桃乐丝（西蒙·西涅莱 Simone Signoret 饰）的丈夫是个脾气十分古怪的男人，不仅如此，他还常年因为身体不好而卧病在床，饮食起居都要桃乐丝来照料。除此之外，桃乐丝的婆婆（Sylvie 饰）亦是个难缠的老太太，性格软弱的桃乐丝处处受他们的控制和指挥，终日生活在劳累和抑郁之中。
一次偶然中，桃乐丝结识了丈夫的朋友劳伦特（雷夫·瓦朗 Raf Vallone 饰），这个温柔而又憨厚的男人慰藉了桃乐丝饱受伤害的内心。随着时间的推移，两人渐渐对彼此产生了真挚的感情。不忍看到桃乐丝继续受苦，劳伦特提出了两人私奔的请求。然而这个计划很快就被桃乐丝的丈夫发现了，桃乐丝遭到了无情的软禁。

第4届戛纳国际电影节最佳作曲奖 《朱丽叶或梦的钥匙》 Joseph Kosma 法国

Henri Chatelard accompagne sa maîtresse, Odile, à l'enterrement de son père. Il s'éprend de la sœur d'Odile, Marie, qui met tout en œuvre pour le séduire. Beaucoup plus âgé que la jeune fille, il résiste d'abord à sa passion.

维克多（让·迦本 Jean Gabin 饰）是一名拳击教练，一次偶然中，他结识了名为安德烈（罗兰·勒萨弗尔 Roland Lesaffre 饰）的拳击手，安德烈虽然没有接受过拳击训练，但维克多发现他的身上隐藏着无限的潜能。维克多的妻子并不希望丈夫继续再待在这个充满了暴力和血腥的行业中了，当了解到了维克多太太的苦衷后，安德烈决定暗地里输掉比赛。
然而，命运将一个名为科琳娜（Marie Daëms 饰）的女人送到了安德烈的身边，让他深深的为她着迷，爱情使安德烈充满了力量，于是他取消了原定的计划，最终赢得了比赛。然而，很快维克多就发现，科琳娜的存在成为了安德烈职业道路上的绊脚石。

Middle class student Bob Letellier enters a new world when he meets Alain, a free-thinking rebel who, along with his group of young Parisians, has opted for a life of instant gratification instead of work and commitment. At a party, Bob meets a young woman, Mic, who appears to be just as carefree and cynical as Alain. Mic's only dream is to own a luxury car, and with Bob's help, she manages to find the money to but it. Mic's friend Clo discovers she is pregnant and, not knowing who the father is, she asks Bob to marry her. When they next meet at a party, Bob and Mic deny that they have any feelings for one another - a declaration that soon leads to tragedy...

Marcel Carné is widely regarded as one of the standard bearers of French quality cinema of the 1930s and 1940s, responsible for such masterpieces as Quai des brumes (1938) and Les Enfants du Paradis (1945). How ironic then that, in 1958, towards the end of his film-making career, he should make a film which dared to portray the attitudes and behaviour of the 1950s youth, in a way that effectively captures the mood and sentiment of the time.

Les Tricheurs was a hugely controversial film, not least because of its blatant depiction of adolescent free-love, and was even banned in some regions of France. It also received some intensely unfavourable reviews, most notably from the young hotheads on the Cahiers du cinéma such as François Truffaut who cited this film as a prime example of the decline of French cinema into mediocrity. In spite of all this negative press, the film proved to be an astonishing commercial success, attracting five million cinema-goers, and was awarded the Grand Prix du Cinéma français in 1958.

Whilst Les Tricheurs is not as flawless as Carné's earlier masterpieces, it is nonetheless a significant work, having the power to both shock and move its audience, whilst having great entertainment value. It evokes the mood of its time in a way that few French films of this period did, depicting young people as pleasure-seeking rebels, rejecting the austerity and discipline of the previous generation whilst pursuing a life without cares, responsibilities or love. Similarities with James Dean's films of the 1950s (most notably Rebel without a Cause) are apparent, although Carné's treatment of young people is far more abstract - in his film they merely symbolise a world that has lost its way, more or less victims of post-war prosperity. Although the young people in Les Tricheurs lack the authenticity to be totally credible, the film does make an important, and indeed quite disturbing point, about where the permissive society may be heading.

Much of the pleasure of the film is in the performances from its four lead actors, Jacques Charrier, Pascale Petit, Laurent Terzieff and Andréa Parisy, although only Terzieff is really convincing in his role. Marcel Carné originally considered Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo for the parts of Bob and Alain respectively, before opting for Charrier and Terzieff. As a consolation, Carné offered Belmondo a smaller part in the film - alas too small for the actor to be noticed by the public. Belmondo's breakthrough had to wait until the following year when he starred in Jean-Luc Godard's revolutionary A bout de souffle, a film which offers a very different perspective of the youth generation.

When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.

On the outskirts of Parisian council housing estates lies a vast wasteland that still retains its mysteries in this day and age, and serves as a refuge for people who, in their spare time, escape or are often ejected from their overcrowded dwellings. They form small, rather harmless bands, share their first secrets, build up their "treasures" and submit to strict rituals. The sanctity of their rebellions is underscored by initiation through blindfolded jumping and a blood test. An impossible love story is born between two members of the same clan, Dan, a beautiful, tomboyish girl, and Lucky, a sweet but feisty boy.