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An abandoned Missouri farmhouse draws crowds when the vine covering it starts to move without wind.
Identical twins share more than a face as one brother’s engagement turns dangerous.
A bored lover gains a child’s confidence, then turns the boy’s secret meetings with his father into ammunition for an adult quarrel.
Fresh from Crimea, a young wife condemns her companion’s holiday flirtation while describing her own trip in increasingly revealing detail.
A married young woman crosses the river at night to meet an idle village watchman, knowing the morning will demand an answer.
A driver recalls how his little sister carried a village’s money through a forest after robbers attacked their father.
Five rainy days without her husband send a devoted young wife into town, where his empty flat raises an unwelcome question.
At a remote railway station on New Year’s Eve, a bored official dares fate to prove that his life can still become worse.
A landowner confides his fear that ordinary life is incomprehensible, unaware that his closest friend desires his wife.
On the road to an inquest, a magistrate challenges a doctor to explain a healthy woman’s precisely foretold death.
A sick doctor finds a telegram that confirms his wife’s affair and tries to release them both from a ruined marriage.
A wounded soldier and a nurse fall in love in wartime Milan, trying to make a future together before the front and the armistice pull them apart.
Two sheltered brothers discover Parisian freedom until their formidable priest uncle arrives at the worst possible hour.
A doctor explains how a married woman, a dead lover, and an imminent homecoming demanded instant deception.
A married woman’s secret meetings are repeatedly interrupted by the toddler who sleeps in the next room.
A charming idler marries a wealthy Englishwoman and devises a careful scheme to preserve both his allowance and his affairs.
A trusted servant attacks his master for money, then becomes the most devoted nurse the wounded man could ask for.
In colonial Algeria, a traveler’s affair with a married woman leads him from sensual confidence into a reckless encounter under her husband’s roof.
A Norman farmer’s sudden passion survives rejection until an unexpected crisis puts old loyalties to the test.
A timid husband’s devotion to his son is shaken by a charge that turns family love into an unbearable question.
At a quiet spa, a traveler meets a frail young woman and her nervous father, whose strange afflictions share one terrible cause.
A night of torch fishing on the Algerian coast leads an old school friend to disclose the jealousy that drove him from France.
Unable to sleep in an old family bedroom, a guest discovers secret love letters hidden beneath its severe former occupant’s portrait.
At a crowded riverside resort, a young man’s absolute devotion collides with a lover whose desires he cannot control or understand.
