Henri Chatelard accompagne sa maîtresse, Odile, à l'enterrement de son père. Il s'éprend de la sœur d'Odile, Marie, qui met tout en œuvre pour le séduire. Beaucoup plus âgé que la jeune fille, il résiste d'abord à sa passion.

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.

A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through their program, she meets a woman named Thérèse who refuses any help because she says she was innocent of the crime she was convicted for. After being released from prison, Thérèse murders the actual perpetrator of the crime and comes to seek sanctuary in the convent.

In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.

1964 film by Jean Delannoy

1962 film by Michelangelo Antonioni