初出茅庐的鲁迪·贝勒（马特·达蒙 Matt Damon饰）是刚踏进律师界的新手。一腔热血的鲁迪接手的第一个案子是一宗涉及医疗保险赔偿的诉讼。无助的母亲，国产生命垂危的儿子，国产拒绝支付医疗费的保险公司，不择手段的辩护律师，一切都跟当初设想的大相径庭。面对种种举步维艰的行业阴暗面和陷于困境的弱势群体，鲁迪至始至终都没有放弃他的正义之心。影片的另一条主线还有一位遭受家庭暴力的受虐少妇。影片用写实的手法，向我们描绘了一场捍卫正义的道德之战。本片根据约翰·格里沙姆的同名小说改编。
回复 :Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlight.’ After impregnating a young actress he soon comes to regard her as a millstone round his neck. He stabs a friend to death and dies alone. ‘You are useless, mangy and wild, you beast, you crawl through the lowest boughs of the tree.’The film takes youthful impetuousness and hatred of oppression as its subject and also ponders the cult of genius and sexual morals. Rainer Werner Fassbinder simultaneously plays both Baal and himself and is surrounded by many actors who were later to perform in his own films. After the film was broadcast on West German television, Brecht’s widow Helene Weigel prohibited any further screenings, arguing that the social circumstances engendering Baal’s rebelliousness had not been adequately explained.
回复 :纽约港的码头上，以约翰尼为首的黑社会势力无情地压迫着码头工人们。曾经是拳击手的特里（马龙·白兰度 Marlon Brando 饰）来到码头为约翰尼工作。他的朋友乔伊因为向犯罪委员会揭发约翰尼等人的罪行，被其手下，也是特里的哥哥查理从楼顶上推下摔死。乔伊的妹妹伊迪（爱娃·玛丽·森特 Eva Marie Saint 饰）发誓要为哥哥复仇，与教区牧师巴里神父一起展开调查。知情人都不敢出面告发。特里也目睹了乔伊被害的经过，虽然同情伊迪的遭遇，想要帮她逃离黑社会的迫害，但他没有告发哥哥的罪行。在与伊迪的接触中，两人渐渐产生感情。当伊迪得知他是杀害哥哥的帮凶，她拒绝了他。之后哥哥也为了救特里而被约翰尼杀害。无数罪恶的事件让特里决心去揭发约翰尼的罪行。在码头上他被约翰尼的手下打成重伤，神父和伊迪赶来支持他，一直沉默的码头工人们也觉醒了，他们团结在一起，为了正义抗争。本片获第27届奥斯卡最佳影片、最佳导演、最佳故事剧本、最佳男主角等8项大奖。
回复 :艾伯特（Åke Grönberg 饰）的全部身家性命都赌在了自己苦心经营的马戏团上面了，尽管生意日益惨淡，但他并没有产生放弃的念头，他决定用一场盛大的演出来振奋团里的士气。带着自己的情人安妮（哈里特·安德森 Harriet Andersson 饰），艾伯特来到了一个名叫舒伯格（甘纳尔·布耶恩施特兰德 Gunnar Björnstrand 饰）的男人处，希望能够向他借一些演出用的服装。艾伯特去看望分别已久的妻子阿格达（Annika Tretow 饰）和孩子们，并表示了想要留在家中安度晚年的愿望，没想到遭到了拒绝，不久之后，艾伯特又发现安妮和同事弗朗斯（哈塞·埃克曼 Hasse Ekman 饰）之间的私情。好在马戏团的演出获得了成功，生活即便残酷，但日子还是一天天的慢慢流走了。
