时，沙威步步紧逼的脚步令冉阿让和珂赛特不得不踏上了隐姓埋名不断逃亡的旅途。

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

1991 film by Claude Chabrol

1959 film by Robert Bresson

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.