This mystical short film has a narrator telling us about a "strange philanthropical secret society" that has been in existence for seven years at a certain building. Its members, Philokinetes, devote their energy and money to studying and promoting a fragment of film they call 'The Film to Come'. The fragment runs for twenty-three seconds and is in a loop. Thus projected, it can last for hours, days, even years. Apparently, after viewing this fragment one can become somewhat enlightened, and in a deep hypnotic state, brought about by over-repetition of the revealing fragment. As the narrator says: "Once you reach this state, you can see, so they say." The next section of the film is a watershed: for the narrator is now a different voice and telling us that the fragment has been stolen and the Philokinetes were now in a deep identity crisis. There is a large book of apocryphal wisdom shown called 'Double Book of the Dancing Mysteries' that the sect read. Knowledge derived from this book of "mumbo-jumbo and untruths" leads the Philokinetes to believe that cinema had a life independent to humans. Cinema, they said, is "the primeval soup of a new life form. Therefrom were to emerge pure screening creatures, or non topical beings. Vast sets of loops, from which everyone would own a short endless return to self." Later the Philokinetes claim that the lost fragment was found by the narrator's daughter, an event which sparks off feasts and banquets which lasted for weeks. The narrator's voice changes again as he dies whilst overlooking two priests undergoing a solemn leafing through the Double Book, after they have took a vow of illiteracy. The narrator's soul has now run away to a cinema, but more importantly, it had become a part of the fragment entitled The Film to Come.
Shot mainly in black and white, Ruiz's familiar shooting style and camera angles are evident in his esoteric and interesting nine minute film.

Shortly after murdering his professor, a young man encounters a sailor who offers him a position on his ship in exchange for 3 Danish crowns and his attention as he recounts his life story.

Two narrators, one seen and one unseen, discuss possible connections between a series of paintings. The on-screen narrator walks through three-dimensional reproductions of each painting, featuring real people, sometimes moving, in an effort to explain the series' significance.

Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.

1998 film by Raúl Ruiz

索罗姬（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）刚刚失去了自己的儿子，与此同时，她亦结下了一个案子，成为了一个名为雷内（梅尔维尔·珀波 Melvil Poupaud 饰）的年轻人的辩护律师，雷内被控告谋杀了他的姑妈珍妮（凯瑟琳·德纳芙 Catherine Deneuve 饰）。
在分析了种种的线索之后，索罗姬坚信雷内是无罪的，在索罗姬的不懈努力之下，雷内终于获得了无罪宣判。神秘的精神病医生的出现让这宗案件再度隐入了迷雾之中，乔治（米歇尔·皮寇利 Michel Piccoli 饰）和克里斯蒂（安德烈·瑟韦林 Andrzej Seweryn 饰）亦认为这宗案件并没有就此结束。当一切的秘密都逐渐被呈现在众人面前时，索罗姬是否能够意识到，自己被卷入了一个阴谋之中。

The film revolves around the concept of soap opera. Its structure is based on the assumption that Chilean reality does not exist, but rather is an ensemble of soap operas.

十四岁的约翰从小就生长在修道院中，没有亲人，亦没有过去。一天，一位神秘的妇人安吉拉（玛利亚·若奥·巴斯托斯 Maria João Bastos 饰）找到了约翰，声称自己是他的亲生母亲，并且向约翰讲述了她曾经的故事。
安吉拉是侯爵的女儿，她和伯爵之子席尔瓦（何塞·阿方索·皮蒙特尔 José Afonso Pimentel 饰）相爱，遭到了父亲的强烈反对。然而，叛逆的安吉拉并没有屈服，她腹中怀着席尔瓦的孩子，决定与其私奔。暴怒的侯爵派出杀手刺杀席尔瓦，甚至连安吉拉腹中的胎儿也不放过，幸运的是，安吉拉得到了一位神父和令一位神秘人的帮助，约翰才得以长大。成年之后，约翰来到巴黎，遇见了一位贵妇，他答应帮助贵妇找到杀死她哥哥的凶手，让约翰没有想到的是，这名凶手竟然正是当初帮助过他和他母亲的神秘人。

2007 anthology film of 34 short films