Three struggling artists try to make passable livings in Paris despite knock backs and tragedies.

A boy in Nazi Germany, trying to conceal that he is Jewish, joins the Hitler Youth.

A recluse is accused of murdering a young woman simply because his neighbors think he is strange.

When an African boy arrives by cargo ship in the port city of Le Havre, an aging shoe shiner takes pity on the child and welcomes him into his home.

Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity. As he succumbs to green-eyed jealousy, his life starts to ...

A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.

An unshakable mine-clearing expert suddenly loses his footing when he learns that his father is not his father. Despite all the tenderness he feels for the man who raised him, he discreetly sets out to find his father.

A provincial youngster who travels up to Paris to sit an entrance exam for a "grande école". His path crosses that of a young woman and they strike up a short-lived relationship.