罗莎·莫林是威斯康星小镇一位医生被忽视的妻子。她变得无聊，迷上了一位来访的芝加哥商人。她向丈夫的病人勒索钱财，并用现金逃往芝加哥，但商人不欢迎她。她回到家并被丈夫怀孕。商人改变了主意，跟着她去了威斯康星州。他想让她回来，但不想让她的孩子回来，所以她试图通过跳下山来流产并患上腹膜炎，在贝蒂戴维斯所说的“银幕上最长的死亡场景”中死去。

丹斯雷（柯克•道格拉斯Kirk Douglas 饰）是一名流浪的牛仔，一次偶然之中，他结识了名为杰夫（威廉•坎贝尔William Campbell 饰）的男子，两人之间结下了深厚的友谊。在老相好艾多妮（克莱尔•特雷弗Claire Trevor 饰）的介绍之下，丹斯雷和杰夫来到了工头司翠普（杰伊•C•弗利朋Jay C. Flippen 饰）手下干活。
波恩小姐（珍妮•克雷恩Jeanne Crain 饰）成为了丹斯雷和杰夫的新老板，一连串的误会和意外让丹斯雷决定辞职走人，但是波恩小姐极力挽留。最终，丹斯雷决定直面他惨淡的过去。然而最终，丹斯雷还是无法习惯受制于人的生活，他辞去了农场的工作，重新踏上了旅途，做回了自由自在的流浪牛仔。

第一次世界大战的末期，美国派兵赴欧洲参战，富家子弟吉姆(约翰·吉尔伯特 饰)也加入了军队，在部队中跟建筑工人出身的斯利姆和酒保布尔很快成为了好友。部队在法国登陆，驻扎在一个小村庄里。在那里，吉姆认识了法国村姑梅丽桑德(蕾妮·阿多莉 饰)，两人很快燃起了爱火。不久，部队奉命开赴前线，吉姆被迫离去。梅丽桑德在军用卡车后紧追不舍，吉姆脱下军靴抛给她，表达自己对她的爱意。
在前线，炮火密集，吉姆、斯利姆和布尔躲在炮弹坑中十分着急。经过抽签，由斯利姆冲出坑外对付敌人的大炮。炮声停止了，但斯利姆一直没有回来。吉姆十分担心，往敌阵中寻找，果然发现了斯利姆的尸体。
美军进行大规模反攻，吉姆奋勇作战，结果因腿部中弹而住进野战医院。在那里，他听说梅丽桑德所在的村庄处境十分危险，于是偷偷溜出医院赶到村庄，却发现该地已成一片废墟……

On a hot summer afternoon in New York, Emma Jones gossips with other neighbors in her residential building about the affair that Mrs. Anna Maurrant and the milkman Steve Sankey are having. When the rude and unfriendly Mr. Frank Maurrant arrives, they change the subject. Meanwhile, their teenage daughter Rose Maurrant is being sexually pressured by her married boss Mr. Bert Easter. She does however very much like her kind young Jewish neighbor Sam, who has a serious crush on her.
The next morning, Frank Maurrant tells his wife that he is traveling to Stamford on business. Mrs. Maurrant meets the gentle Sankey in her apartment, but out of the blue Frank comes back home. He realizes his wife is upstairs with Sankey, and runs upstairs. We hear shots and see the two men struggling as Sankey tries to escape through the window. Maurrant runs out with a gun. He has killed Sankey and fatally wounded his wife.
Maurrant is apprehended and is led away by police. He apologizes to his daughter Rose, who will now have to take care of herself and her young brother without either parent. Rose's boss offers once again to set her up in her own apartment, but she refuses. Then she sees Sam, and tells him she wants to leave the city. Sam pleads with her to let him go with her, but she tells him it will be better for the two of them to have a couple of years apart before they consider becoming a couple. Rose walks off down the street by herself.

John et Tilly vivent heureux jusqu'au jour où le père de Tilly découvre le passé scandaleux de la mère de John.
John 和 Tilly 愉快生活直到Tilly父亲发现John“母亲”过去的丑闻...

一次偶然中，史黛拉（芭芭拉·斯坦威克 Barbara Stanwyck 饰）邂逅了英俊的男子史蒂芬（约翰·博尔斯 John Boles 饰），相互吸引的两人最终走到了一起，携手步入了婚姻的殿堂，很快，可爱的小女儿劳拉（安妮·雪莉 Anne Shirley 饰）呱呱坠地。随着时间的推移，史黛拉乖僻的个性渐渐显形，斯蒂芬受不了妻子的粗俗和毫无教养，这段婚姻不可避免的走向了破裂。
离婚后，史蒂芬娶了一位名叫海伦（芭芭拉·欧内尔 Barbara O'Neil 饰）的寡妇，这让史黛拉大受刺激。没有了家庭的寄托，史黛拉将自己的所有期望都投射到了劳拉的身上。史黛拉希望劳拉能够不收任何伤害，不走任何弯路的长大成人。

个人主义和理想主义的建筑师霍华德·罗克因为他的设计与现有的建筑思维不符而被大学开除。他似乎找不到工作，但最终与志同道合的亨利·卡梅伦找到了一份工作，然而几年后卡梅伦喝酒致死，警告罗克如果他不妥协自己的理想，同样的命运将等待着他。罗克决心以任何代价保持他的艺术完整性。

John and Mary sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society based upon the teachings of Edward Gallafent. The newborn community suffers many hardships - drought, vicious raccoons and the long arm of the law - but ultimately pull together to reach a bread-based Utopia.

