Cary Scott（简·怀曼 Jane Wyman 饰）虽然是一个有着两个孩子的中年寡妇，身边却依然不缺追求者。一天她在自己的花园里邂逅了新来的园丁，已故的老园丁的儿子——年轻的Ron Kirby（罗克·赫德森 Rock Hudson 饰）。几次接触后，Cary了解到Ron对于种植的喜爱，于是Ron带着Cary去了他的家。年龄的差距并不能阻止两人坠入爱河，然而他们的爱情却要面对许多考验。首先提出反对的是Cary的儿子和女儿，她的儿子甚至以离家出走来威胁母亲放弃这段关系。而当整个镇上都充满了关于两人的流言蜚语时，Cary也感到了巨大的压力。她试着带上Ron去参加俱乐部的派对，却遭遇了一些不快的事情。Cary还是选择了和Ron分开，但两人却还是爱着对方......

鲍伯是一个赌徒，年纪不小，运气却不好。本片描写他的好友—一个高级警官，跟朋友计划抢劫一家赌场的故事，发生在夜晚的巴黎蒙马特区的暗处。原以为计划天衣无缝的鲍伯走进赌场开始赌博，却不知道那些警察早已经伺机等在一旁了。

风流律师艾格曼与昔日情妇——女演员出身的黛西瑞不期而遇，这时的黛西瑞已经成为另一名有妇之夫——麦肯伯爵的情妇，而艾格曼的儿子也面临了同样的问题，他的感情天平在同龄的继母和女仆之间犹豫不决。结果，在黛西瑞母亲出面邀请的一次周末聚会里，这四对男女终于各有所属。这是导演英格玛 ·伯格曼早期短暂喜剧创作阶段中的纯熟之作，拍摄手法十分轻松，整个风格与其日后作品的沉重艰深大相径庭。本片曾获戛纳电影节特别奖，成为导演第一部国际上收获巨大成功的作品。

影片是根据40年代百老汇红极一时的戏剧改编而成。这是谢丽·琼斯的处女作，她在该片中扮演爱上了牛仔男孩（格登·麦克雷）的乡村姑娘，但是她又被险恶的农场工人（罗德·斯泰格）穷追不舍。

　　在纽约，马龙·白兰度和弗兰克·西纳特拉饰演的帮派分子打赌：如果马龙·白兰度能和简·西蒙斯饰演的女救世军一起到哈瓦那，那么马龙·白兰度就能赢得一笔报酬。白兰度知道弗兰克·西纳特拉不一定付得起那笔钱，但是不愿服输的马龙·白兰度还是试了一试……

一个漆黑的夜晚，私人侦探迈克在高速公路上遇到一个女孩拦车。这个女孩只穿着一件军用大衣，他把她接上了车。不久，他的车子发生了意外，冲出了路边。他在昏迷之中，听到了那个女孩被折磨致死。在被扔下悬崖大命不死后，他决心自己追踪那些凶手，而不顾重重的威胁和贿赂。在这个过程，他找到了很多离奇的线索，还有一位奇怪的女孩，最终面对一个致命的秘密。

“金臂人”弗兰奇（Frank Sinatra 饰）在强制戒毒部门治疗6个月后回到了自己熟悉的街区。毒贩路易马上向他兜售毒品，以前的赌场老板邀请他再次为自己坐庄，靠假装失去自理能力俘获了弗兰奇的伴侣佐茜催促他尽快回到以前的工作……然而弗兰奇对曾经的混乱生活只有厌倦，他戒毒 期间学习了打鼓，并牢记医生的话要转行做鼓手，但很快在众人的阻扰下他又回到了赌桌，毒瘾发作让他最终无法摆脱路易。
因为费兰奇不忍抛下“下肢瘫痪”的左茜而无法和互有情意的酒吧女莫利（Kim Novak 饰）结合，只有潦倒的小偷朋友斯巴诺站在他一边。失去了莫利的弗兰奇诸事不顺，更大的困境还在等待着他……

