老千约翰尼·法雷尔（格伦·福特 饰）来到阿根廷的首夜就遭遇了抢劫，幸而赌场老板巴林·蒙德森（乔治·麦克雷迪 饰）出手相救。约翰尼毛遂自荐为巴林工作，并从打手做到了经理。巴林旅行归来已为人夫，其妻吉尔达（丽塔·海沃思 饰）竟是约翰尼前女友……

　　On a rainy night in 1928 in a Pennsylvania factory town called Iverstown, Martha Ivers (Janis Wilson), thirteen years old, is trying to escape from the guardianship of her wealthy, domineering aunt. Her friend, the street-smart, poor Sam Masterson (Darryl Hickman), comes for her through her bedroom window, but Martha's aunt catches them. While Sam slips out unnoticed, Martha hits Mrs. Ivers on the head, causing her to fall down the long staircase and die. Though Sam saw nothing, the event was witnessed by Walter O'Neil (Mickey Kuhn), the son of Martha's tutor (Roman Bohnen), known as Mr. O'Neil. Martha lies about the incident to Mr. O'Neil, and Walter supports her.[5]
　　Mr. O'Neil suspects what happened but presents Martha's version of events to the police, that an intruder is responsible; he makes use of his knowledge by having her marry his son. When the police identify a former employee of the aunt as the murderer, the two O'Neils and Martha help convict him; he is punished by hanging.[5]
　　Eighteen years later, the older O'Neil has died. Walter (now played by Kirk Douglas) is the district attorney, while Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) has used her inheritance from her aunt to build a large business empire. Their marriage is one-sided; he loves her, but she does not love him.
　　Sam (Van Heflin), now a drifter and gambler, stops in the small town by chance to have his car repaired after an accident. While waiting for repairs, at his old home, now a boarding house, he meets Antonia "Toni" Marachek (Lizabeth Scott), who has just been released from jail. She is later picked up for violating her probation by not returning to her hometown. Sam goes to see Walter, to see if he can use his influence to get her released.
　　Walter is convinced Sam has returned with blackmail in mind, giving Walter a motive to run Sam out of town. When Martha reacts with joy to the news of Sam's return, Walter's jealousy provides an additional motive. Walter forces Toni to set Sam up. Sam is beaten and driven out of town, but he is too tough to be intimidated. When all else fails, Walter makes a half-hearted attempt to kill Sam himself, but is easily disarmed. Martha then inadvertently blurts out the couple's fears of blackmail, which prove to be groundless: Sam says he did not witness the death. Martha breaks down and laments that he left without her all those years ago, taking with him her only chance for love and freedom.
　　Sam is torn between his old love and his new. Although he eventually forgives Toni for betraying him, he and Martha spend an idyllic day together, rekindling his feelings for her.
　　Walter arranges to meet Sam to finally settle matters. Before Sam arrives, Walter gets drunk and Martha finds out about the meeting. When Walter falls down the stairs and is knocked unconscious, Martha urges Sam to kill him. Sam instead brings Walter around. Martha pulls out a gun and threatens to shoot Sam in "self defense" as an intruder. However, Sam gambles that Walter will not back up her story; he turns his back on her and leaves.
　　Walter embraces and kisses his wife; then he points the gun at her midriff. Oddly relieved, she puts her hand over his hand on the trigger and presses. As she is dying, she defiantly states her name is not Martha Ivers, but Martha Smith. Outside, Sam hears the shot. He runs back toward the mansion, but sees Walter, holding Martha's body, shoot himself. Sam and Toni drive away together.

　　An electronics expert creates a huge bookie broadcast system for his crime boss, and takes over operations when his boss is murdered. His greed leads him on a deadly destructive path.

　　Two carefree young travellers make the mistake of their lives when they pick up a mysterious, and slightly psychotic, hitch-hiker who never closes his right eye -- even when he sleeps!

