A young engineer is charged with transporting secret documents across the English channel - but criminal elements are on his trail and things soon start to go wrong.

A family with an unusual method of transporting large quantities of money cause problems for a young man holidaying in Italy.

During the French Revolution, three nuns and a priest live in fear of a man who appears to be watching them.

In the midst of manoeuvres, a young officer attends a dinner party at the home of the von Rabbeck family.

Modern fable about a physician who sells a miraculous yellow paint.

A poor family set their hopes on the return of a previously good-for-nothing uncle who left for America to seek his fortune.

A man picks up a piece of string, an act which unfortunately coincides with the loss of a mayor's pocket book.

While travelling in Normandy a young artist meets a singularly unfriendly older woman.

A group of bored Prussian soldiers amuse themselves destructively while holed up in a French chateau.

The five girls and the refined, virtuous Madame of a Normandy brothel shut up shop in order to attend a confirmation.

Maupassant's short masterpiece following the journey of a group of civilians during the Franco-Prussian war.

Dr Ragin is honest and intelligent but lacks the strength of character to see to it that life around him is honest and intelligent - which has serious consequences for the psyciatric ward he runs.

Sophia, a beautiful married woman, and her neighbour Ilyin meet 'by accident' - he wants to declare his love for her, she to tell him to stop pursuing.

A bored middle-aged adulterer picks up a young married woman little expecting the great love that will develop.

Grief has a sobering effect on a drunkard craftsman as he takes his sick wife to hospital during a blizzard.