介绍：Paris, 1315. The Tour de Nesle, a guard tower on the banks of the Seine, has become a symbol of mystery and fear. Each morning, at its base, the bodies of handsome young aristocrats are found floating in the river, all butchered by sword or arrow. One evening, two noblemen, Buridan and Philippe d'Aulnay, find themselves in the infamous tower, lured there on the expectation of a night of unbridled passion. Little do they realise that they are to be the next victims of a woman who is determined to take revenge against all men - Margaret of Burgundy, the present Queen of France. Although Philippe is killed, Buridan escapes, and intends to blackmail the Queen. Unless she makes him her prime minister, he will expose her crimes to Philippe's brother and her husband, King Louis X. When she moves to eliminate Burdan, Margaret makes a terrible discovery...　　In the twilight years of his long and pretty uneven career, the great avant-garde film director Abel Gance made a number of films which, whilst not as grand and artistically inspired as his early silent masterpieces (La Roue (1923), Napoléon (1927)), still compared very favourably with the work of his contemporaries.　　Of these, La Tour de Nesle is a film that still stands up remarkably well today - an ambitious historical drama based on the famous 1832 play by Alexandre Dumas. It makes a nice companion piece to Gance's subsequent historical romp, Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964).　　　　Needless to say, the film isn't to be commended on its historical accuracy. As any historian will tell you, the Alexandre Dumas version of French history is wildly fanciful, to say the least. However, this doesn't prevent La Tour de Nesle from being an entertaining and, at times, highly poignant, piece of cinema.　　Whilst the characterisation and dialogue leave much to be desired, the plot (a murky tale of cruel revenge and political intrigue) is gripping, and the film's artistic design is exceptional for a film of this period. Gance brings a strangely expressionistic touch to his use of colour and shade, something which adds to the darkly sinister nature of the plot, whilst imbuing the film with a striking sense of historical realism. A propos, Gance's assistant director Nelly Kaplan makes her screen début in a small role, shortly before she herself embarked on a successful film making career.

介绍：The first story is about Nanda, a young man who leaves Calcutta to work as a postmaster in an isolated malaria-infested village. The postmaster is looked after by a young orphan girl, Ratan. His only solace in the village is in teaching Ratan how to read and write. The second story is about a student, Amulya, who returns to his village after finishing his exams. His widowed mother is very anxious for him to marry, and has already picked out a girl. He rejects his mother's choice and, being forced to choose some girl, marries a lively tomboy who is not ready to give up her freedom.

介绍：When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr. Frankenstein. Soon it comes after Marshall and the doctor's daughter.

介绍：约翰（比利·查平 Billy Chapin 饰）和佩尔（萨莉·简·布鲁斯 Sally Jane Bruce 饰）是一对苦命的兄妹，他们的父亲本（彼得·格雷夫斯 Peter Graves 饰）因抢劫和被判处绞刑在被逮捕前，本把赃款藏在了佩尔的布娃娃里，并让他们承诺永远不泄露这个秘密。本的狱友哈利（罗伯特·米彻姆 Robert Mitchum 饰）是一个败絮其中的牧师，偶然间他得知了这笔赃款的去向，出狱后，哈利找到了本的妻子薇拉（谢利·温特斯 Shelley Winters 饰），他想方设法得到了薇拉的芳心成为了约翰和佩尔的继父，就此，哈利的阴谋开始了。哈利杀死了对于他来说毫无价值的薇拉，将他弃尸河底，又对兄妹两人威逼利诱想要套出赃款的秘密。在所有努力都没有成果之际，恼羞成怒的哈利露出的本来面目。约翰和佩尔划着小船逃离了哈利，他们一路流浪来到了一个陌生的小镇，专门收养弃婴的善良妇人理查德（丽莲·吉许 Lillian Gish 饰）收留了兄妹两，然而平静的生活没过多久，哈利罪恶的脚步也踏上了这块纯洁的土地。

介绍：爱娜（卡蒂·奥廷宁 Kati Outinen 饰）和凯瑞（Kari Väänänen 饰）是一对感情十分要好的夫妻，他们一个是餐厅经理，一个是电车司机，尽管经济并不宽裕，甚至有些“紧巴巴”，但很显然，照此发展，两人的未来充满了光明和希望　　经济危机的到来让爱娜和凯瑞的家庭也陷入了危机，爱娜所在的餐厅破产倒闭，凯瑞在公司的“裁员抓阄”中不幸中彩，夫妻两人同时失去了工作，家里的贷款还未还完，生活露出了真实而残酷的面孔，爱娜和凯瑞不知该如何是好。虽然丢掉了工作，但夫妻两并没有丢掉斗志和尊严，为了生存，他们做出了种种努力，不幸的是，这些努力均以失败告终。在此走投无路之际，爱娜曾经的老板出现在了爱娜的面前，他带来了一个机会，它有可能坏的，但也有可能是好的。