Released in France as La Kermesse Heroique, Carnival in Flanders is set during the long-ago war between the Dutch and Spanish. A tiny village in Flanders is invaded by Spanish troops. The townsfolk have heard of Spanish cruelties in other towns, and decide to deflect the vanquishers by playing dead. This isn't terribly effective (you have to take a breath once in a while), so the wife of the burgomaster tries to soften up the invaders with a lavish carnival. So successful is this venture that the Spaniards allow the village to escape being decimated, or even taxed. An award-winner many times over, Carnival in Flanders was banned in Germany; evidently, Goebbels caught on that director Jacques Feyder and scenarists Bernard Zimmer and Charles Spaak were drawing deliberate parallels between the Spanish and the then-burgeoning Nazis.

薇卡（苏菲•玛索 饰）是个13岁的女孩，不同于班上的其他同学父母离异的状况，她拥有一个完整的家庭，虽然她总是觉得被母亲忽略，伴随青春期到来的，除却敏感的对父母之爱的需要，还有对异性情感的渴望。然而，父母的感情出现了裂痕，母亲与薇卡的德语老师燃起了爱火花；而在舞会上认识的拉乌尔，让她感受到初恋的美好同时也领会了爱情的伤害。 有了初吻之后，爱情就能保鲜吗？13岁的初恋能持续到多久？ 苏菲•玛索凭借此片成为欧洲影坛著名的小明星。

苏菲玛索饰演一个能预知未来的美丽女子，她与男主角偶然的邂逅就一见钟情，虽然她已预知男主角即将死亡，却仍毫不保留的付出自己的爱……

性格怪癖的老实人于洛来到不列塔尼半岛的海滨小城度假，但他把那儿弄得一团糟，因为不管他要干什么，事情迟早会走样……

前伞兵军官朱里安•塔维尼（Maurice Ronet 饰）退役后在一家军火公司上班，期间他和老板西蒙•卡瑞拉（Jean Wall 饰）的妻子弗洛伦丝（Jeanne Moreau 饰）陷入热恋。为了扫清障碍，他和情妇制定了一条看似天衣无缝的谋杀计划。计划起初进展顺利，但在刺杀之后却因细微的差错偏离当初的设想，朱里安更被困在大楼的电梯之中。 所谓祸不单行，一对青年男女偷走了朱里安的车，事态开始朝着混乱的方向发展…… 本片为左岸派元老路易•马勒的长片处女作，荣获1957年路易•德吕克奖