When her mother dies, a teenage girl, together with her five-year-old brother, decides to find her long-absent sailor father.

During a ceremony in an orthodox church in Paris, a 40-year-old writer and journalist is seduced by a young man, whom with she will live an extraordinary story of love and passion that will drive them to madness.

Paul and Sarah form a happy couple with no problems. But when Sarah sees Paul wrapped in the arms of a young woman her peaceful happiness collapses. She in turn takes a lover. Paul realizes that he's losing his wife and proposes a second honeymoon in Morocco...

France, 1940. German troops have just invaded the country, but in the rural idyll of the family chateau inhabited by 20-year-old Mellie with her impoverished aristocrat father Alexandre and adolescent cousin Robinson, the war still seems far away, apart from the fact that Mellie's rich and unpopular fiancé André has been drafted into the army. For Robinson and his friends the same age, including the temperamental Bertrand, the war is merely a game they play in the remoteness of the blue island in the lake.

A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.

Catherine and Marcello are secluded in their house, living under the candlelight. Unable to accept the injustice behind the loss of their nine-month-old baby, they face a slow but definite self-destruction.

Two girls meet on a train: Prune is looking for her father whom she has not seen since she was a little girl, Marina is looking for the mother she has never had. Prune learns that her father took his life and then she accidentally dies by drowning. Marina decides to assume her identity and begins a correspondence with Prune's mother. Written by Salvatore Santangelo <[email protected]>

An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as she contemplates having an abortion.

A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to make a plea on behalf of a political prisoner. Jean Luc Godard and Anne Marie Mieville's film concerns the plight of Thomas Wanggai, West Papuan activist who has since died in prison. The short films were commissioned by Amnesty International.

Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. His eldest daughter, Dino, lives with Paul, a playwright: theirs is a passionate relationship dogged by the dissatisfactions of daily life. Another daughter Sidonie comes into adulthood in love with Jude, both are musicians, except that she has a phobia about performing in public. After Jeanne throws Edouard out, the film jumps ahead seven years to pick up the resolution of these three relationships, brought to a crisis by Edouard's sudden illness. Can Sidonie play in public, can Paul and Dino live together, will mama and papa reconcile?

When the police find Simone seated near her husband's corpse it is predictable that she is charged with the murder. Jean-Pierre Laubray is appointed counsel for the defence. He begins an inquiry into the case and he finds out that the murdered man had killed a barman in a robbery the night before. He finds out as well he was a leg-man of Cristiani's for his election campaign. He tries to contact Juliette, Cristiani's daughter, and he discovers that also Bruno, Juliette's brother, died that same night in a car accident...

故事开始于二十世纪七十年代，维多利亚（玛丽·特兰蒂尼昂 Marie Trintignant 饰）刚刚决定和未婚夫携手步入婚礼的殿堂，在这个节骨眼上，战争爆发了，未婚夫收到军令被应征入伍走上了前线，而此时维多利亚的腹中已经怀上了他的孩子。 母亲希望维多利亚能够将孩子打掉，因为她和未婚夫并没有真正的结婚。但是倔强的维多利亚还是选择将孩子生了下来，取名亚历山大，坚强的独自抚养。战争结束了，维多利亚的未婚夫回到了她的身边，可是，让维多利亚没有想到的是，这个男人竟然拒绝承认亚历山大就是他的孩子，还抛弃了这对母子。然而，这突如其来的变故并没有打垮坚强的维多利亚。

本片原为上下集电视剧。科莱特是法国20世纪最著名的女小说家。本片是为了纪念她逝世50周年而拍摄的，细致地描述了这位文坛奇女子在生活和爱情道路上所经历的重重风波，特别讲到她不顾家庭的反对，委身嫁给了与父亲同时代的小说家威利，但不如意的婚姻使她决定从文学写作中寻找生活的希望和寄托，最终成就了一位成功的小说家。 影片非常生动地再现了科莱特的生平，将这个柔弱女子如何从家庭的困惑中挣扎，如何在写作的天地中得到满足，又如何发展成一个追求爱情自主的女权主义者的过程描写得具体而感人，是部扎实的人物传记电影。女主角是法国著名演员路易·特林提格南特和本片女导演所生的女儿，她塑造的科莱特层次分明，但遗憾的是在本片拍竣后，她竟然被男友殴打致死，成为欧美影坛一桩轰动的新闻，更为本片的女权色调添上了一丝悲凉而深沉的续笔。

1995 anthology film by 41 different directors