In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack there of) to the announcement.

　　Old miss Marple is on a train ride when she witnesses a murder in a passing train. She reports it to the police but they won't believe her: since no body can be found there can't have been any murder, right? As always, she begins her own investigation. The murder was committed while passing Ackenthorpe Hall and miss Marple gets herself a job there, mixing cleaning and cooking while searching the house for clues.

　　赫伯特的女朋友离开他之后，赫伯特非常沮丧，开始找工作。他终于在一个大房子里找到了一个，里面住着许多女人。他能和所有这些女人住在同一个家吗？

　　Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.

　　本片用一种现实与记忆穿插的方式勾勒了男主人公X（吉奥吉欧·艾伯塔基 Giorgio Albertazzi 饰）与女主人公A（德菲因·塞里格 Delphine Seyrig 饰）公剪不断理还乱的情感纠葛。X的记忆中对于巴洛克宫殿里的亭台楼阁如数家珍，在他的描述性旁白中，人们 得以感受到他内心巨大的波澜。在剧场舞台上，戏子正在表演着离愁别绪的桥段。观众席上X跟贵妇A对视良久。歇息之时，剧场响起舞曲，X向A邀舞，两人在近距离表达了对彼此的感受。A觉得这个X是个关注自己的陌生人，但是X却讲述了去年与她发生的一段鲜为人知的故事。期间，还穿插了X跟A丈夫M（莎查•皮托夫 Sacha Pitoëff 饰）游戏对决的场景……

　　曼哈顿西部贫民区里有两帮势不两立的流氓团伙，一个是由白人里弗领导的“火箭”帮，另一个是由波多黎各人贝尔纳尔多带头的“鲨鱼”帮。两帮相互仇视，经常斗殴生事。一次西区举行舞会，两个帮派相互拼舞，里弗的朋友托尼（理查德·贝梅尔 Richard Beymer 饰）与贝尔纳尔多的妹妹玛丽亚（娜塔利·伍德 Natalie Wood 饰）一见钟情。贝尔纳尔多发现两人的爱慕后，强行让手下带走了妹妹。夜里，托尼站在玛丽亚的窗前呼唤她，两人坚定地相爱了。第二天，玛丽亚听说“鲨鱼帮”将和“火箭帮”决斗，便让托尼前去阻止。托尼匆匆赶到现场，试图阻止斗殴的发生，在混乱中好友里弗被杀，他出于自卫失手杀死贝尔纳尔多。这让玛丽亚陷入矛盾和痛苦中，她忍受着家人的责骂与侮辱，但心中无法放下托尼。贝尔纳尔多的好友持枪寻找托尼算帐，得知消息的玛丽亚匆匆赶去报信，然而悲剧赶在她之前发生了……　　本片夺得1961年奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳男配角、最佳女配角等十项大奖。

　　

　　年轻的女孩萨沙（妮娜·卓别舍瓦 Nina Drobysheva 饰）邂逅了英俊潇洒的空军飞行员阿列克赛（叶甫盖尼·乌尔班斯基 Evgeniy Urbanskiy 饰），在阿列克赛短暂停留的几天里，两人之间的感情迅速升温。之后，阿列克赛重新返回前线，此时萨沙的腹中已经怀上了他的骨肉。　　没过多久，孩子降生了，但同时传来的，还有阿列克赛不幸战死的噩耗。在绝望和悲痛之中，萨沙咬紧牙关，发誓一定要将两人爱情的结晶抚养长大。战争结束后，萨沙的姐姐和弟弟回到了家中，这是，萨沙得到了一个惊人的消息，那就是阿列克赛并没有死，而是被敌人俘虏了。这段被捕的经历让阿列克赛失去了政府对他的信任，他一下子从一个英雄沦落成为了人人喊打的叛徒。

　　故事发生在堪萨斯州的南部小城中，巴德（沃伦·比蒂 Warren Beatty 饰）是一个满脑子都是奇思妙想的高中生，一次偶然中，他邂逅了名为蒂尼（娜塔利·伍德 Natalie Wood 饰）的女孩。蒂尼的美丽和温柔深深的吸引着巴德，令他坠入了情网，巴德甚至在内心里暗暗的 发誓，此生一定要将蒂尼娶回家。　　然而，在民风保守的小镇上，这两个年轻人之间的恋情很快就遭到了双方家人的强烈反对，他们都对这两颗真挚的心嗤之以鼻。在一连串的波折和打击之下，自暴自弃的巴德竟然和蒂尼的同学（奥黛丽·克里斯蒂 Audrey Christie 饰）上了床。得知了此消息，蒂尼的精神崩溃了。

　　On leave in a shore side town, Johnny becomes interested in a young dark haired woman. They meet and he learns that she plays a mermaid in the local carnival. After strange occurrences, Johnny begins to believe that she may actually be a real mermaid that habitually kills during the cycle of the full moon.