老实勤恳的克劳斯（爱德华·罗宾逊 Edward G. Robinson 饰）是一名出纳，平日里，他最大的爱好就是画画，然而，克劳斯从来就没有想过靠出售自己的作品赚钱。某日，克劳斯遇见了名叫凯蒂（琼·贝内特 Joan Bennett 饰）的女子，虚荣心的驱使之下，他向凯蒂谎称自己是一名画家。
　　凯蒂有一个交往多年的男友强尼（丹·德亚 Dan Duryea 饰），对于强尼来说，凯蒂不过只是他谋取利益的工具罢了，而克劳斯则成为了凯蒂的摇钱树。一直对克劳斯的身份有所怀疑的强尼拿着克劳斯的画去卖，没想到居然得到了美术评论家的一致认可，凯蒂更是声称自己就是这些画的作者。克劳斯向凯蒂求婚，却遭到了后者的无情嘲笑，一怒之下，克劳斯起了杀念。

　　汉塞克（伯特·兰卡斯特 Burt Lancaster 饰）是一位小有名气的报纸专栏作家，老道的资历让他的手中掌握着不少的人脉与资源。苏珊（Susan Harrison 饰）是汉塞克的妹妹，某日，她同一位名叫史蒂夫（Martin Milner 饰）的爵士乐手相爱了，汉塞克十分瞧不上史蒂夫，觉得他高攀了苏珊，于是，狂妄自大的汉塞克决定不惜一切手段，也要将两人拆散。
　　汉塞克找到了名叫西德尼（托尼·柯蒂斯 Tony Curtis 饰）的曼哈顿新闻代理，利用手段迫使西德尼成为了自己的“帮凶”，在两人的设计之下，苏珊和史蒂夫之间的感情出现了裂缝，两人最终分手。然而，心胸狭窄的汉塞克并不愿意就此放过史蒂夫，反而变本加厉，想要彻底毁掉这个年轻人。

　　约翰．赫斯顿导演的犯罪电影经典之作，他采用具有睿智洞察力的手法来探索一群珠宝大盗的悲剧命运。萨姆．杰夫饰演一名释囚，他召集了四名伙伴一齐抢劫珠宝行，准备在得手后销赃给一名律师换取百万巨款。当他们顺利劫得珠宝撤退时，却被一名看更破坏好事，导致其中一名歹徒在逃走时受伤。另一方面，出资赞助这次抢劫的赌场老板被贪污警察逼供，招出了集团成员的名字，他们乃难逃劫运。全片情节推展紧凑利落，每个角色均具鲜明个性，因而凝聚出强烈的戏剧张力。玛丽莲．梦露首次在银幕上扮演单纯而性感的情妇角色，从此展开了亮丽的星途。

　　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。

　　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？

　　才华横溢的表演艺术家安托尼成功的扮演了许多角色，可是到了老年功成名就的时候却找不到自己，他迷失在黑色的舞台上。他怀疑，猜忌，神经过敏，他在演死亡之吻的时候迷失在奥赛罗的险影里，黑暗中总有一股力量把他推向困惑的边缘。

　　四个大学同学在雷诺赌场度过了一个愉快的夜晚，无意中听到一个警察说抢劫赌场是“不可能的”，这让他们当中最聪明的有钱人想到了一个完美的抢劫计划。他说服其他人加入，当他们听说这只是一个大学骗局时，他的计划是让警察知道钱在哪里。问题是，他的一个朋友在战争中头部受伤，不打算退一角钱。

　　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.

　　Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) is a family man, living in California, who can't seem to get by financially. He meets up with a small-time, but charismatic, hood Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges). Soon, Slocum convinces Tyler to participate in gas station robberies to get by. Later, they kidnap a wealthy man in hopes of getting a huge ransom. Things go wrong when the man is murdered by Slocum then thrown in a lake. Tyler reaches his limit emotionally, and he begins drinking heavily. He meets a lonely woman and confesses the crime while drunk. The woman flees and goes to the police.
　　When the two kidnappers are arrested, a local journalist (Richard Carlson) writes a series of hate-filled articles about the two prisoners which eventually lead to a brutal lynching.
　　The despair of the lower middle-class: A family man ashamed of being unemployed allows himself to be convinced by a gangster to take part in a kidnapping. The police arrests them both and the anger of the small town’s population is unforgiving. THE SOUND OF FURY is a dark crime movie that builds up to an apocalyptic storm, but never loses sight of social realities, thus telling a lot about the daily despair of the working-class. A masterpiece, it was Cy Endfield’s last film before he felt compelled to move to Britain.

　　Beauty contest winner Patricia Knight's one bid for screen stardom was Columbia's Shockproof. Knight plays Jenny Wright, a convicted murderess paroled in the care of probation officer Griff Marat (Cornel Wilde). What begins as an aloof professional relationship eventually blossoms into romance. The fly in the ointment is shady Harry Wesson (John Baragrey), the gambler who inveigled Jenny into committing murder. The girl is torn between creature comforts offered her by Wesson and the promise of a clean life offered by Griff. This early Douglas Sirk effort contains a smattering of the stylistic touches which distinguished his later work.The screenplay was written by famed director Samuel Fuller, known for his gritty realism and hard-boiled style.
　　~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

　　Kathy is a smart and tough 1950's advice columnist at a San Francisco newspaper, with her name plastered on billboards all over the city. One day, Bill Doyle, a Los Angeles detective, walks into her office - it is instant attraction. After marrying Bill, Kathy gives up her career and becomes a homemaker. However, she is not your typical 1950's homemaker. After hosting several cocktail parties in their San Fernando Valley home, she realizes that Bill is content with his position, and shows no ambition in furthering himself. Kathy will not sit idly by while everyone around her is "moving up in the world". She personally takes upon herself the task of pushing Bill's career along, even if it comes down to murder

　　Bill Saunders, disturbed ex-soldier, kills a man in a postwar London pub brawl. Fleeing, he hides out in the apartment of lonely nurse Jane Wharton. Later, despite misgivings about his violent nature, Jane becomes involved with Bill, who resolves to reform. She gets him a job driving a medical supplies truck. But racketeer Harry Carter, who witnessed the killing, wants to use Bill's talents for crime.

　　混上流社会的花花公子自认为如鱼得水，结果犯了禁，无论黑道还是白道的。警察调查他牵扯进的俩重谋杀案其实无关紧要，真正有趣的是他和三个女人的互动，她们都非常迷人。甚至出场不到半分钟的龙套女都很有特色。可惜结局莫名其妙。

　　A lawyer whose wife has had an affair sets out to leave her by flying to LA. He becomes ever more involved in the lives of a few fellow travelers on a journey that ends up showing him as much about himself as about the others.

　　Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she's not philandering with her secretary's fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor: George Bates, who claims to be the partner in crime of Janet's estranged husband. George insinuates himself into Janet's home and life despite her efforts to get rid of him; the tangled relationships develop into a macabre, murderous cat-and-mouse game.

　　生活让野心勃勃的马戏团学徒蒂龙.鲍尔变成一个欺诈的艺术家和逐渐地进入一个假宗教性的印度教，他的生活从此就开始围着其导师旋转。与此同时，人翁斯丹并没有为五光十色的嘉年华会所迷恋而停留，因为他的心早就飞去了高档夜晚俱乐部......

　　Fishing boat captain Harry Morgan charters his boat. Due to strained finances, he is none too careful as to whom he does business with. Real trouble erupts when Harry hires out his boat to transport four men who turn out to be criminals on the lam from a racetrack heist.

　　Two homicide detectives investigate the brutal shotgun murder of a crime syndicate member