　　1948年，洛杉矶的经济突趋繁荣，满怀希望的军人伊斯退役后到洛杉矶寻找工作，满怀信心的他，以为像他这样出色的黑人在洛杉矶不难找到合适的位置，怎料好不容易才找到一份在机场内当技工的工作，但不久又被老板解雇，更被房东催收欠租。就在绝望边缘之际，他受聘于神秘男子狄维去找寻一个失踪女子黛芬，而伊斯也因此而堕进狄维的圈套，他也不知不觉间被牵涉到恐吓、谋杀、政治的纠缠之中。

　　Two detectives are investigating a robbery in which $300,000 was taken. Their investigation leads them to the main player and they find the cash, but one of them has meanwhile fallen hard for a woman with expensive tastes, and though he desperately wants to keep her, he knows that a cop's salary isn't going to be enough for her.

　　乔安（西尔维娅·西德尼 Sylvia Sidney 饰）在公共治安防卫队工作，这也就意味着，她平日里打交道的，都是一些非常危险的犯罪分子。好巧不巧的是，乔安竟然爱上了其中的一个，那是一个名叫艾迪（亨利·方达 Henry Fonda 饰）的男人。
　　高大英俊的艾迪给予了乔安一种错觉，那就是他本质上其实是一个好人，只不过一时走火入魔才走上了犯罪的道路。乔安坚信通过自己的努力，能够使艾迪改邪归正重返社会。在乔安的帮助之下，艾迪通过良好的表现获得了减刑，并且最终刑满出狱，之后乔安和艾迪携手步入了婚姻的殿堂。然而，一个人的本性真的能够如此轻易的被改变吗？

　　After being found wandering the streets of Los Angeles, a severely catatonic woman tells a doctor the complex story of how she wound up there.

　　From IMDB: Hard, withdrawn city cop Jim Wilson roughs up one too many suspects and is sent upstate to help investigate the murder of a young girl in the winter countryside. There he meets Mary Malden, whom he finds attractive and independent. However, Mary's brother is chief suspect in the killing. And Mary herself is blind.

　　故事发生在二十世纪初的北爱尔兰贝尔法斯特，刚刚出狱没多久的约翰尼（詹姆斯·梅森 James Mason 饰）参与了一次抢劫行动，并且为了掩护队友而遭到了警察的枪击，约翰尼失手打死了警察，惹上了重罪，成为了全城通缉的对象，身负重伤的约翰尼体力不支，昏了过去。
　　穷的叮当响的无赖汉谢尔（F.J.麦考密 F.J. McCormick 饰）发现了约翰尼的踪迹，在他的身上看到了发财的法子，他将情报通告给神父汤姆（W.G. Fay 饰），却被凯瑟琳（凯思琳·赖安 Kathleen Ryan 饰）发现。凯瑟琳赶在谢尔之前找到了躲在疯画家鲁奇（罗伯特·牛顿 Robert Newton 饰）家中的约翰尼，就这样，两个人踏上了逃亡的旅途。

　　A story about the struggle of the International Ladys Garment Worker Union (ILGWU) to unionize a New York sweat shop, Roxton Fashions, in the Garment District. Lee J. Cobb plays Walter Mitchell the owner of a company that is determined to keep the union out of his shop. His partner does not agree, and only wants the workers to have a living wage. He dies in an accident. Kerwin Mathews palys his son Alan, who comes back to New York after a long absence. He does not understand his fathers angry resistance to t he union, and sympathizes with the union.

