The story follows a recent divorcee who spends her daily commute fantasizing about a seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes daily, but something shocking happens there one day.
When his girlfriend Sasha and best friend Elias give hothead Richard a harpoon for his birthday, he wants to try this new toy out right away. So the three of them set out for a day trip on a boat, but suspicion and jealousy soon start to get the upper hand. Before long, the tension has become unbearable. To make matters worse, the boat’s engine fails and then it turns out they left their supplies on shore a nerve-wracking struggle for survival ensues that spares no one’s secrets – or blood. This post-modern adaptation of a story by Edgar Allan Poe in which three shipwrecked sailors draw lots to see who has to sacrifice himself as a cannibalistic snack, is a bloodthirsty thriller that leaves sufficient space for laughs. It’s painfully obvious from (nautical) miles away that this triangular relationship is not going to end well.
盖伊（法利·格兰杰 Farley Granger 饰）拥有一段并不幸福的婚姻，他的妻子乔伊斯（凯茜·罗杰斯 Kasey Rogers 饰）是一个水性杨花的浪女，盖伊对妻子的不忠恨之入骨。布鲁诺（罗伯特·沃克 Robert Walker 饰）常年受到专横的父亲安东尼先生（乔纳森·哈勒 Jonathan Hale 饰）的压制，忍无可忍的他逐渐起了杀心。就是这样的两个倒霉男人，他们在一列火车上相遇了。 互诉衷肠之后，布鲁诺提出了交换杀人的建议，企图给警方造成无动机的假象。盖伊以为布鲁诺只是开玩笑呢，不置可否，哪知道没过几天，乔伊斯竟然真的死于非命。布鲁诺完成了他的承诺，下面轮到盖伊了。
本部饱受争议的离奇影片围绕马戏团里一群畸形人展开。矮人汉斯（哈利·厄尔斯 Harry Earles饰）暗自倾心于“正常人”——美貌的秋千表演者克里奥佩特拉（奥尔加·巴古拉诺娃 Olga Baclanova饰），同为侏儒人的弗里达（黛西·厄尔斯 Daisy Earles饰）告诫汉斯，她只是为他的钱财。克里奥佩特拉与“正常人”大力士赫克留斯（道格•霍奇森 Henry Victor饰）两人相好，设计让克里奥佩特拉嫁给汉斯得到钱财。婚礼上，克里奥佩特拉大吼在场的人都是“FREAKS”，激怒了所有畸形人。雨夜，畸形人对这两个“正常人”展开了报复…… 本片在1932年发行后因题材过于怪诞而被禁止，成为了当时的赔钱电影。可在当下来看，却是一部难得的“正常”影片。导演向我们抛掷了一个赤裸裸的提问：到底谁才是“正常人”？
Walter Williams (Brian Donlevy) is a take-charge captain of industry who has worked his way up in a San Francisco steel company from a position as a sheet metal worker. He loves his wife Irene (Helen Walker) very much and they have planned a vacation drive together. Irene cancels at the last minute claiming a toothache, but asks that Walter drive her cousin Jim Torrance (Tony Barrett) as far as Illinois. Walter agrees and he and Jim take off together but later Jim knocks Walter unconscious and takes the car only to be hit himself by a truck and killed, his body burned beyond recognition. Walter comes to and suffering a concussion and deep confusion from feeling betrayed by Irene hides out in a small Midwest town until guilt and peer pressure force him to go back to San Francisco and tell his story to the Police. But by the time Walter returns to San Francisco a clever detective Lieutenant Quincy (Charles Coburn) has uncovered some facts about Irene and her cousin' Jim. The police have been holding Irene for the murder of her husband Walter but release her considering that Walter was hiding out because he had killed Jim. Along the way to uncovering the truth in Court Walter realizes some hard fact about what he holds valuable and the trust he has put in those around him.
十四岁的约翰从小就生长在修道院中，没有亲人，亦没有过去。一天，一位神秘的妇人安吉拉（玛利亚·若奥·巴斯托斯 Maria João Bastos 饰）找到了约翰，声称自己是他的亲生母亲，并且向约翰讲述了她曾经的故事。 安吉拉是侯爵的女儿，她和伯爵之子席尔瓦（何塞·阿方索·皮蒙特尔 José Afonso Pimentel 饰）相爱，遭到了父亲的强烈反对。然而，叛逆的安吉拉并没有屈服，她腹中怀着席尔瓦的孩子，决定与其私奔。暴怒的侯爵派出杀手刺杀席尔瓦，甚至连安吉拉腹中的胎儿也不放过，幸运的是，安吉拉得到了一位神父和令一位神秘人的帮助，约翰才得以长大。成年之后，约翰来到巴黎，遇见了一位贵妇，他答应帮助贵妇找到杀死她哥哥的凶手，让约翰没有想到的是，这名凶手竟然正是当初帮助过他和他母亲的神秘人。
In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods.
