Wealthy woman seduces fathers valet in kitchen over one day

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.

Wealthy Mr. Dumont pays a couple of studs to look after his nubile and amorous young daughter Christine for several days so he can cheat on his vacationing wife with his mistress.

A woman aspires to get rich and surrenders to a wealthy old man who will marry her. The wife has a daughter from another man who denies her paternity, and the old man has a son and a daughter from a former wife. The old man indulges in gambling and leaves the rope to his wife in the west. She meets a young man who covets her husband’s wealth, so he blackmails him and plans to get rid of the husband to be inherited by his wife. To implement the plan, she must pretend to love the old man until he shocks the father.

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.

A socially ambitious woman who convinces her father to borrow money from a snobbish man.

Wealthy young woman, Maier, is betrayed by her maid and gigolo boyfriend, Lutze, who plot to steal her jewelry.

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.