Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.

Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.

A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.

作家兼导演阿兰.罗布-格里耶在巴黎开往阿姆斯特丹的欧洲快车上，构思了一部名叫《横越欧洲的快车》的警匪侦破片。其背景就是巴黎开往安特卫普的欧洲快车。题材是关于毒品走私的。影片主人公伊里亚斯是一名毒品走私犯，他有一个情妇叫爱娃。最后，伊里亚斯被警察开枪打死。构思过程中，朋友们时时提问，导演难以回答，因此影片中人物的身份往往是不明确的，假定的情节比比皆是，不合逻辑的情节和细节也时常发生。最后，火车到站，导演感到拍摄此片困难重重，便放弃了这个念头。然而，导演构思中的影片男女主人公却正在车站月台上紧紧拥抱。
法国‘新小说派’主将阿兰.罗布-格里耶编导的这部影片被评论家称为‘无情节影片’。它有意识的排除镜头和场景段落中的因果关系，故事情节缺乏连贯性，场面松散无序，意识流的时空跳跃令人眼花缭乱，互不相干的情节充斥全片。但这种叙事方法却和影片所要表现的内容-------一部影片的构思过程-------具有内在的同构性，可诱导观众去充分的自由想像。本片采用意识流的方式表现一部文艺作品的构思过程，这在电影中尚属首创。

In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

After the murder of the Russian Emperor Peter III, who was succeeded by Empress Catherine, Satan decides that the balance between good and evil on Earth has been destabilized. In order to set things right, he sends his representative to Earth - the teacher Farfa, who bears an unusual resemblance to Peter III. His mission is to seize power from the old Duke of Montenegro, and then to take back the Russian throne as Peter III. The people of Montenegro accept Farfa as their new leader, and he proclaims himself the new Emperor, Scepan Mali, successfully resisting an invasion by the Turks. Farfa is touched by the Montenegrins' kindness and courage, falls in love with the beautiful Elfa, and fails to follow Satan's plan. Not one to be crossed, Satan sets out to kill him.

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.

An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914.