卡尔·西奥多·德莱叶这部喜剧引出心灵流变的轨迹，并在喜剧形式表现中要求夸张的转折与表演方式。他的简单主义从《总统》的办公室开始到玛格丽特夫人的屋舍，更趋向朴质。而对容貌的描写这里也有了开端。影片中的骗徒，终究抵抗不了良心的责备以及虚假婚姻阻隔与女友之间的真情。但有趣的是，被骗的老妇却早已察觉他的不怀好意但又绝非恶徒。反而是外力最后促使内在的圆满。

英俊青年麦克尔（Walter Slezak 饰）是画家苏莱特的专属模特，以麦克尔为原型，苏莱特创作出了精美的艺术作品，名声大噪，登门求画的人络绎不绝，但苏莱特为了保存和麦克尔的美好回忆拒绝出卖杰作。年轻貌美的女伯爵拜访苏莱特，请求后者为自己画像，麦克尔默默注视着女伯爵，四目交投之下，情意暗生，苏莱特思量之后决定为女伯爵作画，但创作不久因苏莱特无法描画女伯爵的眼睛而陷入停滞，麦克尔提笔代劳，女伯爵美丽的神色跃然画上……麦克尔与女伯爵相爱并逐渐离苏莱特而去，苏莱特承受着年青人的欺骗和背叛，将内心的悲苦呈现在画作上，受孤独煎熬的生命之火渐渐熄灭…… 本片根据赫曼·邦的同名小说改编，是电影史上最早涉及同性恋题材的作品之一。

维克托是个大男子主义者，在他眼里，妻子艾达所做的一切都是理所应当的。有一天，艾达被辞退了，心中更加无比愤懑，维克托的老奶奶和朋友们于是决定演一出好戏，让维克托反思自己过去的行为。

影片聚焦法国民族女英雄圣女贞德（玛利亚·法奥康涅蒂 Maria Falconetti饰）生命的最后时刻，再现了她被出卖落入勃艮第叛军手中后，在英格兰监狱和法庭上，从受审到处死的全过程。被英格兰当局严密控制的天主教会，指控贞德为异端和女巫。法庭上，法官更伪造证据，以信仰问题不断对她施以精神上和肉体上的折磨。面对惨无人道的酷刑与子虚乌有的诬陷，贞德正气凛然、坚贞不屈。最后，贞德被押赴鲁昂市广场，被绑在火刑柱上活活烧死。 由一代电影大师卡尔·西奥多·德莱叶执导拍摄的影片《圣女贞德蒙难记》，被称为世界十大最佳影片之一。影片以极具震撼力的艺术表现手法，再现了这段受到天主教会和英国占领军折磨的民族英雄短暂生命中的最后时刻。

The history of Danish country church architecture is told by showing scenes of how the church was used by the congregation, beginning with the celebration of mass in a small and simple wooden church 800 years ago, and ending with the congregation singing in a village church of to-day. The development and the growth of the pattern of church architecture is shown. Dreyer in this film shows a series of churches from different periods with churchgoers in period clothing. Each period is separated by a shot of a church bell double-exposed on the sky. Although the film has a vibrant and instructive way of communicating the different epochs and styles to students, it does not exhibit the artistic quality that usually distinguishes a Dreyer film, except perhaps in some of the costumes, which were originally made for Day of Wrath. The board of Dansk Kulturfilm in autumn 1945 decided that their planned church film would exclusively be about village churches. Dreyer would rework the script that was written by editor and folk high-school principal Bernhard Jensen, aided by a committee of experts consisting of architect H. Lønborg-Jensen and Victor Hermansen, curator at the National Museum of Denmark. Dreyer had a first draft ready in mid-March, entitled Kirken er et gammelt Hus ("The Church Is an Old House"), which was distributed to the members of the committee for their comments. In the last half of July, Dreyer and Victor Hermansen travelled the country to look at suitable churches. They researched the details and at Dreyer’s request a number of technical changes were made to the churches, including the removal of porcelain holders for electrical wiring in Tveje Merløse Church. On 4 July, Dreyer went in advance to Ringkøbing. Shooting was set to start a few days later with the arrival of the director of photography, Preben Frank, who had fallen off a ladder and broken his leg, Fortunately, he was ready to cautiously start working again within a few days, with his leg in a cast. Otherwise, the production went without a glitch. Everywhere, Dreyer said, they were well received at the vicarages and they had no problem getting enough extras. On 1 august, they returned to Copenhagen with almost all their footage in the can. They only needed to film the church in Skelby, where the weather had been against them, plus a Swedish wooden church in Hedared. The economy was distressed so soon after the war, especially when it came to foreign currency, but there were no real wooden churches left in Denmark and building an interior set in the studio would be too expensive. The finished film was shown for the first time on 24 September 1947 to a small, closed circle, which included the Minister for Ecclesiastical Affairs. In December 1947, as was Dansk Kulturfilm’s standard practice, the film was presented to the press, politicians and others on a programme with four other short films.

故事发生在1632年的丹麦，一个地处偏远的小镇中正在进行一场残酷的处刑，一个年老的女人因为被指控为巫女，而面临着被活活烧死的悲惨命运。临死前，愤怒的老人设下了诅咒，对于负责行刑的牧师来说，邪恶的诅咒是无法伤害代表了正义的他的，可对于牧师的妻子安妮（Lisbeth Movin 饰）来说，眼前所发生的一切令她永生难忘。 自此之后，安妮仿佛变了一个人似的浑浑噩噩。安妮和牧师的婚姻里并没有爱情，牧师英俊的儿子却吸引了安妮的注意，随着时间的发展，两人之间的关系越来越近，最终越过了伦理道德的界限。牧师死了，牧师的母亲愤怒地指控，是安妮的“巫术”害死了自己儿子。按照惯例，安妮被绑上了火刑架，这似曾相识的命运让安妮猛然醒悟，诅咒，也许真的存在。