一位扫除犯罪的律师和他一开始不情愿的律师父亲一起对抗在他们小镇上经营赌博和卖淫的势力。

1956年导演阿伦•雷乃用摄影机带领观众重回奥斯维辛。当年纳粹集中营的旧址上已是一片祥和美丽的野外风光。然而时间倒回到1933年纳粹党掌权之时，整个城市被阴霾笼罩——大片修建起来的集中营房排列整齐，大量犹太人被抓进集中营开始接受非人的折磨和侮辱。这里对人种进行分级，在皮肤上纹上编号，在衣服上缝制等级的徽章。疾病，饥饿，劳役使集中营尸体遍地。1942年希莱姆到访，奉行“破坏”政策，集中营难民进入更加悲惨的境遇，被药品公司买下用作实验。1945年，集中营人数倍增后已不堪负荷，成堆的尸体被推土机推入大坑掩埋......

在美国西南部小镇黑岩，当地居民都有一个共通的秘密——他们在二战时虐待了日裔农夫。当一个外来的独臂人到镇上向人问问题时，便引起了人们的怀疑和恐慌。

In 1948, immediately before a ceasefire takes effect, four volunteers fighting for Israel are ordered to take Hill 24, overlooking the road to Jerusalem.

Les Maitres Fous is about the ceremony of a religious sect, the Hauka, which was widespread in West Africa from the 1920s to the 1950s. Hauka participants were usually rural migrants from Niger who came to cities such as Accra in Ghana (then Gold Coast), where they found work as laborers in the city's lumber yards, as stevedores at the docks, or in the mines. There were at least 30,000 practicing Hauka in Accra in 1954 when Jean Rouch was asked by a small group to film their annual ceremony During this ritual, which took place on a farm a few hours from the city, the Hauka entered trance and were possessed by various spirits associated with the Western colonial powers: the governorgeneral, the engineer, the doctor's wife, the wicked major, the corporal of the guard.

The roots of the Hauka lie in traditional possession cults common among the Songhay and Djerma peoples of the Niger River basin. Gifted men and women may enter trance and become possessed by any of a number of strong gods, such as Dongo, god of thunder and the sky.Supplicants consult the god through the trancing medium and receive advice about their problems, cures for diseases, comfort and support, or reprimands for their wrongdoings. Like these traditional possession cults, the Hauka sect co-existed with Islam and incorporated many Islamic saints and heroes into its rituals. Most of its adherents were Muslims.

Hauka first appeared in Niger, it is thought, in the person of a former soldier who participated in the savage battles of the second German offensive of World War I in 1917 and 1918, in which West African troops were decimated despite their spectacular performance. This soldier made the pilgrimage to Mecca and returned to Niger in the 1920s. In his village, in Rouch's account, he found the people "doing a traditional dance and the soldier was possessed, very violently possessed, and while possessed he said 'I am the avant-garde of the new gods who are coming from Malia [the Red Sea]. My name is Governor Malia and I am the first of the new gods who are coming and they are the gods of strength'."

The Hauka were quickly suppressed by the French authorities in Niger, with the support of traditional chiefs and priests who feared the popularity of the new movement and its challenge to established authority. But the Hauka cult spread, even within the jail walls, and by 1935 the British administration in Ghana again attempted to suppress it and to jail the cultists. Fires broke out in response throughout Accra, and eventually there was an agreement that Hauka priests would limit their ceremonies to certain places and to Saturdays and Sundays. This was still the case in 1954 when Rouch filmed Les Maitres Fous, which was banned by the colonial government in 1955.

The Hauka movement was a phenomenon of the colonial era. After the independence of Ghana in 1957, migration was controlled and many Hauka who had settled in Accra returned to Niger. Niger itself gained independence three years later, and the Hauka began to subside and to be absorbed into the traditional religious system. Dongo, for example, the old god of thunder, is now considered the father of the Hauka. As Rouch has pointed out, "there was no more colonial power and there never was a Hauka called Kwame N'krumah." The events filmed represent the end of the Hauka development. Today the film is shown in the villages of Ghana and in the Niger Cultural Center.

