Humbert är professor i fransk litteratur – en intelligent och attraktiv man. Året är 1947 och Humbert kommer till New England där han hyr ett rum hos änkan Charlotte Haze. Hon ser i Humbert en möjlighet att förverkliga sina drömmar om en kultiverad make. Men Humbert drömmer om hennes dotter, Lolita. De båda ger sig iväg på en lång resa, en resa rakt mot helvetet...
A young woman uses her body and her sexuality to help her climb the social ladder, but soon begins to wonder if her new status will ever bring her happiness.
Välkommen till Grand Hotel, där tragedier, äventyr och romanser lurar bakom varje dörr. Den vackra men ensamma dansösen funderar på självmord; den dödssjuke expediten försöker få ut allt ur sin sista tid; den obarmhärtige affärsmannen planerar en affär som kan rädda hans karriär; den ambitiösa sekreteraren byter ut dygd mot framgång; och den ruinerade aristokraten söker sig till mer kriminella sätt att försörja sig. Djupt försjunkna i sina egna problem är dessa fem desperata gäster helt omedvetna om varandra ända tills ödet för dem samman och ändrar deras liv för alltid.
Based on a controversial French novel, Lila Says tells the story of a quiet young poet named Chimo who develops a crush on the pretty, blond Lila, a girl who recently moved into his Arab ghetto with her aunt. When the leader of a rival gang also falls for Lila, the ensuing love triangle initiates a journey of sexual discovery -- and sets off a chain of devastating events.
A wealthy couple's marriage is falling apart due to the man's infidelity. The wife's male friend has long loved her and sees his big opportunity.
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Hotel Coolgardie is a portrait of outback Australia, as experienced by two backpackers who find themselves the latest batch of “fresh meat” to work as barmaids in a remote mining town.
Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome's dance of the seven veils, replete with the beheading of Jokanaan. The performer portraying Salome is in love with Cock Robin. Jealous, sinister The Greek is determined to eliminate that competition.
A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.
When Zhang Hui is told by long-time best friend Xiao Gong that he has a new girlfriend, she is determined to learn new tricks to gain him back. Based on the novel written by Luo Fuman, Everyone Loves Tender Women.
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.
Charlie and his wife are in the park when he encounters Ambrose and his wife. Each man is attracted to and shows unwanted attention to the other man's wife. A policeman becomes involved.
Two young strangers meet in Naples and begin to flirt and dance in the street.
Roscoe's wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to get the surgery. Roscoe, wanting out, eventually disguises himself as a nurse to effect his escape.
Because his father, Lord Grenham, spends more time philandering with attractive women than conducting business, Willie Tatham is forced to interrupt his honeymoon with his wife Margot in the south of France and return to London to get his father to sign an important contract. While Margot, an actress, goes to a small resort where she will not be recognized, Kitty Lake, one of the young women Lord Grenham pursues, flirts with Willie. Two weeks pass and when Willie tells Margot on the telephone that he must stay in town, she threatens to engage in a violent flirtation with the next attractive man she sees. Karl von der Heide, from Vienna, who is waiting to use the telephone, overhears her and begins a flirtation. She identifies herself to him as Mrs. Margaret Spaulding, and they pursue the beginnings of a romance until Margot suddenly returns home.
A Finnish documentary follows four young men who have one year to find new love in Helsinki.
Sentimental marivaudage between Nicole, her husband Christian, her friend Alexandre and a provincial girl, Marie-Josèphe, who marries Alexandre after arousing Nicole's jealousy.