　　近日里，发生了一件让美国财政部大为头疼的事情，市场上一批假钞泛滥成灾，这批假钞的制作工艺非常的精湛，使用了专业的雕刻模具，和几乎能够以假乱真的美钞纸张，如果没有专业的设备，单凭肉眼和手感，根本无法区别真伪。
　　财政部派出了丹尼斯（丹尼斯·欧基夫 Dennis O'Keefe 饰）对这批假钞的来源进行秘密调查，最终追溯到了假钞的源头——一个底特律帮派，于是，丹尼斯和特派员安东尼（阿尔弗雷德·赖德 Alfred Ryder 饰）被安插到了这个帮派之中成为了卧底。随着时间的推移，一位代号谋士（华莱士·福特 Wallace Ford 饰）的男子渐渐的浮出了水面。

　　To penetrate a gang exploiting illegal Mexican farmworkers smuggled into California (and leaving no live witnesses), Mexican federal agent Pablo Rodriguez poses as an ignorant bracero, while his American counterpart Jack Bearnes works from outside. Soon, both are in deadly danger from the ringleader, sinister rancher Owen Parkson, and find night on the farm to be full of shadowy film-noir menace...

　　在监狱服刑的5年期间，乔尼·科雷（Sterling Hayden 饰）想出一条绝妙的抢劫计划。出狱后，他集结一帮非法之徒，共同策划抢劫赛马场的两百万美元巨资，并且做到“无一人伤亡”。然而智者千虑，必有一失。乔尼天衣无缝的计划得以顺利实施，却被同伙乔治（Elisha Co ok Jr. 饰）的老婆谢莉（Marie Windsor 饰）打乱。她得知丈夫的计划后，联合情夫沃尔（Vince Edwards 饰）向巨款伸出贪婪之手……
　　本片根据里昂努·怀特（Lionel White）的小说《Clean Break》改编的，库布里克担任编剧，并请来著名小说家吉姆·汤普森修改了对白部分。

　　种族主义者比德尔兄弟，持枪抢劫了一个加油站，被警察击伤后在县监狱医院受监护治疗，他们不想要来自黑人居民区的卢瑟·布鲁克斯博士的医治。 当在卢瑟努力救他们的时候，兄弟约翰不治，狂怒的比德尔认定卢瑟努是谋杀者，事件迅速向暴力方向滑动......

　　一位报社编辑每晚会在广播节目中讲一些报纸故事，这次他讲的故事是：一位警探，虽然深爱着妻子和儿子，却和一个交际花有染。一天他俩将车停在偏远的路边，正巧目击了一起谋杀案。警探由于做贼心虚，没有去抓杀人嫌犯，也没有报警。后来，警局让他负责这个案子，她发现他只有自己直面作证，才能抓住杀人嫌犯，也才能不然无辜的人蒙冤。

　　马洛（迪克·鲍威尔 Dick Powell 饰）是一名独来独往的私家侦探，某日，马里特（Douglas Walton 饰）找到了马洛聘他当自己的保镖，结果马洛却莫名其妙的挨了一顿打。之后，一个叫安（安妮·雪莉 Anne Shirley 饰）的女孩现身，她告诉马洛，他所遭遇的一切和她的继母格雷尔夫人及其所拥有的翡翠有着千丝万缕的关联。对翡翠深感好奇的马洛决定将这一连串的事件调查个水落石出。
　　在安的协助下，马洛对事件的全貌渐渐的有了了解，而隐藏在背后的，是安的父亲（迈尔斯·曼德 Miles Mander 饰）。不仅如此，不久之前，马洛受雇寻找一个名叫维尔马的女子的下落，这名女子竟然也被牵连进了翡翠的案件之中。

　　杰瑞（帕特·奥布莱恩 Pat O'Brien 饰）和洛克（詹姆斯·贾克内 James Cagney 饰）是青梅竹马的好友，从小玩到大的两人之间感情十分要好，遗憾的是，成年之后，个性迥异的两人走上了完全不同的道路。
　　杰瑞成为了一名虔诚的神甫而洛克则加入了黑帮，之后，逐渐话不投机的两人渐行渐远。在复杂凶险的帮派争斗之中，小有名气的洛克成为了同伙陷害的对象，为了保护信赖的朋友，意气用事的洛克犯下了杀人之罪被捉拿归案，等待着他的，将是死刑的判决。在监狱中，洛克和杰瑞重逢了，回顾过往展望未来，两人不胜唏嘘。与此同时，杰瑞向洛克提出了一个请求，杰瑞知道，善良的洛克一定会答应他的请求。

　　John Muller, medical school dropout and brilliant crook, plans a holdup which goes a little bit wrong, and finds vindictive gambler Rocky Stansyck after him. At the end of his tether, he stumbles onto a lucky chance to assume an impenetrable new identity as psychiatrist Victor Bartok. But irony piles on as Muller finds it's out of the frying pan, into the fire.

