导演费里尼的《乐队排演》，拍摄了一个交响乐团的排演状况，其中，相当讽刺地呈现出五花八门的情境气氛，什么都有，就是没有一般想像中的一个交响乐团乐团该有的和谐愉悦，团员之间的摩擦不合，象徵着人类社会的常态，在片中，团长成为某种「神」一般的存在，费里尼藉着检视音乐家们的种种喜怒哀乐，这个独特场景下人物的互动，变成人类社会的缩影。
片中音乐是由费里尼的长期合作伙伴，义大利配乐大师尼洛罗塔创作，罗塔的作品，为本片生色不少。

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

1953 film directed by Federico Fellini

1957 film by Federico Fellini

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.

1965 film by Federico Fellini