Ancillary Love

Guido Maldini lives with his family in estate in the Po Valley countryside during the times of fascism. His violent temperament makes him hated by everyone and above all by his son who, seized by exasperation, tries in vain to kill him.

Little boy Tommaso has several imaginary friends who like to play cruel pranks on the staff in his house. When new maid Mara arrives, Tommaso bonds with her, but his jealous imaginary friends devise the cruelest prank yet for her.

This growing-up story depicts through a hundred small sequences the happenings n a modest family of Pas-de-Calais during the forties, fifties, and sixties. Paul, the main character, at five, thirteen and eighteen, is the thread of this broken narrative that operates through a mess of memories. The encounters, the joys, the apprehensions, the first loves, the friendships, the disappointments, the fraternal relations, the relations with the parents, the discovery of a vocation of actor and author, the whole forming an irreplaceable frame of a common destiny whose peculiarities send the spectator back to his history.

A ten years old child, sick, comes to his grandparents house for a summer. The visitors and neighbours will make his stay very amusing.

A teenager returns home to spend his summer vacation. However, in a mansion full of women, he will have no choice but to expand his education in titillating ways.

A small Italian village eagerly awaits the long-overdue arrival of a doctor. Everyone expects a male, so when the sexy female doctor Sigrun S. steps out of the bus, it quickly leads to a series of slapstick events.

Exploring issues of class privilege among Rio's decadent elite, Casa Grande depicts a teenage boy's struggle to escape his overprotective parents as they covertly spiral into bankruptcy.

The story about an ambitious but inept nephew who takes over the physical property and women of his rich nobleman uncle, including his wife, his daughter, and his maid.

Ernesto is doomed to loneliness since the loss of his wife. Meanwhile, a young peasant girl, Luana starts working with him as a maid. Now the time has come for an affair which he has ignored for some years.

A French girl from a strict Catholic background travels to Saigon and the home of Chang Sun. Soon she starts to seduce the whole family.

Philippe, a photography enthusiast, is attracted to his young aunt so he makes a plan to get his uncle involved with their maid in order to get the chance to have sex with his aunt.

The heart-sick Renato has to witness how his house doctor and his fiancee celebrate one orgy after another. Then he ties up with the seductive maid Claretta.

An American teenager, who while visiting his estranged dad in England, gets into an emotional relationship with the older foreign maid working there.

A woman from the country moves into to the big city of Buenos Aires to start a new life. Things are not going very easy and she soon finds herself working as a prostitute.

A young woman who exudes sexuality battles temptation.

Chronicles the romantic enchantment of a 90 year old reporter with a girl 70 years younger than himself.

A portrait of a Nazi officer, the commander of a concentration camp, touches on the contradictory sides of his personality - on the one hand, a caring, nurturing family man, on the other, a ruthless Nazi, applying a policy of extermination without restraint. It is this man, who takes on 13-year-old Emilka, a Czech girl destined for "re-education"; through her eyes, we then see the imposed family, the complex formation of relationships with a man who tries to treat her kindly. The little girl goes through a painful discovery of true reality. During her stay in Germany, she tries not to forget her real home and believes that she will meet her mother once more in her life and return.

A scheming servant works for a wealthy couple in France during the late 19th century.