On a rainy night in 1928 in a Pennsylvania factory town called Iverstown, Martha Ivers (Janis Wilson), thirteen years old, is trying to escape from the guardianship of her wealthy, domineering aunt. Her friend, the street-smart, poor Sam Masterson (Darryl Hickman), comes for her through her bedroom window, but Martha's aunt catches them. While Sam slips out unnoticed, Martha hits Mrs. Ivers on the head, causing her to fall down the long staircase and die. Though Sam saw nothing, the event was witnessed by Walter O'Neil (Mickey Kuhn), the son of Martha's tutor (Roman Bohnen), known as Mr. O'Neil. Martha lies about the incident to Mr. O'Neil, and Walter supports her.[5]
　　Mr. O'Neil suspects what happened but presents Martha's version of events to the police, that an intruder is responsible he makes use of his knowledge by having her marry his son. When the police identify a former employee of the aunt as the murderer, the two O'Neils and Martha help convict him he is punished by hanging.[5]
　　Eighteen years later, the older O'Neil has died. Walter (now played by Kirk Douglas) is the district attorney, while Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) has used her inheritance from her aunt to build a large business empire. Their marriage is one-sided he loves her, but she does not love him.
　　Sam (Van Heflin), now a drifter and gambler, stops in the small town by chance to have his car repaired after an accident. While waiting for repairs, at his old home, now a boarding house, he meets Antonia "Toni" Marachek (Lizabeth Scott), who has just been released from jail. She is later picked up for violating her probation by not returning to her hometown. Sam goes to see Walter, to see if he can use his influence to get her released.
　　Walter is convinced Sam has returned with blackmail in mind, giving Walter a motive to run Sam out of town. When Martha reacts with joy to the news of Sam's return, Walter's jealousy provides an additional motive. Walter forces Toni to set Sam up. Sam is beaten and driven out of town, but he is too tough to be intimidated. When all else fails, Walter makes a half-hearted attempt to kill Sam himself, but is easily disarmed. Martha then inadvertently blurts out the couple's fears of blackmail, which prove to be groundless: Sam says he did not witness the death. Martha breaks down and laments that he left without her all those years ago, taking with him her only chance for love and freedom.
　　Sam is torn between his old love and his new. Although he eventually forgives Toni for betraying him, he and Martha spend an idyllic day together, rekindling his feelings for her.
　　Walter arranges to meet Sam to finally settle matters. Before Sam arrives, Walter gets drunk and Martha finds out about the meeting. When Walter falls down the stairs and is knocked unconscious, Martha urges Sam to kill him. Sam instead brings Walter around. Martha pulls out a gun and threatens to shoot Sam in "self defense" as an intruder. However, Sam gambles that Walter will not back up her story he turns his back on her and leaves.
　　Walter embraces and kisses his wife then he points the gun at her midriff. Oddly relieved, she puts her hand over his hand on the trigger and presses. As she is dying, she defiantly states her name is not Martha Ivers, but Martha Smith. Outside, Sam hears the shot. He runs back toward the mansion, but sees Walter, holding Martha's body, shoot himself. Sam and Toni drive away together.

　　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。

　　One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works. The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head. He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak. The police accuse him of stabbing an officer the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality. During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night.

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1914年出生于福建省闽侯县的吴清源被称为“围棋天才少年”，1928年在濑越宪作（柄本明饰）、喜多文子（松坂庆子饰）等日本朋友的热心帮助下，吴清源（张震饰）和母亲（张艾嘉饰）、妹妹（黄奕饰）东渡日本，开始了终其一生的围棋生涯。初至日本，吴清源与日本棋院大赛刚出炉的冠军较量，并中盘获胜；五年后，吴清源与他人共创围棋新布局，掀起一场围棋革命。1939至1956年间，吴清源凭个人之力打败日本最顶尖的七位超级棋士，十次大胜“十番棋”，被誉为“昭和棋圣”。他以“95盘擂台赛式”的“十番棋”，令当时棋坛所有大师全部降级，创造了日本围棋界所称的“吴清源时代”。然而，吴清源作为一位围棋棋手能否超越国籍、政治、战争等世俗问题？他是否有过难以承受的痛苦？

　　1984年七月， Varda 在 Avignon 的一棟養老院裡看到一個名為《活生生與人造的》（Le vivant et l'artificiel）的展覽。展覽場裡，藝術品與動物、人工心臟、發霉的牆壁混亂地共存著。視覺上的震憾讓她久久不能自己，於是她決定帶領我們，重回險地。我們看到一間間住宅，或空的、或滿的。隨著時間流逝，卻留下奇怪的痕跡。另外， Varda 也在這家養老院裡遇到了即將是《無法無家》裡的「女僕」 Yolande Moreau 和「老太太」 Marthe Jarnias 。
　　Varda 曰：
　　『在高速火車的搖晃下，我無法讓自己不去想–那些我的精神正試著去吸納的不協調的影像。一到巴黎，我立刻打電話給 Louis Bec 和 Bernard Faivre d'Arcier ，要求他們讓我去拍這個展覽，不是為了去理解它，而是為了從中汲取靈感。他們答應了。幾天之後，我們出發前往拍片。在回到 Avignon 的高速火車的搖晃下， Nurith Aviv 要求看我的大筆記，好知道他將要拍的是甚麼。筆記紙幾乎還是空白的，我們只看到一些標題：廚房、父母的房間、用餐、窗戶。所有的家庭生活都註記到了，但沒有一樣是準備好了的。整部影片完全是以即興的方式去拍的，沒有標記、沒有脈絡。我只不過是跟隨著因參觀現場而感受到自己真實的心臟跳動，和那些仍然令人感到溫暖的老人的存在。』
　　A. Varda,1993年, in Varda par Agnès, Ed. Cahiers du cinéma, 1994.

