Actor Max and the rich maiden Giovanna often meet in the house of Michele, an arid writer, and his wife Nina, and talk about many things, but mostly about love. Giovanna is in love with Michele, while Nina betrays him with Max. To revive their relationship and make it more exciting, Max finds for Nina an exceptional and paid amateur, Rick, a rebel intellectual. It happens, however, that the young protester falls in love with her, to whom he declares, writes, telephones, until, desperate, he tries to kill himself.
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After a night of excess, three wealthy young friends accidentally cause a man’s death and secretly dispose of the body. Six years later, now living respectable lives, they receive an anonymous letter containing a compromising photograph and a demand for money signed “Vergogna, schifosi!” (“Shame on you, bastards”). Afraid that their past crime will be exposed, they begin paying the mysterious blackmailer. As the messages continue, the trio suspects that an old friend may be responsible.
Emile Pulska is visiting his old friend Abe Stillman. During the visit they are attacked and Emile is struck senseless. When he wakes up he is told that Abe is dead, dead by natural causes, the doctors tell him. When Emile insists that they were attacked, his relatives try to give him psychiatric help. Emile decides to try to find the killers himself, but someone is watching his every step…
Tommy Scott goes to a Connecticut college to become a doctor, but is soon discovered to be a prodigious football talent. He becomes a national star and falls in love, but fame and ill-advised financial deals threaten to ruin his future.
Young lovers on the run in Paris attempt to elude a number of sinister characters. French new-wave filmmaker Claude Chabrol, appearing in a bizarre role as a voyeur, is one of many in-jokes/references to Fuller’s fascination with European culture.
Sicilian opera lover Matteo Scuro is a retired bureaucrat who wants to have a family reunion. When most of his adult children cancel their trip to Sicily, Matteo decides to take the train to them. On each visit to a different part of Italy, he learns about the lies that his family has been telling him, including a significant one about his missing son, Alvaro.
A rising tennis star falls for an older woman engaged with a wealthy man she doesn’t love. Will he become the next John McEnroe? Will she choose love over financial security?
Widowed mother Charlotte Lord would like to marry wealthy Guy Barton, but Bartons’ avaricious ex-wife Sybil insists upon contesting their recent Mexican divorce. Charlotte’s daughters Jane, Leni and Marilyn conspire to put Sybil out of the way by pairing her off with Steve Nelson, gilding the lily by convincing Nelson to pose as Argentine cattle baron Don Pablo Viscente. The ruse almost works, but then the real Don Pablo shows up. Undaunted, the Lord girls concoct a variety of additional schemes to smooth the path of romance for their mother and the eligible Mr. Barton.