Else ist die hübsche Tochter eines Wiener Rechtsanwaltes. Die junge Dame wurde von ihrer Tante für einige Urlaubstage zu einem Sommeraufenthalt in San Martino eingeladen. Dort erhält sie einen Express-Brief ihrer Mutter, in welchem die Bitte an sie herangetragen wird, den reichen Kunsthändler Dorsday um ein dringend benötigtes Darlehen zu bitten. Ihr Vater steht wegen Unterschlagung vor dem Bankrott. Else geht auf Dorsday zu und schildert ihm die schwierige familiäre Lage. Dorsday ist bereit das nötige Geld zu leihen, stellt aber die Bedingung, dass Else sich ihm eine Viertelstunde lang nackt zeigen soll. Else reagiert empört auf dieses Ansinnen, erkennt aber im Laufe des Abends das Dilemma, in dem sie sich befindet. Gefangen zwischen unbedingter Loyalität zu ihrem Vater und der starken Sehnsucht nach Autonomie und selbstbestimmter Weiblichkeit kann sie sich auf keine der Alternativen festlegen.

American engineer Steve Corey comes to Mexico to work at one of the mining projects owned by Katherine Beckman and her half-brother Paul. He meets Katherine, and the man he is replacing, Bill Maxton, tells him that Katherine is his for the asking..."all you have to do is touch her---she goes off like fireworks. There were plenty of guys before me, and there'll be plenty after me." Steve finds Katherine as advertised but he falls in love with her. Once he sees that the romance is for real, brother Paul is more than a little displeased at this turn of events and brings back one of Katherine's earlier flames, Gus Cole, to tempt Katherine away from Steve.

1961 film by Curd Jürgens

Family-friendly comedy about a daughter seeking a new wife for her recently widowed father. Charlotte Haberland leaves her boarding school and returns home to her father. Contrary to what most people would expect, since the death of his wife, the widower's been living a life full of joy and adventure. However, his daughter's been looking for a quiet housewife for dad; so, she's determined to "bring him back down to Earth". It soon becomes obvious, however, that it is she who wants a new mom that fits the housewife-mold. He's quite content to be the happy bachelor he once was.

1965 film by Rolf Thiele, Axel von Ambesser, Alfred Weidenmann

An aging gossip columnist, tired of the social life of the Roman Dolce-vita set, goes to New York with hopes of a literary career. He marries a nurse, but succumbs to his former mistress.

1966 film by August Everding

Begun in 1944/45, finished and released in 1949, this is a biography of the composer Carl Michael Ziehrer, who overcomes hypersensitivity in competitive situations which leads initially to failures in both career and romance.

Told in flashback, the film recounts the events leading up to the killing of good-for-nothing Curt Jurgens. Warned by her friends and relatives that Jurgens is a bad job, impulsive Ina Kahr marries him anyway. His ceaseless philandering and abuse wears away at Ina to the point that she contemplates poisoning her husband...

Henry, a rich Londoner bored, shipwrecked in the Atlantic and ends up in San Francisco. The adventure has just begun. From the novel "Naufrage en eaux troubles" by François Ponthier.

1955 film by Leonard Steckel

Based on the story "The Heroes of Yucca," The Invincible Six features a ragtag group of jewel thieves who become the unofficial guardians of a small Iranian village. When bandits attack the village, looking for the body of their former leader and his treasure map, the Invincible Six are there to save the day, wooing the local females and frustrating the new leader of the bandits.

Set in 1815, a young Englishman touring Europe encounters more than he bargained for. His pursuit of the beautiful Countess St. Alyre brings him into contact with the Marquis D'Armanville and other odd characters. A series of bizarre murders occur, bringing our hero to the borderland of nightmare.

1942 film directed by Johannes Meyer

1939 film by Paul Verhoeven

Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the working class Mario who dreams of social climbing.

A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.

1958 film by Helmut Käutner

A young girl marries the wealthy father of one of her male friends at college, but she soon finds herself falling for her new husband’s son. The husband finds out about the two, and comes up with what he believes to be a foolproof plan: he will frame his wife and his son for his own murder, then have the pair locked in a room in his remote, isolated estate–with his own dead body.