　　叶冰刚刚从医学院毕业后便进入海城医院成为外科主任易思成的助理医生。救死扶伤原本是她的理想，可一工作才发现烦恼重重。
　　一方面上司易思成像个魔鬼一样，对叶冰的工作吹毛求疵，极为苛刻。另一方面漂亮的她备受关注，很多单身医生都想追求他，就连病人也想跟她套近乎。但叶冰对任何人的追求都一概拒绝。在大家眼里，这是个冷若冰霜滴水不进的女孩。
　　外科医生沈友兰是海城医院有名的花花公子，他看上的女孩，就没有搞不到手的。他听说叶冰对任何男人都不理不睬，便在众医生面前夸下了海口，一个月之内，肯定把叶冰弄到手。大家不信，便出钱打赌。开始赌三五百块大洋，最后知道的人越来越多，纷纷掏钱参赌，赌资最后发展到四千块大洋……

　　Aspirations and the lives of several people working at the gigantic Seacoast National Bank Building interweave in various plots. The most notable character is David Dwight, the womanizing bank owner who keeps his estranged wife happy by paying for her extravagant globetrotting. Dwight's long time secretary Sarah yearns for them to divorce so her affair with him can be legitimized. Sarah shows her good side by playing mother to the young innocent Lynn Harding, who she employs as an assistant. Beautiful Miss Harding is relentlessly pursued by extroverted bank teller Tom Sheppard, but he is frustrated when Dwight lures her away with power and wealth. Then Dwight ruins everyone's finances in a successful bid to get full control of his skyscraper by manipulating the company's stock price. Now there doesn't appear to be anyone who can prevent the power monger from taking advantage of the ingenue Harding-or is there?

　　A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.

　　亚历山大艾伯林，俄国人，在经历过一段地狱式训练后成为一名高级间谍被派到英国情报局卧底，秘密执行各种间谍任务，时间转瞬即逝在英国情报局总共呆了18年之久，长期的间谍任务使他心力交瘁，于是他想重回祖国的怀抱，但是被他的上级否决，此时，他又被派到英国各处秘密执行暗杀计划，此时亚历山大·艾伯林人生有了新变化，个人安全处在危在旦夕中……

　　丽瑟（芭芭拉勒琪 Barbara Laage 饰）是一名妓女，一天，她和两个黑人乘坐着同一列火车，突然，四名白人闯入了他们所在的车厢，要求黑人下车，最终，六人扭打在了一起，一名黑人被名叫托马斯的男人开枪打死，另一个黑人跳车逃跑了。
　　事后，白人声称黑人想要强奸丽瑟，所以他们才“拔刀相助”，而出手杀人的托马斯，他的表弟福莱特有一个当参议员的爹，福莱特为了帮助托马斯脱罪，竟然要求丽瑟作伪证。丽瑟虽然没有读过什么书，从事的也是低贱的工作，但她有一颗闪闪发光的心，对于这种非正义的要求誓死不从，无奈参议员巧舌如簧，在他的半哄半骗之下，丽瑟最终还是在伪证上签了名。

　　指挥官维尼裘斯（帕维·德朗柯 Pawel Delag 饰）深深的爱着身在罗马的人质公主丽姬娅（玛达琳娜·米尔卡兹 Magdalena Mielcarz 饰），于是，残暴的尼禄皇帝（克兹佐夫·马扎克 Krzysztof Majchrzak 饰）将丽姬娅赏赐给了维尼裘斯为妻。然而，丽姬娅公主是一个虔诚的基督教徒，她不能忍受维尼裘斯靠杀戮和掠夺过活，丽姬娅选择了离开维尼裘斯。
　　为了挽回丽姬娅，维尼裘斯找到了基督教的秘密集会处，开始聆听教义，试图理解基督教的核心思想，想通过此走进丽姬娅的内心。当维尼裘斯回宫时，尼禄皇帝正在焚烧罗马城，而丽姬娅就在其中，维尼裘斯闯入火海救出了爱人。皇后非常嫉妒维尼裘斯和丽姬娅之间坚贞的爱情，于是设计陷害。

　　Un professeur d’histoire qui habite avec son amie d’enfance part pour aller vivre avec une autre femme: sa vie se délite, il abandonne ses cours et se met à boire.

　　故事发生在1900年，美国人马修是一个神枪手，为了一则招募神枪手的广告他跋涉了三个月来到澳大利亚，途中还顺便解救了一位把他错认为是男友的姑娘“疯狂”考娜。他们来到了马斯顿农场，却发现农场主马斯顿的雇佣他的目的是要让他射杀当地的土著人。愤怒的马修把马斯顿扔出房间，却被农场的打手们打的不省人事。然后又和考娜一起被扔到丛林中让他们自生自灭。二人被土著人救起。但得知了消息的马斯顿随即高价悬赏马休的人头，并派出手下追杀他们。面对马斯顿的嚣张和土著人的善良，认真起来的马修和考娜二人的报复同样冷酷而残忍。