这部充满阳刚气氛的影片，主要描述在贫民窑一同长大的四个男孩，他们有着不同的个性，却有着共同的理想，希望未来能成为黑社会的龙头老大。Lansky是一个商业经济头脑发达的人；Benny体格强壮，做事易于冲动；Luciano则人缘极好，于是他利用自己所长，最终有机会铲除了黑帮前辈老大；Costello则深谙仕途之道，擅长玩弄手腕，后成为出色的政治人物。影片就围绕他们四人的成长过程推展剧情，人物性格刻划较为细腻。
法国外交官托尔博早年曾经经历过一次火车出轨事故，因头部受伤得了失忆症。多年后，当托尔博成为外交新星的时刻，被一伙儿声称是他过去犯罪同伙的人敲诈勒索。由于失忆，托尔博并不知道自己是否曾经参与过犯罪，但他又该怎样摆脱这顶在他头上的巨大阴影呢……本片编剧巧妙，节奏掌握合适，层层深入的描述方式将观众牢牢吸引在这巨大的谜团之中，直到真相揭晓的一刻。
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.
