Marietta, servant of aristocrat Don Cesare, is the bellezza of an Italian town where men gather nightly in the tavern for the ‘game of the Law,’ selecting one by lot to boss and humiliate the others. Illicit passions abound: the judge’s wife pursues Francesco, son of crime boss Matteo, who is after Marietta (so is her brother-in-law); Marietta wants engineer Enrico for a husband, but he claims he’s too poor to marry. So she decides to steal herself a dowry! All this may lead to an explosion…and some changes in who dictates ‘the law.’

布匿战争题材电影

大西洋利比里亚海岸。一艘货船以上帝的名义让当地的黑人免费装上一船椰子，椰子运到德国汉堡，船长接到一项特殊的使命，要带150名犹太人去亚历山大 港。船长亲眼看到党卫军枪毙了一个犹太人。船长带着船驶向大海，圣诞夜，船长带着犹太的孩子们欢快的唱歌，跳舞，还燃放了烟火。船到了亚历山大港，意外发生了，这150名犹太人被认为持假护照，荷兰领事馆拒绝难民上岸，他要让船长把船开回汉堡，两小时以内离开码头。船长知道只要回到汉堡，这些犹太人一定是死路一条，船长坚决不同意返航。那么，船要驶向何方呢？船长受到圣约的启示，决定向美洲进发，他说：我看那里有没有人可以救他们，如果失败了，我从此就臣服于魔鬼。船到了美国海岸，船长期待上帝派天使来拯救这些犹太人，可上船来的巡逻兵却把船赶出美国海域。为了150人的生命安全，船长把船上的人用救生小船送上正在比赛的帆船队，自己放火炸掉自己的货轮，难民会因船难被接收，可船长只能远远地看着自己的船慢慢沉入海底。
本片中船长的角色塑造非常成功，他颇具性格特色的台词格外出色，关于上帝的对话尤为精彩。

故事发生在一七八九年五月，法国大革命初期。两名少女进入贡比涅的加尔默罗会修道院。一个性格活泼快乐，另一个对生命与死亡有著极大的恐惧。革命爆发了，当人民委员长接到审理的命令时，每个人面对断头台的机会都是平等的……
这部电影的剧本由佐治．宾纳奴撰写，早在布雷克贝杰神甫与菲力普．亚高士天尼把它拍成电影之前已曾经被搬上银幕，并且大受欢迎。本片除了是让我们唤起加尔默罗会修女们宁静的生活如何遭革命的蹂躏而粉碎之外，也是要向这一群修女致最崇高的敬意，她们为信念而踏上断头台。

Ersilia Drei, after a suicide attempt recounts her vicissitudes: hired as governess to the daughter of Consul Grotti she is wooed by Franco but soon after seduced by the very consul who drives her away after his daughter loses her life due to Ersilia's distraction. Because of economic difficulties she falls lower and lower until she meets Ludovico with whom she can perhaps hope for sincere love again. The consul's return, however, will lead her toward a tragic ending.