高桥一家三口住在一间简陋的小房子内。男主人吏一（西村晃 饰）在东北大学图书馆工作，与女事务员义子维持了五年的不伦之恋；高桥家的生活危机重重，死气沉沉。
某日吏一出差外埠，强盗平冈（露口茂 饰）趁夜溜入房中，殴打并奸污了吏一的妻子贞子。次日清晨，倍感受辱的贞子意欲自杀， 却因割舍不掉对孩子的爱而最终放弃。过了三个月，贞子突然发现自己怀有身孕。为了摆脱平冈的纠缠，她决定杀掉这个冤孽之人……
本片荣获当年日本十佳电影第四名，并在《电影旬报》百部作品中位列第七名。

松木（左幸子 饰）出生在一个穷苦的农村家庭之中，母亲去世后，她和父亲过着相依为命的生活，父女之间感情十分亲密。为了补贴家用，松木被派往地主家做工，却被地主的儿子强暴怀孕。之后，松木回到了父亲身边，生下了一个女儿，取名幸子。
之后，松木在工厂里找到了一份工作，和小组长松波交往甚密。最终，松木被工厂开除。无处可去的她决定将幸子留给父亲照顾，自己只身一人来到了繁华的大都市东京。在那里，她成为了妓院里的一名女佣，并最终经不住金钱的诱惑，出卖了身体。聪敏的松木深得妈妈桑的信赖，妈妈桑将自己的一部分事业交给松木打理，并将金主唐泽介绍给松木。在唐泽的资助下，松木拥有了自己的妓院。

在横须贺美国海军基地，有趾高气昂的美国人，也有长吁短叹的小帮会哥们儿。日森一家失去了生计，看中了养猪的买卖。听从夏威夷来的崎山说，可以白拿基地的泔水剩饭，于是他们联合一些人做起养猪的生意来，发了横财。地痞，流氓来敲诈他们，他们内部也发生分化，一个叫春驹的在斗争中被打死。一天，日森一家人听说他们吃的肉正是春驹尸体的猪，都恶心地得跑了出去。家长铁次误以为自己得了癌症，儿子欣太的女友跑到街上成了醉鬼美国兵的玩物。同伙中有两伙人都想趁夜幕把猪运出去卖掉。日森的卡车队在前面跑，军治的卡车在后面追，所有人都被卷入了狂奔的猪的漩涡中去……

退伍的莫斯（Brad Dourif 饰）带着伤痕和军队支票回到了家乡，但这里除了破败的房屋与农场，什么也没有留下。莫斯踏上了前往图金汉的旅程，要在那里开创事业。
在这座陌生又怪诞的小城里，莫斯很快结识了喋喋不休的青年埃克、乔装盲人牧师布道行骗的阿萨（Harry Dean Stanton 饰）以及女儿莉莉。莫斯神经质的秉性在这座布满基督标语的小城里终于爆发，驾驶着二手汽车马不停蹄的宣扬没有基督、依赖自我救赎的“真理教”，在这个过程中，莫斯不知不觉与苦行者的形象相融合……

Willie Parker曾是一名古惑仔，他弃暗投明出卖了同伙，为躲避报复隐居在西班牙。但是十年后，两个杀手绑架了威利，他们奉命前来押送他回巴黎接受家法伺候，但这一路注定是不平静的……

让·潘勒维童话以泥塑动画的形式呈现，配以合唱的声音。蓝胡子开始求婚，他的六位妻子都已去世。他来到一位寡妇的家中，她有两个女儿。他令人非常畏惧，但他以慷慨的嫁妆克服了反对意见。一个姐姐（安妮）拒绝了他；另一个接受了他的求婚。在他的城堡里，少女在玫瑰园中度过了宝贵的时光，远离蓝胡子。撒拉逊人宣战了；蓝胡子离开去与他们战斗，将城堡的钥匙交到少女手中。他警告她不要进入禁止进入的房间。当战争肆虐时，她发现了城堡里的财富，然后进入了禁止进入的房间。蓝胡子会发现她的行为吗？她能逃脱死亡吗？

Jean Painlevé short film examining proportion and its effects on organisms.

We begin on planet Earth, with a demonstration of measuring distances using triangulation. Then, an imaginary voyage begins from earth to the moon, on to Mars, Saturn, the closest star (besides the sun), and beyond to the edge of our universe. The film depicts imagined landscapes, and it speculates on universes beyond ours. It ends with philosophical musings about the significance of Earth.

Jean Painlevé short film examining population explosion and decline.

The film begins with methodical descriptions of one-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional space. It then looks at a two-dimensional world inhabited by flat mice. It imagines how a human, from the third dimension could interact with that world. It then suggests how beings from a fourth dimension might interact with us. Next the film posits time as a fourth dimension, with scenes to aid comprehension. An off-screen narrator, graphs, and clever photography provide explanations and illustrations. The film asks viewers to use their imaginations.

Jean Painleve short about an experimental canine surgery.