The imagery in Les Maitres Fous is powerful and often disturbing: possessed men with rolling eyes and foaming at the mouth, eating a sacrificed dog (in violation of taboo), burning their bodies with naming torches. Beyond the imagery, the themes are also powerful, and have had an impact in our own culture:Jean Genet's The Blacks was modeled upon the Hauka inversion in which blacks assume the role of masters, and Peter Brook's Marat/Sade was influenced by the theatricality and invented language of Hauka possession. Yet, as Rouch reminds us in an interview in Cineaste, possession for the Hauka cultists was not theater but reality. The significance of this reality is left ambiguous in the film, although Rouch's commentary suggests that the ritual provides a psychological release which enables the Hauka to be good workers and to endure a degrading situation with dignity. The unexplored relation of the Hauka movement to their colonial experience 1-S perhaps the most intriguing issue raised by this ceremony in which the oppressed become, for a day, the possessed and the powerful.

尤金和里克是两个在公寓里挣扎的艺术家。然而，里克对此有问题，因为尤金痴迷于低俗小说漫画书，并因此做噩梦。然而，里克很快发现，这些噩梦可能是他自己漫画书的绝佳素材。

故事发生在繁华的大都市纽约，马蒂（欧内斯特·博格宁 Ernest Borgnine 饰）是生活在其中的一名肉店工人，他没有英俊的外貌，没有富裕的身家，唯一有的，是一颗如金子般闪闪发光的善良的内心。在生活中，居住在中下层贫民聚居的街区的马蒂经常受到他人的白眼和歧视，对于这一切，马蒂只能默默忍受。
一次偶然中，马蒂遇见了名为克拉拉（贝琪·布莱尔 Betsy Blair 饰）的女教师，和马蒂一样，克拉拉因为曾经的一段失败的感情而变得自卑又内向，这样的两个人因为相似的境遇而走到了一起。然而，他们之间的鸿沟是巨大的，两人的真爱能否最终跨越这鸿沟，修成正果呢？

　　本片是一部群星戏，讲述在印度的孟加拉省，一个贫穷的村落里住着一户人家，自以为学识过人的哈里是一家之主，他虽任职地主的会计，但他终日想着成为一个诗人。他在这方面没有出色的表现，甚至穷得将祖先的果园作借款的抵押品。他的妻子温柔贤惠，为了生活吃苦而毫无怨言。女儿与儿子也把吃从果园里偷来的果子当作一件乐事。有一天，哈里带着薪水回家，他们一家人大大庆贺一番。同住的老婆婆向他们借一块布料却被赶走，不久他的儿子和女儿发现老婆婆倒在森林里，已死去多时。哈里为了借贷到外面五个月毫无音信，而他的女儿因患重病而安然死去。哈里回来听此噩耗，便和妻子流着眼泪来到大森林里大声呼喊，发誓要改善生活，并迁往他处。天亮了，他带着全家人和简单的行李赶着牛车往拿勒斯城出发了。本片以一位不满十岁的少年的视线界来观赏人类与大自然生活的共通性，是本片最突出的地方。

萝拉·蒙蒂斯是19世纪欧洲贵族的宠妓，在马戏团里兜售自己的艳史，这似乎是她为放纵付出的代价。这是奥菲尔的最后一部电影，影片以此作为框架，用闪回拼贴的方式表现箩拉巡回欧洲各国表演记忆，尤其她与巴伐利亚的路德维系国王以及作曲家李斯特之间的关系。

