本是水果店小伙计的成大器（黄晓明 饰），在上海投向权倾一时的巡捕房探长洪寿亭（洪金宝 饰）旗下，任职赌场打手，被洪寿亭的妻子凌沪生（袁莉 饰）慧眼赏识，造就大器迅速出人头地。成大器颇具江湖手腕，不仅敢打敢拼，还擅于各方谈判，愿意利益共享，往往能化干戈为玉帛，令他终于成为 上海一代枭雄之首。成大器少年得志，交上了上海第一美人“溢春园阿宝”（莫小棋 饰），阿宝对王公巨贾都不假辞色，但对大器却一往情深，可惜她发现了无论大器如何疼她宠她，她在大器的心目中永远都只能是第二位，第一位始终是青梅竹马、音讯全无的叶知秋（袁泉 饰）。多年后，人到中年的成大器（周润发 饰），已是一方之雄，声誉与地位已超越了师父洪寿亭。在上海几乎已无人匹敌，但外敌蠢动的野心与霸道，成为他的最大难题。此时，当年救他一命的茅载（吴镇宇 饰）已成为大特务头子，野心勃勃，以权谋私，令成大器不得不计划好“杀出一条血路”。而就在这时，他竟重遇了多年不见的叶知秋，同时发现原来她已作人妇……

描述朝鲜战争后南韩妇女的地位。对争取独立，选择外出工作的女性似带有怀疑态度。A college professor’s wife OH Sun-young discovers a new world since she started working at a boutique. She begins to enjoy wearing dresses that accentuate her features, achieve high sales profits, and dances in the arms of men other than her husband. However, the story takes a turn when she is caught in the hotel with the owner of the boutique who has been seducing her. Madame Freedom was already a famous story since the novelist JUNG Bee-suk wrote the series in The Seoul Shinmun. Despite the controversy on the moral issues between the writer and the critics, the book was published and produced as a play by the theater group Shinhyup. The film also set a new box office record of 130,000 and its success brought the boom of melodrama. Its cultural influence is proven to be powerful enough to shake the foundation of Korean film since there have been 5 sequels and remakes since the original.

私营小老板王唯正在为养生馆的经营焦头烂额时，二十年前阴差阳错加入科考队而失踪多年的父亲王得志突然出现在面前。 时隔二十年，父亲竟然容貌未老，记忆错乱，仿佛从另一个时空而来。父亲向王唯讲起当年科考队的故事：一行人驾车进入荒漠进行科学勘察，准备返程时，发现了一艘本该出现在地球另一端的潜水艇。更令人意想不到的是，潜水艇中有一枚来自外星的“双鱼陨石”，任何人一旦触碰将开启平行时空，带来另一个时空的自己，为了活命，只得展开了一场厮杀……

陰鬱炙熱的夏天裡，泳隊的兩個少女文綺和曉安總是形影不離。比賽在即，文綺所面臨的壓力，讓彼此的關係產生了細微的變化。面對文綺的封閉與創傷，曉安選擇一再靠近，然而每一次的靠近，卻將她們彼此越推越遠......