Le Désirable et le Sublime

Michel, a young man of Ukrainian origin, flees the Red Army and joins the International Brigades in Perpignan to fight Franco. He was arrested for being Russian, Communist and deserter. He was wounded by his involvement, but fell in love with an American journalist.

A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.

Various stories intertwine within the walls of a popular Parisian brothel on the eve of the First World War.

Photographer Philippe Abregas teams up with a Swedish model he met in Roman high society and tells her the story of the four other girls he has chosen to feature on the cover of his magazine.

Diplomats and spies converge in Malta to influence a weapons-for-oil deal involving a influential sheikh.

Sorenson uses diamond robbery money to buy clinic in Corsica. His accomplice Dyonis has disappeared. Sorenson takes Dyonis' wife Valerie as mistress. Valerie takes coral fisherman Bernard as lover. Dyonis appears, Sorenson hopes Dyonis will kill Bernard. Bernard becomes lover of Sorenson's wife Katia. Bernard is found murdered, Valerie blames Sorenson, who tries to escape with his robbery fortune. He is pursued by Dyonis, who kills him. Dyonis is caught by police at airport. Katia drowns herself in the sea.

Pierre is in Hamburg on a merchant ship with his friends Georges and Jean-Marie. While they are just looking for a good time in the twenty-four hours they have to waste in the city, Pierre is seized by the memory of a young German girl, Maria, whom he had known and probably loved when he was a prisoner of war in the bombed-out port of Hamburg. He abandons his companions in search of her, but is unable to trace her, her house having been destroyed and the search services having no record of her.

A sexually frustrated woman, living with her sister and brother-in-law, is tormented by bizarre nightmares and violent erotic fantasies.

A moody pianist-composer and his voluptuous strip-tease dancing babe are avoiding reality at a French seaside resort. The resort's young female manager has a dying husband on her hands, and becomes attracted to the composer. When the husband dies, accusations and recriminations fly, combined with various betrayals and jealousies.

After a disappointment in love, Alain tells his mistress how he gradually sank into libertinage: from his beginnings with a teacher in art history, then with a supermarket saleswoman, until his discovery libertine parties.

Helmut Schmidt is an ambitious Interpol inspector. He follows a trail of dangerous drug dealers that leads to Hamburg. With the colleagues there, he decides to infiltrate the gang. The beautiful dancer Arlette helps him.

Professor Mirella Buzzati, recovering from a failed relationship that ended with a divorce from her husband, travels to Perugia where she has obtained a mathematics teaching position at a high school. Her hatred of men, evident during the train ride and in her interactions with male colleagues who quickly flock to her, quickly yields to the attractiveness of Alain, a student nicknamed "the dark and handsome" by the high school girls. He already has a relationship with Giorgina, a fellow student of the same age and a fanatical militant of "Lotta Continua." In an effort to win over her idol, Mirella becomes unscrupulous in her teaching, preaches political and sexual revolution; she earns the headmaster's rebukes, and heaps scathing criticism on her rival Giorgina. After a stint in Paris with a lesbian colleague, the professor resumes her attack and obtains Alain's physical performance, but not her love: the boy understands her well and deeply despises her.

A "documentary" that purports to show the history of women through the ages, but is mainly an excuse for various female historical figures to take off their clothes. There are stripping cavewomen, stripping vampires, strippers during the French Revolution and strippers in a nightclub act. Several of the scenes from this film found their way into other movies, among them The Wild World of Jayne Mansfield.

Bryan is an American journalist, married with two young daughters. Assigned to cover the Paris Conference on Vietnam, he is approached at the airport by two stewardesses, Corinne and Lucile. They meet again, talk politics, but the discussion veers off course: “Do you know how to make love? - Of course, I'm married.” Bryan sleeps with Corinne as Lucile looks on, then confesses to both women: he feels no remorse, but he's sad that it's so easy to cheat on your wife. “Corinne is a free woman,” as Lucile later tells Bryan. The latter is too puritanical and romantic to accept being just another fling. He thinks of nothing but the young woman, and is constantly on the lookout for her.

Four tales of Jean la Fontaine tell in a libertine way. The pleasure of infidelity is described in all forms: a woman seduced by her servant, a man seduce his servant, the wives of Messire Guillaume, and a bourgeois and a nun.

A compilation of censored pornographic and subversive scenes from the films of José Bénazéraf.