黑帮头目米洛（让·雷诺 Jean Reno 饰）掌控着一个传统的帮派，儿子安东（Gaspard Ulliel 饰）是他的得力助手和希望，虽然安东有着出色的犯罪头脑，但相对米洛的冷酷无情，他显得稍许软弱，与护士伊洛蒂的爱情正占据了年轻人心中最主要的位置。 警官萨尼尔始终关注着这个帮派的一举一动，但苦于无法掌握关键证据。米洛帮派为一起抢劫案购置军火，得到消息的萨尼尔找到伊洛蒂，希望对方支持自己。伊洛蒂无法面对安东的罪犯身份，苦苦规劝他脱离抢劫行动，然而这却阻碍了米洛的计划，他命人将儿子带回自己的身边。安东为恋人不惜与帮派翻脸，但他还是决定参加这次警察已严密布控的抢劫中去……
故事发生在德国当代，简（丹尼尔·布鲁赫 Daniel Brühl 饰），皮特（斯坦奇·艾塞克 Stipe Erceg 饰）和朱莉（朱丽娅·耶恩奇 Julia Jentsch 饰）是三个社会上随处可见的普通青年。但在他们的内心里，愤怒和失望的火焰从未停止过燃烧，对于国家的现状，对于政府的不满，对于富人的仇恨，为了给这些汹涌的感情找到出口，他们必须要做一些与众不同的事情。 他们在夜里潜入豪宅之中，在大肆恶作剧一番后留下写有“好日子到头了”的恐吓纸条，这样一种行动让三位好友在情感上得到了发泄，也在精神上获得了快感。一次行动中，朱莉造成的意外导致他们不得不重返“犯罪现场”，不幸的是，他们刚好撞见了归家的房主，情势所迫，三人做了一件他们都不愿意做的事情——绑架。
穆春红是北河市监狱的一名心理治疗师，在狱中从事心理辅导工作，负责狱中犯人的心理疏导和心理问题的治疗。穆春红在十年前离异，之后带着女儿门门改嫁焦化厂的工人陈康，婚后陈康对这个女儿非常爱护，他和穆春红的夫妻关系也相当和睦。 一天，陈康为了帮助厂里的退休工人争取社保，和资方发生了激烈争执，期间意外昏倒，被送进了医院。昏迷中，陈康口中呼唤出一个名字——“小文”。这让穆春红感到奇怪，原来，陈康还有一个叫陈博文的儿子。陈康一直以来隐瞒着有个儿子的事实。陈康病倒后穆春红才终于知道了这个真相…… 原来陈康几乎每天出去钓鱼，其实穆春红并不爱吃鱼，她闻不了鱼腥味，但她依旧支持陈康去钓鱼，穆春红并不知道陈康每天只是在监狱外头等着小文出操，就想听听他的声音。可是那么多人，他根本听得不到谁是小文呀！ 不久，陈康去世了，穆春红也见到了陈博文，陈博文因七年前犯的错误正在狱中服刑，...
Shortly before he is to wed, millionaire John Willis is visited by Dr. Harry S. Blair, a psychiatrist who informs him that years before he was married to Nancy, John's wife-to-be, and warns him that she is mentally unbalanced. Blair then relates the following story: After a whirlwind romance in Florida, Blair marries Nancy and starts a psychiatric practice in New York. One day, artist Norman Clyde comes to his office and tells him that an innocent man is about to be executed in Sing Sing Prison and that Nancy is the cause of his unjust incarceration. A distraught Clyde then explains himself to a curious Blair: Three years before, Clyde meets Nancy, whose maiden name was Monks, when she enrolls in his art class. The moody Clyde soon falls in love with Nancy's honest charm and beauty. Nancy, a secretary, introduces Clyde to her boss, millionaire Andrew Bonner, and persuades Bonner to showcase Clyde's paintings at one of his private showings. To Nancy's delight, Clyde's painting, a depiction of the tragic figure Cassandra for which she modeled, wins first prize at the showing. The evening is perfect until an expensive bracelet is stolen from a guest, and Clyde later finds it in Nancy's purse. After Clyde confronts a confused Nancy about the theft, she relates the following story to explain her behavior: As a young girl, Nancy lives with her housekeeper mother in the lavish Willis home and plays with Karen, the Willises' little daughter. Although Karen wants to invite Nancy to her upcoming birthday party, Mrs. Willis refuses to allow the lower-class Nancy to attend. A true friend, Karen promises to give Nancy one of the pins her guests are receiving. When Karen realizes there are no extra pins, however, she offers Nancy the beautiful locket she has just received from her mother. Nancy's subsequent joy is soon crushed when Mrs. Willis demands that she return the locket. Later, the locket is discovered missing, and Nancy is accused of theft. Although Nancy's mother soon finds the locket in Karen's dress, Mrs. Willis refuses to believe Nancy and forces her to "confess." The adult Nancy then admits to Clyde that this childhood humiliation caused her unconscious desire to steal the bracelet at the party. After a forgiving Clyde returns the bracelet anonymously, he and Nancy continue their romance until the next party at the Bonners'. Suspecting that the absent Nancy is spending the evening in Bonner's arms, Clyde leaves the party to look for her and sees her exiting Mrs. Bonner's bedroom just after two gunshots are fired. Bonner is found murdered, and Mrs. Bonner's diamond necklace, stolen. Although Nancy and Clyde are