　　过气演员诺玛（葛洛丽亚·斯旺森 Gloria Swanson 饰）已经将近50岁，曾经的风华绝代正在她居住的荒废豪宅里慢慢凋谢，身边只有好友马克思（埃里克·施特罗海姆Erich von Stroheim）伺奉。她没放弃重燃光辉的梦想，《莎乐美》的剧本正待编写，而逃避债务逃至此地的没落编剧乔（威廉·霍尔登 William Holden饰），正是这项事业的最佳候选。诺玛收留他住下，给他提供舒适的环境写作，并慢慢的倾心于他。但是，乔并不能接受这个青春已逝的妇人。他拒绝了她，并转过身和另一个美丽的女子谋划新的剧本，他们相爱，打得火热。
　　诺玛得知了乔的“背叛”，她卑微地哀求他，却动摇不了他渐行渐远的心，诺玛终于举起枪对准正要离开的乔。

　　故事发生在印地安娜州的伯里斯郊，唐（弗雷德里克·马奇 Fredric March 饰）和妻子艾琳娜（玛莎·斯考特 Martha Scott 饰）幸福的生活在这里，共同抚养着女儿辛迪（玛丽·墨菲 Mary Murphy 饰）和儿子拉斐尔（理查德·艾尔 Richard Eyer 饰）。一天，当艾琳娜送丈夫和孩子出门之后，以格林（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）和他弟弟霍尔（杜威·马丁 Dewey Martin 饰）为首的一帮越狱犯闯进了家中。
　　之后，格林又如同请君入瓮一般的控制了家中的另外三人，他们的要求很简单，就是等待格林的情妇来给他们送钱。实际上，警方已经在追捕这批逃犯了，但他们并不知道这些犯罪分子们其实近在眼前。

　　盖伊（法利·格兰杰 Farley Granger 饰）拥有一段并不幸福的婚姻，他的妻子乔伊斯（凯茜·罗杰斯 Kasey Rogers 饰）是一个水性杨花的浪女，盖伊对妻子的不忠恨之入骨。布鲁诺（罗伯特·沃克 Robert Walker 饰）常年受到专横的父亲安东尼先生（乔纳森·哈勒 Jonathan Hale 饰）的压制，忍无可忍的他逐渐起了杀心。就是这样的两个倒霉男人，他们在一列火车上相遇了。
　　互诉衷肠之后，布鲁诺提出了交换杀人的建议，企图给警方造成无动机的假象。盖伊以为布鲁诺只是开玩笑呢，不置可否，哪知道没过几天，乔伊斯竟然真的死于非命。布鲁诺完成了他的承诺，下面轮到盖伊了。

　　故事从中尉查尔斯·梅森准备回家过圣诞节开始讲起，梅森所坐的飞机途径新奥尔良时因恶劣天气不得不临时降落，在饭店里他被偶然结识的记者拉到夜总会拉斐特之家游玩，并在那里遇到了歌女杰基·拉蒙特（狄安娜·德宾 饰）。在与歌女谈话的过程中，梅森得知对方真正的名字是艾比盖尔·莫奈特，是三年前的杀人犯罗伯特·莫奈特（吉恩·凯利 饰）的妻子。伴着阴雨连绵的天气，艾比盖尔一点一点向梅森讲述了她和丈夫是如何相遇相爱的，他们曾经幸福的婚姻又是如何染上鲜血渐渐走向破灭的。