故事发生在5000年前的埃及。法老胡夫(杰克·霍金斯 Jack Hawkins 饰)四处征战捷报连连,带回了大量的金银财宝和战俘。幻想着获得永生的法老命令战俘中的一位名叫瓦石塔(詹姆斯·罗伯逊·贾斯蒂 James Robertson Justice 饰)的建筑师为他建造金字塔。瓦石塔和胡夫之间达成了协议,根据金字塔工程的推进分批释放战俘。 金字塔的建造有条不紊的进行着,然而,就在工程即将结束之时,野心勃勃的皇妃奈里夫(琼·柯琳斯 Joan Collins 饰)暗杀了胡夫和皇后奈拉(克里玛 Kerima 饰)。皇家祭司哈马(亚历克斯·米诺蒂斯 Alex Minotis 饰)在最后关头遵守了胡夫的承诺,释放了瓦石塔和他的族人。
故事发生在1660年的法国,国王路易(理查德·查伯兰 Richard Chamberlain 饰)整日沉湎于酒色之中,无心朝政,使臣民们生活在水深火热之中。路易有一个孪生弟弟名为菲利普(理查德·查伯兰 Richard Chamberlain 饰),史书中记载的菲利普刚刚出生便已夭折,可实际上,他被偷偷送往阿尔卑斯山的一个庄园中,隐姓埋名,生长在此。 国王的昏庸让内务大臣科贝尔(拉尔夫·理查德森 Ralph Richardson 饰)和火枪手队长达达尼昂(路易斯·乔丹 Louis Jourdan 饰)感到大为不满,他们决定找到菲利普,扶持他推翻哥哥的统治,登上王位。贪婪的财政大臣富凯(帕特里克·麦高汉 Patrick McGoohan 饰)早先一步找到了菲利普,他和国王一起设计,给菲利普带上铁面,投入了深牢之中。
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.
Akerman's Toute une nuit is a collection of vignettes depicting the fancies and dramatic moments of a number of people throughout one summer night. The film has little dialogue and relies on a remarkable series of contrasts for effect a sultry night of deep, often painful depictions of passion visualized in a stark and grainy manner against the backdrop of a spiritless, bland Brussels. 被认为是仅次于让娜 迪尔曼的该导演另一部杰作