一般而言，特拉維夫是世上所有以色列人的娛樂勝地，耶路撒冷才是信仰者前往祈禱的地方。在這部悲劇裡，在特拉維夫，主角們在此夜夜笙歌，所有故事圍繞著一間由兩位感情複雜的女人所經營的酒吧。達莉亞（Gila Almagor ） ，一位生病的製片情婦。Leora （ Irit Frank） ，她的警察男友Benny（Shuli Rand）四處拈花惹草。酒吧成員目前有兩位女老闆、一群酩酊大醉的士兵， Leora的男友法蘭克，Rika（一個精神脆弱的女人，“根據醫生指示”，絕對不能落單） ，一位歌手，一些毒販，和幾位阿拉伯廚子。一開始，Benny英雄般從士兵手裡救出Rika（ Avital Dicker），然而之後卻帶著她墮落，悲劇於是釀成。故事越演越烈，兩人終將自食惡果…

1951 film directed by Maya Deren

1992 film by Aki Kaurismäki

1957 film by Andrzej Wajda

1965 Polish film by Wojciech Jerzy Has

Two strangers, Jerzy and Marta, accidentally end up holding tickets for the same sleeping chamber on an overnight train to the Baltic Sea coast. Also on board is Marta's spurned lover, who will not leave her alone. When the police enter the train in search of a murderer on the lam, rumors fly and everything seems to point toward one of the main characters as the culprit.

1957 film by Federico Fellini

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

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.