A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his own.

A young man tries to escape the South Side of 1920s Chicago.

The moving story of four young men struggling against overwhelming odds to remain honest. When their crooked employer shorts their earnings; they turn to crime, their first theft ending in tragedy.

Lily Macbeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new kingpin himself. Success is short-lived, however, as he confronts Lennie, a mobster whose father and wife were Joe's murder victims.

Harry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff. The lines of his mental illness and reality become extremely blurred as some of his strangest events are indeed witnessed by others. As Harry becomes more frustrated by not being able to distinguish fact from delusion he turns to violence.

A priest sets out to catch the man who killed one of his colleagues.

The proprietor of an ice-skating revue promotes a peanut-vendor to a management position based on suggestions he made to improve the act of the show's star, who also happens to be the owner's wife. However, he soon begins to notice that his new manager is paying more attention to his wife than he believes is appropriate.

When beautiful Mary returns to her "whistle stop" hometown, long-standing feelings of animosity between two of her old boyfriends leads to robbery and murder.

Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.

Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.

A naive small-town girl comes to New York City to meet her husband, and discovers that he may be a murderer.

In Korea, on 6 September 1950, Lieutenant Benson's platoon finds itself isolated in enemy-held territory after a retreat. Soon they are joined by Sergeant Montana, whose overriding concern is caring for his catatonic colonel. Benson and Montana can't stand each other, but together they must get the survivors to Hill 465, where they hope the division is waiting. It's a long, harrowing march, fraught with all the dangers the elusive enemy can summon.

Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge, a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew...who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie, who's fond of a bit of gold herself. Which side is Waldridge really on?

In the 1950s, a poor Georgia cotton farmer and his sons search for the gold presumably buried on the farm by their grandfather but problems related to poverty, marital infidelity, unemployment and booze threaten to destroy their family.

The plot starts in France in the year 1794. Robespierre is sowing panic among his opponents with the only reason to take over the power of the state.

Three trappers become scouts for a cavalry captain who loses his fort to a hated colonel.

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.

Jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis is hired by corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko to promote his current protégé, an unknown Argentinian boxer named Toro Moreno. Although Moreno is a hulking giant, his chances for success are hampered by a powder-puff punch and a glass jaw. Exploiting Willis' reputation for integrity and standing in the boxing community, Benko arranges a series of fixed fights that propel the unsophisticated Moreno to #1 contender for the championship. The reigning champ, the sadistic Buddy Brannen, harbors resentment at the publicity Toro has been receiving and vows to viciously punish him in the ring. Eddie must now decide whether or not to tell the naive Toro the truth.

本片以四对夫妻为主角，刻画了上个世纪五十年代美国战后城郊生活的真实面目，在欣欣向荣的城郊开发区，每个人都穿着光鲜亮丽的衣服，住着轩敞舒适的宅邸，过着看似无忧无虑的生活，然而在幸福的表面之下，每个人却都被各自的心魔与困苦折磨着，英国摇滚传奇大卫·鲍威曾在一封信中提到这部电 影“我某天晚上在电视上看了一部叫做“No Down Payment”的老电影，很棒的一部电影，但如果这部电影所刻画的美式生活是真实的的话，那真是太令人抑郁了”。
本片故事开始于年轻夫妇大卫（杰弗瑞·亨特 饰）和珍（帕特里夏·欧文斯 饰）搬进日升山社区，在那里，他们认识了克莱策夫妇赫尔曼（帕特·亨格尔 饰）和贝蒂（芭芭拉·拉什 饰），弗拉格夫妇杰瑞（托尼·兰德尔 饰）和伊莎贝尔（谢瑞·诺丝 饰）以及布恩夫妇特洛伊（卡梅隆·米切尔 饰）和莱奥拉（乔安娜·伍德沃德 饰）。大卫是一个工程师，但他的上司一直劝说他当销售员，因为销售员可以获得更高的工资，他的妻子珍也希望他能去当销售员，这令他十分烦心，更让他烦恼的是，他一直怀疑自己貌美迷人的妻子对自己不忠，担心自己软弱的书呆子个性无法真正地留住妻子。赫尔曼是市议会的成员，在市中心开着一家器具店，他手下的日本裔伙计伊古想要搬进白人社区，恳求赫尔曼帮忙，赫尔曼虽然想要帮忙，却又害怕这事会在社区引起轩然大波，因此和妻子在商量的过程中争吵起来，两人信仰上的差异更是进一步加重了争吵。杰瑞是一名二手汽车销售中介，他沉迷酗酒，喜欢沾花惹草，总是希望自己能出人头地，干一番大事业，妻子伊莎贝尔希望他能停止喝酒，并脚踏实地，找一些稳定的工作，但杰瑞执迷不悟，并为了赚钱开始采取一些为人不齿的非常手段。特洛伊是一名退伍军人，他经营着一家十分成功的加油站，但真正的梦想是想当日升山的警察局长，他的妻子莱奥拉曾生下他的孩子，但因为当时二人并未结婚，莱奥拉不得不选择将孩子送走，夫妻俩常常因为此事而不时争吵，同时，特洛伊对大卫的妻子珍心怀好感，三番两次设法接近她，珍一直尽量与特洛伊保持距离，但特洛伊却没有因此而放弃，大卫和莱奥拉虽然察觉出了端倪，但也无法做出任何实质性的劝阻，四人微妙的关系最终演变成一场悲剧。