A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.

London lawyer Owen Lockhart inherited a distant uncle's grand but run-down Cornish coastal estate and moves in with the intent to sell it. Senior constable Maxwell Breckett's wife Adele, his late uncle's secretary, hopes to change Owen's mind by rallying local clients and hiring as cook foxy local agricultural engineer Holly Heston, fatherless boarding school pupil Toby's single mother. She's in love with constable Lucas Corbin, the only one into whom she confided a grim family secret, but he finds out about her fast-budding affair with Owen.

Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. And so, for that reason, he wishes to marry off his son Hermann with his well-off girlfriend Helga. But Hermann is in love with the farmer’s daughter Dorothea. He leaves his father’s estate with her and makes his way to Berlin to make a name for himself. He’s not successful in this and, so as not to stand in his way, Dorothea leaves him. Hermann’s aunt brings him back to his father’s estate, where, depressed over losing Dorothea, works tirelessly to clear the estate of all its debts.

Ugo Zatterin (15 October 1920 – 17 July 2000) was an Italian journalist. In 1957 he began working for Rai Teche as a political commentator. However, the investigations he carried out for Rai such as “La donna che lavora”, “Salute under investigation”, “L'industria dei calciatori”, “Viaggio nell'Italia che cambia”, are of historical value today because they photograph the critical issues and social developments of Italy in the 60s, at the dawn of the economic boom. By 1959, his video investigations had developed over eight episodes. “La donna che lavoro” is dedicated to the labourers of the south.

Based upon the Celtic legend Tam Lin, a young man is bewitched by a beautiful, heartless, aging sorceress to become her lover. When his attention wanders to a lovely girl, he is doomed to ritual sacrifice by the sorceress.

A man and a woman hitch a ride in the dark and swap their sad tales of failed relationships.

If money can't buy happiness, can it at least buy control over others? Xiang is hard-working, running a small sesame oil business. Her husband is lazy and drinks; her son is blood simple. When Japanese investors provide capital to expand Xiang's business, she has the wealth to raise her social standing and buy a wife for her son, Dunzi. When money and a forceful personality fail to bend others to her will, including daughter-in-law Huanhuan, Xiang must find another way to tranquillity.