马塞洛（让-路易斯·特林提格南特 Jean-Louis Trintignant 饰）是意大利法西斯组织的一员，他的新任务是到巴黎除掉他以前大学时候的教授 卢克·夸德里（Enzo Tarascio 饰），一个反法西斯组织的成员。于是马塞洛以和未婚妻朱利亚（斯蒂芬尼娅·桑德雷莉 Stefania Sandrelli 饰）到巴黎度蜜月为借口，到教授家拜访。和马塞洛一起执行任务的还有伪装成他的司机的曼加涅略（Gastone Moschin 饰)。在教授家，马塞洛被教授的年轻妻子安娜（多米尼克·桑达 Dominique Sanda 饰）深深吸引。马塞洛的同伴曼加涅略不断催促他除掉教授，然而他迟迟不愿下手。曼加涅略得知了教授和他的妻子将到野外去，于是准备独自进行刺杀任务......　　本片根据意大利小说家阿尔贝托·莫拉维亚的同名作品改编。

　　故事发生在风景如画的西西里岛，贵族塞法罗男爵（马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 Marcello Mastroianni 饰）是一位没落的贵族，和妻子纱利雅（Margherita Girelli 饰）之间沉闷的婚姻让他感到十分的厌倦，再加上其美艳不可方物的表妹安吉拉（斯蒂芬尼娅·桑德雷莉 Stefania Sandrelli 饰）的不断勾引，塞法罗决心要甩掉纱利雅。可是，离婚在当时的意大利系违法行为，因此，想要从婚姻里脱身，塞法罗男爵只得另觅他径。　　经过塞法罗男爵的种种“努力”，他终于将妻子杀死却只被判了极短的刑期，在铁窗之后，塞法罗男爵幻想着今后幸福生活的种种，心中不禁充满了希冀与兴奋。然而，当自由来临之时，他的生活真的会如同想象的一般美好吗？

安东尼奥（尼诺·曼弗莱迪 Nino Manfredi 饰）、贾尼（维托里奥·加斯曼 Vittorio Gassman 饰）和尼古拉（Stefano Satta Flores 饰）是战争时代的生死之交。战争结束后，他们回归了家乡，开始了各自迥异的生活。安东尼奥结识了美丽女孩露西安娜（斯蒂芬尼娅·桑德雷莉 Stefania Sandrelli 饰），坠入了情网，可露西安娜喜欢的却偏偏是贾尼。　　可最终，贾尼选择同侯爵女儿结婚，露西安娜陷入了痛苦之中，此时，安东尼奥再度出现在了露西安娜的身边，陪伴守护着她。露西安娜一直希望能够成为一名演员，为了实现理想，她甚至不惜向负责挑选演员的负责人献出了肉体。几经波折，安东尼奥和露西安娜总算坦诚相对，互诉衷肠，一对璧人终于走到了一起。

imdb　　Plot summary　　Born in a small town in the countryside surrounding Pistoia, Adriana is an attractive young girl who counts on using her looks to go places in the entertainment business in Rome. Moving to the capital, she works first of all in a hairdressing salon, then in a small cinema where she manages to get a job working in fancy dress. Meantime, she socializes with young men of the upper middle classes, who take her to parties and out on the town with the sole aim of taking advantage of her. Adriana knows their game, but plays along. In the meantime, she meets an agent called Cianfanna, a modest money-grubber who introduces her to a journalist friend of his so he can write an article on her. Having thus launched her career in advertising, Adriana decides to go home to visit her parents. Once home, however, she is distraught to learn of the death of her sister. Returning to Rome, she takes acting lessons, but during one lesson she suddenly faints she is pregnant, with no idea of who the father of her child is. The days go by and Adriana tries to forget about her pregnancy, while sleeping with an increasingly long list of lovers. And yet, despite the fact these encounters are often less than enjoyable, at one point she actually falls in love his name is Antonio and he's a decent young man from a respectable family, but still in love with a former girlfriend he is unable to forget…

学者（弗兰克·芬莱FrankFinlay饰）娶了一个和自己年龄相差甚大的美艳妻子（斯蒂芬尼娅·桑德雷莉StefaniaSandrelli饰），因为担心自己无法满足年轻的妻子，学者感到十分的困扰。长久以来，学者有着记日记的习惯，在日记里，学者详细记录了自己和妻子共享鱼水之欢的过程，甚至意淫起了妻子与女婿的奸情，从中获得嫉妒带来的快感。很快，学者的日记被妻子发现，在羞愧和愤怒中，妻子决定用实际行动来报复丈夫的愚蠢。于是，一个家庭里，两个人，两本日记，记载了人性里的欲望和黑暗。然而，事情并没有就此结束，在欲望的漩涡里越陷越深的学者竟然开始积极的撮合起了妻子和女婿，不仅将妻子大方的献给女婿，并且为两人的私会制造各种时机。