公元前73年，来自古罗马利比亚省的奴隶斯巴达克斯（柯克?道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas 饰）在加普亚格斗学校中爱上了女奴瓦瑞妮娅（琼?西蒙斯 Jean Simmons 饰）。同年，格斗学校的奴隶在斯巴达克斯带领下发动起义，获得自由，随后斯巴达克斯与瓦瑞妮娅团聚，结为夫妇。起义震惊了罗马的统治集团，激化了元老院中贵族派和平民派的矛盾。贵族将领克拉苏（劳伦斯?奥利维尔 Laurence Olivier 饰）乘机击败平民派首领格拉古（查尔斯?劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰），篡夺了首席执政官的权力，实行独裁。格拉古为了打击克拉苏，打算私下放走奴隶大军；克拉苏却重金收买了海盗，并召回在国外作战的两支大军。斯巴达克斯起义军三面受敌，寡不抵众，数万奴隶战死，他与妻子和六千幸存战友均被克拉苏所俘。在最后的关头，由于格拉古的帮助，情况又发生了变化。

一夕间被双亲抛弃的亚云，住进阿嬷跟朋友分租的公寓，开始在阿嬷经营的地下赌场帮忙，各怀鬼胎的赌徒公寓里唯一和亚云亲近的同辈——佳嘉，引诱亚云联手诈赌以赚取生活费，欲望与罪恶的拉扯让亚云不知如何选择。

It's 1846. Sweeney Todd and Anthony Hope, greeted only by a crazed beggar woman, sail into London, where Todd implies he has been before but not in quite some time. Todd heads to his old stomping grounds of Fleet Street, where he runs across the pie shop belonging to Mrs. Nellie Lovett, who professes to make the worst meat pies in London due to the high cost of meat. The upstairs of her building has sat empty since no one wants to rent a space that is considered haunted by its long ago tenant, barber Benjamin Barker who was falsely accused and ultimately sentenced by the sadistic Judge Turpin and who was shipped away to prison in Australia, leaving his wife Lucy and infant daughter Johanna alone in the world. Todd comes to an agreement with Mrs. Lovett to rent the upstairs of her building so that he can open his own barber shop. A series of incidents, including one with rival barber Senor Pirelli, make Todd change his focus slightly away from having a choice encounter with Judge ... Written by Huggo

镇西总兵刘大雄与夫人绮梅（茅瑛 饰）在归途中遭到昔日四个仆人的拦截。在这次袭击中，刘大雄不幸被害，而绮梅遭受了侮辱。然而，这四个仆人的幕后主使却是六亲王的随从。因企图谋杀官差，绮梅被错判为罪犯，被判处终身流放到海中孤岛——狼牙岛。在狱中，绮梅结识了千手观音，并成为了好友。在孤岛上，她生下了一个女儿。为了不让女儿卷入尘世的纷争，千手观音决定将她送进尼姑庵，并将她取名为洁莲。然而，当洁莲练就了一身武艺之后，因为杀气太重而触犯了杀戒，被迫被逐出了寺门。洁莲从她的乾娘千手观音口中得知了自己的身世，决心报仇雪恨。她铭记着20年前在孤岛上所受的委屈和屈辱，誓要为父母报仇雪恨，追寻真相，让那些置她父母于死地的人付出应有的代价。