An educational film, a movie through a microscope, in two parts. Within minutes after the egg drops in the water, fertilization occurs and contractions start. Soon, in a fertilized egg, we see the germinal disc divide into two blastomeres. Divisions continue; contractions re-occur at the cap as it covers the egg. Title cards in French tell us what to watch for. Muscular movements and circulation appear; the heart beats. In part two, we see blood circulation begin as red cells develop on the surface of the yoke. They mass toward the heart. Arteries form, blood flows. The egg hatches and blood flows to new areas.

Titles in French and English help us know what we're seeing. In all waters, daphnia abound. They are crustaceans about 2 ml long, with one eye that turns in all directions. Antennae enable daphnia to move: in a close up magnified 150,000 times, we see the muscles of the antennae pulse. We see the eye, the nerve mass, blood globules, and the heart, beating several times per second. The intestine forms a long line. All are females; eggs develop above the intestine. New generations come rapidly. Inside each daphnia are tiny infusoria; we watch them clean the intestine of a dead daphnia. An enemy, the hydra, approaches. A daphnia dies, but many remain.

A close-up look at sand urchins and rock urchins. At the seashore, a man digs up a sand urchin. We look closely. He sets it back in the sand, and it burrows out of sight. Its intestines take nutrients out of sand. Using magnification 200,000 times normal size, we see a rock urchin's spines with suckers on the end; a drawing illustrates how they work. A sea urchin walks toward a rock. We see three-fingered jaws—pedicellaria at the end of flexible stems—take in algae and other bits. We also see cilia less than 0.001 ml in length; their motion constant, creating whirlpools. On the shore again, we watch the setting sun. Occasional titles in French tell us what to watch for.

An octopus slithers over objects on land—a doll, a skull—then oozes along the shore into the sea. It secretes its ink. The camera follows it along rocks into deeper water, watching closely as it breathes. Its eye is closed then open. Simple titles, in French and German, suggest what to watch. The octopus alternates the use of breathing tubes on either side. It changes color as cells on its skin contract or dilate. Extreme magnification helps us see these changes. Two struggle, one dies. On shore, fishermen catch them and put them in pails. A single tentacle still has life. Back in the sea, two octopi attack a crab. Soon only a couple of crab legs are visible in the mouth of the victor.

The one-celled long and slender diatom, up close: discovered in 1703 with the invention of the microscope. We observe them magnified 10,000 times: water expelled through the skeleton, mucilage constantly emitted, allowing it to glide. Their energy comes from sunlight. They divide and disperse. The narrator, conversing with a young woman, says their remains cover one-third of the earth's surface. They have uses in petroleum, explosives, and polish. Some live in isolation, some in colonies, like elaborate fans. They can move in clusters. Many small animals eat them. We watch them slide on each other in long strings.

Two kinds of starfish, the brittle and the feather. The brittle star moves its arms alone, without the aid of suckers. Underneath is a single opening. Stalks move food close to the mouth and move waste away. We see vents, used in reproduction and breathing. We watch the hatched young expelled into the water. The camera shows us brittle stars' intricate patters. We observe feather stars in clusters, like ferns. One turns over slowly; arms have branches with stalks for breathing and gathering microscopic food. Reproductive organs are inside branches. We see eggs develop at 1,400 nature's speed. Larvae emerge, 0.1 mm long. They grow. A feather star takes a walk.

In a freshwater pond, it's "eat or be eaten." A dragonfly larva eats a midge; a water beetle larva eats a damselfly larva. Snail larvae grow. A beetle larva eats one. Up close, we see the eating apparatus of a damselfly larva—with a retractable hook beneath mandibles. Some creatures bite and chew, others suck. A water beetle larva holds on to its prey, injects a poison that turns the victim's insides to soup, and then sucks it dry. We watch one eat a damselfly larvae and then another water beetle larva. Some have ingenious ways to camouflage themselves, like the water scorpion, and to breathe air while hunting under water. Caddisfly larvae hide in debris, then eat.

After a look at some strange creatures, the narrator and camera take us to the Chaco forest, on the borders of Paraguay, Argentina, and Brazil, where a vampire bat lives, desmodus rotondus, attacking wildlife and domesticated creatures, killing small ones by draining all their blood and killing large ones by leaving a parasite in their bloodstream. Four inches long, with a 12-inch wingspread, we see it walk, approach a victim, pull out a patch of fur large enough for it to engage its teeth, then lap six or seven ounces of blood. Its saliva may be an anesthetic keeping its victims from waking. A stub nose and harelip contribute to its efficiency and its hideous look.

In mud flats along the coast of Brittany we watch acera, small ball-shaped mollusks that are about two inches in diameter. They rest in mud; then, in water, they dance, their skirt-like hood spreading like a dervish's cassock. They spin and spin. The film adds musical accompaniment. We watch them mate and secrete eggs: acera are both male and female, and can form chains with other acera in which they simultaneously mate as a male and as a female. The eggs hatch, and the cycle begins again.