杰克•拉莫塔（罗伯特•德尼罗 Robert De Niro 饰）出身于纽约的布鲁克林区。自小便进行拳击训练的杰克很快就在拳击界崭露头角，他因在比赛中出拳迅猛，打击对手毫不留情，表现得就像一头公牛，被称为“愤怒的公牛”。
　　虽然杰克表现出色，但因为他为人耿直，不肯屈服于黑手党的安排，所以在当时他一直无缘于挑战拳王金腰带。在多次失意后，杰克终于向黑手党屈服，听从安排输掉了一场比赛。之后杰克如愿挑战了拳王并顺利加冕。
　　加冕后的杰克不仅没有体会到预想中的兴奋，反而看透了拳击界的种种黑幕，决意退出。

痴迷脱口秀笑话表演的鲁帕（Robert De Niro 饰）梦想自己也能站在舞台上享受观众的欢呼，借疯狂粉丝玛莎（Sandra Bernhard 饰）创造的机会，鲁帕得以和脱口秀明星杰瑞交谈，鲁帕踌躇满志的自我介绍，虽然杰瑞敷衍了事，但鲁帕仍视自己为杰瑞的好友。为了能在心爱的丽塔面前出人头地，鲁帕不惜一些代价要获得与杰瑞同台表演的机会，另一方面杰瑞被鲁帕的纠缠搞到忍无可忍，将鲁帕与并不知情的丽塔赶出家门。杰瑞的行为激怒了鲁帕，他与玛莎合作绑架杰瑞，威胁电视台播放自己的表演，鲁帕终于如愿以偿，掀起一场轩然大波……
本片获1984年英国电影学院奖最佳剧本奖，1984年伦敦影评人协会奖年度电影奖，1984年全美影评人协会奖最佳女配角奖。

本片以过三十年代的大乐队时代为故事背景，描述一名萨克斯爵士乐手与一名女歌手之间爱恨交缠的情感，充满着人生的困惑和奈，跟一般好莱坞歌舞片的明亮轻快大异其趣

斯科塞斯拍摄的一部关于演员史蒂文·普林斯（Steven Prince）过往事迹的纪录片。

Providing behind the scenes footage of the director on set with clips from his own films, Martin Scorsese Directs depicts to riveting effect the way Scorsese brings the written story to life on the big screen. Additional interviews with the likes of Joe Pesci, Harvey Keitel, Thelma Schoonmaker, the director’s own parents, and others build a perception of Scorsese that not everybody knows.

The very first full-length documentary on Scorsese offers an invaluable look at how he was perceived by his colleagues, and himself, in 1977. Catching Scorsese while he was in post-production on New York, New York and editing The Last Waltz, British filmmaker Peter Hayden gets the manically hyper Scorsese to comment on his youth, his relation to his lead characters, and most importantly, his approach to direction. The doc doesn’t quite move at the pace of Scorsese’s revved-up speed-talking, but it does offer some real insight into his productivity in the 1970s, thanks to an impressive array of talking heads. Included are Scorsese’s collaborators Jay Cocks, Mardik Martin, Brian De Palma, Steven Prince (who co-produced this doc), and his mentor John Cassavetes. Also the performers, who discuss his working methods in detail — Jodie Foster, Liza Minnelli, and, of course, Robert De Niro.