影片描述了美国40年代工人阶级的生活处境、工作条件、所受资本家的压迫、工人们为争取自己应得权利与工作保障所进行的正义斗争，以及工人内部和家庭内部的关系等。
美国40年代新墨西哥州的一个城镇矿区，德列维尔锌公司的矿工拉蒙·金泰罗已在井下度过了18年。公司制订的新规章不合理，工人得冒着更大的生命危险下井工作。又一次伤亡事故发生了，工人们提出的合理要求被公司拒绝后，在拉蒙的带领下，工人们开始了罢工。为支持罢工，拉蒙的老婆爱丝波朗莎将妇女组织起来，成为罢工工人有力的后援队。拉蒙被老板买通的警方抓走，一个月后又被放出来。而后老板又买通法院，污蔑工人犯了塔夫脱-哈特莱法，由爱丝波朗莎领导的妇女挺身而出，接替了罢工工人纠察队的工作，因为塔夫脱-哈特莱法不适用于她们。爱丝波朗莎等一干妇女被关了几天后又放了出来，无计可施的老板软硬兼施：一面动员罢工工人去打猎，一面派警察对付留在家里的妇女。多亏拉蒙带领矿工及时赶回，使狼狈的警察无功而返。最后，罢工取得胜利，无奈的老板答应了工人的要求。

本片的故事发生于美国西部的一个小镇，一个名叫威伊纳德女士在镇子外面设立了一个非常庞大的沙龙。她希望一旦铁路修通并从这个小镇穿过的话，她就能都把自己的沙龙改造成为一个自己的镇子。但是这个小镇上的人们只知道她怀有这样一种想法，非常想要她离开这里。有一天，有四个男人驾驶一辆四轮马车杀死了一个人。几个政府官员，在一个名叫埃玛·斯摩尔的头目的带领下，来到这个巨型沙龙，想要抓住那个杀人的人。这四个人正是威伊娜德的朋友。威伊娜德强烈地反对这些官员这样做，就在僵持不下的时候，威伊娜德的一个朋友，强尼·古塔尔出现了……

那个口衔金合欢的西班牙吉卜赛女郎，对人间的伦理规范视若无睹，认为爱情是无法束缚的鸟儿，即使情人夺走她的生命，却夺不走她那颗自由不羁的心。
卡门出自十九世纪法国小说家梅莱美笔下，她的倾城魅力举世闻名，洋溢着不自觉的女性解放思想，是西方最具神话色彩的女性角色之一。
乔伊甫获准进入飞行官校，青梅竹马女友辛蒂陆前往营区会面，并计划向指挥官申请结婚许可，却碰上卡门于后勤部门闹事，士官长故意派乔伊押送卡门到镇上法庭，乔伊只好留下辛蒂陆；沿途卡门百般勾引，忠厚的乔伊终为卡门的美色与慧点所惑，卡门趁机脱逃，乔伊受军法判入狱；日夜思念仍是卡门，一出狱未回校报到即先探访卡门，为保护卡门不受士官长调戏却打伤长官，被迫沦为逃兵与卡门流落芝加哥。卡门却以美艳让拳击冠军赫斯基米勒魂牵梦系，并以华屋美裘令卡门女友说服卡门投入其怀抱，卡门占卜得知乔伊将置其于死地，决心摆脱，希望于赫斯基庇护下可免于一死，乔伊不理辛蒂陆深情恳求，挟持卡门希望求得卡门之爱，却在卡门冷嘲热讽中……

Maria Vargas（艾娃·加德纳 Ava Gardner 饰）一个美丽、敏感、渴望爱情的西班牙女子，本在一家酒吧跳舞。被美国导演Harry Dawes（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）挖掘，带到好莱坞，成了万众瞩目电影明星。但她却与投资Harry电影的老板Kirk Edwards矛盾重重，后又和南美洲的富人Bravano纠缠不清。直到她遇见深爱她的那个男人——伯爵Vincenzo，两人终于结婚，但悲剧却无法避免。就如Vincenzo的家族格言一样：该来的，总会来。美人已逝，空留遗憾。