陶建平（袁牧之 饰）和黎丽琳（陈波儿 饰）是一对受过教育的青年男女，同时也是一对恋人。毕业后俩人结婚成家，过着平静舒适的生活。陶建平就职的公司内部充满了尔虞我诈，勾心斗角，人与人之间很难相处。为此，陶建平陷入苦闷之中。最后，正直的他愤然辞职，失业在家。而妻子求职的公司马经理（周伯勋 饰）是个色狼，一见面，他就垂涎黎丽琳的美色，不断对其骚扰，黎为了求得一份工作之不易，强忍不悦。失业的陶建平不忍让妻子养活自己，到处求职，却屡屡碰壁，只好去工厂做苦工。最后妻子实在忍受不了老板的欺侮而失去工作，产后意外受了重伤。无奈的丈夫偷出工钱为妻子看病，却双双走上不归路......

The story is about a fisherman's family living near to Shanghai. In the beginning, twin babies are born, a boy and a girl. Their growing-up is briefly sketched, and their friendship with "young master", a boy from rich family about their age.

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

Wang Mao joins the army in order to earn money to marry his favorite girl. He struggled his life through the whole war against Janpanese invaders.

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors' prejudices and preconceptions about the trial, the accused, and each other.