questioned, valet Myron Dexter is eventually found guilty and is sentenced to die. Clyde, however, strongly suspects Nancy, but she angrily maintains her innocence and leaves for Florida. Back in his office, Blair defends Nancy to Clyde but invites him to his house that evening. When confronted, Nancy denies everything and tells Blair that Clyde is merely jealous. The next day, Dexter is executed, and a guilt-ridden Clyde jumps from Blair's office window to his death. To avoid scandal, Blair and Nancy move to England, and after World War II breaks out, Blair volunteers his medical services, while Nancy becomes an ambulance driver. Expressing concern over Blair's health, Nancy insists that they take a vacation at Lord and Lady Wyndham's manor house. Just as they are leaving, Blair learns that one of Lady Wyndham's valuable jewels has been stolen. Blair suspects Nancy but is unable to prove anything until a bomb destroys their flat and reveals her cache of stolen jewels. Although confronted directly, Nancy continues to deny any guilt and divorces Blair after he suffers a nervous breakdown. Back in John's study, Blair, like Clyde before him, tries to convince John to abandon Nancy, who now uses the name Patton. John, however, believes Nancy when she tells him that Blair is still suffering from his breakdown. Moments before the wedding is to start, Nancy's future mother-in-law, the unsuspecting Mrs. Willis, gives her the same locket that she once took away, and tells her that it is a precious family heirloom. The locket causes Nancy to be overcome with guilt, and she collapses at the altar in hysterics. As Nancy is later taken away to an institution, John sadly realizes the truth of Blair's story, but determines to see Nancy through her crisis.
Min Ji-suk runs a "ticket bar"where customers can purchase tickets for certain "services"in the town of Sokcho in Gangwon-do. She hires Miss Yang (Ahn So-young), Miss Hong (Lee Hye-young), and Se-young (Jeon Se-young) through the employment agency. Miss Yang and Miss Hong, who are well experienced in this type of business, are used to accepting propositions from customers. But Se-young, who is dating a college student named Min-su, rejects all requests for sexual favors. When Min-su professes to having problems with his tuition and finances, Se-young reassures him that she will procure the necessary funds for him. When the bar's clientele begins to dwindle because of Se-young, Ji-suk reprimands her severely. Se-young develops a close relationship with a Captain Pak and even allows him to sleep with her. She asks Captain Pak to find Min-su employment on a boat, but when Min-su comes to Sokcho for his new job, he sees how Se-young has been making her living. Shocked, he turns his back on the job and leaves. When he eventually returns to Sokcho, he scathingly denounces Se-young's morality and severs their relationship. Decades ago, Ji-suk had stumbled into the bar business in a desperate effort to support her husband, who was serving time in prison; she later left him voluntarily out of shame and moral degradation. Concerned that Se-young will end up with the same fate, Ji-suk asks Min-su to meet with her. She begs him not to abandon Se-young, but he flatly refuses. Ji-suk reacts by pushing Min-su into the sea, and suffers a mental breakdown that lands her in a psychiatric institution.
上海滩十里洋场，是无数人追梦的乐园……天生神力的青年马永贞（伍允龙 饰）从家乡来到上海谋生，在当时占有上海一半势力范围的老帮派斧头帮治下谋得一份苦工，岂料因同伴窃取斧头帮的鸦片，在后者发难之际与同住贫民区的老铁（洪金宝 饰）将工友救下，为了追踪那批鸦片的下落，马永贞与上海另一半势力范围的主人——新近崛起的龙七（安志杰 饰）不打不相识，并因为受到斧头帮排挤，不得不与同伴们投奔龙七。因秉持母亲的教诲，马永贞无意加入龙七的帮会，但龙七不以为意，反与之结为知交。不久，那批鸦片的真正主人——日本人为了介入上海，利用斧头帮和龙七的矛盾欲置龙七与老铁等人于死地，马永贞忍无可忍，誓要复仇……
