影片故事讲述乔什·杜哈明饰演的律师，在追查制药公司顾问(安东尼·霍普金斯饰)受贿案件时，卷入一宗谋杀案中。阿尔·帕西诺饰演的律所老板强势介入，帮助被指控的律师洗清罪名。
阿B（李修贤 饰）是和母亲同住狭小老旧公寓的便衣刑警，他为人热血办案手法大胆，令新报道的同事阿杰（艾迪 饰）大开眼界。阿杰与阿B性格迥异，一心只想通过考试晋升警官。阿B压制分别住在山上村和山下村的两位大佬小黑与红番，并通过红番手下的毒虫小弟阿成（太保 饰）买得多个线报，阿B获悉犯罪信息立下功劳，令阿杰亦得到嘉奖，二人友谊日盛一日。不久，阿成因毒瘾反复发作，犯下大错，被小黑和红番连番毒打，终至丧命，阿B调查阿成死因，追查小黑，不料却引发意外，将自己逼上绝路，而小黑也只得选择铤而走险，警匪都再别无选择……
一个刚死了丈夫的寡妇独自开车出城想缓解悲痛，却被一个陌生男子跟踪、绑架，关在人迹罕至的林中木屋里，并告诉她自己不是初犯。顽强的女子拼命逃了出去，在林间、河水里与残忍的绑架者展开周旋。
Mari (Marina Vlady) runs a boardinghouse for girls who are in trouble, and Juli (Lili Monori) is a young married woman who is fleeing her passionate marriage with an uncontrollable alcoholic. She has brought her young daughter along with her. Though this is not allowed under the house rules, Mari makes an exception for Juli. Both women are desperately unfulfilled - Mari has a narrow-minded and passionless man for a husband, and Juli still loves her husband, whom she recognizes as a person she cannot continue living with. The two turn to each other for comfort, and each woman gains necessary insights into her own life in seeing the other's struggles. This sober movie by feminist director Marta Meszaros was not a rousing box-office success.
故事开始于怀俄明州的乡间，我们的主人公怀厄尔普（凯文·科斯特纳 Kevin Costner 饰）就出生在那里。为了参加南北战争报效祖国，怀厄尔普离家出走英勇的赶往前线，却因为年龄的问题而被拒绝入伍。之后，怀厄尔普开始攻读法律，并且邂逅了名为乌瑞拉（贝蒂·巴克利 Betty Buckley 饰）的女子。两人双双坠入爱河之后很快便携手步入了婚礼的殿堂。 然而，幸福美满的日子却并没有维系太长的时间，一场大病夺走了乌瑞拉的生命，令怀厄尔普陷入了绝望和自暴自弃之中。就在他濒临崩溃之时，父亲尼古拉斯（吉恩·哈克曼 Gene Hackman 饰）来到了他身旁，将怀厄尔普重新引回了正途。
