影片聚焦法国民族女英雄圣女贞德（玛利亚·法奥康涅蒂 Maria Falconetti饰）生命的最后时刻，再现了她被出卖落入勃艮第叛军手中后，在英格兰监狱和法庭上，从受审到处死的全过程。被英格兰当局严密控制的天主教会，指控贞德为异端和女巫。法庭上，法官更伪造证据，以信仰问题不断对她施以精神上和肉体上的折磨。面对惨无人道的酷刑与子虚乌有的诬陷，贞德正气凛然、坚贞不屈。最后，贞德被押赴鲁昂市广场，被绑在火刑柱上活活烧死。 　　由一代电影大师卡尔·西奥多·德莱叶执导拍摄的影片《圣女贞德蒙难记》，被称为世界十大最佳影片之一。影片以极具震撼力的艺术表现手法，再现了这段受到天主教会和英国占领军折磨的民族英雄短暂生命中的最后时刻。

本片是德莱叶的第一部有声片，是恐怖片的经典，而且比现代恐怖片更具有心理震撼性。
影片以营造气氛著称，弥漫着梦幻和诡异。
故事讲述一个年轻人觉得自己遭到僵尸的包围，并幻想自己被安葬到坟墓里。
影片采用了很多新奇的拍摄角度，营造出独具一格的映像效果，又通过暗示手法展现邪恶的力量，取得了前所未有的成绩，将恐怖类型片提高到艺术片的高度。

A description of the measures taken to protect the health both of married and unmarried mothers and their children through "Mother Help" (Mødrehjælpen) - a humanitarian organisation aiding young mothers with children. The theme is illustrated by taking a simple story of an unmarried mother. All the parts are played by natural types.
The film was produced by Dansk Kulturfilm for the Joint Committee of the Mother's Aid Institutions (Mødrehjælpens Fællesraad) in 1942 and added to the Social Denmark series in 1947. One of the two short Danish dialogue sequences has been eliminated from the English version.
In 1940, Ebbe Neergaard published En Filminstruktørs Arbejde ("A Film Director’s Work"), the first ever Dreyer biography. At a reception for the book, Dreyer was first introduced to Mogens Skot-Hansen. The next day Dreyer called him up, suggesting that they co-write a feature film adapting the play Anne Pedersdotter. Skot-Hansen, who had been involved in screenwriting before, was honoured and accepted the offer. They co-wrote the screenplay and Skot-Hansen tried to sell the Anne Pedersdotter project to Nordisk Film. He recalls the pitch as follows:
"Nordisk executive Brøndum was very commercial and thought like a calculator. I made a deal with him: Dreyer would do a short film for Nordisk – and afterwards Nordisk would finance his feature film. That short film was Good Mothers."
He made Nordisk Film promise to produce the film if Dreyer proved that he could stick to a budget.
"I spoke with Dreyer on Friday and he immediately contacted a lady at Mødrehjælpen [Mothers Aid, ed.]. On Monday already he provided all kinds of information on the subject and had written a script, utterly perfect."
Good Mothers was shot in the summer of 1942 at Nordisk Film with a cast of non-actors, many of them affiliated with Mødrehjælpen. Kristian, a small boy who is brought along to Mødrehjælpen by Erna (Hjørdis Jacobsen), is played by the son of Vera Skalts who headed the organisation for many years.
The dramatised parts suffer severely from bad acting, but otherwise the film is neatly put together, although that does not mean that it looks anything like a Dreyer film. It is dated in many ways. Apart from the film’s moral and legal datedness, its language is gratingly old-fashioned. Erna teaches a "simple children’s song" at a parenting class that goes:
Poor little Negro boy
He is black from head to toe
So he must always go
Poor little Negro boy.
Dreyer finished Good Mothers on time and on budget, so that was not why Nordisk Film got cold feet and reneged on producing Anne Pedersdotter. Dreyer, however, did get the studio’s permission to try and "place himself and Anne Pedersdotter with Palladium." Skot-Hansen showed Palladium the financial statements for Good Mothers, persuading chief executive Tage Nielsen to produce the film that would become Day of Wrath.

一则跨越三代，不停纠缠在不伦与血统之间的家族故事，德莱叶不仅赋予本片一股浓得化不开的悲剧气氛，也尖锐的触碰了个体感情与森严的血统律法冲突时，道德与宗教都无法解决的矛盾。德莱叶首部剧情长片作品，将自己身为私生子的身世背景融入其中，俯拾皆是私密的感情印记，细腻如浪漫画派的摄影和多层次的叙事逻辑，已经完全展现大师级的电影语言与深邃的人文情怀。

卡尔·西奥多·德莱叶这部喜剧引出心灵流变的轨迹，并在喜剧形式表现中要求夸张的转折与表演方式。他的简单主义从《总统》的办公室开始到玛格丽特夫人的屋舍，更趋向朴质。而对容貌的描写这里也有了开端。影片中的骗徒，终究抵抗不了良心的责备以及虚假婚姻阻隔与女友之间的真情。但有趣的是，被骗的老妇却早已察觉他的不怀好意但又绝非恶徒。反而是外力最后促使内在的圆满。

故事发生在1632年的丹麦，一个地处偏远的小镇中正在进行一场残酷的处刑，一个年老的女人因为被指控为巫女，而面临着被活活烧死的悲惨命运。临死前，愤怒的老人设下了诅咒，对于负责行刑的牧师来说，邪恶的诅咒是无法伤害代表了正义的他的，可对于牧师的妻子安妮（Lisbeth Movin 饰）来说，眼前所发生的一切令她永生难忘。
自此之后，安妮仿佛变了一个人似的浑浑噩噩。安妮和牧师的婚姻里并没有爱情，牧师英俊的儿子却吸引了安妮的注意，随着时间的发展，两人之间的关系越来越近，最终越过了伦理道德的界限。牧师死了，牧师的母亲愤怒地指控，是安妮的“巫术”害死了自己儿子。按照惯例，安妮被绑上了火刑架，这似曾相识的命运让安妮猛然醒悟，诅咒，也许真的存在。

本片讲述了一个周旋于几个男人间的女人的爱情故事。女歌手Gertrud（Nina Pens Rode 饰）的丈夫Gustav Kanning（Bendt Rothe 饰）将成为内阁大臣，Gertrud却向丈夫坦诚她不再爱他了，因为他把工作看得太重要而忽略了对她的爱。Gustav问她是否有了新欢，她承认了。之后她离开家去见了她的爱人，年轻的音乐家Erland Jansson，两人互诉衷肠，Gertrud仿佛可以看到两人的美好未来。第二天，大诗人Gabriel Lidman（Ebbe Rode 饰）的欢迎宴会上，Gertrud也出席了。原来她和Lidman也有过一段感情。Lidman想要挽回Gertrud，被她拒绝了。Lidman告诉她，他知道Erland其实爱的是另外一个人。于是当Erland弹奏着钢琴，Gertrud唱着歌的时候，她晕了过去。Getrud又去见了Erland，希望和他一起去巴黎，但是Erland拒绝了。而当Getrud回到家，又遇到了Lidman......