La Bohème is a 1926 American silent drama film directed by King Vidor, based on the opera La bohème by Giacomo Puccini. Lillian Gish and John Gilbert star as ill-fated lovers.
Several struggling bohemians try to survive in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the winter of 1830, hoping to one day become famous. Playwright Rodolphe (John Gilbert) and his painter roommate Marcel (Gino Corrado) have trouble with Bernard (Eugene Pouyet), the landlord, who threatens to throw them out if they do not come up with the monthly rent that night. Rodolphe reluctantly starts writing an overdue article for a journal editor to earn some money, but the editor rejects his work. With the help of their friends, musician Schaunard (George Hassell) and bookish Colline (Edward Everett Horton), they are able to raise their rent money.
Their next door neighbor, Mimi (Lillian Gish), an orphaned, friendless embroiderer, has the same problem. Bernard is attracted to her, but when she does not respond to his overture, he issues the same threat. She takes her meager belongings to the municipal pawnshop, but does not receive enough money to pay the rent. On her way back, she is nearly run over (deliberately) by the carriage of the rich, idle aristocrat Vicomte Paul (Roy D'Arcy). She has to fend off his advances.
When Marcel is invited to dinner by his girlfriend and downstairs neighbor, Musette (Renée Adorée), he persuades her to allow Schaunard to join them. Then the musician gets her to include Colline, who asks for Rodolphe. Rodolphe misses his cue in order to become acquainted with Mimi. Seeing how cold she is, he invites her to warm herself in his apartment. Later, after she vacates her room, Rodolphe entices her to share in the food Musette has provided. Then Vicomte Paul comes over. She thinks he wants some embroidery done, not realizing he has baser motives. Rodolphe does and immediately becomes jealous of the aristocrat. In any case, Mimi is able to pay her rent and stay.
In spring, Mimi joins her friends out in the country for her very first picnic. She and the love-smitten Rodolphe wander away. After a while, she admits that she loves him. This inspires Rodolphe to write a play. When Mimi takes his latest, long overdue article to his editor, she is requested to tell him that he is discharged. Wanting Rodolphe to continue working undisturbed on his play, she works secretly at night to keep up the deception that he still has a paying job. The strain, however, makes her sick.
When Vicomte Paul comes to pick up Mimi's handiwork, she tells him of Rodolphe's new play. Still hoping to seduce her, he offers to show it to a theatrical manager, if she will come with him to the theatre. Rodolphe sees them together and, in a rage, accuses Mimi of having an affair. She tries to explain, but he refuses not listen.
Rodolphe tries to forget Mimi. When he runs into the editor, he is surprised to hear he has been fired for five weeks. Meanwhile, Mimi, with Musette's help, dresses up and goes with Vicomte Paul to the theatre, hoping to get Rodolphe's play accepted. She once again rejects the vicomte's advances. Returning home, she is confronted by Rodolphe. She admits having worked in secret for him. He initially forgives her, until he finds out that she went out with Vicomte Paul and jumps to the conclusion she got the money from him. He hits her, but soon apologizes when he discovers she is very sick.
Rodolphe goes to find a doctor, but she leaves before they return, explaining in a letter that she will come back when his play is a success. He searches for her for months. Out of his anguish, a new and greater play is born. This turns out to be a hit, but he is miserable without Mimi. Meanwhile, Mimi is toiling in the slums of Paris, but the hard work is too much for the frail woman. She collapses. The doctor tells her coworkers she will not live out the night. She stumbles out into the street and eventually reaches her old apartment. Rodolphe is ecstatic to see her. Their friends, however, realize her condition. While he goes to fetch her pet bird, she tells Musette she is happy, before dying.

故事发生在二十世纪初的一个炎热的夏天，某日，一个哇哇啼哭的婴儿呱呱坠地，父母给他取名为约翰（詹姆斯·穆雷 James Murray 饰），随着时间的推移，约翰渐渐长大，怀揣着对未来的理想和期望，约翰透过时光看到了无比广阔的空间。然而，父亲的死扼杀了约翰的一切希望，约翰的双眼渐渐失去了神采。
约翰来到繁华的大都市纽约，在这里寻找新的生活，他成为了一名普通的工人，和成千上万同他境遇相同的人过着日复一日枯燥的生活。某日，一位名叫玛丽（埃莉诺·博德曼 Eleanor Boardman 饰）的美丽姑娘出现在了约翰的身边，他们坠入情网，结婚生子。一晃眼五年过去，约翰已经有了两个孩子，殊不知，悲剧正在前方等待着他。

1812年，拿破仑的军队控制大部分的欧洲国家。在为数不多未被征服的国家中，俄国打算联合奥地利一起进行殊死抵抗。贵族安德烈公爵（梅尔·弗尔 Mel Ferrer 饰）就是这样怀揣一腔抱负的俄国军官。然而安德烈的挚友皮埃尔公爵（亨利·方达 Henry Fonda 饰）却毫不关心战事。他在父亲临终前成为遗产继承人，与贵族之女海伦（安妮塔·艾克伯格 Anita Ekberg 饰）结婚，却在婚后不久发现性格不合而分居。安德烈战役失败被释放归家看望难产而死的妻子。几个月后，彼埃尔与罗斯托夫伯爵一家在去打猎，叫上了安德烈。安德烈对伯爵的女儿娜塔莎（奥黛丽·赫本 Audrey Hepburn 饰）一见钟情。不久，娜塔莎接受了安德烈的求婚，然而安德烈很快重返军队。海伦的弟弟阿纳托里趁虚而入，骗得娜塔莎的爱，唆使娜塔莎与他私奔。俄法战争开始，娜塔莎遇到了深受重伤的安德烈，安德烈在临死前原谅了娜塔莎的背叛。战争结束后，皮埃尔回到了莫斯科，与娜塔莎结合在了一起。