精神病院的默奇逊院长即将退休，接手的是年轻有为的爱德华大夫（格利高里·派克 Gregory Peck 饰）。医院里年轻漂亮的女医生彼特森（英格丽·褒曼 Ingrid Bergman 饰）和他相爱，然而竟发现眼前的爱人不是爱德华大夫，而真实的爱德华的秘书，还前来指出这个冒牌人士是杀害爱德华的凶手。
面对恋人扑朔迷离的身份，彼特森始终不相信他是杀人凶手，然而默奇逊院长却用精神分析法印证了“事实”。更为棘手的是，这个假爱德华也相信自己有罪，他甚至连自己是谁，经历过的事情也不知道。
彼特森对自己的判断非常坚持，她决定要帮他找出事件真相。在警察的追捕下，她带他逃到了心理分析教授的家中，展开了一联串精彩的心理分析过程，他童年的阴影和爱德华大夫被杀的真相渐渐浮出水面。

Philip Marlowe（亨弗莱·鲍嘉 Humphrey Bogart 饰）是一个私家侦探，这天他接到邀请来到General Sternwood的家中，Sternwood让马洛调查关于他女儿的一笔债务，他的女儿Carmen Sternwood 欠了一个叫Geiger的人一笔赌债。在Marlowe想要离开的时候，Sternwood的大女儿Vivian（劳伦·白考尔 Lauren Bacall 饰）栏下了他，告诉他其实她父亲找他来调查的真正目的是为了寻找一个失踪的朋友，Marlow将信就疑。第二天Marlow去寻找Geiger，在Geiger家门前却听到一声枪声，等Marlow进去的时候，却只发现了Geiger的尸体还有被绑住的Carmen Sternwood（玛塔·威克斯 Martha Vickers 饰），还有一台相机。Marlow带走了相机并把Carmen送回家，等到Marlow再回到现场时，却发现Geiger的尸体已经不见了。而Sternwood家的司机也因车祸身亡。案件变得越来越扑朔迷离，这些事情间到底有什么联系？Marlowe能否发现真相？
本片改编自侦探小说作家雷蒙德·钱德勒的同名小说。

Rosa Moline is the neglected wife of a small-town Wisconsin doctor. She grows bored and becomes infatuated with a visiting Chicago businessman. She extorts money from her husband's patients and uses the cash to flee to Chicago, but the businessman does not welcome her. She returns home and becomes pregnant by her husband. The businessman has a change of heart and follows her to Wisconsin. He wants her back, but not her baby, so she attempts to abort by throwing herself down a hill and gets peritonitis, dying in what Bette Davis called "the longest death scene ever seen on the screen."

被解雇的报社女记者安·米歇尔伪造了一封信给报社，署名“约翰·杜伊”（即无名氏），信上表示对这个充满恶瘤的社会充满失望，决心要自杀。报社为此不得不重新聘用了安来调查此事。然而，没想到此事最终引发了一场政治运动……

A dancer is pinned for murder after his shoe prints are found at the scene of the crime. His wife follows the trail of clues to the genuine killer.

1941 film by Michael Curtiz

New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California. They have humorous problems with small town mores and eccentric citizens. But their schemes to increase circulation get them in over their heads.

After serving five years of a life sentence, Rocky Mulloy hopes to clear his friend who's still in prison for the same crime.

A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner's murder.