Five diverse oddball criminal types planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

An altruistic chemist invents a fabric which resists wear and stain as a boon to humanity, but both big business and labor realize it must be suppressed for economic reasons.

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.

In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.

An old couple visit their children and grandchildren in the city; but the children have little time for them.

Scottish islanders try to plunder 50,000 cases of whisky from a stranded ship.

The wife and mistress of a cruel headmaster conspire to kill him; after the murder is committed, his corpse disappears, and strange events begin to plague the two women.

In a decrepit South American village, four men are hired to transport an urgent nitroglycerine shipment without the equipment that would make it safe.

Three World War II veterans return home to small-town America to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.

In the 1950s, fear and violence escalate as the people of Algiers fight for independence from the French government.