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An exploration of one's relationships with food, sexuality, and revenge. It asks, "How far would you go in the name of love?"

Heidelberg romance.

Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.

On his wedding day a sea captain recounts his various adventures to his guests.

Anneliese is an ugly duckling until the well-known actor Claudio takes care of her, gives her a job in a fashion store and sends her to a beauty salon.

On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling with the local people, upsetting their usually monotonous daily lives. Beatrice, the beautiful schoolmistress, finding it harder and harder to put up with the courtship of Dal Pozzo, the arrogant, pot-bellied mayor, falls for Jacques, a handsome journalist she mistakes for a time for a dangerous criminal. On the other hand, the sight of Roxane, a vaudeville star, kindles a flame in the pure heart of Giovanni, Dal Pozzo's bullied nephew. As for the pharmacist, she starts dreaming of a new life with Mr. Davis, an easy-going Englishman. Destiny will bless some of them and thwart others.

A film and revue star who is smitten by women wants to become solid and finally get married. His abandoned lover and scheming colleague tries in vain to thwart their marriage and honeymoon.

During the Salzburg Festival a drug-addicted ballerina tries everything to get some morphine in her hands. She put her moves on a young pharmacist, Hans Falkner (O.W. Fischer) and almost ruins his marriage with his wife Anna (Heidemarie Hatheyer). A doctor advises the ballerina to join a rehab and yet hands her a prescription for morphine, but accidentally prescribes a lethal dose. Subsequently, Anna Falkner, who gets the prescription, is lead into temptation to get rid of her hatred competitor. Evetually, morality wins and Anna mixes the morphine in the right dose.

The efforts of the German Foreign Minister, Gustav Stresemann, to achieve European unity and world peace are shown through the eyes of two young people.

When a railway bridge collapses and causes many casualties engineer Mario wants to kill himself though it was not his fault. In the Alpes he meets Angela whose affirmative love for him helps him reconsider his destiny.

Mirko, bored with his extravagant life, decides to spend his vacation alone, far from the company of his Prague friends. He even makes a bet with a friend that he will go a month without any funds, luxuries, a car and...without a kiss.

Artist Martin refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Monika sells them because they need the money, claiming to have painted them herself.

Friederike was raised by her uncle like a real boy. She can ride, fencing, curse and drink and defeats a real cavalry officer in a chase race. She doesn't feel comfortable in the girls' boarding school her uncle is sending her to, so she escapes disguised as a boy and smuggles herself into a barracks. There she meets her officer again, who sees through her game and falls in love with her. And so Friederike discovers her feminine side after all.

A man, feeling unappreciated, leaves his wife for a cabaret singer, while the wife meets a young pilot and decides to join him abroad.

Remake of the director's first film, the Nazi era Versprich Mir nichts. In which the wife of a bohemian painter sells his works under her own name.